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“Natureculture”
Society for Cultural Anthropology
La Fonda Hotel
Santa Fe, New Mexico
May 7-11, 2010
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Friday, May 7
9:00am—10:45am
Plenary Session I
Location: Ballroom
Chair: Brad Weiss (College of William & Mary)
Debbora Battaglia (Mt Holyoke College) No Longer an Earthling
Sarah Whatmore (Oxford) Affective Environments: Thinking through Flooding
Stefan Helmreich (MIT) Nature/Culture/Water
Friday, May 7
11:00am—12:45pm
Reworking Extraction
Location: Ballroom North
Elizabeth Ferry (Brandeis University) Extraction and Design: How Some Mineral Specimens are Meant to Be
Karen Hebert (Yale U) Capturing the Wild Economy: The Reinvention of Salmon Production in Southwest Alaska
Peter Benson (Washington U in St. Louis) Nicotine
Suzana Sawyer (UC Davis) Toxic Matters: The NatureCulture of Risk in an Ecuadorian Lawsuit against the Chevron Corporation
Katherine Martineau (U Michigan) The Purloined Mine: Rhetorics of Legitimacy and Hidden Profits in Eastern India
Discussant: Anna Tsing (UC Santa Cruz)
Toward a Recombinant, Transversal, Minor, and Promising STS Literature
Location: Ballroom South
Mike Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Care of the Data, Solicitude, and the Right to Make Promises in the Sciences-to-Come
Elizabeth Wilson (Emory U) Weak Affect Theories
Rich Doyle (Department of English, Penn State) Attention, Attention: Modeling Plant Intelligence
Brandon Costelloe-Kuehn and Kim Fortun (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) The Asthma Files 2.0: Promising Experimental Scientific and Environmental Communication
Discussant: Michael Fischer (MIT)
The Nature of Empire
Location: New Mexico Room
Elizabeth Dunn (U Colorado) Anti-Coagulant Empires in the South Caucasus
John Collins (Queens College and the Grad Center at CUNY) "Hunters Helping the Hungry": Protein, Exchange and Sacred Mediations in New Jersey's Central Highlands
Genese Sodikoff (Rutgers U) Of Dubious Extraction: Imperialist Constructions of Persons, Animals, and Timber in Contemporary Madagascar
Erik Mueggler (U Michigan) Lost worlds: Ritualized Theaters of Photographic Exchange in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Carole McGranahan (U Colorado) Illegal and Imperial: Tibetan Practices of U.S. Citizenship
Discussant: Diane Nelson (Duke U)
SuperNature
Location: Santa Fe Room
Margaret Wiener (UNC Chapel Hill) Between Rocks and Hard Places
Graham Jones (Princeton U) Conjuring the Supernatural
Misty Bastian (Franklin and Marshall College) Spectral Production: Ghost Hunting and American Masculinity
Alaina Lemon (U Michigan) The Wondrous Skepticism of Battle of the Psychics
Gillian Goslinga (Wesleyan) The Social Life of South Indian Demon-Lovers Or, Thoughts on Why Anthropology Continues to Bungle its Encounters with the Spirit World
Krisztina Fehervary (U Michigan) Supernatural Materialities and the Postsocialist Middle Class
Friday, May 7th, 11:30am until Saturday May 8th, 4:00pm
Multimedia Installation
Location: Stiha Room
Anand Pandian (Johns Hopkins U) Nature's Expression: Landscapes of Affective Encounter in South Indian Cinema
Friday, May 7th
1:00pm-2:45pm
The Multispecies Salon
Location: Ballroom North
Multispecies Meal 30:00
Audience members will be invited to eat ethnographic objects in the Multispecies Meal--a poster session of sorts. Food will be on offer from Heather Paxson (cheese), Jake Kosek (honey), the Matsutake Worlds Project (mushrooms), and Lindsay Kelley (Starvation Seeds), Deborah Bird Rose (emu), and Brad Weiss (guanciale), among others.
Carnal Light: Following the White Rabbit 15:00
Eva Hayward & Lindsay Kelley
Discussion 5:00
The Umwelt of an Uncommon Ant Ectatomma ruidum through Multispecies Commodities and Spectacles 15:00
S. Eben Kirksey
Discussion 5:00
The Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno 15:00
Reverend Praba Pilar
Discussion 5:00
Geek Cosmologies: Crafting Future Natureculture
Location: Ballroom South
Tiffany Romain (Stanford U) Orienting Toward the Inevitable
Valerie Olson (Rice U) From Foresight to Forepositioning: Ontological Tactics in Space Exploration Advocacy
Chris Kortright (UC Davis, Engineering) New Photosynthetic Pathways: Visions of Evolution and Militant Optimism in C4 Rice Project Davis
Abou Farman (CUNY) Utopia Americana: A Comparative Typology of Technological Utopias
Lisa Messeri (MIT) Living in a Science Fiction
Discussant: Christopher Kelty (UCLA)
Organizers: Tiffany Romain (Stanford U) Valerie Olson (Rice U)
Naturecultures in Latin American Forests and Fields
Location: Santa Fe Room
Andrew Mathews (UC Santa Cruz) Carbon Science Fictions and Mexican Forests
Adam Henne (U Wyoming) Forests, Fields, Fences: Trees and Territoriality in southern Chile
Kristina Lyons (UC Davis) Science, Storytelling and the Politics of 'Soil' in Colombia
Roseann Cohen (UC Santa Cruz) Mapping Absence: Cartographies of a Mobile Landscape
Kregg Hetherington (Dalhousie U) Beans have never been modern
Jeremy Campbell (Roger Williams) Conjuring Property: Frontier Futures in Amazonia
Discussant: Sarah Whatmore (Oxford)
Dangerous Natures: Containing The Unpredictable Body
Location: New Mexico Room
Melanie Armstrong (U New Mexico) Building a Bio-lab for the 21st Century: Community Responses to the Biosafety Level 4 Laboratory in Hamilton, Montana
Alison Fields (U Oklahoma) Healing Power: The Hiroshima Maiden Project
Carson Metzger (U New Mexico) Controlling Tuberculosis in the Lab and in the Body: Late 19th-Century Philadelphia and the Individual as Master of Disease
Jennifer Richter (U New Mexico) Naturalizing Radioactive Waste: How Science Shapes Risk in Yucca Mountain and New Mexico
Discussant: Jake Kosek (UC Berkeley)
Friday, May 7th
3:00pm- 4:45
Tarrying with Neurodiversity: Moving Beyond Pharmaco-natures
Location: Ballroom North
Matthew Wolf-Meyer (UC Santa Cruz) American Sleep and Capitalism, from Variation to Pathology
Stephanie Lloyd (McGill University) The Paxilization of France: Anodynes, Cures and Normality Amid French Neurodiversity
Michael Oldani (U Wisconsin Whitewater) Scripting the Ordinary: Pharmaceutical Families as the New Normal
John Marlovits (UC Santa Cruz) Odd Minds: Neurodiversity and The Politics of Mental Health Movement Culture in Seattle
Nurit Bird-David (University of Haifa) Situational Personhood in Bio-medical Naturculture: A Case of PVS Patients in an Israeli Hospital
Eating NatureCulture I
Location: New Mexico Room
Hannah Landecker (UCLA) Food as Exposure: Nutritional Epigenetics and the Molecularization of the Environment
Anne Meneley (Trent U) Palestinian Olive Trees as Kin
Diane Nelson (Duke) OmniLifeNatureCulture
Sophia Roosth (MIT) On Souffles and Centrifuges: Molecular Gastronomy, Scientific Consumption, and Craft Practice
Discussant: Brad Weiss (College of William & Mary)
Past and Future Connections
Location: Santa Fe Room
Les Field (U New Mexico) Relativity Effects: Reconsidering the Cultural Biography of Pre-Columbian Gold Objects
Lucy Suchman (Lancaster U) Robot Biographies
Astrid Schrader (Sarah Lawrence College) Species Differences and Anthropocentrism in Harmful Algal Research: A Matter of Time
Jeanette Edwards (U Manchester) The nature of ancestors
Matthew Hull (U Michigan) The Anthropology of Databases and the Ontology of Real Estate in Islamabad
Other Materialisms I: Thinking Natureculture Through Transitional States of Matter
Location: Ballroom South
Stuart McLean (U Minnesota) Black Goo: Natureculture and the Imagination of Matter in Europe's Muddy Margins
Diane Willow (U Minnesota) The Tangible Intangible: Ambient Sites, Charged Atmospheres, and Permeable Boundaries
Todd Ramón Ochoa (UNC Chapel Hill) Building and Dissolving Bonds: Asymmetrical Synthesis in Cuban-Kongo Sorcery
Naveeda Khan (Johns Hopkins U) The Theological Properties of Soil and the Conditions of Dog Becoming in the Shifting Silt Islands of Riparian Bangladesh
Niall McBrierty and Brien-McBrierty (Dublin, Ireland) Glass: When Will We See Through It?
Friday, May 7th
5:00pm- 6:30pm
David Schneider Memorial Lecture
Location: Ballroom
Chair: Marisol de la Cadena (UC Davis)
Donna Haraway (UC Santa Cruz) Staying with the Trouble: Xenoecologies of Home for Companions in the Contact Zones
In conversation with John Law (Open University Sociology and the CRESC ESRC Research Centre)
Friday, May 7th
6:45pm- 7:30pm
Reception
Location: La Terraza
Cash Bar, Hors d’Oeuvres
Friday, May 7th
9:00pm
SCA Screening of “SWEETGRASS”
Location: “The Screen” at 1600 St. Michael’s Drive, Santa Fe
A Film by Ilisa Barbash and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Harvard U-Sensory Ethnography Lab)
Followed by a conversation with Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Harvard U-Sensory Ethnography Lab) moderated by Steve Feld (U New Mexico).
Saturday, May 8th
9:00am—10:15am
Plenary Session II
Location: Ballroom
Chair: Danilyn Rutherford (UC Santa Cruz)
Judith Farquhar (U Chicago) Information Databases, Knowing Traditions
Deborah Rose Bird (Macquarie U) Double Death: in the shadow of extinction
Saturday, May 8th
10:30am—12:15pm
Naturecultures of Science
Location: New Mexico Room
Tom Boellstorff (UC Irvine) Virtual Nature
Goetz Hoeppe (College of William & Mary) Observatories versus Laboratories in Conceiving of "the Natural"
Daniel Segal (Pitzer College) Jane Goodall and the Making of Chimp-Human Closeness
Kath Weston (U Virginia) Entanglement, Really: Or Why Anthropology Needs a Quantum Eraser
Other Materialisms II: The Substance of Politics
Location: Ballroom North
Cori Hayden (UC Berkeley) Chemical Multiplicities
Tim Choy (UC Davis) Air's Aesthesia
Myra Hird (Queen's University) The In/Organic Juncture: Exploring the Boundary between Life and Matter
Jake Kosek (UC Berkeley) Apiary Ambiguities: The Science and Politics of Honey Bee Mortality
S. Lochlain Jain (Stanford U) Quality of End of Life and the Billion Dollar Substance
Alexei Yurchak (UC Berkeley) Lenin's Two Bodies: The Hidden Science of Communist Sovereignty
Organizers: Cori Hayden (UC Berkeley) Tim Choy (UC Davis)
How the Concept of Naturecultures May Be Useful for Understanding War Now
Location: Ballroom South
Deb Cowen (U Toronto) Colonial Metaphor, Military Mapping and Systems Spaces: The Naturecultures of Business Logistics
Caren Kaplan (UC Davis) The Mind's Eye in Motion: How Airpower Makes Naturecultures
Jennifer Terry (UC Irvine) Bodies as Strategic Resources in Post-Human Warfare
Architecture of the Future: Human Potentials and Hypothetical Monsters
Location: Santa Fe Room
Courtney N. Nickerson (York U) Moby-Dick; or, Hope and the Ungraspable Phantom of Life
Mona Bhan (Depauw U) Building Monsters: Architecture of Human Potentials
Mark Robinson (Princeton U) The Mathematics of Monsters: Time and the Moral Brain
Noelle Mole (Princeton U) Italian Mobbing and its Evil Potentials
David Valentine (U Minnesota) Discussant
Saturday, May 8th
12:30pm—2:15pm
On Shaky Ground: Sketching a 'More-than-Human' Anthropology of Life
Location: Ballroom South
Shubhra Gururani (York U) Live Stock: When Humans, Cattle, Hybrids, and Jerseys Meet in Kumaon Himalayas, India
Carlota McAllister (York U) Life Itself: Imperial Visions of Patagonian Nature
Kavita Philip (UC Irvine) Rethinking Environment, Politics, Development and Culture in India
Adriana Premat (U Western Ontario) Urban Agriculture: Stabilizing and Destabilizing Boundaries between Humans and Nonhumans in the City
Anne Rademacher (NYU) Producing Green Expertise: Place, Pedagogy, and Sustainable Architecture in Mumbai
Jaime Yard (York U) Salmon Habitat Please Protect Our Heritage
Technoanimals
Location:Santa Fe Room
Aoife Iredale (UNC Chapel Hill) Guiding Entanglements: an Exploration into the Triune Seeing Eye Partnership with an Emphasis on the Guidedog Harness as Latourian Actor and Baradian Apparatus
Paolo Bocci (UNC Chapel Hill) What is the Matter with Goats?
Anita Maurstad (Tromså University Museum) Kissing Cod at the Museum: On Relational Materiality, Ontological Politics and Museum Knowledge Making
Matei Candea (Durham U) The Meerkat and the Abstentionist: Unfinished Ontologies in Human-Animal Relations
Matsutake Worlds
Location: Ballroom North
Tim Choy (UC Davis) will discuss theories of the senses, having digested Miyako Inoue's (Stanford) report on the "haunting" presence of matsutake's smell.
Michael Hathaway (Simon Frazer U) will introduce matsutake's entangled ecologies in southwest China, digesting Lieba Faier's (UCLA) report on matsutake's multispecies worlds in central Japan.
Shiho Satsuka (U Toronto) will speak about the multiple time frames of matsutake's presence, using Anna Tsing's (UC Santa Cruz) report on nonhuman historiographies of the matsutake forest.
Anna Tsing will discuss how matsutake stories - including those gathered for our web site - open worlds.
Unmaking the Subject, Attenuating the Person
Location: New Mexico Room
Beth A Conklin (Vanderbilt) Edgy Mutuality an the Murder of Kin: Tracking the Animal in Native Amazonia
Janelle S Taylor (U of Washington) The Making and Unmaking of the Demented Subject in Health-Care Research
Rebecca A Allahyari (School for Advanced Research) Witnessing Dementia: Attenuating Care and Experiencing Doubt in Guardianship
Joshua H Roth (Mount Holyoke College) Speed, Safety, and Licensing: The Making and Unmaking of Driving Subjects
Noa Vaisman (U Chicago) Shedding Our Selves" Reithinking the Nature/Culture Divide in Post-Dictatorship Argentina
Discussant: Lynn M Morgan (Mount Holyoke College)
Organizers: Lynn M Morgan (Mount Holyoke College) and Janelle S Taylor (U Washington)
Saturday, May 8th
2:30pm-4:15pm
Eating NatureCulture II
Location: Ballroom North
Heather Paxson (MIT) Toward An Animal Anthropology of Farmstead Cheesemaking
Deborah Heath (Lewis & Clark College) The Reign of Terroir: NatureCulture as Local Brand & Global Market
Mara Miele (Cardiff University) The Taste of Happiness: Free Range Chicken
Discussant: Brad Weiss (College of William & Mary)
When Worlds Meet: Nature/Culture and Indigeneity
Location: Ballroom South
Sylvie Poirier (Laval U) Encountering Indigenous Ontologies. Towards an Anthropology of Difference and Co-existence
Harvey Feit (McMaster U) Indissolvable Relations, Ontological Worlds, and the Varied Engagements of James Bay Crees with States
Brian Noble (Dalhousie Uy) Living With, Living Together: Treaty Ontology and the Undoing of Biopolitics
Florence Brunois (CNRS Paris) When Modern Artefacts Enter the World of the Kasua
Colin Scott (McGill U) Relational Ontology in the Crucible of Modernity: Environmental Protection and Economic Development in a James Bay Cree Community
Mario Blaser (Memorial University of Newfoundland) Between Reciprocity and Representation: Leadership in the Hinge
Natureculture and Multipli-'Cities': New Engagements of Anthropology and Urbanism
Location: New Mexico Room
Alex Nading (U Wisconsin-Madison) Dengue Mosquitoes are Single Mothers: Culture, Nature, and the Aesthetics of Urban Health
Alison Kenner (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) Simpli-cities: Environmental Health, Asthma, and Graphematic Space
Shiloh Krupar (Georgetown U) The Transnatural Fantastic
Austin Zeiderman (Stanford U) On Shaky Ground: Governing Risk in Bogotá Colombia
Nikhil Anand (Stanford U) On Pressure
Rodney Collins (Georgetown U) Itineraries at the Crossroads of Civilizations: Discourses of Decay and Desire in Contemporary Inner City Tunis
Discussant: Daniel Hoffman (U Washington)
Translations of Modernity
Location: Santa Fe Room
Lesley Green (U Cape Town) Palikur Geometries of Knowledge and Knowledge Pattern Recognition: Towards a Symmetrical Anthropology
Salvador Schavelzon (Rio de Janeiro Federal University) Popular Indigenous Worlds and the State: Ethnography of a Constitutional Assembly in Bolivia.
Robert Brightman (Reed College) and Maria Lepowsky (U Wisconsin-Madison) Irony and Ontology in Luiseño Cosmogony
Stacey Langwick (Cornell U) The Politics of Those Things that are Not: Postcolonial Healing in Tanzania
Neal Akatsuka (U Hawai'i at Manoa) On Stopping to Smell the Recombinant Roses in Japan
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