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1999
Scholar for a Day:
Professor Johannes Fabian
(University of
Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Friday, March 26,
1999
Stiteler Hall, First Floor (37th and
Walnut)
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8:45-9:00: Coffee
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8:50-9:00 Introduction:
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Dr.
Tom Callaghy (Political Science) |
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9:15-10:30 Panel I: Language
and Representational Acts
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Chair:
Dr. Leigh Swigart (Education) |
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Discussants:
-Dr. Alwiya Omar (Linguistics),
-Wendy Haugh (Anthropology),
-Michael Lempert (Anthropology)
Works to be
discussed: Language and Colonial
Power, Time and the Other, Language,
History and Anthropology, Missions
and the Colonization of African
Languages.
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10:30-10:45 Break
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10:45-12:00 Panel II: Negotiating
Genres: Performance, Popular Culture
and Folklore
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Chair:
Dr. Regina Bendix (Folklore) |
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Discussants:
-Margaret Magat (Folklore),
-Soli Otero(Folklore),
-Phil Scher (Anthropology, GWU)
Works: Power
and Performance: Ethnographic
Explorations through Proverbial
Wisdom and Theater in Shaba"
and" Moments of Freedom:
Popular Culture and Anthropology.
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12:00-2:00 Lunch Break
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2:00-3:15 PaneL III: Constructing
the Other: Orientalism Time and
Social Science
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Chair:
Dr. Steven Feierman (History and
HSS) |
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Discussants:
-Fernando Armstrong (Anthropology)
-Lauren Nauta (History)
-Niklas Hultin (Anthropology)
Works: Time and
the Other and Time and the Work
of Anthropology: Critical Essays
1971-1991. |
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3:00-3:15 Coffee Break
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3:30-4:45 Panel IV: Remembering
the Present and Producing the
Past: Tshibumba and the Art of
Colonial History
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Discussant:
Dr. Lee Cassanelli (History) |
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Discussants:
-Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (History)
-Marton Markovits (Political Science)
-Jennifer Sessions (History).
Work: Remembering
the Present: Painting and Popular
History in Zaire. |
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4:45-5:00 Wrap-up
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5:00 Reception
If you have
any questions, please e-mail the
chair of the planning committee,
Niklas Hultin, at inhultin@sas.upenn.edu,
or direct your questions to the
African Studies Center.
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