Konrad Tuchscherer, Associate Professor of African History and
Director of Africana Studies at St. John’s University
Gallery, Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology at Manning Hall, Main Campus
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 5:30 p.m.
Dr. Tuchscherer is Co-Director of the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project at the Royal Palace of Bamum Kings in Foumban, Cameroon. His lecture will explore Africa’s many writing traditions and historical scripts. He will concentrate on his work in Cameroon to preserve endangered archives and his research on the literary past of the Bamum inspired by the discovery of a hidden chest left by a royal Bamum scribe.
Co-sponsored by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology and the Friends of the Library of Brown University.