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Friday, October 18

Graduate Students Professionalization Workshop
Time:
2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Presenter:
Dr. Akin Ogundiran
Location:
Main Anthropology Lounge, Room 3106
Sponsored by:
Center for Ethnic Studies Research and Center for African Studies along with Department of Anthropology, Department of History and World History Center

The Anthropology Department would like to invite all graduate students to the 2024 Robert Lecture Graduate Students Professionalization Workshop.

Each year, the Department of Anthropology features a carefully selected invited scholar whose work intersects with scholarships across disciplinary lines, including but not limited to Archaeology, Africana and African studies, and History. This year, our speaker is Professor Akin Ogundiran.

Dr. Ogundiran is a West African archaeologist, historian, and the Cardiss Collins Professor of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University. He is also affiliated with the Departments of Anthropology and Black Studies and is the director of the Material History Lab in the Department of History. Dr. Ogundiran is the current President of the Society of Africanist Archaeology and former Editor-in-Chief of African Archaeological Review, the flagship journal of African Archaeology.