The Observance
July 14, 2025
The inaugural Foundation Day marked the first annual observance tied to the initiatory anniversary of the Society’s founding. The date is private; its significance is held by the tradition. This page serves as the permanent institutional record of Year One.
State of the Society
Annual Address — Year One
The State of the Society address for 2025 is forthcoming. It will document the first year of institutional development, the completion of the Iroko Framework white paper, Zenodo publication, fieldwork activity, and the scholarly record through the inaugural year.
Community Photography — 2025 Submissions
The following gallery contains community-submitted images from the Society’s inaugural Foundation Day photography call. Submissions document sacred spaces, material culture, and community life across the Afro-Atlantic world.
Year One — Institutional Record
What Was Built
The Iroko Historical Society’s first year established the core institutional infrastructure: the complete 16-module Iroko Framework, its white paper published at ontology.irokosociety.org and deposited to Zenodo (DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.18826673), a full namespace migration resolving 21 term collisions, and the launch of the Society’s static site at irokosociety.org.
Scholarly work included the completion of “Havana to the Sabine: People Laundering, Slave Paper, and Documentary Sovereignty in the Post-1808 Gulf,” presented at SAA and the Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba IV International Conference, and submitted to The American Archivist. The paper received the UA Outstanding Graduate Paper Award.
Additional content and the State of the Society address will be added to this page as they are finalized.