The University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program created the annual Jan Vansina Lecture to honor the legacy of Jan Vansina, one of the world’s foremost historians of Africa.
September 11, 2024 at 12pm CST
The University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ingraham Hall, Room 206
12:00-1:00pm
The Seventh Annual Jan Vansina Lecture will be delivered by Akin Ogundiran, a Professor archaeology and history of Africa in the Department of History at Northwestern University.
He is the president of the Society of Africanist Archaeologists. His research interests focus mainly on Yoruba cultural history, 500 BC to AD 1840. Ogundiran’s publications include The Yoruba: A New History (Indiana University Press, 2020), recipient of the 2022 Vinson Sutlive Book Prize and the 2022 Isaac Oluwole Delano Prize for Yoruba Studies. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London and a member of the Nigerian Academy of Letters.
His presentation for the Seventh Jan Vansina Lecture is titled, “The Little Ice Age and the Oyo Empire: An Unfinished Process of Recovery in West Africa, ca. 1380-1840″. Click here to read more about the lecture.
