2-0090 PARASITIC ANTHROPOLOGIES

Wednesday, November 16, 2011: 12:00-13:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

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

Organizers: Samuel G Collins (Towson University)

Chairs: Kathleen Richardson (University College London)

Discussants: Paul Kockelman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

12:00

Parasitologies: The Ambivalence of Necessity

Matthew J Wolf Meyer (University of California-Santa Cruz)

12:15

Living with and Learning From Bed Bugs: New York and New Forms of Interspecies Sociability

Jamie Berthe (New York University)

12:30

Altaholics Anonymous: On the Pathological Proliferation of Parasitic Identities

Paul Manning (Trent University)

12:45

“Like a Primaeval Rock Rising From a Smooth-Shaven Lawn”: Parasite Culture and the Doctrine of Survivals

Samuel G Collins (Towson University)

13:00

Kinship Electric: Technological Worms and the Parasitism of Americana

Amy Moran-Thomas (Princeton University)

13:15

Robot Revolution? A Critical Look At Machines As Parasites and Human-Robot Social Relationality

Kathleen Richardson (University College London)

13:30

Discussant

Paul Kockelman (Barnard College, Columbia University)

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