3-0780 THE STAKES OF "CRISIS"

Thursday, November 17, 2011: 13:45-17:30

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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

Organizers: Janet Roitman (New School) and Mary Murrell (University of California, Berkeley)

Chairs: Janet Roitman (New School) and Mary Murrell (University of California, Berkeley)

Discussants: Stefania Pandolfo (University of California, Berkeley) and George E Marcus (University of California, Irvine)

13:45

Africa: Anti-Crisis

Janet Roitman (New School)

14:00

The Fear of Standing Still: Protracted Crisis and the Productive Powers of Inertia in Postwar Bosnia

Larisa Kurtovic (University of California)

14:15

Psychedelic Renaissance: Beyond the Crisis of the Sixties

Nicolas Langlitz (New School University)

14:30

Thinking the Event In Crisis

Ruth Marshall (University of Toronto)

14:45

Politics in the Absence of Crisis: Reframing the Visible

Miriam Ticktin (The New School for Social Research)

15:00

Break

15:15

Discussant

Stefania Pandolfo (University of California, Berkeley)

15:30

A "Crisis" of Modernization: Management Consulting In Post-Mao China

Kimberly Chong (London School of Economics)

15:45

Paranoid Formations: Rationality, Control, and "Crisis" In Cybernetics

Orit Halpern (New School for Social Research)

16:00

The Affect of Modernization

Brian Larkin (Barnard)

16:15

Constraint As Crisis

Mary Murrell (University of California, Berkeley)

16:30

Engineering Financial Value: Why Volatility Is Not a "Crisis"

Martha Poon (New York University)

16:45

Today, What Is Humanity? An Anthropology of the Category of "Humanitarian Crisis"

Tobias Rees (McGill)

17:00

Discussant

George E Marcus (University of California, Irvine)

17:15

Discussion

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