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Conviviality and the Work of Mourning

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October 30, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Hale Black Cultural Center Rm 1110A

CAS has scheduled an Africa at Noon lecture for this Wednesday, October 30 from 12:00pm-1:30pm.  The location is the Hale Black Cultural Center, room 110A.  Professor Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́ will present on his research in progress:
 
Conviviality and the Work of Mourning
 
Abstract:
The main thought in the paper concerns whether the sustained attention given to the “well-being” of the deceased in “befitting” West African funerals furthers the “work of mourning.” What is to be gained if, as West Africans do, we think of death, or loss generally, as an achievement that must be celebrated and construe the “properly dead” as desire capable agents?
 
Dr. Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́ is a Distinguished Professor in the Humanities at the Ohio State University.  His primary teaching and research interests, about all of which he has published widely and taught consistently at all levels, are Anglophone African literatures, African American literature and Anglophone postcolonial literatures.
 
Dr. Adéẹ̀kọ́ has a work-in-progress draft of the paper should you wish to get acquainted with the subject before Wednesday.  Please email him at adeeko.1@osu.edu for a copy.
 
Lunch will be provided.