Conferences and Talks

Latest and Upcoming

DateTitleMore Information about the Event
May 6th- 7th 2022Common Space, Different Places: Interpreting the Dynamics and Fluidity of Ijebu Palatial Urbanscape.Garden and Landscape Studies Symposium, in partnership with the Mellon Initiative in Urban Landscape Studies
February 27th, 2022Aroko Symbolic Communication Message of the YorubaAfrican History Club
November 20th
2021
Author Meets Critic: Akinwumi Ogundiran’s The YorubaAfrican Studies Association
November 18th 2021Political and Religious Landscapes of Conversion: Movements and Ritual Dramas among
the Ijebus’ of South Western Nigeria
PILGRIM-CHATReligious Movement(s):
Places and Landscapes of Conversion
November 16th-20th 2021Archaeology and Indigenous Hermeneutics: The Use of Toponyms and Performance Genre in Contextualizing Material CultureAfrican Studies Association

2021 Lasisi, Olanrewaju., “Our Ancestors were Astronomers and Sky-watchers” : Exploring New Evidence for Archaeoastronomy and Ethnoastronomy in Nigerian Archaeology. (A Conference presentation at the Department of Archaeology, the University of Ibadan at 50), September 21-23, 2021

2021 Lasisi, Olanrewaju., Ijebu Cultural Astronomy: New lights on the Architecture of Ritual on the Landscape of Valor. 5th Lagos Studies Association Conference, (June 22-26 2021).

2020 Lasisi, Olanrewaju., Lines that Divide: Power and Landscape in the Ijebu Kingdom, AD1300– Ijebu-Ode Local Government Historical Forum.

2019 Lasisi, Olanrewaju., Landscapes of Valor: Investigating Power and Social Space of a pre-Atlantic aged kingdom in the shaping of the Global commercial circuit, AD 1300-1900. A Presentation at the 2019 Garden and Landscape Workshop.

2019 Michael Blakey, Lasisi, Olanrewaju, Jessica Bitner., The Corporal remains of Northern enslavement and its challenges. 10th Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of Worldwide African Diaspora.

2018 Lasisi, Olanrewaju, Preliminary Observations on the Defensive Walls of Ijebu Ode. 24th Biannual Meeting of the Society For Africanist Archaeologists. Building Bridges to the African Past., June 17-22, 2018, Toronto Canada

2018 Lasisi, Olanrewaju., An Archaeological Approach to Dating Polities and Architectural Ingenuity in Ijebu, South-Western Nigeria. 2018 Conference of the World Academy of Science, Engineering, and Technology

2017 Lasisi, Olanrewaju, and Gerard L. Chouin., Locating and Dating the Rise of Kinship in Ijebu, South-Western Nigeria, 60th Annual Conference of African Studies Association, November 16th-November 18th 2017

2017 Lasisi, Olanrewaju., A Stratigraphic look at the History of Ile-Ife: Perspectives from Recent Investigations at Yemoo Grove. Graduate Research Symposium, College of William and Mary, March 18th, 2017

2017 Lasisi, Olanrewaju., and Gerard L. Chouin., Locating and Dating the Rise of Kinship in Ijebu, South-Western Nigeria, 60th Annual Conference of African Studies Association, November 16th-November 18th 2017.

2016 Gerard L. Chouin, Lasisi, Olanrewaju., A Stratigraphic look at the History of Medieval Ile-Ife: Perspectives from Recent Investigations at Yemoo Grove. 59th Annual Conference of African Studies Association, December 1st-December 3rd 2016. Washington DC.