4-0230 ANTHROPOLOGIES OF FORECASTING AS ANTHROPOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE

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Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

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Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Organizers: Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)

Chairs: Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)

Discussants: Ben Orlove (Columbia University) and Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

08:00

Future Forecasting and the End of Relativism: A Challenge for Anthropology

Will Rollason (Brunel University)

08:15

Forecasting Credit: Living Proleptically In the Brazilian Amazon

Jeremy M Campbell (Roger Williams University)

08:30

The Secret Life of Forecasts: Examining the Production and Use of Tornado Warnings As Social Processes

Heather Lazrus (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Amy Nichols (University of Oklahoma) and Stephanie Hoekstra (University of Oklahoma)

08:45

Functions and Interpretations of Ambiguous Language In Predictions

Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)

09:00

On the Simulation of Deforestation Scenarios In Making REDD Carbon Market

Shaozeng Zhang (University of California, Irvine)

09:15

Discussant

Ben Orlove (Columbia University)

09:30

Discussion

09:45

Break

10:00

Forecasting As History: Japan's Modern Earthquakes

Kerry Smith (Brown University)

10:15

Articulating Future Health Effects and Climate Change: Collaborative Modeling Systems and Future Epistemologies

Brandon J Costelloe-Kuehn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

10:30

Looking After Today: Resource Depletion and Hydrocarbon Culture In Industrial Trinidad

Jacob Campbell (University of Arizona)

10:45

Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future In Canada's Oilsands

Clinton N Westman (University of Saskatchewan)

11:00

Clouds In the Forecast: The Future, Climate Science, and Humanitarian Aid

Soo-Young Kim (Columbia University)

11:15

Discussant

Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

11:30

Discussion

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