SCHOLAR FOR A DAY
Scholars: AboutThe Scholar for a Day is a day-long seminar, organized by Penn graduate students of all disciplines, designed to provide students and faculty with exposure to a leading scholar in African Studies. The event allows for intensive engagement with authors of significant theoretical approaches to Africanist scholarship as well as providing an opportunity to gain insight into the professional process--the evolution of new empirical and theoretical interests, the methodologies of research and writing, and the process of collaboration between scholars. |2012 | 2011 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1997 | 1996 | 1994
1997 Scholar: PROF. V.Y. MUDIMBE
Stanford University
Friday, April 11, 1997
Stiteler Hall Lounge
"Material Life and the Plurality of Social Time"
Event Schedule:
8:30 – 9:00:
Coffee
9:00 – 10:30 Panel 1: African Philosophy and its Antecedents
–The Invention of Africa (Ch. 5 and Conclusion), 1988
–"African Philosophy as an Ideological Practice" African Studies Review, vol. 26(3-4): 133-154, 1983
–"The Impact of African Studies on Philosophy" in Africa and the Disciplines (Ch. 4), 1993
Chair: Steven Feierman
Discussants:
Elisa Forgey
Ellen Amster
10:30 – 11:40 Panel 2: African Religion and Conversion
–The Invention of Africa (Ch. 3), 1988
–Parables and Fables (Chs. 1 and 3), 1991
–Between Tides (novel), 1991[1973]
Chair: Wyatt MacGaffey
Discussants:
Douglas Falen
Catherine Bogosian
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:20 Panel 3: Representations of Africa
–The Idea of Africa (Ch. 1), 1994
–The Invention of Africa (Ch. 1), 1988
–"From Primitive Art to Memoriae Loci," Human Studies, vol. 16:101-110, 1993
–Shaba Deux (novel; pending receipt of English manuscript)
Chair: Time Burke
Discussants:
Cati Coe
Edda Fields
2:30 – 3:50 Panel 4: Surreptitious Speech
–The Surreptitious Speech (Introduction and Finale), 1992
–Before the Birth of the Moon (novel), 1989[1976]
–"African Theology as a Political Praxis," Presence Africaine, vol. 145:86-103, 1988
Chair: Lydie Moudileno
Discussants:
Guiliana Lund
TBA
4:00 – 4:45 Summation
More about: Valentin Y Mudimbe
Note: Readings will be available in the African Studies Office, 6th Floor Williams Hall. They may be borrowed to photocopy them.
For inquiries please contact:
Dr.Ali B. Ali-Dinar,
Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-6610
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