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DESCRIPTION:Shamil Jeppie will present at the seminar in Art and Material C
 ulture of Africa and the African Diaspora on Tuesday\, May 3\, at 6 pm. Hi
 s talk is entitled “Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century Books an
 d Exile in the Sahara.”Books have a longer history in West Africa and the 
 Sahara than has been acknowledged until recently. A culture of writing and
  reading was firmly established in Timbuktu by the fifteenth century\, and
  books were among the objects that moved with trading caravans across the 
 Sahara. Against this background\, this lecture will examine a case of read
 ing and writing by an exile\, the scholar Ahmad Bābā from Timbuktu\, in Ma
 rrakesh in the 1590s.Shamil Jeppie teaches history at the University of Ca
 pe Town\, where he also established the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project in 
 the early 2000s to research the book culture in Timbuktu and the broader r
 egion. The volume The Meanings of Timbuktu (2008\; French translation 2011
 ) brought together work by outside scholars\, local experts\, and collecto
 rs and provided many images of individual texts. Jeppie is completing a ge
 neral introduction to the book provisionally titled Timbuktu: Desert Schol
 ars and Collectors. Apart from this area of work\, he has written on aspec
 ts of South African urban social history and is involved in Africa-wide an
 d South-South humanities networks. He was educated in Cape Town and Prince
 ton.We have opened registration for a limited in-person audience. Bard Gra
 duate Center requires proof of vaccination and photo identification to ent
 er the building. Guests are required to wear masks regardless of vaccinati
 on status.This talk will also be available on Zoom. A link will be circula
 ted to registrants by 4 pm on the day of the event. This event will be liv
 e with automatic captions.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: Late Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century
  Books and Exile in the Sahara
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