Event
Scholar For A Day 2025 with Kalala Ngalamulume
3401 Walnut Street Philadelphia, PA
The Scholar for a Day is a day-long seminar, organized by Penn graduate students of all disciplines, designed to provide students and faculty with exposure to a leading scholar in African Studies. The event allows for intensive engagement with authors of significant theoretical approaches to Africanist scholarship as well as providing an opportunity to gain insight into the professional process--the evolution of new empirical and theoretical interests, the methodologies of research and writing, and the process of collaboration between scholars. This year's keynote speaker is Prof. Kalala Ngalamulme, he will speak on "Colonial Medicine and African Societies."
Featured Speaker
Prof. Kalala Ngalamulume is Associate Professor of History and Africana Studies at Bryn Mawr College, where he co-chairs the Health Studies program. He is the author of several scholarly articles and book chapters on the history of health and disease in Senegal, author of Colonial Pathologies, Environment and Western Medicine in Saint-Louis-du-Senegal, 1867-1920 (2012), and co-editor with Paula Viterbo of Medicine and Health in Africa: Multidisciplinary Perspectives (2010). He has also published in the Journal of African History, the American Historical Review, Journal of West African History, History in Africa, African Economic History, e-Tropic: Electronic Journal of Studies in the Tropics; Cahier d'Etudes Africaines; Encyclopedia of African History, and Oxford Bibliographies Online. He is serving on the Advisory Editorial Board of the Journal of African History.