African Studies Center

University of Pennsylvania

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


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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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