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
2002 Scholar: PROF. MAURICE BLOCH
London School of Economics
Friday, March 1, 2002, 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM
Ben Franklin Room, 281 Houston Hall
Event Schedule:
8:50 – 9:00 AM
Opening Remarks: Dr. Lee Cassanelli, Director, African Studies Center
9:00 – 10:30 AM Panel I: "Ways of Knowing"
Faculty Chair: Dr. Kathy Hall, Graduate School of Education
10:30 – 10:45 AM Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 PM Panel II: "Ritual, Memory & History"
Faculty Chair: Dr. Timothy Burke, Department of History, Swarthmore College
12:15 – 1:00 PM Lunch
1:00 – 2:30 Panel III: "Language, Literacy & Power"
Faculty Chair: Dr. Anthony Kroch, Department of Linguistics
2:30 – 3:00 PM Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:30 PM Panel IV: "The Symbolism of Life & Death"
Faculty Chair: Dr. Steven Feierman, Departments of History and the History and Sociology of Science
4:30 – 5:00 PM Closing Remarks
There will be a reception directly following the event.
More about: Maurice Bloch
For inquiries please contact:
Dr.Ali B. Ali-Dinar,
Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-6610
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