University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Friday, March 26, 1999
Stiteler Hall, First Floor (37th and Walnut)
Event Schedule:
8:45 – 9:00:
Coffee
8:50 – 9:00 AM
Introduction: Dr. Tom Callaghy (Political Science)
9:15 – 10:30 AM
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 AM
Break
10:45 – 12:00 PM
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 PM
Lunch Break
2:00 – 3:15 PM
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 PM
Coffee Break
3:30 – 4:45 PM
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 PM
Wrap-up
5:00 PM
Reception
For inquiries please contact:
Dr.Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-6610