Subversion, Conversion, Development - Public Interests in Technologies
Thursday, 24 April 2008 to Saturday, 26 April 2008
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane

Programme

24th April

 

17.15 - 17.45 

Registration 

17.45 - 18.30 

Opening Ceremony (by web-link)
gkisedtanamoogk (Otter Clan Longhouse, Wampanoag Federation Manitomp, Adjunct Faculty University of Maine)

18.30-19.00

Open Objects Initiative Presentation
Dawn Nafus (Intel Research), James Leach (Anthropology, University of Aberdeen) 

19.00 - 19.30

Welcoming Address
Prof. Dame Marilyn Strathern
(Anthropology, University of Cambridge) 

19.30

Drinks Reception and buffet
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge

25th April

9.00 - 9.30

Registration and coffee

 

Theme 1 Modifications and extensions of Use
Chair: Robin Boast (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of
Cambridge)  

9.30 - 11.00

Session 1

Poline Bala (University of Malaysia, Sarawak)
Redeploying technologies: ICT for greater agency and capacity for political engagement in the Kelabit Highlands

Jim Enote (A:shiwi Map Art Project)
Gathering community around mapping projects

David Turnbull (Australian Centre for Science, Innovation andSociety (ACSIS), University of Melbourne)
Distributed, dialogical and diverse: emergent processes in biology, knowledge production and creativity

Jerome Lewis (Anthropology, UCL)Re-presenting the world - the production of maps by non-literate hunter-gatherers as a way of communicating their world to outsiders

11.00 - 11.30

Coffee 

11.30 - 13.00

Session 2

Matt Jones (Future Interaction Technology Lab, Swansea University)
Narrowcast Yourself - User Generated Content and a Rural Indian Village

Juan Salazar (Anthropology, University of Western Sydney)
Maps as media for social change

Helen Verran (School of Philosophy, University of Melbourne) and Michael Christie (School of Education, Charles Darwin University)
Indigenous knowledge and resource management in Northern Australia

Joline Blais and gkisedtanamoogk (University of Maine)
Request For Ceremony

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 14.30

Keynote Intervention: Dawn Nafus (Intel Research)
Design, Sustainability and Industry

14.30 - 16.30

Theme 2 Modifications of Social Process
Chair: Lee Wilson (CRASSH, University of Cambridge) 

 

Session 3

James Leach (University of Aberdeen) and Wendy Seltzer (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School)
Cross Cultural Partnership Agreement template

Beth Kolko (Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School)
ICT in Central Asia

Hildegard Diemberger (University of Cambridge) and Stephen Hugh-Jones (University of Cambridge)
Tibetan ancient scriptures in a digital age

Will Tuladhar-Douglas (Religious Studies, University of Aberdeen)
Technologies are busting with implicit intentions: the cases of writing

Govindan Parayil (Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo)
The capabilities to bridge the digital divide: the missing link in connecting rural India
 
Merlyna Lim (Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University)
Civic Networks: The Internet and civil society activism in Indonesia

16.30 - 17.00 Coffee

17.00 - 17.30

Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen)
Reflections on the day

17.30 - 18.00

Open Floor
Chair: David Turnbull (ACSIS, University of Melbourne)

18.30 (for 19.15) Conference dinner, Saltmarsh Rooms, King's College

 

 

26th April

9.00 - 9.30 Coffee

9.30 - 11.30

Panel 1 Exploration: Decentring Design
Chair: Mike Bravo (University of Cambridge)

 

Matt Ratto (University of Toronto)
Critical thinking and critical making: conceptualizing material engagement and knowledge

Laura Watts (Lancaster University)
Liminal Futures: Landscapes of Innovation in the High-tech Industry

Jennifer Baird (Virtual Museums of Canada Investment Program) 
From ‘Ask the Authority’ to ’Question the Authority’ to ‘Share the Authority’?

John Bowers (Goldsmiths, University of London,
Interaction Design Centre, University of Limerick)
Making it up: threshold devices in the curious home,
the recipe station in the farmers market, and the music of the 4093 nand gate

 
Bart Barendregt (Anthropology, Leiden University)
Mobile modernities in contemporary Indonesia

11.30 - 12.00

Coffee

12.00 - 13.00

Discussion: Open technologies and new possibilities for development?
Chair: Ramesh Srinvasan (Information Studies, UCLA) 

John Norman (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies, University of Cambridge), Alan Blackwell (Computer Lab, University of Cambridge) and Wendy Selzer (Harvard Law School) and Nina Wakeford (Goldsmiths)

13.00 - 14.00 Lunch

14.00 - 16.30

Panel 2 Subversion, conversion or development?
(Coffee available throughout)

Chair: James Leach (University of Aberdeen)  

Giles Lane (Proboscis)Public authoring, scavenging and agency
 
Gregers Peterson (Copenhagen Business School)
Wireless technology, subversive politics
 
Jon Ippolito (University of Main)
Whose tool is this anyway? Art and creative misuse
 
Comment: Daria Loi (Design Researcher, Intel)
 
Open Discussion

16.30 - 17.00 

Closing Ceremony 
gkisedtanamoogk (Otter Clan Longhouse, Wampanoag Federation Manitomp, Adjunct Faculty University of Maine)

 


End of conference