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6-0050 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES (STS) AND ANTHROPOLOGY: WHAT IS THE STATUS OF OUR DESCRIPTIONS?
Sunday, November 20, 2011: 08:00-09:45

Abstract not available in preliminary program.

Organizers:  Helene Ratner (Copenhagen Business School) and Malte Ziewitz (University of Oxford)
08:00
Thick Description On Diet - or What Does It Mean to Represent?
Helene Ratner (Copenhagen Business School)
08:15
Description As Prescription - or What Does It Mean to Say That Documents Are Performative?: On 'theory-Hope' and 'politics of Description' In Performative Science and Technology Studies
Christopher Gad (IT University of Copenhagen)
08:30
Descriptions As Companions? Notes from an Uneasy Relationship
Malte Ziewitz (University of Oxford)
08:45
Archaeological Description and Doubt
Christopher L Witmore (Texas Tech University)
09:00
Discussion
09:15
Discussion
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