The Culture Project: New Approaches to the Study of Cultural Practices
Friday, 13 March 2009 to Sunday, 15 March 2009
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane

FRIDAY 13 MARCH

 

14.00

All participants meet at CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane
Late lunch is served

15.00

Introductions, an overview of the weekend and logistics

15.30-17.30

Modeling Practice in Medicine

Paper: Alton Phillips (New York)
Charting Antiretroviral Supply Chains in Uganda
Respondent: Michele Lamb (London)

Paper: John Macartney (London)
Listening to the guiding voice: a decision narrative in Complementary Healthcare
Respondent: Tey Meadow (New York)

Paper: Owen Whooley (New York)
The Birth of the American Medical Association An Organizational Solution to an Epistemological Problem    
Respondent: Thomas Hilder (London)

19.00 

Dinner at Carluccios
One Fisher Square, Grand Arcade, Cambridge

SATURDAY 14 MARCH


9.30-11.00

Creating Images of Urban Space

Paper: Hannah Jones (London), Kaleidoscopic Hackney: Negotiating Multiple
Understandings of Place in the Governance of a London Borough
Respondent: Marion Wrenn (New York)

Paper: Laura Noren (New York)
Public Peeing: Policing Bodies in New York City           
Respondent: Adam Kaasa (London)

Paper: Olivia Muñoz-Rojas-Oscarsson (London)
Stone, granite and concrete: three images of the urban under Franco
Respondent: David Madden (New York)

11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

11.30-13.00

Identity through Practice

Paper: Jane Jones (New York)
Money is Green: Fundraising and the Whitewashing of Elite Philanthropy
Respondent: Hettie Malcomson (London)

Paper: Alex Rhys-Taylor (London)
Slime and Reason
Respondent: Ashley Mears (New York)

Paper: Amy LeClair (New York)
Anti-depressants in the Post-Prozac Era: SSRI consumption among young adults
Respondent: Suzi Hall (London 

13.00-14.00 

Lunch at CRASSH 

14.00-16.30 

Break: Historic walking tour with Jeanette Luckhurst, from 14.15 - 15.15 (optional)

16.30-18.00 

Power and Theory of Economic Practices 

Paper: Will Davies (London)
Capitalism as Competitive Sport: Rules and the Neo-Liberal Game
Respondent: Ernesto Castañeda (New York)

Paper: Solon Barocas (New York)
Patterns of Knowledge and a Pattern of Failure: The Epistemology, Performativity, and Culpability of Predictive Models
Respondent: Jérôme Hansen (London)

Paper: Hans Steinmuller (London)
The Ironies of Work, Family and Fatherland in China
Respondent: Melissa Fernandez (LSE)


18.15-19.45 

Wine reception and private view
Fitzwilliam Museum, Trumpington Street

20.00 

Traditional Cambridge College Dinner at Pembroke College, Old Library

SUNDAY 15 MARCH 

 

10.30 – 12.00  

Mapping Discourses and Behaviours 

Paper: Sarah Kaufman (New York)
Danger: The Making and Un-Making of Future Behavior in Death Penalty Trials       
Respondent: Torsten Schroeder (London)

Paper: Paolo Gerbaudo (London)
Navigating the Rebel Archipelago: Territorial communication, spatial orientation and involvement in autonomous scenes
Respondent: Harel Shapira (New York)

Paper: Ruth Braunstein (New York)
The law of unintended consequences: Judges’ participation in defining science in contests over evolution
Respondent: Frederik Lesage (London) 

12.00-13.00 

Lunch at CRASSH

13.00 

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