9.00 - 9.30

Registration, Ramsden Room, St Catharine’s College

9.30 - 9.45

Welcome and Introduction
Matei Candea (University of Cambridge) 

9.45 - 10.45

Panel 1 – Durkheim Reconsidered – Revisiting the Elementary forms
Discussant: James Laidlaw (University of Cambridge)

9.45: Joel Robbins (University of California, San Diego)
If There is No Such Thing as Society, Is Ritual Still Special?  On Using The Elementary Forms after Tarde

10.15: Ricardo Roque (Universidade dos Açores)
Durkheim and the flag: colonial forms of religious life in East Timor

10.45 - 11.15 

Coffee break

11.15 - 11.45

11.15: Karen E. Fields (Vanderbilt University) Invisible Ontology in Durkheim's Elementary Forms:  Some Suggestions for the Study of Race Concepts

11.45: Discussion

12.15 - 13.15

Lunch break

13.15 - 15.00

Panel 2 – Ethnography, Theory, Durkheim, Tarde – anthropological connections 
Discussant: Matei Candea (University of Cambridge)

13.15: James Leach (University of Aberdeen) Intervening with the Social. Examining ethnographic engagements with the help of  Tarde 

13.45: Georgina Born (University of Cambridge)           
Relationality After Tarde

14.15: Karen Sykes (University of Manchester) The value of a beautiful memory  

 14.45: Discussion

15.00 - 15.30

Tea break

15.30:  Istvan Praet (University of Oxford)
Contribution to an Anthropology of Crime - Amerindian Comments on La criminologie comparée 

16.00: Penny Harvey/Soumhya Venkatesan (University of Manchester)
Faith, Reason and the Ethics of Craftsmanship: creating contingently stable worlds

16.30: Discussion

6.00 

'The Debate'  at Corpus Christi College,McCrum Lecture Theatre

9.00 - 10.45

Panel 3 – Affect and Effects – Interiority and inter-psychology
Discussant: Caroline Humphrey (University of Cambridge)

9.00: Andrea Mu Brighenti (University of Trento)
Tarde, Canetti, and Deleuze on Crowds and Packs

 9.30: Yael Navaro-Yashin (University of Cambridge) Collectibles of War and the Tangibility of affect

10.00: Sjoerd Van Tuinen (Ghent University)
Is There a Contemporary Use for Tarde’s Concepts of Magnetism, Somnambulism and Hypnosis?

10.30: Discussion 

10.45 - 11.15

Coffee break 

11.15: Eduardo Viana Vargas (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais)
Tarde on drugs, or measures against suicide: is it all right? It is all high

11.45: Discussion 

12.15 - 13.15

Lunch break

13.15-15.00

Panel 4 – Knowing the Social: Methods, traces, comparisons
Discussant: Marilyn Strathern (University of Cambridge)  

13.15: Bruno Latour (Sciences Po)  The new traceability of the social or the vindication of Gabriel Tarde

13.45: Alberto Corsin-Jimenez (University of Manchester) 
Number 2000

14.15: Robert Layton (University of Durham)
Durkheim vs. Tarde; Dawkins vs. Kauffman

14.45: Discussion

15.00-15.30

Tea Break

15.30-17.30

15.30: Andrew Barry (School of Geography, Oxford University) 
Sociology: an experimental science 

16.00: Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov (Dept. of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge) Post-Socialism as the Post-social: an ethnography of a social theorist

16.30: Tim Jenkins (University of Cambridge) 
One or Three: Issues of Comparison

17.00: Discussion

17.30

End of Conference