- Title: Monday Brown Bag Lecture - '"IF ALL ELSE FAILS ..."; Tonics, Clinics, and Miracles in Accra'
- Host Department:
Institute for the Humanities
- Date: 01/22/2006 - 01/22/2006
- Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
- Location: Osterman Common Room, 0520 Rackham Building, 915 E Washington St., Ann Arbor
- Contact Information: Doretha Coval
dcoval@umich.edu
734 936 3518
- Description: (28 min., 2005, R. Lane Clark, director)
Documentary and Film Series
- Detailed Information: Nancy Rose Hunt will offer introductory remarks before the screening of “If All Else Fails ...”; Tonics, Clinics, and Miracles in Accra. Professor Hunt, an anthropological historian at the University of Michigan, produced this film as part of a book-DVD project called Accra Remix: Bodies, Gender and Knowledge in a West African City.
Following the screening, Jacob Songsore will offer some critical comment and discussion of context. An urban and epidemiological geographer, he is Professor of Geography and Dean, School of Research and Graduate Studies, University of Ghana.
