African Studies Reading Group at U. Penn

WHAT IS THE READING GROUP?

The African Studies Reading Group is designed to provide a forum for an intimate, informal, and intense dialogue between disciplines and regions, graduate students and faculty. Theorists we will discuss this fall include Derrida, Deleuze, Bataille, Foucault, Husserl, Appiah, Bachelard and others.

Each semester participants will be invited to spend one day with a scholar renowned in the discipline. Our guest scholar for the fall is Jane Guyer from Northwestern University. This spring, our guest scholar will be Kwame Anthony Appiah.

WHERE AND WHEN WE MEET:

The Reading Group will meet every other week at announced locations.

Details of the First meeting are:

Date:              Friday, September 16, 1994
Time:              6:00 p.m.
Where:             226 W. Rittenhouse Square, Apt. 2001
                   Philadelphia, PA
Host:              Achille Mbembe (telephone: 893-0526)

... Wine and Cheese will be served ...

Readings for this meeting are:

Bates et. al., Eds.: Africa and the Disciplines Mudimbe: The Invention of Africa Habermas: The Philosophical Discourse on Modernity; On the Logic of the Social Sciences

All books are available at HOUSE OF OUR OWN BOOKSTORE

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL:

Achille Mbembe: (o) 573-3252 or (h) 893-0526
Elisa Forgey: (h) 790- 1577
Lynette Loose: (o) 898-6971

Syllabi are available at the African Studies office: 418 University Museum/6398