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Dear all,

this is just to let you know that advance registration for the event  
below closes this thursday at 5pm. After this point, registration will  
be available on the day, but places are limited.

To register online please follow this link: https://webservices.admin.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/booking/vmwq/index.cgi

Conference programme: http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1275/programme/

best wishes,
Matei

Dr. Matei Candea
Lecturer
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Department of Anthropology
Durham University
Dawson Building,
South Road
Durham DH1 3LE
UK
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Office: 0191 334 1628
www.candea.net



On 25 May 2010, at 08:48, Matei Candea wrote:

> RECONSIDERING DETACHMENT: THE ETHICS AND ANALYTICS OF DISCONNECTION
> An interdisciplinary Conference
> Cambridge - 30th June-3rd of July
>
> With the support of The ESRC and the Centre for Research in the  
> Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
> Over the past three decades, connection, relationship and engagement  
> have become unavoidable keywords for thinking about ethics and  
> knowledge production in the humanities and social sciences. Going  
> against this grain, a number of scholars have recently urged a  
> reconsideration of the productive potential of disconnection,  
> distance and detachment, as ethical, methodological and  
> philosophical commitments. Scholars in fields as diverse as the  
> history of science, literary studies and philosophy have argued for  
> the need to suspend or reconfigure the critique of objectivity, in  
> order to bring into view various actors’ pursuit of detachment as a  
> form of virtue. In parallel, the recent emergence of an anthropology  
> of ethics and self-formation has brought detachment to the fore,  
> feeding into ethnographic topics as diverse as monasticism,  
> cosmopolitanism, development, human-animal relations and the  
> biosciences.
>
> Rather than treating detachment simply as the moral inversion of  
> compassion and engagement, such studies illustrate the range of  
> contexts within which distance and disconnection can offer  
> meaningful frameworks for action. This conference will allow an  
> international and diverse range of scholars who are engaging with  
> detachment to come together for the first time, for a fresh and  
> timely opportunity to rethink the dominant academic paradigm of  
> engagement and connectivity.
>
> Speakers include:
> Michael Carrithers, Paul Du Gay, Veena Das, Ilana Gershon, Antoine  
> Hennion, Eduardo Kohn, Hannah Landecker, John Law, James Laidlaw  
> Joel Robbins.
>
> Registration is now open. Please visit: www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1275
>
> - In association with the Detachment Collaboratory: www.detachmentcollaboratory.org 
>  -
>
>
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