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TRANSLATIONS
OF VALUE
SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
MAY 5 & 6, 2006
PFISTER HOTEL, MILWAUKEE WI
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
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FRIDAY PROGRAM
Friday May 5th
9:00am-10:45am
Plenary Session I
Sylvia
Yanagisako (Stanford U)
Producing "Made in Italy" in China: Revaluing Commodities and Labor
in Transnational Capitalism
Robert Foster (U Rochester)
Creating Value in the Economy of Qualities
Brad
Weiss (William and Mary C)
Captivating Exclusion: Translation and Commensuration in an Era of Excess.
Friday May 5th
11:00am-12:45am
Money
and Value
Julie Chu (Wellesley College)
Money to Burn: Cosmic Deficits and Value Production in a Transnational Chinese
Village
Alan Klima (University of California-Davis)
Nextworld: Ghosts, Numbers, and the Afterlife of Money in Postcrash Thailand
Jessica Cattelino (University of Chicago)
Betting on the House: Florida Seminole Casinos and the Indigenous Valuation of
Money
Karen Ho (University of Minnesota,
Twin Cities)
A Passion for Abstraction: Rethinking Anthropological Approaches to Money and
Financial Markets
Discussant: Jane Guyer (Johns Hopkins University)
Bodies
and Economies of Exchange
Ellen
Moodie (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Estranged Deaths: Shifting Values in the Salvadorian Diaspora
Lourdes Gutierrez-Najera (Dartmouth
College)
Disappearance and Development: Indigenous Bodies and Transnational Labor
Lessie Jo Frazier (University
of Missouri at St. Louis)
The Value of Tortured Bodies: Truth Commissions, Reparations, and the Economy
of Reconciliation in Chile
Deborah Cohen (University of Missouri
at St. Louis)
Sex, Loyalty, and Betrayal: The Long Arm of Patriarchy in a Transnational US-Mexican
Social World
Circulating
Ethnographic Images
Jennifer
Stampe (University of Minnesota)
Mixed Messages at the Museum: Representation, Transformation, Incommensurability
Liana Chua (University of Cambridge)
Becoming Bidayuh Changing Trajectories of Concepts and Objects in a Bornean
Village Museum
Tami Blumenfield (University of Washington)
Visual Collaborations: Looking Behind Lenses in Na Communities
Cathryn Clayton (University of Macau/ University of Hawaii)
The Value of Insignificance? On Not Teaching Local History in Macau’s
Schools
Processes
of Translation and Translations of Substance in Scientific
Knowledge Production
Jennifer
A. Hamilton (Baylor College of Medicine)
Ethical Practice, Ethical Substance?: Ethics and the Politics of Human Genetic
Variation Research
Deepa S. Reddy (University of
Houston, Clear Lake)
Gifts of the Body
Valerie Olson (Rice University)
The Exploration Gene: Space Science, Space Policy, and the Transcendent Biological
Logics of Human Space Exploration
Discussant: Chris Kelty (Rice University)
Friday May 5th
2:00pm-3:45pm
WORKSHOP I:
Disrupting Translation
Marisol
de la Cadena (UC Davis) and Judith
Farquhar (Chicago)
Disrupting Translation
Ethnography
and/of Technoscience: Genealogies, Objects, Translation
Michael M. J. Fischer (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology)
Genealogies of STS Here and Elsewhere
Karen-Sue Taussig (University of Minnesota)
Science/Nature/Culture: A Genealogy of the Anthropology of the Life Sciences
Joan H. Fujimura (University of
Wisconsin)
A Genealogy of Interactionist Ethnography of Science in the Disciplines of Sociology
and Anthropology
Discussant: Mike Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
Trading
in Coffee: Nature, Space, and Commodity Chains
Paige
West (Barnard/ Columbia)
What Does the Bean Mean?: Tracing the Commodity Ecumene for Papua New Guinean
Coffee
Molly Doane (Marquette University)
Coffee, Peace and Nature
Sarah Lyon (University of Kentucky)
The Commodification and Contradictions of Shade Grown Coffee
Aseel Sawalha (Pace University)
You are What You Drink: The Politics of Coffee Houses in Postwar Beirut
Values
of the Human
Lori
A. Allen (Brown University)
Mediated Humanity in the Palestinian Intifada
Erica Bornstein (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
The Orphan as a Category of Humanitarian Value
Christina Schwenkel (Stanford University)
In/Humane Acts: Reconciliation and Representation
Jessica Winegar (Fordham University)
Art as Evidence of Humanity
Jenny Huberman (University of Chicago)
Shopping for People or Shopping for People?: Deciphering the Object of Consumption
among Tourists in Banaras
Friday May 5th
4:00pm-6:00pm
DAVID M. SCHNEIDER MEMORIAL LECTURE
Timothy Mitchell
(New York University)
Culture and Economy
Reception
6:00pm-7:00pm
Cash Bar, Hors d’Oeuvres
SATURDAY PROGRAM
Saturday May 6th
8:00am-9:45am
Plenary Session II
Kay Warren (Brown)
Commodities, Criminals, Victims, Transnational Workers:
Reflections on Human
Trafficking Across the Pacific Rim.
Lisa Cartwright (UC
San Diego)
Moral Spectatorship:
Global Visions of the
Child in Postwar Transnational
Adoption.
Charis Thompson (UC
Berkeley)
Beyond Global Ethnographies:
Geopolitical Mappings
of the Ethnography of
Stem Cell Research
Saturday May 6th
10:00am-11:45am
Transatlantic
Translations of Value
Beth Anne Buggenhagen (University of Rochester)
Photographic Persuasions: Women’s Portraiture, Circulation
and Value in
Muslim Senegal
Benjamin Eastman (University of Chicago)
Treasure through Translation: Baseball, Value, and Transition in Contemporary
Cuba
Vicki L. Brennan (University of Chicago)
Singing the Same Song: Music, Movement and Migration in Yoruba Churches
Discussant: Jean Comaroff (University of Chicago)
Whither
Labor? Value and the Labor Process
Pete
Richardson (University of Michigan)
Commodities and Nature, Labor and Excess: Sources of Value
Jessica M. Smith (University of
Michigan)
Ethical Economics: Audit Culture and the Generation of Value in the Mining
Industry
Josh O. Reno (University of Michigan)
Regimes of Rubbish: the Social Afterlife of Things at an International Landfill
Karen E. Hebert (University of Michigan)
Making and Marketing High Value: Restructuring Labor and Reeducating Desire
in the Alaskan Salmon Industry
Genese Sodikoff (Rutgers University)
A Labor Theory of Environmentalism
Knowledge
Claims, Clinical Values
Eugene
A. Raikhel (Princeton University)
Therapeutic Legitimacy: Translating Political Meaning to Clinical Value in
Russian Addiction Treatment
Kyriaki Papageorgiou (University
of California, Irvine)
Translating the Book of Life: Biotechnology, Biodynamics and Knowledge Claims
on Unruly Subjects
Michael J. Oldani (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater)
From the Imaginary to the Real: High Prescribers and (Anti)Narratives of Phamily
Life in North America
Paul Brodwin (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
The Co-production of Ethical Selves and the Social Order in American Community
Psychiatry
Commodities
in Motion
Jan
Geisbusch (University of College London)
From the Vatican to eBay: Relics as Bones of Contention
Timothy Choy and Shiho Satsuka (Ohio State
University and Albion College)
Mycorrhizal Translations: A Mushroom Manifesto
Elizabeth Emma Ferry (Brandeis University)
Paths of Glory, Rocks of Ages: Temporal Trajectories of Mexican Mined Substances
Ebru Kayaalp (Rice University)
A Tale of Two Tobaccos: New Crops and New Subjectivities
Elana Shever (University of California, Berkeley)
Fueling Improvement in the Shadow of an Oil Refinery
Market
Values, Corporate Identities
Gina
Moon and A. Aneesh (Stanford
University and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Legal Translations: The Value of Hoodia and Intellectual Property
Petra Kuppinger (Monmouth College)
Islam Inc.: Making, Marking and Marketing Global Identities
Paulla A. Ebron (Stanford University)
Global Capitalism’s Black Identity
Noelle J. Molé (Rutgers University)
Coercive Downsizing as Health Crisis: The Charged Life of Mobbing in Italy
Saturday May 6th
1:00pm-2:45pm
WORKSHOP II:
Children as Producers of Value,
Children as Objects of Value
Elizabeth Dunn (Univ. Colorado) and Rachael
Stryker (Mills College)
Spirits
of Capitalism: Translations of Moral Value into Market
Efficiency
Sareeta
Bipin Amrute (University of Chicago)
Otherworldly Asceticism: Indian Internet Technology Workers and the Accumulation
of Capital
Catherine S. Dolan (Northwestern
University)
Virtue at the Checkout Till: Salvation Economics in Kenyan Flower Fields
Andrea Muehlebach (University of Chicago)
The Moral Economies of Privatization: Notes of Welfare State Restructuring
in Italy
Christopher F. Roth (Northern Illinois
University)
Shopping for a Potlatch in the 21st Century: How Tsimshians Negotiate Symbolic
and Material Orders in the Age of Wal-Mart
Discussant: Sylvia Yanagisako (Stanford University)
Brands
R Us: Translations of Value and Desire in an Experience
Economy
Asif
Agha (University of Pennsylvania)
The Sponsored Self
Alison Demos (Ogilvy & Mather)
Love the Brand, Hate the Ad
Thomas Strong (San Francisco, CA)
Celebrity Interpellation and the Qualities of Branded Experience: Some Examples
from the Fragrance Industry
Discussant: Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
Managing
the Global
Elena
Krumova (Columbia University)
Organizing the Project Economy: Project Management Standards and Practices
Arthur Mason (University of California,
Berkeley)
The Rise of Consultant Forecasting in Liberalized Energy Markets
Marina Welker (University of Michigan)
The Social Audit: Moral Management in a Transnational Mining Corporation
Jerome Whitington (University
of California, Berkeley)
Image, Scene, Affect: Performance-Based Management in Lao Hydropower
Discussant: Stephen J. Collier (The New School)
Artful
Objects, Transformed Subjects
Lance
Larkin (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Contested Authenticity: Art and Culture in Zimbabwean Stone Sculpture
Hudita Nura Mustafa (Sarah Lawrence
College)
Alchemies of Value: Reassemblage in Dakar Fashion Ateliers
Françoise Dussart (University of Connecticut)
Canvassing Identities: Warlpiri Acrylic Art as Historical Practice
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (University of
Wisconsin, Madison)
The Flowers that Kill—Border-Crossing and Localization of “Totalitarian” Ideology
Sandra Braman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Artistic Value and International Relations
Saturday May 6th
3:00pm-4:45pm
Critique
of Anthropology
Margaret
Wiener (University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill)
Magic in Translation
Sherry B. Ortner (UCLA)
Access: Reflections on Trying to do Fieldwork in Hollywood
Smadar Lavie (unaffiliated)
Transnational English Tyranny: The Predicament of Transversal Anthropology
Katsuo Nawa (University of Tokyo)
Translating Se: History, Multilingualism, and the Concept of God in Byans,
Far Western Nepal
Scripts,
Scriptures
Matthew
Watson (University of Florida)
Assembling the Ancient: How Stephens and Catherwood Produced Palenque
Karen Kapusta-Pofahl (University
of Minnesota)
Into the East/West Knowledge Divide: Transnational Texts, Postsocialist Experts,
and the Search for Intellectual Currency among Czech Gender Studies Practitioners
Ann Muir (University of Montana, Missoula)
The Politics of Script in Tajikistan
Douglas Howland (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
The Individual and Society—From Mill’s “On Liberty” to
China and Japan
Idols of the Marketplace: Commodity Circulation and Moral
Imagination
Anne Meneley (Trent University)
Olive Oil as Global Commodity for Staking Local Palestinian
Land Claims
Rupert Stasch (Reed College)
“
The Sad Thing Is, Nothing Remains Unknown Forever”:
Contradictory Social Desires in “Stone Age” Tourism
and Journalism
Paul Manning (Trent University)
The Epoch of Magna: Brand Totemism and the Imagined Transition/Translation
from Socialism to Post-Socialism in Georgia
Anne Lorimer (Reed College)
Commodities, Collective Agency, and Translations of Value
Translation,
Intervention, Model Programs
Thomas Chivens (Rice University)
The Circulation of Interventions
Robert M. Freeman (University of Florida)
“ Every Day is World AIDS Day”: Negotiating a Global Narrative of
Success
Bjorn C. Westgard (University of
Illinois)
Making Governmentality Effervesce: Communal Transformations
of the World Bank’s
Community Nutrition Program in Senegal
James Ellison (Dickinson College)
Constructing a New Kind of Family: The Self of Liberalization and the Transformation
of Relations in Southern Ethiopia
Anna J. Willow (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Engaging with Environmentalism: Transformational Politics and Indigenous Activism
in Northwestern Ontario
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