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Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste Presents Talk – “The Ancient and the Modern: Customary and Civil Marriage and Family Law in Post-Colonial Gabon”

The UO African Studies Spring Talk Series presents a talk by Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste.

Dr. Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Department of History, UC-Davis “The Ancient and
the Modern: Customary and Civil Marriage and Family Law in Post-Colonial
Gabon”

12:00-1:15 Tuesday, May 3
Knight Library Browsing Room

Dr. Jean-Baptiste is a historian of colonial and post-colonial
French-speaking Central and West Africa. Her research interests are in the
history of sexuality and gender and women’s history, marriage and family
law, urban history, race, and citizenship. If you would like to schedule a
meeting with Dr. Jean-Baptiste, please contact Dr. Kemi Balogun, Women’s &
Gender Studies (kbalogun@uoregon.edu) to arrange a time.

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