Anthropologies of Africa AcrossDecades and Disciplines

A Day to Honor Sandra Barnes

Saturday April 28, 2012

8:30am- 5:00pm

Scheduleof events:

8:30a-9:00a                Arrival / Continental Breakfast

9:00a-10:00a              Opening Comments and Reflectionson Sandra’s Legacy in African Studies

10:00a-11:00a                       Panel1: After Africa’s Ogun

Chair:

NancyFarriss, Professor of History, Emerita, University of Pennsylvania

Panelists:

ChiekhAnta Babou, Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania

AdamMohr, Senior Critical Writing Fellow in Anthropology, University ofPennsylvania

KristinaWirtz, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Western Michigan University

11:00a-11:30a                        Coffee Break

11:30a-12:30p            Panel 2: Post-Patrons and Power

Chair:

KathleenHall, Associate Professor of Education and Anthropology, University ofPennsylvania

Panelists:

CrystalBiruk, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Oberlin College

KristinDoughty, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Rochester

ChristySchuetze, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Swarthmore College

12:30p-2:00p              Lunch

2:00p-3:30p                Panel 3: Global Flows

Chair:

BrendaChalfin, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Florida

Panelists:

CatiCoe, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Rutgers University, Camden

WendiHaugh, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, St. Lawrence University

NiklasHultin, Research Assistant Professor, University of Virginia

3:30p-4:00p                Coffee Break

4:00p-5:00p                Closing: Reflections on Sandra’sLegacy at Penn and Beyond

ThomasCallaghy, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, University of Pennsylvania

GregUrban, Professor of Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania