[Wadabo_updates] "IFÁ DIVINATION IN WEST AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA" - Conference @ Harvard 3/15 & 16

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*Dear African Dance & Music Community,
*

*"SACRED KNOWLEDGE, SACRED POWER AND PERFORMANCE: IFÁ DIVINATION IN WEST
AFRICA AND THE AFRICAN DIASPORA"
*

*CONFERENCE AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY **SATURDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 15-16TH*

*- JACOB K. OLUPONA *(Harvard University), Convener*
- *with special guest* HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY ALAYELUWA OBA OKUNADE SIJUWADE,
OLUBUSE II, THE OONI OF IFE, NIGERIA
- *keynote address by* ROWLAND ABIODUN *(Amherst College) *
*- Additional presenters below**

*This international conference will provide a forum for renowned scholars in
African and African Diaspora studies to explore the body of deep knowledge
implicit in Ifá divination among the Yorùbá of West Africa, as well as their
descendants in Africa and the Americas.*

It begins with the recognition that Ifá is not only a body of knowledge, but
also a religious and cultural practice. "Sacred Knowledge" will highlight
the ways that Ifá texts and their brokers are dynamic and ever changing,
shaped by politics, cultural histories, and social rituals. It will also
address the transport and spread of Ifá knowledge and cosmologies and will
contribute to the development of a theoretical and empirical language for
advancing the state of Ifá scholarship.*

PRESENTERS:* KOLA ABIMBOLA, WANDE ABIMBOLA, DELEKE ADEEKO, ABIODUN AGBOOLA,
AKINTUNDE AKINYEMI, ANDREW APTER, SUZANNE BLIER, BOLAJI CAMPBELL, STEFANIA
CAPONE, M. KAMARI CLARKE, HENRY JOHN DREWAL, YSAMUR FLORES-PENA, STEPHEN
GLAZIER, EMMA GOBIN, LAURA GRILLO, BARRY HALLEN, F. ABIOLA IRELE, AKINWUMI
ISOLA, VELMA LOVE, WYATT MACGAFFEY, VICTOR MANFREDI, JOHN MASON, IFABOYEDE
MICHELLE MCELWAINE, IVOR MILLER, JOSEPH MURPHY, AYO OPEFEYITIMI, OLASOPE
OYELARAN, OYERONKE OYEWUMI, PHILIP PEEK, MEI MEI SANFORD, and OLUFEMI TAIWO*

LOCATION: *Tsai Auditorium, Room S010, CGIS-South, 1730 Cambridge St,
Cambridge
*
INFORMATION: *Space is extremely limited. * *Free and open to the public on
a "first come" basis.
Contact amcgee at post.harvard.edu for more information & registration.

SPONSORED BY: COMMITTEE ON AFRICAN STUDIES, W.E.B. DU BOIS INSTITUTE FOR
AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN RESEARCH, DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN
AMERICAN STUDIES with CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF WORLD RELIGIONS
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