When: Thursday, February 23, 2017 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Where:
Bass Library (BASSLB), L-01
110 Wall St., New Haven, CT 06511
on lower level
Tags: arts, humanities, talk
Speaker/Performer: Dr. Fallou Ngom
Description: Fallou Ngom is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Language Program at Boston University. His research interests include the interactions between African languages and non-African languages, the adaptations of Islam in sub-Saharan Africa, and Ajami literatures—records of African languages written in Arabic script. He seeks to understand the knowledge buried in African Ajami literatures and the historical, cultural, and religious heritage that has found expression in this manner. His work has appeared in several leading scholarly journals, including African Studies Review, Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, Language Variation and Change, and International Journal of the Sociology of Language. He is the author of Muslims beyond the Arab World: The Odyssey of Ajami and The Muridiyya (Oxford University Press, 2016).
The talk is sponsored by Yale University Library's SCOPA group, the Yale African Students Association, and the Yale Muslim Students Association.
Open To: General Public
Contact Information:
Yale University Library
203-432-1810
http://www.library.yale.edu/