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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


2001 Scholar: PROF. TERANCE RANGER
Oxford University Visiting Professor of History, University of Zimbabwe
Friday, April 6th, 2001, 8:30 AM to 4:30 PM
McClellan Hall (Quadrangle), Enter 36th & Spruce Streets


Event Schedule:

8:50 – 9:00 AM
Prof. Lee Cassanelli, Director, African Studies Center

9:00 – 10:15 AM
Panel I: Medical History Chair: Prof. Steven Feierman, History and Sociology of Science, History

Discussants:
Lauren Nauta, History
Christine Schweidler History and Sociology of Science
Ellen Amster, History

10:15 – 10:30 AM Break

10:30 – 11:45 AM
Panel II: Nationalism and Resistance Chair: Prof. Sandra Barnes, Anthropology

Discussants:
Wendi Haugh, Anthropology
Catherine Bogosian, History
Abigail McGowan, History

11:45 – 1:30 PM Lunch

1:30 – 2:45 PM
Panel III: African Voices in African History, Chair: Prof. Jonathan Glassman, History, Northwestern University

Discussants:
Anne Marie Stoner-Eby, History
Wambui Mwangi, Political Science
Kenya Shujaa, Anthropology

2:45 – 3:00 PM Break

3:00 – 4:30 PM
Presentation by Terence Ranger: Social History of Bulawayo

More about: Terrence Ranger

For inquiries please contact:
Dr.Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-6610

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