Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8 2006
at the Bechtel International Center
Stanford University

The Anthropology of Global Productions

program

 

Friday April 7, 2006

Session 1
Session 2
Keynote Address: James Ferguson

Saturday April 8, 2006

Session 3
Session 4
Workshops
Keynote Address: Anna Tsing
Dinner and Reception

 

Schedule:
(revised 03 April 2006)

Session 1. Friday April 7, 1-3 p.m.

A – Global Knowledge and Expertise
Chair
: Tania Ahmad
Discussants : Hayden White (Professor Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz History of Consciousness and Professor, Department of Comparative Literature, Stanford), Johannes Fabian ( University of Amsterdam School of Social Research)
Panelists :

 

B – Embodiments of Health, Work and Beauty

Chair : Maura Finkelstein
Discussant : Tom Boellstorff (Assistant Professor, UC Irvine Department of Anthropology) Panelists :

 

C – Pedagogical Performances, Performative Pedagogies: Identity Formation and the Global Production of Knowledge
Chair : Micaela Jamaica Diaz
Discussant : Paulla Ebron (Associate Professor, Stanford University CASA) and Harry Elam (Chair and Professor, Stanford University Department of Drama)
Panelists :

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Session 2. Friday April 7, 3:30-5:30 p.m.

A– Political Subjectivity and Citizenship
Chair : Peter Samuels
Discussants : Akhil Gupta (Associate Professor, Stanford CASA)
Panelists :

 

B – Media and Global Circuits of Culture
Chair
: Robert Samet
Discussant : William Mazzarella (Assistant Professor, University of Chicago Department of Anthropology)
Panelists :

 

C – Producing the Spatial Order of Things
Chair
: Yoon-Jung Lee
Discussants : Ananya Roy (Assistant Professor UC Berkeley Department of City and Regional Planning)and Eric Sheppard (Professor, University of Minnesota Department of Geography)
Panelists :

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Keynote. Friday April 7, 6-8 p.m. James Ferguson, Professor and Chair, Stanford CASA.

 

Session 3. Saturday April 8, 9-11 a.m.

A – Packaging Nature, Marketing the Environment
Chair
: Nejat Dinc
Discussants : Eric Worby (A ssociate Professor, Yale University Department of Anthropology)
Panelists :

 

B– Medicine and Biopolitics
Chair
: Tiffany Romain
Discussants : Diane Nelson (Associate Professor, Duke Department of Anthropology)
Panelists :

 

C – Time, Risk and Global Finance
Chair
: Rania Al-Sweiss
Discussants : Sylvia Yanagisako (Professor, Stanford University CASA) and Bill Maurer (Associate Professor, UC Irvine Department of Anthropology)
Panelists :

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Session 4. Saturday April 8, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.

 A – Public Private Partnership and Corporate Legitimacy
Chair
: Ramah McKay
Discussant : Jim Ferguson (Professor and Chair, Stanford University CASA)
Panelists :

 

B – Criminalization and Incarceration
Chair
: Georgia Lawrence (georgiah@stanford.edu)
Discussants : Kath Weston (Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Harvard University) and Kamala Visweswaran (Professor, University of Texas at Austin Department of Anthropology)
Panelists :

 

C - Human Rights, Indigenous Land Claims and Global Action
Chair
: Andrea Valverde
Discussants : Suzana Sawyer ( Associate Professor, UC Davis Department of Sociocultural Anthropology) and Lynn Meskell (Professor, Stanford University CASA)
Panelists :

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Workshops. Saturday April 8, 2:30-4:30 p.m.

A – Political Subjectivity with Criminalization

B – Performance with Media

C – Body with Medical

D – Spatial order with Environment and Human Rights

E – Time with Public Private Partnerships and Global Knowledge

 

Keynote. Saturday April 8, 5-7 p.m. Anna Tsing (Professor, UC Santa Cruz Department of Cultural Anthropology)

 

Dinner and Reception. Saturday April 8, 8-11 p.m.

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