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THURSDAY, 12 JANUARY09.45 Alina Payne: Director’s Welcome and Introductions10.00 Suzanne Blier, Alina Payne &#38; Gerhard Wolf: Introduction to the seminar, followed by discussion10.45 coffeeI. EARLY HISTORY OF CIRCULATION WITHIN THE CONTINENT11.00 Gérard Chouin (College of William and Mary)“The Path is Made by Walking”: Preliminary Thoughts on Medieval and Early Modern Traces of Circulations and Trade Networks in West Africa12.00 Adrien Delmas (European University Institute)“From the Plateau to the Coast: New Perspectives on Zimbabwe Medieval History?”13.00 buffet lunchII. BUILDING BLOCKS OF CROSSCULTURAL CONTACT: BOOKS, BUILDINGS, AND CRAFTS14.30 Marie-Laure Derat (Institut des Mondes Africains) Circulations of Books and Texts between Africa, Near East, and Europe: Towards a History of the African Libraries15.30 Avinoam Shalem (Columbia University) “Atlantic Morocco: Reshaping the Coastline during the Portuguese Occupation”16.30 tea17.00 Susan McIntosh (Rice University) “Cosmopolitan Crafts: Early Interaction and Innovation in West African Glass and Copper-based Materials”FRIDAY, 13 JANUARYIII. ITALY-AFRICA: ART AND TRADE09.30 Hannah Baader (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz) “Material Histories, African Art. Florence and Beyond”10.30 coffee10.45 Carlo Taviani (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rome) “Genoese Merchant Networks in Africa and America (15th-16th centuries)”11.45 Ingrid Greenfield (Villa I Tatti) “Collecting Africa: Exchange and Display During the Early Slave Trade”12.45 buffet lunchIV. NEW SPHERES OF EXCHANGE – NEW ART HISTORIES14.00 Cécile Fromont (University of Chicago) “Envisioning Cross-Cultural Knowledge in Early Modern Kongo and Angola”15.00 Prita Meier (University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign) “A Sea of Things: Toward an Art History of the Indian Ocean World”16.00 teaV. GOING FORWARD16.30 Roundtable Discussion and closing remarksMore informations available here: crossroads-africa-prog&#160;