Materialising the Subject: phenomenological and post-ANT objects in the social sciences
An International Conference
THIS CONFERENCE IS NOW FULLY BOOKED
Venue: Manchester Museum, Oxford Road
Date: 26-27 February 2009
Conference Programme
Day One - Thursday 26th February 2009
12.00 – 1.00 - registrations and lunch
1.00 – 3.15 - Welcome, introduction and session one:
After Networks: spatio-temporal analytics
In conversation:
Assistant Professor Robert Oppenheim (USA), Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin (https://www.utexas.edu/research/eureka/faculty/view.php?pid=1729)
Dr Matei Candea, Sigrid Rausing Lecturer in Collaborative Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology (University of Cambridge) (http://www.candea.net/)
Professor Harvey Molotch (USA), Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_Molotch)
3.15 – 3.45 - tea/coffee
3.45 – 5.30 - session two:
Does it make any Sense to Say that Objects Have Agency?
In conversation:
Dr Martin Holbraad, Lecturer, Department of Anthropology (Social Anthropology), University College London. (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/m_holbraad)
Dr Monika Buscher, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Science Studies, Lancaster University. (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/Monika-Buscher/)
Professor Susanne Kuechler, Professor, Department of Anthropology (Material Culture) University College London. (http://www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/s_kuechler/index)
Dr Soumhya Venkatesan, Lecturer, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester. (http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/socialanthropology/about/staff/venkatesan/)
7.30 - Conference Dinner - Venue TBC
Day Two - Friday 27th February 2009
9.00 – 10.45 - session three:
Is phenomenology really an albatross?
In Conversation:
Professor Don Ihde (USA) Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Ihde)
Professor Christina Toren, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of St. Andrews (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/dept/staff/?staffid=150
Professor Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor, (University of Warwick)( www.nigelthrift.org)
10.45 – 11.15 - tea/coffee
11.15 – 1.00 - session four:
‘Skilled Practice: cognition as human-artefact-human orientation system
In conversation:
Professor Christina Toren, Professor of Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews (http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/anthropology/dept/staff/?staffid=150)
Professor Tim Ingold, Chair in Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen (http://www.abdn.ac.uk/anthropology/staff/details.php?id=tim.ingold)
Associate Professor Morten Pedersen, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen (http://antropologi.ku.dk/english/staff/beskrivelse/?id=255694)
1.00– 2.00 - lunch
2.00 – 3.45 - session five:
Not Networks Per Se, but Distributed Enactments’.
In conversation:
Professor John Law (Centre for Science Studies, University of Lancaster) (http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/sociology/profiles/John-Law/)
Professor Penny Harvey, Professor of Social Anthropology (University of Manchester)( http://virtualsociety.sbs.ox.ac.uk/people/harvey.htm)
Dr Albena Yaneva, Lecturer in the School of Architecture, University of Manchester (http://www.sed.manchester.ac.uk/architecture/staff/yaneva_albena.htm
3.45 – 4.15 tea/coffee and End