Regional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow during the Millennia of Enslavement

CSAAD 2024-2025 Distinguished Scholar Event

Regional Origins and Intra-African Patterns of Gene Flow During the Millennia of Enslavement

Dr. Fatimah Jackson

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

5:00 pm- 6:30 pm

Hemmerdinger Hall

Silver Center of Arts & Science

Zoom link: https://nyu.zoom.us/j/98085219090

This lecture event will highlight developing models that reflect the diverse origins of African-descended peoples of the African Diasporas is an important task which provides insights of potential evolutionary relevance and possible biomedical significance (via geospatially mediated precision medicine). Computational approaches can be trained to accurately identify the African empires and kingdoms (AEKs) involved in the procurement, kidnapping, transport, and delivery of captive Africans for enslavement within and outside of Africa. Supervised and unsupervised machine learning GIS models can also identify the regional and ethnic sources of enslaved Africans and predict the routes used to take them from their homelands to export sites on the various coasts. By grounding our analysis in the paradigm of the 8th-20th c Millennia of Enslavement we consider each of the major intra-African slave trades and the resulting demic diffusion and its impact on gene flow patterns.

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Dr. Fatimah Jackson