BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:14458-2a9609e58defcb9ce673726d4038ba9b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260524T093103Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250409T133000 SUMMARY:African Studies Brown Bag Lecture DESCRIPTION:\n“Collard Greens in the Moroccan Oasis: Insights into the R ole of trans-Saharan Trade Routes in the Spread of an African Diaspora F ood”\n\nCollards (Brassica oleracea var. viridis) are a widely grown\, a nd highly valued\, traditional vegetable in the date palm oases of the D raa and Ziz valleys in southern Morocco but are not found in other regio ns of Morocco. Given the shared importance of collards by both the Afric an diaspora in the United States of America and the African diaspora in Morocco (descendants of enslaved people brought across the Sahara)\, we sought to better understand the history and origins of collards in Moroc can oases. Nomenclature\, and comparison of current use and recipes to t hose in historical documents\, suggests that collards may have arrived i n the south of Morocco with the early Muslim traders coming from Arabia\ , possibly the Kharijites who founded the great city of Sijilmasa and ma naged the early trans-Saharan trade routes. The traditional use of colla rds in Moroccan oases\, often cooked using a recipe that looks more simi lar to those from the Southern United States than West African leafy veg etable recipes\, cannot solve the riddle of how collards arrived in the Americas\, but it does provide another potential piece in the puzzle.\n\ nBronwen Powell is an associate professor of geography\, African studies \, and anthropology at Penn State. Abderrahim Ouarghidi is an assistant teaching professor of African studies and anthropology at Penn State.\n\ nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-brown-bag-lecture -2/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

“Collar d Greens in the Moroccan Oasis: Insights into the Role of trans-Saharan Trade Routes in the Spread of an African Diaspora Food”

C ollards (Brassica oleracea var. viridis) are a widely grown, and highly valued, traditional vegetable in the date palm oases of the Draa and Ziz valleys in southern Morocco but are not found in other regions of Moroc co. Given the shared importance of collards by both the African diaspora in the United States of America and the African diaspora in Morocco (de scendants of enslaved people brought across the Sahara), we sought to be tter understand the history and origins of collards in Moroccan oases. N omenclature, and comparison of current use and recipes to those in histo rical documents, suggests that collards may have arrived in the south of Morocco with the early Muslim traders coming from Arabia, possibly the Kharijites who founded the great city of Sijilmasa and managed the early trans-Saharan trade routes. The traditional use of collards in Moroccan oases, often cooked using a recipe that looks more similar to those fro m the Southern United States than West African leafy vegetable recipes, cannot solve the riddle of how collards arrived in the Americas, but it does provide another potential piece in the puzzle.

Bronwen Powell is an associate professor of geography, African studies, and anthropolo gy at Penn State. Abderrahim Ouarghidi is an assistant teaching professo r of African studies and anthropology at Penn State.

For more deta ils: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-brown-bag-lecture-2/

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