University of California at Irvine
Friday April 11, 2003
Studio Theater, Annenberg Performing Arts Center
3680 Walnut Street
Event Schedule:
8:30 – 8:50 AM
Breakfast
8:50 – 9:00 AM
Opening Remarks: Prof. Lee Cassanelli, Director, African Studies Center
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Panel I with James Ferguson: "Re-politicizing Development"
Faculty Moderator : Dr. Steven Feierman, Departments of History and History and Sociology of Sciences
Student Discussants:
Eve Buckley, Department of History and Sociology of Sciences
Marton Markovits, Department of Political Science
Ian Petrie, Department of History and Sociology of Sciences
10:30 – 10:45 AM
Coffee Break
10:45 – 12:15 PM
Panel II with Liisa Malkki: "The Family of Nations and its Others"
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Brendan O’Leary: Solomon Asch Center for Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict; Department of Political Science
Student Discussants:
Wendy Haugh, Department of Anthropology
Azra Hromodzic, Department of Anthropology
Todd Wolfson, Department of Anthropology
12:15 – 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 – 3:00 PM
Panel III with Liisa Malkki and James Ferguson: "Imagining Modernity and the State"
Faculty Moderator: Dr. Brenda Chalfin, Department of Anthropology and African Studies, University of Florida
Student Discussants:
Liz Greenspan, Department of Anthropology
Jen Riggan, Graduate School of Education
David Samper, Department of Folklore
3:00 – 3:15 PM
Coffee Break
3:15 – 4:30 PM
Liisa Malkki and James Ferguson: Presentation of Recent Research
There will be a reception following the event.
More about: Liisa Malkki & James Ferguson.
Co-Sponsors: African Studies Center & The Solomon Asch Center For Study of Ethnopolitical Conflict, University of Pennsylvania
For inquiries please contact:
Dr.Ali B. Ali-Dinar, Ph.D, aadinar@sas.upenn.edu
(215) 898-6610