4-0275 THE CUNNING OF BIOPOLITICAL REASON

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

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Students, Those involved in mentoring activities

Organizers: James D Faubion (Rice University)

Chairs: Mariella Pandolfi (University of Montreal)

Discussants: Anthony Stavrianakis (University of California Berkeley) and Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)

08:00

The Emergence of a Post-Human(itarian) Subject

Mariella Pandolfi (University of Montreal)

08:15

Uncertain Humanitarianism and Biomoral Interventions In Haiti

Pierre H Minn (UCSF - UC Berkeley)

08:30

The Bioexpectations of Therapeutic Food

Peter Redfield PhD (University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill)

08:45

The Biopolitical Pastoral: Refiguring Bioethics

Gaymon Bennett (University of California Berkeley)

09:00

A Problem of Method: Real Time Technology Assessment and An Untimely Problematization

Anthony Stavrianakis (University of California Berkeley)

09:15

Discussant

Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia University)

09:30

discussion

09:45

break

10:00

Health Care Rationing and the Return of the Politics of the Abnormal

James D Faubion (Rice University)

10:15

ESRD and DIALYSIS: The Final Judgment of the Biopolitically Damned

Michael D Adair-Kriz PhD (University of Houston)

10:30

The Bioethical-Human Rights Nexus, Genomics, and the Cunning of Biopolitical Reason

Jennifer A Hamilton (Hampshire College)

10:45

“Strangers No More”? The Bitter Irony of an Oscar Win

Sarah S Willen (University of Connecticut)

11:00

The Janus State. Regimes of Policing and Justice In Europe

Didier Fassin (Institute for Advanced Study)

11:15

Discussant

Anthony Stavrianakis (University of California Berkeley)

11:30

Discussion

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