5-0325 MEMORIALS AND REMAINS OF SCIENCE IN AFRICA: TRACES OF PROGRESS, NOSTALGIA AND AMNESIA

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Saturday, November 19, 2011: 10:15-12:00

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Ann H Kelly (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and Noemi Tousignant (Anthropologies of African Biosciences, LSHTM)

Chairs: Wenzel Geissler (Social Anthropology, University of Oslo & London School of Hygiene)

Discussants: Guillaume Lachenal (Department of the History and Philosophy of Science/ Université de Paris, Diderot )

10:15

The Golden Age or Spilled Ink?: Nostalgia and Contested Remembrance At the Fann Psychiatric Clinic In Dakar, Senegal

Katie Kilroy-Marac PhD (Sarah Lawrence College)

10:30

Even Silence Has An End: The Many Layers and Interpretations of Witchcraft Accusations In Mozambique

Maria Paula Meneses (Centro de Estudos Sociais)

10:45

Love & Laziness: Scientific Virtue and Memory In Senegal

Noemi Tousignant (Anthropologies of African Biosciences, LSHTM)

11:00

Tracing the Gambia Experiment: Failed Agronomics and Medical Futures

Ann H Kelly (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine)

11:15

Happy Anniversary to KEMRI/Cdc': Rememberinga Place of Science In Africa

Wenzel Geissler (Social Anthropology, University of Oslo & London School of Hygiene)

11:30

Traces of Landscapes Past: Conservation and Land Claim In St Lucia, South Africa

Knut G Nustad (Norwegian U of Life Sciences)

11:45

Discussant

Guillaume Lachenal (Department of the History and Philosophy of Science/ Université de Paris, Diderot )

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