2-0745 GOVERN BY NUMBERS: MODELS, PLANS, AND THE QUANTITATIVE IN THE WELFARE STATE

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Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-21:45

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Those involved in mentoring activities, Students, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Practicing and Applied Anthropologists

Organizers: Jennifer S Mack (Harvard University) and Alison Cool (New York University)

Chairs: Rayna Rapp (New York University)

Discussants: Catherine Fennell (Columbia University) and Matthew Hull (University of Michigan)

18:00

Safety in Numbers: Architecture, Counterpublics, and the Remaking of the “Swedish Standard”

Jennifer S Mack (Harvard University)

18:15

Counting, Categories and the Emergence of Grassroots Authoritarianism In the Post-Welfare State

Susan B. Hyatt (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)

18:30

Quantitative Proxies and Quality of Life: The Collaborative Design of Social Housing In Barcelona

Trevor Goldsmith (California State University, Chico)

18:45

Paradise by the Dashboard Light: Planning, Assessment, and the New Business of the State

Thaddeus Guldbrandsen (Plymouth State University)

19:00

“You Can Come See the Data Anytime You Want”: Struggles and Strategies In the Quantification of Local Service Delivery In South Africa

Christopher J Colvin (UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN)

19:15

Give Me the Numbers and I Will Change the World: Scaling up Genomics In the 21^ST Century

Karen-Sue Taussig (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)

19:30

Discussant

Matthew Hull (University of Michigan)

19:45

Break

20:00

Thinking with Models, Talking with Numbers: Twin Studies of Economic and Criminal Behavior In Sweden

Alison Cool (New York University)

20:15

The Illinois Prisoner Re-Entry Imperative: Reform or Redistribution?

Robert P. Fairbanks II (University of Chicago)

20:30

"We the People and Social Security": The Role of the New Field of Scientific Public Relations In the Construction and Defense of the Social Security Act of 1935

Michele Landis Dauber (Stanford University)

20:45

Compelling Truth(s): Regulating Life, Immigration and Gender In the Welfare State

Laurie McIntosh (Duke University)

21:00

Counting Embryos: How to Follow Blastocysts Through the Hatch

Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge)

21:15

Discussant

Catherine Fennell (Columbia University)

21:30

Discussion

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