2-0095 RETHINKING NAMING: A CRITICAL LOOK AT DESIGNATION AND DISPLACEMENT

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

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers: Andrew Alan Johnson (National University of Singapore) and Daena A Funahashi (Cornell University)

Chairs: Andrew Alan Johnson (National University of Singapore) and Daena A Funahashi (Cornell University)

Discussants: Andrew C Willford (Cornell University)

12:00

‘Naming’ As Relay to the Unconscious: Carneval Debris, Aggregation and Loss

Parvis Ghassem-Fachandi (Rutgers University)

12:15

Disorders of Emergence: The Symptoms of Naming Time

Daena A Funahashi (Cornell University)

12:30

Excesses of Innocence: Aesthetics and Ethics Around the “Childhood Obesity Epidemic”

Ian Whitmarsh (University of California, San Francisco)

12:45

Naming and Ambiguity In a Thai Spirit Cult

Andrew Alan Johnson (National University of Singapore)

13:00

Becoming: Spirits and Humans In Cambodia

Courtney K Work (Cornell University)

13:15

Discussant

Andrew C Willford (Cornell University)

13:30

Discussion

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