Society for Cultural Anthropology

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

12:00-13:45


2-0085
BETWEEN ANTHROPOLOGY AND ART: BLENDING AND DIFFERENCE IN A MULTIPLY OCCUPIED SPACE
Daniel Rosenblatt, Marko Zivkovic and Frances M Slaney

2-0090
PARASITIC ANTHROPOLOGIES
Kathleen Richardson, Samuel G Collins and Paul Kockelman

2-0095
RETHINKING NAMING: A CRITICAL LOOK AT DESIGNATION AND DISPLACEMENT
Andrew Alan Johnson, Daena A Funahashi and Andrew C Willford

2-0100
THE FABRICATION OF MARKETS
Marcos Alexander Mendoza

14:00-15:45


2-0290

2-0300
SIGNS OF THE FETISH
Robert W Blunt, Andrew P Graan, Rihan Yeh and Sasha Newell

14:00-17:45


2-0385
AFRICA AND THE BIOLOGICS OF HEALTH: THE LEGACIES AND EMBODIED TRACES OF INTERVENTION.
Kristin Peterson, vinh-Kim Nguyen, Duana Fullwiley and Elisio Macamo

16:00-17:45


2-0475

2-0480
PERSONIFICATION: CONCEPTUALIZING THE AGENCY OF THINGS
Debra J Occhi, Teri J Silvio and Paul Manning

2-0485
SYSTEMS OF VALUE, TRANSLATION AND MOBILITY
Britta Ingebretson and Julie Y Chu

16:00-19:45


2-0560
NO MATTER WHERE: TRACKING NEW MEDIA MATERIALITIES AND IDEOLOGIES
Matthew H Bernius, Adam R Fish, Jordan H Kraemer, Elizabeth A Marks, Alex J Golub and Gabriella Lukacs

18:00-19:45


2-0635
AFTER CONSUMPTION
Julienne Obadia, Jacob Doherty and Sharika Thiranagama

2-0640
PROTOTYPE
Richard Doyle, Lina Dib, Sophia Roosth and Thierry Bardini

2-0645
SLIGHT INCONGRUITIES AND HIDDEN DRAMAS: TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF IN-BETWEEN SPACES
Teresa Kuan, Anita Kumar, Melissa M Park and Brian Massumi

18:00-21:45


2-0745
GOVERN BY NUMBERS: MODELS, PLANS, AND THE QUANTITATIVE IN THE WELFARE STATE
Rayna Rapp, Jennifer S Mack, Alison Cool, Catherine Fennell and Matthew Hull

20:00-21:45


2-0840
THE PRODUCTIVE VALUE OF THE TRACE
Rachel Daniell, Priya Rajalakshmi Chandrasekaran, Manissa M Maharawal and Malav J Kanuga

2-0845
LABOUR IN LATE MODERNITY
Murat K Guney

2-0850
THE MORAL GEOGRAPHIES OF COMMODITY NETWORKS
Ratna Saptari, Sabine Luning and Cristiana Panella

2-0855
TO SEE AND BE SEEN: VISIBILITY, POLITICS, AND PERFORMATIVITY IN SOUTH ASIA
Naheed Gina Aaftaab, Leah M Koskimaki and Mekhala Krishnamurthy

Thursday, November 17, 2011

07:45-09:45


3-0005
CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY INTERN PROGRAM MEETING
Danilyn Rutherford, Alison Kenner, Charles Plot and Anne Alison

08:00-09:45


3-0105
PARADOXICAL LEGACIES OF VIOLENCE IN SOUTH ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA
Amy E Cooper, Pinky Hota, Gayatri Moorthi and Shaylih R Muehlmann

3-0115
THE NEWNESS OF NEW MEDIA
Ilana Gershon, Joshua A Bell and Laura E Kunreuther

10:00-12:00

10:15-12:00


3-0435
COSMOS/BIOS/POLIS
Eben Kirksey, Dorion Sagan and Matei Candea

13:45-14:45

13:45-15:30


3-0710
ETHNOGRAPHIES OF DEMOCRACY AND MINOR POLITICS: IN CONVERSATION WITH GAYATRI SPIVAK
Valeria Procupez, Juan Obarrio and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak

3-0715
FORMATIONS OF THE SECULAR BODY
Shea McManus, Abouali Farman-Farmaian, Raja Abillama and Mayanthi L Fernando

13:45-17:30


3-0780
THE STAKES OF "CRISIS"
Janet Roitman, Mary Murrell, Stefania Pandolfo and George E Marcus

3-0840
ECONOMIES OF AFFECT
Ulla D Berg, Ana Y Ramos-Zayas, Micaela di Leonardo and Emily Martin

16:00-17:45


3-1025
OBJECTIVE LINKS: ON THE MATERIAL (SIDE-)EFFECTS OF COMPARING
Gergely Mohacsi, Atsuro Morita and Shiho Satsuka

3-1030
POLITICS OF THE GOOD: ON ETHICS AND COMMUNITY
Katherine J Miller, Jeffrey Wescott and Karen M Sykes

3-1035
TRACING LEGACIES: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONCEPTS
Kabir Tambar, Mayanthi L Fernando, Yarimar Bonilla, Aisha Khan and Gil Anidjar

Friday, November 18, 2011

08:00-09:00


4-0020
RURAL ENCOUNTERS
Shu-Yuan Yang

08:00-09:45


4-0115
THE CRAFT IN CRAFTINESS
Graham M Jones and E. Gabriella Coleman

4-0120

4-0125
TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF TRANSFORMATION, PART I
Andrew Gilbert, Mark Goodale, Jessica Greenberg and Dominic C Boyer

08:00-11:45


4-0275
THE CUNNING OF BIOPOLITICAL REASON
Mariella Pandolfi, James D Faubion, Anthony Stavrianakis and Elizabeth Povinelli

10:15-12:00


4-0430
NOTES ON A SCANDAL
Don Kulick

4-0435
SENSING PRECARITY
Lauren Berlant, Anne Allison, Stuart J McLean and Joao Biehl

4-0440
TOWARDS AN ANTHROPOLOGY OF TRANSFORMATION, PART II
Courtney J Handman, Mark Goodale, Jessica Greenberg and Joel L Robbins

13:45-15:30


4-0815
THE HUMAN IS MORE THAN HUMAN: INTERSPECIES COMMUNITIES AND THE NEW “Facts OF Life”: A CONVERSATION WITH DORION SAGAN
Danilyn Rutherford, John M Hartigan Jr., Myra Hird, Stefan G Helmreich, Kimberly TallBear and Agustin Fuentes

13:45-17:30


4-0915
THE AFFECTS OF DISPLACEMENT
Valentina Napolitano, Yael Navaro-Yashin, Umut Yildirim, Liisa Malkki and Tobias Kelly

16:00-17:45


4-1090
BECOMING CORPORATE
Suzana M Sawyer, Hannah C Appel and Bill Maurer

4-1095
KNOWN SECRETS, HIDDEN HISTORIES AND VIRTUES OF OMISSION
Soumhya Venkatesan, Jeanette Edwards and Petra Tjitske Kalshoven

18:15-19:30

19:45-21:00


4-1365
SCA/AES CASH BAR
Danilyn Rutherford

Saturday, November 19, 2011

08:00-09:45


5-0080
FRIENDS, RELATIONS AND RIGHTS: CONSTITUTING CITIZENSHIP IN 'MOST OF THE WORLD'
Thomas Blom Hansen, Nikhil Anand and Ajantha Subramanian

08:00-11:45


5-0235
ETHNICITIES, SEXUALITIES, AND THE SHIFTING GROUNDS OF SELFHOOD: GLOBAL RESPONSES TO IDENTITY-BASED PERSECUTION
Susan C Dewey, Tiantian Zheng, Hulya Demirdirek PhD and Yasmina L Katsulis

10:15-12:00


5-0380
AUTHORS MEET CRITICS: READING JEAN AND JOHN COMAROFF'S "THEORY FROM THE SOUTH: OR, HOW EURO-AMERICA IS EVOLVING TOWARD AFRICA"
Juan Obarrio, Charlie Piot, Srinivas Aravamudan, Achille Mbembe, James G Ferguson, Ato Quayson, Fernando Coronil, Jean Comaroff and John L Comaroff

12:15-13:30

13:45-14:45


5-0570
CULTURAL MEMORY
Denise Irene Nuttall

13:45-15:30


5-0645
ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL THEOLOGIES I
Bhrigupati Singh, Stefania Pandolfo and Brian Massumi

5-0650
LITERARY ANTHROPOLOGY
Vincent Crapanzano, Anand Pandian, Stuart J McLean and Kathleen C Stewart

5-0670
TRACING STYLES, STYLING TRACES: ON THE PROCESSUALITY OF STYLE
Joseph D Hankins, Eitan Y Wilf, Urmila Nair and Susan Gal

16:00-17:45


5-0940
ANTHROPOLOGIES OF THE AUTOMATIC
Nick Seaver, Marcel LaFlamme, Caitlin M Zaloom and Lucy Suchman

5-0945
ANTHROPOLOGY AND POLITICAL THEOLOGIES II
Stefania Pandolfo, Bhrigupati Singh and Achille Mbembe

Sunday, November 20, 2011

08:00-09:45


6-0060

6-0070
FIELD WORK(ERS): RESEARCH ASSISTANTS, RESEARCHERS, AND THE PRODUCTION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE.
Jason G Cons, Townsend Middleton, Brenda Maiale and Roger Sanjek

6-0075
MARTIAL RECKONINGS AND RETURNS
JoonHyun Michael Choi, Sarah Wagner and Mary M Steedly

08:00-11:45


6-0180
DIGITAL ANTHROPOLOGY: PROJECTS AND PROJECTIONS
Michael A Fortun, Kim Fortun and Giovanni Da Col

6-0185
TRACING MATERIAL AND RELATIONAL PLACES AND SPACES: ANTHROPOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS ABOUT SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS THAT MATTER
Yara El-Ghadban, Amy M. Carattini, Karoline Truchon, Judith Freidenberg and Christopher Fletcher

10:15-12:00


6-0270
ETHNOGRAPHIC TRACES: WRITING, ROUTES, AND REFLEXIVITY
Thomas H Chivens, Blai Guarné and Paul S Hansen

6-0275
THE VILLAGE GLOBAL: CONTEMPORARY ETHNOGRAPHIES OF RURAL SOCIALITY
Tapoja Chaudhuri, Jenny Chio, Chris Vasantkumar, Rupert Stasch and John M Hartigan Jr.

6-0280
TRACING PEDAGOGIES OF RELIGION
Bridget Kustin, Nadia Loan and Tulasi Srinivas

6-0285
VULNERABILITY'S ETHICAL ENGAGEMENTS AND TRACES
Sarah E Vaughn and Anand Pandian

12:15-14:00


6-0490

6-0500

6-0505
MAKING PLANS: EXPERTISE, FUTURES, HISTORIES
Nicholas J D'Avella, Eli A Elinoff and Andrew S Mathews

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