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
1994 Scholar: PROF. JANE GUYER
Johns Hopkins University
Friday, 18 November, 1994, 8:30 AM. – 4:30 PM
215 College Hall & 419 University Museum
"Material Life and the Plurality of Social Time"
Event Schedule:
8:45 – 9:00 AM
Coffee and Refreshments
10:45 – 12:30: Economics of Households
Chair: Tom Callaghy, Professor of Political Science
12:30 – 1:30
Lunch — Museum Café
1:30 – 3:15: Taxation and Society
Chair: Ann Norton, Professor of Political Science
3:15 – 5:00: Currencies, Wealth and Value Creation
Chair: Sandra Barnes, Professor of Anthropology
5:00 – 5:45: Comparative Perspectives
Closing Discussion
More about: Jane Guyer
The African Studies Program and African Studies Reading Group will present a one day seminar with Jane Guyer, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the African Studies Program at Northwestern University. The Seminar will focus on Jane Guyer's cumulative works. All works to be discussed are available for review at the African Studies' office (418 University Museum).
Co-sponsors: Departments of History and Political Science
For inquiries please contact:
Dr.Ali B. Ali-Dinar,
Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-6610
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