From ngrall at uw.edu Tue Mar 21 12:53:53 2023 From: ngrall at uw.edu (Nick Grall) Date: Tue Mar 21 12:54:08 2023 Subject: [Uwhistory] Alexi Peri Lecture | April 7 @ 1:00 p.m. Message-ID: Alexi Peri, Associate Professor of History at Boston University, will present her talk "'With the most heartfelt handshake from another part of the world!:' A Cold-War Friendship between San Juan Island and Moscow" on Friday, April 7 at 1:00 p.m. in HUB 337 which examines the correspondence and friendships between American and Soviet women in the late 1940s. [Text Description automatically generated] [cid:image001.jpg@01D95BEA.C020F300] NICK GRALL Assistant to the Chair 308B Smith Hall | Box 353560 | Seattle, WA 98195-3560 206-543-6224 | history.washington.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4789 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image002.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 420333 bytes Desc: image002.jpg URL: From ngrall at uw.edu Wed Mar 22 09:35:00 2023 From: ngrall at uw.edu (Nick Grall) Date: Wed Mar 22 09:35:12 2023 Subject: [Uwhistory] CORRECTION Alexi Peri Lecture | April 7 @ 1:30 p.m. In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: My apologies, yesterday's notice for the Alexis Peri lecture on April 7 had the time listed incorrectly. The event starts at 1:30 p.m. in HUB 337. See you there! Nick From: Nick Grall Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2023 12:54 PM To: histinfo@u.washington.edu; uwhistory@uw.edu Subject: Alexi Peri Lecture | April 7 @ 1:00 p.m. Alexi Peri, Associate Professor of History at Boston University, will present her talk "'With the most heartfelt handshake from another part of the world!:' A Cold-War Friendship between San Juan Island and Moscow" on Friday, April 7 at 1:00 p.m. in HUB 337 which examines the correspondence and friendships between American and Soviet women in the late 1940s. [cid:image001.jpg@01D95CA1.2A68EDB0] NICK GRALL Assistant to the Chair 308B Smith Hall | Box 353560 | Seattle, WA 98195-3560 206-543-6224 | history.washington.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4789 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Peri 47 (1).pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 380176 bytes Desc: Peri 47 (1).pdf URL: From ngrall at uw.edu Tue Mar 28 12:28:04 2023 From: ngrall at uw.edu (Nick Grall) Date: Tue Mar 28 12:28:17 2023 Subject: [Uwhistory] Robyn d'Avignon, NYU "A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa" Thur. 4/6 @ 3:30 Message-ID: On Thursday, April 6 at 3:30 p.m. in Communications 202, the African Studies Program along with the Department of History and the Simpson Center for the Humanities will host a talk by NYU professor Robyn d'Avignon, "A Ritual Geology: Gold and Subterranean Knowledge in Savanna West Africa." Set against the ongoing corporate enclosure of West Africa's goldfields, A Ritual Geology tells the untold history of one of the world's oldest indigenous gold mining industries: Francophone West Africa's orpaillage. Establishing African miners as producers of subterranean knowledge, Robyn d'Avignon uncovers a dynamic "ritual geology" of techniques and cosmological engagements with the earth developed by agrarian residents of gold-bearing rocks in savanna West Africa. Colonial and corporate exploration geology in the region was built upon the ritual knowledge, gold discoveries, and skilled labor of African miners even as states racialized African mining as archaic, criminal, and pagan. Spanning the medieval and imperial past to the postcolonial present, d'Avignon weaves together long-term ethnographic and oral historical work in southeastern Senegal with archival and archeological evidence from Burkina Faso, C?te d'Ivoire, Guinea, and Mali. A Ritual Geology introduces transnational geological formations as a new regional framework for African studies, environmental history, and anthropology. [cid:image001.jpg@01D96170.4BF6D7C0] NICK GRALL Assistant to the Chair 308B Smith Hall | Box 353560 | Seattle, WA 98195-3560 206-543-6224 | history.washington.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 4789 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: