9.00-9.30

Registration

9.30-9.45

Welcome and Introduction

9.45-11.15

Panel 1: Reflections
Guest Chair:  Marilyn Strathern

Beyond Objects: Art and Agency and the Emerging Theorization of Materiality
Suzanne Küchler (Department of Anthropology, University College London) 

What Time do (Art) Objects Embody?
Eric Hirsch (Reader in Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Brunel University)

11.15-11.45

Tea/coffee break

11.45-13.15 

Panel 2: Art
Guest Chair: Martin Holbraad

Alfred Gell and Comparative Art History
Jeremy Tanner (Reader in Classical and Comparative Art, University College London)

Literary Art and Agency? Gell and the History of Renaissance Texts
Warren Boutcher, (Reader in Renaissance Studies, School of English and Drama, Queen Mary University of London)  

13.15-14.15

Lunch

14.15-15.45

Panel 3: Agency
Guest Chair: Graeme Were (UCL)

Music, Agency, Creativity
Georgina Born, (Professor of Sociology, Anthropology and Music, Cambridge)

Ontologies and Objects
Chris Gosden (Chair of European Archaeology, School of Archaeology, Oxford)  

15.45-16.15

Tea/coffee break

16.15-17.15 

Summation and General Discussion

Stephen Hugh-Jones (Professor Emeritus, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge)

17.30 

Drinks Reception at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology