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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


1999 Scholar: PROF. JOHANNES FABIAN
University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Friday, March 26, 1999
Stiteler Hall, First Floor (37th and Walnut)

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Event Schedule:

8:45 – 9:00:
Coffee

8:50 – 9:00 Introduction:
Dr. Tom Callaghy (Political Science)

9:15 – 10:30 Panel I: Language and Representational Acts
Chair: Dr. Leigh Swigart (Education)
Discussants:
Dr. Alwiya Omar (Linguistics)
Wendy Haugh (Anthropology)
Michael Lempert (Anthropology)

Works to be discussed: Language and Colonial Power, Time and the Other, Language, History and Anthropology, Missions and the Colonization of African Languages.

10:30 – 10:45
Break

10:45 – 12:00 Panel II: Negotiating Genres: Performance, Popular Culture and Folklore
Chair: Dr. Regina Bendix (Folklore)
Discussants:
Margaret Magat (Folklore)
Soli Otero(Folklore)
Phil Scher (Anthropology, GWU)

Works: Power and Performance: Ethnographic Explorations through Proverbial Wisdom and Theater in Shaba" and" Moments of Freedom: Popular Culture and Anthropology.

12:00 – 2:00
Lunch Break

2:00 – 3:15 Panel III: Constructing the Other: Orientalism Time and Social Science
Chair: Dr. Steven Feierman (History and HSS)
Discussants:
Fernando Armstrong (Anthropology)
Lauren Nauta (History)
Niklas Hultin (Anthropology)

Works: Time and the Other and Time and the Work of Anthropology: Critical Essays 1971-1991.

3:00 – 3:15
Coffee Break

3:30 – 4:45 Panel IV: Remembering the Present and Producing the Past: Tshibumba and the Art of Colonial History
Chair: Dr. Lee Cassanelli (History)
Discussants:
Elisa von Joeden-Forgey (History)
Marton Markovits (Political Science)
Jennifer Sessions (History).

Work: Remembering the Present: Painting and Popular History in Zaire.

4:45 – 5:00 Wrap-up

5:00 Reception

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

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