BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4228@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241113T112930 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20241122T161500 SUMMARY:Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (Howard University): "Lagos Life: Streets\, Maps\, History" (Carl Schlettwein Lecture 2024) DESCRIPTION:Urban questions have taken on a new urgency in Africa\, as citi es like Lagos continue to grow faster and more intensely\, seemingly every day. Most often\, engagement with these cities is framed in terms of thei r problems: too crowded\, too disorganized\, too frenetic. But how should we understand the ways the past shaped and produced this present? “Lagos Life” explores the histories of Lagos’s streets as markers of the mom ents of placemaking\, identity\, freedom\, and displacement in the ninetee nth century. It begins with the premise that Lagos’s streets offer impor tant clues and cues to the ways to ask\, analyze and frame the historical and contemporary narratives of the city.\\r\\nMuch like the ways that cour t transcripts and letters can be read and analyzed to yield insights about the past\, street names in Lagos bear witness to the ways that the city ’s pasts intertwine. In 1868\, an English-speaking Yorùbá court clerk named all the newly paved streets in Lagos\, in the wake of new colonial i nfrastructure that was quickly taking root. Rather than superimposing Brit ish names or even a stripped-down numbering scheme\, the mostly indigenous Yorùbá names he chose reflect a remarkable archive of local priorities\ , symbols\, events\, places\, and people.\\r\\nBy mapping the history of t hese streets\, and the encounters that Lagosians had in them\, this presen tation demonstrates how digital tools can be deployed in reading the urban fabric of Lagos Island as an archive of its own history. Old Lagos — th e city\, waterways and island — is never more visible in the archival re cord than when it is marked for destruction\, division\, or “civilizatio n\,” thus\, I use these maps\, documents and indigenous sources to recon struct the past\, in place.\\r\\nTrained as both historian and computer en gineer\, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi’s  research into the history of Lagos\ , Nigeria combines a set of interdisciplinary interests in urban studies\, mapmaking and technology. Her forthcoming book\, Imagine Lagos\, explores Lagos’s mid-19th-century history\, rebuilding its past as a series of e ncounters: between men and women\, between the past and present\, enslaved and free\, Eko (the old town) and Lagos\, and between the land and lagoon s. She is an Associate Professor of History at Howard University\, and she received her PhD in History from NYU in 2016. X-ALT-DESC:

Urban questions have taken on a new urgency in Africa\, as ci ties like Lagos continue to grow faster and more intensely\, seemingly eve ry day. Most often\, engagement with these cities is framed in terms of th eir problems: too crowded\, too disorganized\, too frenetic. But how shoul d we understand the ways the past shaped and produced this present? “Lag os Life” explores the histories of Lagos’s streets as markers of the m oments of placemaking\, identity\, freedom\, and displacement in the ninet eenth century. It begins with the premise that Lagos’s streets offer imp ortant clues and cues to the ways to ask\, analyze and frame the historical and contemporary narratives of the city.

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Much like the ways that court transcripts and letters can be read and analyzed to yield insights about the past\, street names in Lagos bear witness to the ways t hat the city’s pasts intertwine. In 1868\, an English-speaking Yorùbá court clerk named all the newly paved streets in Lagos\, in the wake of ne w colonial infrastructure that was quickly taking root. Rather than superi mposing British names or even a stripped-down numbering scheme\, the mostl y indigenous Yorùbá names he chose reflect a remarkable archive of local priorities\, symbols\, events\, places\, and people.

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By mapping t he history of these streets\, and the encounters that Lagosians had in the m\, this presentation demonstrates how digital tools can be deployed in re ading the urban fabric of Lagos Island as an archive of its own history. O ld Lagos — the city\, waterways and island — is never more visible in the archival record than when it is marked for destruction\, division\, or “civilization\,” thus\, I use these maps\, documents and indigenous s ources to reconstruct the past\, in place.

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Trained as both histori an and computer engineer\, Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi’s&nb sp\; research into the history of Lagos\, Nigeria combines a set of interd isciplinary interests in urban studies\, mapmaking and technology. Her for thcoming book\, Imagine Lagos\, explores Lagos’s mid-19th-centu ry history\, rebuilding its past as a series of encounters: between men an d women\, between the past and present\, enslaved and free\, Eko (the old town) and Lagos\, and between the land and lagoons. She is an Associate Pr ofessor of History at Howard University\, and she received her PhD in Hist ory from NYU in 2016.

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