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Please see the programme for the 2012 Anthropology in London day
conference being held on 11 June. To register, please contact me.
Best regards,
Stephanie Kitchen
Anthropology in London Day 2012
Certainty?
To what extent is ‘certainty’ a viable starting point for
21st-century anthropology?
UCL, Department of Anthropology, 14 Taviton
Street, WC1H OBW
Monday 11 June 2012
Programme
9.15am: Arrival and registration
9.45 am- 11am: Introductory remarks and opening plenary
Venue: Archaeology Lecture Theatre
Introductory remarks
Narmala Halstead (UEL) and Lane DeNicola (UCL)
Opening plenary
Chair: Mark Jamieson (UEL)
Richard Fardon (SOAS): Trials and convictions
Jean La Fontaine (LSE): Uncertainty and open minds
11am-11.30am: Tea/coffee (Common Room)
11.30am 1.30pm: Morning parallel sessions
Panel 1: Landscape and waste
Chair: Pauline von Hellermann (Goldsmiths)
Venue: Room 129
Luna Glucksberg (Goldsmiths): A better future? Regeneration and
recycling in south-east London
Sona Lutherova (Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences):
Sweet property o’mine: housing strategies in the process of
home-making in post-socialist Bratislava
Alina Branda (Babes Bolyai University, Cluj, Romania): External
interventions and new landscapes. A case study from rural Transylvania
William Wheeler (Goldsmiths): Aral-88: waste, ecology and perestroika
Zuzana Hrdlickova (Goldsmiths): The birth pains of Indian disaster
management institutions
Panel 2: Uncertain migrant futures
Chair: Parvathi Raman (SOAS)
Venue: Archaeology Lecture Theatre
Rueben Andersson (LSE): Ceuta blues: irregular migrants and the
politics of time in a Spanish enclave
Anna Tuckett (LSE): Permits, passports and moving on: migrants’
imaginings of the future and their experiences with the Italian
documentation regime
Isabel González Enriquez (Dept. of Social and Cultural Anthropology,
UNED, Spain): Permanent chaos: the Colombian case
Ana Mourao (Brunel): “Don't think so much”: living the 'present' in a
migrant council estate in suburban Lisbon
Melanie Griffiths (Oxford): Living with uncertainty: long-term
incarceration in British immigration detention
Panel 3: Bodies and health
Chair: Andrew Sanchez
Venue: Room 130
Karin Eli (Oxford): Through certain illness: beginning to recover from
eating disorders
Emma Jayne Abbots (SOAS): Searching for certainty in the supermarket:
expatriates’ bodies and the risky business of eating in Highland
Ecuador
Rodney Reynolds (UCL), Bob Fryer (Department of Health and True Blue
Consultancy), Ruth Mowlam (UCL) (joint presentation):
Web based communities of practice and public health
WEBWISE: a methodology for transcultural health research
Reducing teen parents' vulnerability through web based 'interaction'
Panel 4: Materiality, media and play
Chair: Lane DeNicola (UCL)
Venue: Daryll Forde room
Adam Connelly (Brunel): Some assembly required: learning the Jesuit
way in Darjeeling, India
Nick Gadsby (UCL): Certainty through contingency: transformations in
massively multiplayer online games
Tom McDonald (UCL): Internet connections, place, and the struggle for
familial co-presence in a south-western Chinese town
Barbara Knorpp (Brunel): Invisible films, memories and dreams:
ethnography of a national film archive
Rachel Scicluna (Open University): The kitchen is good to think with
1.30pm-2.15pm Lunch
2.30pm-4.30 pm: Afternoon parallel sessions
Panel 5: Environmental certainties and uncertainties
Chair: Richard Irvine (Cambridge)
Venue: Room 129
Richard Irvine (Cambridge): Environmental certainties and
uncertainties, introduction
Barbara Bodenhorn (Cambridge): Risky decision: Inupiat, ice and
changing conditions
Joe Webster (Cambridge): The eschatology of global warming in a
Scottish fishing village
Tristam Barrett (Cambridge): Unsustainable sustainabilities in Baku, Azerbaijan
Hannah Fair (Cambridge): Maldivian stories of the sea: understanding
climate change through narratives of landscape and seascape
Panel 6: Politics, violence and memory
Chair: Isak Niehaus (Brunel)
Venue: Archaeology Lecture Theatre
Ana Santos (Brunel): 'It's not my story to tell': violence, memory and
the search for certainty in Mocimboa da Praia, Mozambique
Giorgia Doná (UEL): Uncertain memories: virtual memorialisation and
the politics of performative remembering in Rwanda
Tom Selwyn (SOAS): Heritage and its puppeteers: capital, contention,
and Euro-Mediterranean ‘heritage’
Toni Baum (SOAS): Surprising reality in Israel-Palestine
Jason Hickel (LSE): Liberalism and anarchy in Occupy Wall Street
Panel 7: Work
Chair: Sophie Day (Goldsmiths)
Venue: Daryll Forde room
Elena Gonzalez Polledo and Victoria Goddard (Goldsmiths):
Mis-recognitions and visions of the future: generations and change in
the steel industry
Johanna Woydack (Kings): Uncertainty in a post-Fordist labour market,
standardisation practices and outbound call centres: an ethnographic
critique
Theodoros Rakopoulos (Goldsmiths): Anti-mafia cooperativism as
certainty? Changing experiences of labour in Sicily
Mark Jamieson (UEL): Cocaine, land and money: uncertain futures on
Nicaragua’s Caribbean coast
Jennie Gamlin (UCL): Certainty, risk and knowledge among Huichol tobacco pickers
Panel 8: Religion and knowledge
Chair: Trevor Marchand (SOAS)
Venue: Room 130
Adnan Khan (Brunel): Doing Pukhto through participation in sorrows and
joys; fieldwork experiences in North West Pakistan
Lokesh Ohri (University of Heidelberg): Casting aside caste: enacting
the certainties of caste and egalitarianism in the Western Himalayas
André Chappatte (SOAS): Adventures through the certainty of God in
southwest Mali
Sarah O'Neill (Goldsmiths): The power of the water and the enticement
of the money economy: competing knowledge practices between Fulani
fishermen and other castes in the Senegal riverbasin
4.30pm-5pm: Tea/coffee
5pm-6pm Roundtable
‘To what extent is “certainty” a viable starting point for
21st‐century anthropology?’
Chair: Narmala Halstead
Participants: Chris Pinney (UCL), Isak Niehaus (Brunel), Catherine
Alexander (Goldsmiths), Mathijs Pelkmans (LSE)
6pm-7.30pm: drinks reception
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Stephanie Kitchen
Chair of the Publications Committee
International African Institute
School of Oriental and African Studies
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London WC1H OXG
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