Start | Browse by Day or Section | Author Index | Keyword Index | Affiliation Index
4-0230 ANTHROPOLOGIES OF FORECASTING AS ANTHROPOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE
Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Students

Organizers:  Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)
Chairs:  Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)
Discussants:  Ben Orlove (Columbia University) and Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
08:00
Future Forecasting and the End of Relativism: A Challenge for Anthropology
Will Rollason (Brunel University)
08:15
Forecasting Credit: Living Proleptically In the Brazilian Amazon
Jeremy M Campbell (Roger Williams University)
08:30
The Secret Life of Forecasts: Examining the Production and Use of Tornado Warnings As Social Processes
Heather Lazrus (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Amy Nichols (University of Oklahoma) and Stephanie Hoekstra (University of Oklahoma)
08:45
Functions and Interpretations of Ambiguous Language In Predictions
Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)
09:00
On the Simulation of Deforestation Scenarios In Making REDD Carbon Market
Shaozeng Zhang (University of California, Irvine)
09:15
Discussant
Ben Orlove (Columbia University)
09:30
Discussion
09:45
Break
10:00
Forecasting As History: Japan's Modern Earthquakes
Kerry Smith (Brown University)
10:15
Articulating Future Health Effects and Climate Change: Collaborative Modeling Systems and Future Epistemologies
Brandon J Costelloe-Kuehn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
10:30
Looking After Today: Resource Depletion and Hydrocarbon Culture In Industrial Trinidad
Jacob Campbell (University of Arizona)
10:45
Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future In Canada's Oilsands
Clinton N Westman (University of Saskatchewan)
11:00
Clouds In the Forecast: The Future, Climate Science, and Humanitarian Aid
Soo-Young Kim (Columbia University)
11:15
Discussant
Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
11:30
Discussion
See more of: Anthropology and Environment Section
<< Previous Session | Next Session >>

Media Education Foundation

Duke University Press

Sponsors:
Wiley-Blackwell
Oxford University Press
Microsoft Research