The Center for African Studies and the Department of African American and African Studies present
The Third Annual Oyekan Owomoyela Yorùbá Studies Lecture
“Marx, Freud and the Gods of the Yoruba Atlantic: European Social Theory and the Real-Life ‘Fetish’”
Dr. J. Lorand Matory
Lawrence Richardson Professor of Cultural Anthropology and Director, Center for African and African American Research, Duke University
J. Lorand Matory is the Director of the Center for African and African American Research and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University. He conducts field research in Brazil, Nigeria, Benin Republic, Cuba, Trinidad, Jamaica and the US. Choice magazine named his Sex and the Empire That Is No More: Gender and the Politics of Metaphor in Oyo Yoruba Religion an Outstanding Book of the Year in 1994, and his Black Atlantic Religion: Tradition, Transnationalism and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé received the Herskovits Prize for the best book of 2005 from the African Studies Association. His forthcoming research on ethnic diversity at historically black Howard University was the subject of the 2008 Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures and will be published by the University of Chicago Press as Stigma and Culture: Last-Place Anxiety in Black America. In 2013, the government of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded him the Alexander von Humboldt Prize, a lifetime achievement award and one of Europe's highest academic distinctions.
Program:
6:00 – 6:30 Refreshments & Welcoming Remarks
6:30 – 8:00 Lecture and discussion
Free and open to the public. Contact CAS at cas@osu.edu or 614 292-8169 for more information. Visitor parking is available in the Ohio Union garage adjacent to Page Hall.