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Plenary Session 1 & Welcome
Lord Rhodes Room
Chair & Introduction: Penny Harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego
Impersonal Rule: Governance through Things
Tuesday 1 September - 18.30-19.30
Opening Reception
Wednesday 2 September 2009
Wednesday 2 September - 09.00-10.30
Plenary Session 2
Chair: Nick Thoburn, University of Manchester
Graham Harman, American University, Cairo
Objects are the Root of All Philosophy
Mario Biagioli, Harvard University
Objects of Knowledge, Objects of Property
Wednesday 2 September - 11.00-13.00
Session 101 - The Object Research Lab
Lord Rhodes Room
Organisers: Emilie Gomart, Independent writer and curator,Yvonne Droge Wendel, Independent visual artist, Clare Butcher,Independent writer and curator & Dieter Roelstraete,Independent writer and curator
101-a: Object Number One: Grey Green Colour and Blob Shaped
101-b: Object Number Two - Grey Green Colour and the Blob Shaped
101-c: Object Number Three - Grey Green Colour and the Blob Shaped
101-d: Object Number Four: Grey Green Colour and the Blob Shaped
We want to design and present in real time, in front of people 's eyes, an encounter of humans and objects. There are no papers given, or read about.An inter-disciplinary presentation where object, artist, designer, sociologist and philosopher bring their respective skills, vulnerabilities and sensitivities to this event: each one is seduced, constrained, influenced in a different way, tied and attached to the objects and to the humans in different ways.
Session 102 - Action and Affordance
Conference Room
Chair: Hugh Mackay, The Open University
102-a: When is an Affordance? Bodies, Technologies and Action Possibilities, Yvonne Latham, Brian Bloomfield & Theo Vurdubakis, Lancaster University
102-b: Sociotechnical Bodies at the Heart of (Un-)sustainable Innovations: Who (or What) Steers What (or Whom)? Gert Geominne, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
102-c: A Poor Workman Blames His Tools or How Irrigation Systems Structure Human Actions, Maurits Ertsen, Delft University of Technology
Session 103 - Objects and Social Values
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Elizabeth B Silva, CRESC, The Open University
103-a: Narratives of Technological Change across the Life-Course: The Techno-Biographies of Retired Computer Users, Christina Buse, University of York
103-b: Changing Values: Mobile Phones and Soft Drinks in Apiao, Chiloe, Southern Chile, Giovanna Bacchiddu, University of St Andrews
103-c: Transforming Domestic Temporalities: Radiant Cookers, the Rural Idyll, and ‘Simple’ Living, James Tomasson, Lancaster University
Session 104 - Organisation Technology
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Karel Williams, CRESC, University of Manchester
104-a: Chaos in the Mechanics? The Troubled Transformation of High-skilled Insurance Work in the UK, Leo McCann, Manchester Business School
104-b: Unruly Technologies/Future Promise? Web2.0 and Corporate Accountants, Chris Westrup & Heba El-Sayed, Manchester Business School
104-c: Accounting for Stakeholders and Being Governed by Numbers: Figuring out Tension Management in a Multi-Stakeholder Organization, Valérie Michaud, University of Quebec, Montréal
Session 105 - The Materiality of the Image and Knowledge
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Andrew Hill, CRESC, The Open University
Withdrawn: 105-a: Objects of New Media Art and the Technological Sublime, Ksenia Fedorova, Ural State University
105-b: In theCobbler’sShop:OnSalvagePhotography andSympatheticMagic, Caitlin DeSilvey, University of Exeter
105-c: Polaroid Mosaics: On Photographic Tiles, Peter Buse, University of Salford
105-d: Moving Image Technologies in and out of the Classroom, Kate Miller & John I’Anson, University of Stirling
Session 106 - Biomedical Objects
Seminar Room 1
Chair: Antje Kampf, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
106-a: Ontological Cultures: What Happens to Biological Objects When the Life Sciences Meet the Semantic Web, Liam Magee, RMIT University, Melbourne
106-b: Ethics and Ontology in HIV Biomedical Prevention, Marsha Rosengarten & Mike Michael, Goldsmiths, University of London
106-c: Standard Biologic Parts: Pathways, Techniques and Promises in Contemporary Biotechnical Objects, Adrian MacKenzie, Lancaster University
Wednesday 2 September - 14.00-15.30
Session 201- Artefactual Pleasures
Conference Room
Chair: Leo McCann, Manchester Business School
201-a: Affect, Object, and Normativity: How Should we Feel about the Material World? Pablo Schyfter, University of Edinburgh
201-b: Desire, Thought, Toxicity: The Cigarette as Cinematic Object, Emily Bauman, New York University
201-c: The Driverless Car, Tim Dant, Lancaster University
Session 202 - Objects of Threat, Anxiety and Controversy
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Adi Kuntsman, University of Manchester
202-a: Threatprints, Threads and Triggers: Virtual Traces and Risk Imaginaries in the European ‘War on Terror’, Alexandra Hall & Jon Mendel, Durham University
202-b: Phantoms and Jails: The Enemy in the War on Terror, Andrew Hill, CRESC, The Open University
202-c: Social Change, Shifting Problematization: The Case of ‘Unmarried Motherhood’ and ‘Teenage Pregnancy’, Ofra Koffman, Goldsmiths, University of London
Withdrawn: 202-d: Partnership in Development Aid: Object of Affection or Object of Aversion? Jilles van Gastel, Wageningen University
Session 203 - Medical Data Objects
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Adrian MacKenzie, Lancaster University
203-a: Evident Agents: The Technical Objects of Evidence-Based Medicine, Solon Barocas, New York University
203-b: Your Empowerment is Secured: Data Surveillance, Collective Prosperity and the New Personal Health Market, Paraskevas Vezyridis, University of Nottingham
203-c: Between Numbers and Cells: Prostate-specific Antigen Test (PSA) and the Transformation of Male Bodies, Antje Kampf, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz
Session 204 - Recalibrating the Value of Economic Objects: Shifting Techniques, Technologies and Regulations of Money and Finance - Session 1
Lord Rhodes Room
Organiser: Sarah Green, CRESC, University of Manchester
Chair: Sarah Green
204-a: Ownership and the Technologies of Financialization, Ismail Erturk, Julie Froud & Karel Williams, CRESC, University of Manchester
204-b: A ‘Good, Average Man’: Market Encounters for ‘Non-ordinary’ Personal Finance, Liz McFall, CRESC, The Open University
204-c: Value Risk, and the Technologies of Seeing, Mike Pryke, CRESC, The Open University
Session 205 - Materiality and Public Goods - Session 1
Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Ann Kelly, London School Hygiene Tropical Medicine, Emilia Sanabria, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Fernando Domínguez & Uli Beisel, The Open University, Javier Lezaun & Noortje Marres, University of Oxford
Discussant: Annemarie Mol, University of Amsterdam
205-a: Property as 'Confusion': Adjudicating Property over Combinations of Biological Matter, Javier Lezaun, University of Oxford
205-b: Evanescent Objecthood: Pharmaceutical Drugs - Between Packaging and Absorption, Emilia Sanabria, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris
205-c: Art, Laboratories and Architectures: Some Reflections on the Aesthetic Regime of Objecthood of Contemporary Art, Fernando Dominguez Rubio, The Open University
Wednesday 2 September - 16.00-17.30
Session 301 - Objects, Art and Time
Conference Room
Chair: Griselda Pollock, Centre CATH, University of Leeds
Moved to session 601: 301-a: A Window for Stan Brakhage, Sylvie Simonds, McGill University, Montréal
301-b: Vocabularies of Appreciation: How to Distinguish Art Objects from Object Objects, Peter Armstrong, University of Leicester
301-c: The Transformative Objects of Simon Starling and Cornelia Parker, Cori Champagne, New Art Centre, Boston
301-d: Evaluating Pre-Objects: Necessity and Newness in Artists’ Studios, Ignacio Farías, Social Science Research Centre Berlin
Session 302 - Objects of Power and Governance
Seminar Room 3
Chair & Discussant: Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego
302-a: Filing the Raj: Political Technologies of The Imperial British State, Patrick Joyce, CRESC, University of Manchester/London School of Economics
302-b: The Fluid Object and State Control: Subject, Object & Sovereign, Michael Reinsborough, Queen's University Belfast
302-c: Population Objects, Evelyn Ruppert, CRESC, The Open University
Session 303 - Recalibrating the Value of Economic Objects: Shifting Techniques, Technologies and Regulations of Money and Finance - Session 2
Lord Rhodes Room
Organiser: Sarah Green, CRESC, University of Manchester
Chair: Karel Williams, CRESC, University of Manchester
303-a: Valuing the Subprime Borrower? Regulation, Innovation and Credit Access for Marginalized Communities, Johnna Montgomerie, CRESC, University of Manchester
303-b: Of Gold and Euros: Locating Value on the Greek-Turkish Border, Sarah Green, CRESC, University of Manchester
New Discussant: Rolland Munro, University of Keele
Session 304 -Materiality and Public Goods - Session 2
Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Ann Kelly, London School Hygiene Tropical Medicine, Emilia Sanabria, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, Fernando Dominguez Rubio & Uli Beisel, The Open University, Javier Lezaun & Noortje Marres, University of Oxford
Discussant: Andrew Barry, Oxford University
304-a: The Experimental Hut: Writing Vectors on the Wall, Ann Kelly, London School Hygiene Tropical Medicine
304-b: The Cost of Public Involvement: Experiments with Carbon-based Living and the Problem of Relevance, Noortje Marres, University of Oxford
304-c: Dr. JESUS: The Transformation of a German Ambulance to a Ghanaian Bus, Uli Beisel, The Open University & Tillmann Schneider, Humboldt University of Berlin
Wednesday 2 September - 18.00-19.30
Plenary Session 3
Chair: Elizabeth B Silva, CRESC, The Open University
Patricia Clough, City University of New York
Praying and Playing to the Beat of a Child’s Metronome
Griselda Pollock, Centre CATH, University of Leeds
Sarah Kofman’s Father’s Pen: Trauma, Transmission and the Strings of Virtuality between the Psychoanalytical and the Aesthetic Understanding of the Object as Link not Lost
Wednesday 2 September - 20.00-21.30
Reception and 'Objects’ Event in Collaboration with Castlefield Gallery
Manchester based artist Hilary Jack will introduce her practice and facilitate an informal event on the upper concourse. Delegates are invited to bring an object which has particular significance or meaning to them. The objects will be documented, labelled and displayed on the concourse during the conference. Participants will be encouraged to share the significance of their chosen object with the rest of the group in an informal discussion. All the objects will be returned to their owners at the end of the conference and participants will receive a limited edition certificate of participation.
A number of artworks from Hilary’s recent exhibition at the Castlefield Gallery The Social Lives of Objects are installed in the Gallery Room and will be open for viewing during the conference.
Castlefield Gallery is celebrating 25 years of exhibiting contemporary art and supporting artists' development. Based in Manchester, it currently has 3 main strands of work – a) an exhibition and events programme, b) Project Space, a professional development scheme for artists, and c) PureScreen, a platform for promoting artists’ film and video. It aims to engage art with audiences regionally, nationally and internationally. www.castlefieldgallery.co.uk, www.theartguide.co.uk
Thursday 3 September - 09.00-10.30
Today Hedsor Creative Learning led by artists Karl and Kimberly Foster will display one of their Object Dialogue Boxes.
Hedsor Creative Learning produce a range of learning resources and training materials to inspire creative thinking and dialogues for a variety of contexts. Object Dialogue Boxes © 2005 have been developed for specific collections in museums and galleries. The Object Dialogue Boxes are collections of modified `everyday' items.
Session 401- Materiality of Media
Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Jason Toynbee, CRESC, The Open University
Chair: Kath Woodward, The Open University
401-a: Hacking Matter: Recovering Technological Determinism, Tim Jordan, The Open University
401-b: Materiality and Inequality: User Expertise and New Communications Technologies, Hugh Mackay, The Open University
401-c: Objects and Class: Social Reality through the Media, Jason Toynbee, The Open University
Session 402- Messy Objects
Lord Rhodes Room
Organiser: John Law, Lancaster University
Chair & Discussant: Mike Savage, CRESC, University of Manchester
402-a: Multiplicity, Mess and Modes of Enacting, John Law, Lancaster University
402-b: Be(e-)ing De/composed: Holding Things Together in a Time of Colony Collapse Disorder, Nick Bingham, The Open University
Session 403 - Body, Object and Archive: Genealogies of Modern Forensic Practice
Conference Room
Organiser: Daniel Asen, Columbia University
Chair: Tim Thompson, Teesside University
403-a: Bernard Spilsbury, Pathology and British Forensic Medicine 1900-1950, Ian Burney & Neil Pemberton, University of Manchester
403-b: Exhumation: Transcript and Biography, Zoë Crossland, Columbia University
403-c: Appraised Objects and the Forensic Laboratory: Lin Ji and the Beiping Institute of Legal Medicine, 1930-1937, Daniel Asen, Columbia University
Session 404- Objects of History
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Patrick Joyce, CRESC, University of Manchester/London School of Economics
404-a: The Thing of History, Katrina Schlunke, University of Technology Sydney
404-b: Documents as Objects: Online Versus Onsite - The 'Image' Versus the 'Reality'? Valerie Johnson, The National Archives
404-c: Objects in Relation to Time and Change: Socio-archaeological, Philosophical and Computational Approaches, Eleni Kotoula, University of Southampton
Added paper, moved from 503, 404-d: Set in Stone: The Treatment and Values of Earth Science Objects, Hannah-Lee Chalk, University of Manchester
Session 501 - City Spaces
Lord Rhodes Room
Chair: Evelyn Ruppert, CRESC, The Open University
501-a: Shopping with Art: An Analysis of How Art Creates Its Space within Public Places, Ruth Woods Norwegian University of Science and Technology
501-b: Objects and Traces in Space: An Approach to Locative Media Projects, Gemma San Cornelio Esquerdo, Open University of Catalonia
501-c: The Materiality of Place affect on the Ideality of Life: From Subjugated to Subordinated, and Subservience and Subersiveness between, Stuart Copeland, University of Surrey
501-d: Spaced-Out in the City: An Ambulatory Automatism in Search of Organization, Damian O'Doherty, University of Manchester
Session 502 – Markets and Consumption
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Liz McFall, CRESC, The Open University
502-a: Ways of Capitalist Worldmaking: Performing and Taming the Market at the 1889 and 1900 Expositions Universelles in Paris, Van Troi Tran, Université Laval
502-b: Differentiating, Valuing, Appreciating as Collective Object-grounded Processes: The Case of the Wine Authentic Quality, Geneviève Teil & Sandrine Barrey, INRA University, Melbourne
502-c: Trout and Grayling as Objects in Local Discourses of Identity and Power, Hogne Øian, Norwegian Institute of Nature Research
502-d: Symbolic Objectives of the Art Object - Where the Object Hardly Matters, Cobi Labuscagne, Wits Institute of Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg
Session 503 - Boundary and Natural Objects
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Madeleine Reeves, CRESC, University of Manchester
503-a: ‘Just Another Night in the Shooting Gallery’? The Syringe, Affect and Space, Nicole Vitellone, University of Liverpool
503-b: Sweater Business: The Mediation of Trust and Distrust in the Tibetan Itinerant Trade in India, Timm Lau, University of Cambridge
Moved to session 404 - 503-c: Set in Stone: The Treatment and Values of Earth Science Objects, Hannah-Lee Chalk, University of Manchester
Withdrawn: 503-d: Ecobag: From Concept to Form, Claudia Busato, University of the Centre of Brasília & Josi Paz, University of Brasília
Session 504 - Telling Objects: Lindow Man at the Manchester Museum
Conference Room
Organiser: Irit Narkiss, The Manchester Museum
Chair: Irit Narkiss
504-a: Lindow Man at the Manchester Museum: A Post-modern Perspective, Bryan Sitch, The Manchester Museum
504-b: Lindow Man: A Bog Body Controversy, Pete Brown, The Manchester Museum
504-c: Getting to Grips with Science and History: Lindow Man Programming for Secondary School Pupils, Cat Lumb, The Manchester Museum
504-d: Book, 2001, Provenance Unknown: Creating the Museum of Me, Neil Dymond-Green, The Manchester Museum
Session 505 - An Object Perspective on Education
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Marianne Søgaard Sørensen, Aarhus University
505-a: Objects in Education: Tracing Practices and Change, Michael T. Tscholl, University of Cambridge
505-b: The ANTics of Education: Enacting Case-based Learning through Texts and Objects, Sanna Rimpiläinen & Richard Edwards, University of Stirling
505-c: Transcending the Obvious: Teaching Material Culture to History Students, Ray Schuck, Ohio Northern University
Thursday 3 September - 14.00-15.30
Session 601 - Communication, Mediation and Expertise
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Penny harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
601-a: Writing, Masculinity and Environment Degradation: The Birth of Xinhua-genre as Power, Lei Zhou, Yunnan University/London School of Economics and Social Sciences
602-b – Conceptual Objects: The Architecture of Knowledge Asymmetries, Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen, University of Aarhus
601-c: The Digitalisation of Education: Technology and the Mirroring of the Subject, Andrew Barbour, University of Huddersfield
Added paper moved from 301: 601-d: A Window for Stan Brakhage, Sylvie Simonds, McGill University, Montréal
Session 602 - Flexible Work
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Mike Savage, CRESC, University of Manchester
602-a: Tacos, Clothes and Spimes, Anita Greenhill & Gordon Fletcher, Manchester Business School
602-b: Speaker’s Gaze: Interweaving Objects in Social Networks of Project Teams, Alexander Kofinas, Manchester Metropolitan University & Allan Macpherson, University of Liverpool Management School
602-c: Situating Time: New Technologies in Flexible Work, Jens Kjaerulff, University of Manchester
Session 603 - Objects: The Future
Lord Rhodes Room
Chair & Discussant: Gillian Evans, CRESC, University of Manchester
603-a: The Spectacle of High Tech, or the Technical Object in Architecture, Alexandra Quantrill, Columbia University
603-b: Enacting Solidarity; Embodying Assumptions about Future Users in the Design of New Buses in Santiago, Chile, Sebastian Ureta, Center for Technology & Society, Technical University of Berlin
603-c: Real-ising the Virtual: Digital Simulation and the Material Politics of Future-Making, Hannah Knox, CRESC, University of Manchester
Session 604 - Genetically Modified Objects
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Peter Wade, University of Manchester
604-a: Objecting (to) Agrobiotechnology: The GMO as a Contested Object, Bronislaw Szerszynski & Larry Reynolds, Lancaster University
604-b: Performing Cows: Objects and Values in a Sociotechnical Controversy, Bill Doolin, Auckland University of Technology & Brian Bloomfield, Lancaster University
604-c: Uncertainty as Agency: Political Participation of Objects, Tereza Stöckelová, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic
Session 605 - Publications as Artefacts
Conference Room
Chair: Jason Toynbee, CRESC, The Open University
605-a: The Strangest Cult: Deleuze and the Political Book, Nick Thoburn, University of Manchester
605-b: Following the Book: Studying the Power of Literature, Hanna Kuusela, Goldsmiths, University of London
605-c: Transformational Trivia: The Cultural Work of Magazines for Black South Africans, Sonja Narunsky-Laden, University of Johannesburg
Thursday 3 September - 16.00-17.30
Session 701 - Object Practices in Design
Lord Rhodes Room
Organisers: Lucy Kimbell, Said Business School, University of Oxford,
Nina Wakeford, Goldsmiths, University of London and Laurene Vaughan, RMIT
Chair: Nina Wakeford
701-a: Design-as-practice and Designs-in-practice, Lucy Kimbell, Said Business School, University of Oxford
701-b: Design and Affect, Laurene Vaughan, RMIT University, Melbourne
701-c: The Model and the Object, Nina Wakeford, Goldsmiths, University of London
Respondent: TBC
Session 702 - Objects of Education
Lecture Theatre
Chair: Michael T. Tscholl, University of Cambridge
702-a: Tracing Standards: Textual Objects in Governing Education, Richard Edwards, University of Stirling & Tara Fenwick, University of British Columbia
702-b: Weaving and Unravelling Public Sector Policy: A Knot Analysis, Tim Deignan, Freelance Education Consultant
702-c: Objectifying Processes of Impact in Collaborative Research, Alexander Kofinas, Manchester Metropolitan University & Elena Antonacopoulou, University of Liverpool Management School
Session 703 - Metered Objects
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Liz McFall, CRESC, The Open University
703-a: Smoothing Techno-religious Space, Heba El-Sayed, Anita Greenhill, Chris Westrup, Manchester Business School/CRESC
703-b: When Scenarios Shape the Actors: A Sociological Analysis of a Mundane Artefact, Anjembe Emmanuel, Laboratoire PACTE/CNRS/Umanlab
703-c: Sensors, Measurement and Reflexivities: On Body Monitoring, Julien Soler, Grenoble University & Pascale Trompette, Université Pierre-Mendès
Session 704 - This is Not an Object?
Conference Room
Chair: John Law, Lancaster University
704-a: On Becoming Object: Technological Evolution and Reification, Gonçalo Marcelo, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
704-b: This is Not an Object: Materiality and Non-human Sociality beyond the Subjective, Richie Nimmo, University of Manchester
704-c: Materializing Objects through an Application of Bohrian Relational Ontology, Roger van Daalen Fuente, Lancaster University
Session 705 - Market Materials
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Johnna Montgomerie, CRESC, University of Manchester
705-a: Code Acting by the Code: Engraving Compliance and Regulations within Trading Algorithms, Marc Lenglet, European Business School, Paris
705-b: Tracing Technologies of Debt Collection: Attaching the Defaulting Debtor, Joseph Deville, Goldsmiths, University of London
705-c: The Object(ive)s of Private Insurance, Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen, University of Helsinki
Thursday 3 September - 20.00
Conference Party Including food and music - Admission by ticket only
Friday 4 September - 09.30-11.00
Session 801 - Revered Objects
Chair: Sophie Watson, CRESC, The Open University
Seminar Room 2
801-a: Spiritual and Moral Objects: The Cross and the Corn in Cusco, Astrid B Stensrud, University of Oslo
801-b: Moral and Spiritual Objects in the Studio Crafts', Lily Crowther, Victoria & Albert Museum
801-c: Animism and Relations with Byzantine Objects, Glenn Peers, University of Texas, Austin
801-d: Making of Agents of Holy Power on Earth: Circulating Constantine’s 'Labarum' in Late Antiquity, Hallie G. Meredith, University of Colorado, Boulder
Session 802 - The Role of Objects in Education
Seminar Room 3
Chair: Niamh Moore, CRESC, University of Manchester
802-a: Materiality and Meaning in Danish Vocational Education, Marianne Søgaard Sørensen, Aarhus University
802-b: Creating Your Object: Object Centered Science Learning, Dvora Lang, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
802-c: Creating Artefacts in the Arts: Practice-based Research in the UK, Helen Cornish, Michael Biggs, & Daniela Büchler, University of Hertfordshire
Session 803 - Territory Integral? Objects, Encompassment and Materialities of State Space - Session 1
Lord Rhodes Room
Organiser: Madeleine Reeves, CRESC, University of Manchester
Chair: Andrew Barry, Oxford University
803-a: Road Blocks and Landslides: Territorial Integrity in Precarious Places, Penny Harvey, CRESC, University of Manchester
803-b: Feeling Borders in and out of Cyberspace: Bodies, States. Affects, Adi Kuntsman, University of Manchester
803-c: The Networked Body of the State: Constructing Security and Territoriality in Energy Debates in Germany and Poland, Ulrich Best, University of Chemnitz
Session 804 - Objects and Memory – Session 1
Chair: Irit Narkiss, The Manchester Museum
Conference Room
Withdrawn: 804-a: ‘Modern’ and ‘Traditional’ Objects and Their Interpretations in Migrant Peasant Homes of Istanbul, Emma Hoskins, University of Hull
804-b: ‘In Exposed Areas’: Working as Curator-artist at The Manchester Museum, Helena Tomlin
The Manchester Museum
804-c: (Ma)Memory Trace, or the Stuff of Videogame History, Raiford Guins, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Session 805 - Making Objects Matter: Ethnographies of Detachment
Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Matei Candea, University of Cambridge
Chair: Maryon McDonald, University of Cambridge
805-a: Detached Behaviour: Making Science with Meerkats, Matei Candea, University of Cambridge
805-b: The Making of an Organ for Transplantation, Maryon McDonald, University of Cambridge
805-c: Material Leavings, Soumhya Venkatesan, University of Manchester
805-d: In Praise of Objectivity: The Certainty of Subjectivity (and Its Problems), Tom Yarrow, Bangor University
Session 901 - Object Analogies
Seminar Room
Chair: Nick Thoburn, University of Manchester
901-a: Objectification, Commodification, and Market Abstraction, Jonathan Cutler, Wesleyan University
901-b: Beyond Correlationism: Jean-Luc Nancy and the Touch of the Object, Peter Gratton, University of San Diego
901-c: Rethinking Appropriation: Objects’ Contingency and Their Role within Cultural Reproduction, Lucia Vodanovic, Goldsmiths, University of London
901-d: Processual Objects, Simon Mills, De Montfort University
Session 902 - Territory Integral? Objects, Encompassment and Materialities of State Space, Session 2
Lord Rhodes Room
Organiser: Madeleine Reeves, CRESC, University of Manchester
Chair: Andrew Barry, Oxford University
902-a: Eventful Geographies: The Role of Events in the Performative Materializations of Nation and State as Border Effects, Robert Kaiser, University of Wisconsin, Madison
902-b: States of Separation: 'Creeping Migration' and the Ambivalence of Territorial Integrity in Southern Kyrgyzstan, Madeleine Reeves, CRESC, University of Manchester
902-c: Local Forms of State Formation: Territoriality, Taxation, and Belonging on the Mexico-Guatemala Border, Rebecca Galemba, Brown University
Session 903 - Games and Interaction
Seminar Room 2
Chair: Damian O'Doherty, University of Manchester
903-a: Objects and Their Participation in the Interdisciplinary Design and Development of Computer Games, Nikiforos S. Panourgias, University of Warwick
903-b: The Affective Weapons of Chatbots, Amanda Windle, University for the Creative Arts, London
903-c: Evocative Objects and Fun: A Study about Board Games as Objects-mediated Social Interaction, Emanuela Marchetti, University of Southern Denmark
Session 904 - Objects and Memory – Session 2
Conference Room
Chair: Kath Woodward, The Open University
904-a: Surviving the Holocaust: Objects and Memories, Amanda Bergen, University of Leeds
904-b: Recollecting ‘The Pearl of the Black Sea’: Movements of Memory and Material Culture between Odessa and New York, Tanya Richardson, Wilfrid Laurier University
904-c: Dwelling on/in Things: Technology and Bereavement, Therese Richardson, University of Sheffield
904-d: Liminata: Troubling Matter, Shaun Hides, Coventry University
Plenary Session 4 and Close
Chair: Hannah Knox, CRESC, University of Manchester
Taste Some for Yourself: The Real, the good and the Edible
Annemarie Mol, University of Amsterdam
The Matter of Things
Kathleen Stewart, University of Texas, Austin
Abstracts of all papers
All the paper abstracts and abstracts for pre-organised sessions are listed in chronological order in the following documents which are available to download as a Word file.
Paper abstracts
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