1999 Scholar: PROF. JOHANNES FABIAN

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