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3-0780 THE STAKES OF "CRISIS"
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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-17:30

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists
Organizers:  Janet Roitman (New School) and Mary Murrell (University of California, Berkeley)
Chairs:  Janet Roitman (New School) and Mary Murrell (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussants:  Stefania Pandolfo (University of California, Berkeley) and George E Marcus (University of California, Irvine)
13:45
Africa: Anti-Crisis
Janet Roitman (New School)
14:00
The Fear of Standing Still: Protracted Crisis and the Productive Powers of Inertia in Postwar Bosnia
Larisa Kurtovic (University of California)
14:15
Psychedelic Renaissance: Beyond the Crisis of the Sixties
Nicolas Langlitz (New School University)
14:30
Thinking the Event In Crisis
Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto)
14:45
Politics in the Absence of Crisis: Reframing the Visible
Miriam Ticktin (The New School for Social Research)
15:00
Break
15:15
Discussant
Stefania Pandolfo (University of California, Berkeley)
15:30
A "Crisis" of Modernization: Management Consulting In Post-Mao China
Kimberly Chong (London School of Economics)
15:45
Paranoid Formations: Rationality, Control, and "Crisis" In Cybernetics
Orit Halpern (New School for Social Research)
16:00
The Affect of Modernization
Brian Larkin (Barnard)
16:15
Constraint As Crisis
Mary Murrell (University of California, Berkeley)
16:30
Engineering Financial Value: Why Volatility Is Not a "Crisis"
Martha Poon (New York University)
16:45
Today, What Is Humanity? An Anthropology of the Category of "Humanitarian Crisis"
Tobias Rees (McGill)
17:00
Discussant
George E Marcus (University of California, Irvine)
17:15
Discussion
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