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Dr. Dean Pavlakis, adjunct professor of history, will present at the spring 2014 Archives Speaker Series, today, Wednesday, April 2 at 3:30 p.m. in ALB Library, second floor.

Pavlokis’ topic, “Connecting Through the Congo: Meeting Past & Present Through the Archival Collections of the Congo Reform Association,” explores his work among century old documents related to the pioneering humanitarian movement whose work continues its impact. He’ll share how “the serendipity of the archives” led him down some unexpected and completely surprising paths.

A Buffalo native, Pavlakis received his undergraduate degree in history and economics from Harvard. After receiving a management degree from Yale, he worked in banking for 23 years before making a career change to academe. He earned his MA and PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and has served as an adjunct professor at UB and Canisius College, where his focus is on modern Europe, Africa and the dense web of connections between the two continents.

He is currently preparing a book on the Congo reform movement scheduled for publication in 2015.

The Archives Speaker Series showcases scholars with a special understanding of archival research, based on their own experiences, and who have completed a book or other expression of scholarship reliant on archival research.

This event, sponsored by Canisius College Rev. J. Clayton Murray, S.J., Archives & Special Collections, and the ALB Library, is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information contact archivist, Kathleen DeLaney, Ext. 8421 or delaneyk@canisius.edu

Submitted by: Kathleen DeLaney, archivist/reference librarian, Library