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DESCRIPTION:Birks Annual Lecture Series\n\nIn the Twilight of Time: Chief L
 óògò Bámátùlá: A Biography of an African Medicine Man\n\nGuest Speaker: Pr
 of Jacob Olupona\n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\nProf. Jacob K. Olupona is the Hu
 gh K Foster Professor of African and African American Studies and Chair of
  the Department of African and African American Studies (AAAS) at Harvard 
 University. He is the world’s leading scholar in the field of African reli
 gion and holds a joint appointment at the Harvard Divinity School. He spen
 t several years as the director of graduate study for AAAS and has directl
 y taught or mentored most scholars of religion in Africa—including Prof. A
 yodeji Ogunnaike here at ÐãÉ«Ö±²¥. He also founded the Institute for Advance
 d Study in Ile-Ife\, Nigeria whose mission is to reform and elevate the ac
 ademy in Africa\, and he has extensive experience working in and with the 
 academy in North America\, Europe\, Africa\, and Asia. In addition to his 
 research and publication awards\, he was also awarded the Mendehlson Award
  for graduate advising from Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences\,
  and will be available to discuss topics from navigating the job market\, 
 publications\, career trajectories\, international research\, the human si
 de of Academia\, and more.\n\nAbstract:\n\nChief Loogo\, an over 100-year-
 old traditional medicine man from Ile-Oluji\, Nigeria\, has lived a remark
 able life rooted in indigenous Yoruba traditions of harnessing cosmic powe
 r across practically every sphere of life from health and medicine\, relig
 ion\, politics\, and even warfare. Drawing from his recently published boo
 k of the same title\, Prof. Jacob K. Olupona offers a biographical sketch 
 of Chief Loogo to present a series of theses on issues of indigenous and m
 odern\, Western education\, indigenous knowledge systems\, and the issue o
 f conversion as Chief Loogo became a Christian late in life\, although he 
 has never ceased practicing traditional medicine. The talk places Chief Lo
 ogo’s remarkable life in the context of the rapidly changing social and re
 ligious landscape of colonial and postcolonial Africa and offers reflectio
 ns on the place and future of the type of knowledge embodied by this remar
 kable man.\n
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LOCATION:Birks Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2A7\, 3520 rue Universit
 y
SUMMARY:Birks Annual Lecture Series: In the Twilight of Time: Chief Lóògò B
 ámátùlá: A Biography of an African Medicine Man
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