Mapping Rights to Grains of Paradise from Chaucer to Herbal Viagra

Date/Time
Date(s) - 23 Mar 2012
10:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Location
Columbia University

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Please join the Columbia Center for International History, Columbia University Seminar on Contemporary Africa and the New York University Gallatin School for Individualized Study for:

Friday, March 23, 2012
THE KING OF SPICES: MAPPING RIGHTS TO GRAINS OF PARADISE FROM CHAUCER TO HERBAL VIAGRA
Abena Osseo-Asare (U.C. Berkeley)
Time: 10:30 AM to 12 PM
Location: 411 Fayerweather Hall, Columbia University

Abena Dove Osseo-Asare is assistant professor of history at UC Berkeley and the author of Bitter Roots: The Search for Healing Plants in Africa (forthcoming from University of Chicago Press).