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2-0745 GOVERN BY NUMBERS: MODELS, PLANS, AND THE QUANTITATIVE IN THE WELFARE STATE
Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 18:00-21:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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

Organizers:  Jennifer S Mack (Harvard University) and Alison Cool (New York University)
Chairs:  Rayna Rapp (New York University)
Discussants:  Catherine Fennell (Columbia University) and Matthew Hull (University of Michigan)
18:00
Safety in Numbers: Architecture, Counterpublics, and the Remaking of the “Swedish Standard”
Jennifer S Mack (Harvard University)
18:15
Counting, Categories and the Emergence of Grassroots Authoritarianism In the Post-Welfare State
Susan B. Hyatt (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
18:30
Quantitative Proxies and Quality of Life: The Collaborative Design of Social Housing In Barcelona
Trevor Goldsmith (California State University, Chico)
18:45
Paradise by the Dashboard Light: Planning, Assessment, and the New Business of the State
Thaddeus Guldbrandsen (Plymouth State University)
19:00
“You Can Come See the Data Anytime You Want”: Struggles and Strategies In the Quantification of Local Service Delivery In South Africa
Christopher J Colvin (UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN)
19:15
Give Me the Numbers and I Will Change the World: Scaling up Genomics In the 21ST Century
Karen-Sue Taussig (UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA)
19:30
Discussant
Matthew Hull (University of Michigan)
19:45
Break
20:00
Thinking with Models, Talking with Numbers: Twin Studies of Economic and Criminal Behavior In Sweden
Alison Cool (New York University)
20:15
The Illinois Prisoner Re-Entry Imperative: Reform or Redistribution?
Robert P. Fairbanks II (University of Chicago)
20:30
"We the People and Social Security": The Role of the New Field of Scientific Public Relations In the Construction and Defense of the Social Security Act of 1935
Michele Landis Dauber (Stanford University)
20:45
Compelling Truth(s): Regulating Life, Immigration and Gender In the Welfare State
Laurie McIntosh (Duke University)
21:00
Counting Embryos: How to Follow Blastocysts Through the Hatch
Sarah Franklin (University of Cambridge)
21:15
Discussant
Catherine Fennell (Columbia University)
21:30
Discussion
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