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
1996 Scholars: PROFESSORS JEAN & JOHN COMAROFF
University of Chicago
29 March 1996, 9 AM to 5 PM
Undergraduate Lounge, Stiteler Hall
"Material Life and the Plurality of Social Time"
Event Schedule:
9:00 – 10:20 AM
Boundaries, Realities, And The Politics Of Dispute John Comaroff
Chair: Anne Norton
Discussants:
Elisa von Joedeu-Forgey
Wendi Haugh
10:30 – 12:00: Healing the Body, Jean Comaroff
Chair: Steven Feierman
Discussants:
Ellen Amster
Edda Fields
12:00 – 1:00
Lunch Break
1:00 – 2:20 Regimes of Value and Capitalist Expansions, John and Jean Comaroff
Chair: Mark Auslander
Discussants:
Molly Roth
Robey Callahan
2:30 – 4:00 Conversion/Consciousness/Colonialism, John and Jean Comaroff
Chair: Nancy Farriss
Discussants:
Christine Kray
Catherine Bogosian
4:10 – 5:00 Closing Discussion, Sandra Barnes
More about: Jean Comaroff and John Comaroff
For inquiries please contact:
Dr.Ali B. Ali-Dinar,
Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-6610
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