2003 Scholar for a Day:
Professors Liisa Malkki and James Ferguson
(University of California at Irvine)
Friday April 11, 2003
Studio Theater, Annenberg Performing Arts Center
3680 Walnut Street


Program


 

8:30-8:50 Breakfast

 

8:50-9:00 Opening Remarks:

  Prof. Lee Cassanelli, Director, African Studies Center
 

9:00-10:30 Panel I with James Ferguson: “Re-politicizing Development”

  Faculty Moderator : Dr. Steven Feierman, Departments of History and History and Sociology of Sciences
 

Student Discussants:
-Eve Buckley, Department of History and Sociology of Sciences
-Marton Markovits, Department of Political Science
-Ian Petrie, Department of History and Sociology of Sciences

 

10:30-10:45 Coffee Break

 

10:45-12:15 Panel II with Liisa Malkki: “The Family of Nations and its Others”

  Faculty Moderator : Dr. Brendan O’Leary: Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict; Department of Political Science
 

Student Discussants:
-Wendy Haugh, Department of Anthropology
-Azra Hromodzic, Department of Anthropology
-Todd Wolfson, Department of Anthropology

 

12:15-1:30 Lunch

 

1:30-3:00 Panel III with Liisa Malkki and James Ferguson: “Imagining Modernity and the State”

  Faculty Moderator : Dr. Brenda Chalfin, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Florida
  Student Discussants:
-Liz Greenspan, Department of Anthropology
-Jen Riggan, Graduate School of Education
-David Samper, Department of Folklore
 

3:00-3:15 Coffee Break

 

3:15-4:30 Liisa Malkki and James Ferguson: Presentation of Recent Research

There will be a reception following the event.

 

 

More about:
- Liisa Malkki
- James Ferguson

Co-Sponsors:
African Studies Center & The Solomon Asch Center For Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict
University of Pennsylvania

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