Africa and the Global Middle Ages: Broker States, Articulated Cities, Ecological Thresholds
When and Where
Thursday, February 20, 2020 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Centre for Medieval Studies, Room 301
125 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C7
Speakers
Professor François-Xavier Fauvelle
Description
François-Xavier Fauvelle is an Africanist historian and archeologist. He is a professor at the Collège de France in Paris and, in 2020, at Princeton University. He is a former director of the French Centre for Ethiopian Studies in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and for the past decade has led the French-Moroccan excavations program in Sijilmâsa, Morocco.
Originally published in French in 2013, his book The Golden Rhinoceros: Histories of the African Middle Ages was released in English by Princeton University Press in 2018.
Contact Information
Sponsors
African Studies, Centre for Medieval Studies, History, Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, Islamic Studies
Map
125 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C7