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Seminar Papers (2006-2007)

    October 13: Thomas Bender, Director of ICAS
     Department of History, NYU
    "History, Theory and the Metropolis"

    October 20: Margaret Somers, Center Fellow, ICAS
    Department of Sociology and Department of History, University of Michigan
    "Genealogies of Citizenship: Knowledge, Markets, and the Right to have Rights"

    October 27: Jane Anderson, Center Fellow, ICAS
     Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
    "Tensions in Theory and Policy: Intellectual Property and Indigenous Knowledge Projects"

    November 3: Deborah Cowen, Visiting Scholar, ICAS
     Division of Social Sciences, York University
    "The Soldier and the Social"

    November 10: Weihua Wu, Post Doctoral Fellow, ICAS
     School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong
    "Beyond Virtual Carnival and Masquerade: In-game Marriage on the Chinese Internet"

    December 1: Ulla Berg, Dissertation Fellow, ICAS
     Department of Anthropology, NYU
    "De-Indianization, Modernity, and Cosmopolitan Desires in Highland Peru"

    December 8: Maimuna Huq, Post Doctoral Fellow, ICAS
     "Re-defining Religiosity in Bangladesh: The Politics of Subjectivity among
    Islamic Activist Women"

    December 15: Hui Jiang, Dissertation Fellow, ICAS
     Department of Comparative Literature, NYU
    "The Nihilistic Vision of the People in Chinese Revolutionary Discourse"

    January 19: Alondra Nelson, Visiting Scholar
     Department of Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University
    "The Factness of Diaspora"

    January 26: Sherene Seikaly, Dissertation Fellow
     Department of History and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, NYU
    "In the Name of the Public Good: Wartime Business in Palestine 1939-1944"

    February 2: Andrew Lakoff, Center Fellow
     Department of Sociology & Science Studies, University of California - San Diego
    “Threats Without Enemies: An Anatomy of Contemporary Security”

    February 9: Julia Elyachar, Center Fellow
     Center for Scientific Research, Slovene Academy of Sciences and Arts
    "The Value of Sociality: Best Practices versus 'Tacit Knowledge' in the Financial Sector of Egypt"

    February 16: Miriam Ticktin, Center Fellow
     Women’s Studies and Anthropology, University of Michigan
    “Retreat from the Political: The Humanitarian Management of Immigration in France”

    February 23: Natasha Dow Schull, Post Doctoral Fellow
     "Digital Disconnection: Machine Gambling and the Liquidation of the Self"

    March 2: Diana Yoon, Dissertation Fellow
     Institute for Law & Society, NYU
    "'Who's the Bastard?': Amerasians and the Southeast Asian Refugee Resettlement in the U.S."

    March 9: Christopher Otter, Faculty Fellow
     Department of History, NYU
    "From the Social to the Environmental: Engineering, Urbanisation and Nature in Britian, c. 1800-2000"

    March 23: Timothy Mitchell, ICAS Project Director
     Department of Politics and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, NYU
    "Carbon Democracy"

    April 13: Ella Shohat, Faculty Fellow
     Department of Art & Public Policy and Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, NYU
    "The Culture Wars in Translation"

    April 20: Patrick Joyce, Visiting Scholar
     Department of History, University of Manchester
    Department of Sociology, London School of Economics, Visiting Professor 2006 - 2009
    "The Soul of Leviathan: Making the British Technostate, c.1830-1930"

    April 27: Natasha Dow Schull, Post Doctoral Fellow, and Caitlin Zaloom, former ICAS Faculty Fellow
     "Neuroeconomics: From Synapse to Society"

    Seminar Papers (2005-2006)

    September 30,2005

    • Partha Chatterjee, "Futher Thoughts on The Politics of the Governed"

      • October 7,2005

    • Sinclair Thomson & Forrest Hylton, "Revolutionary Horizons in Bolivia: Indigenous and National-Popular Struggles in Bolivia, 1781-2005"

      • October 14, 2005

    • Timothy Mitchell, "The Properties of Markets"

      • October 21, 2005

    • Arzoo Osanloo, "The Measure of Mercy: Human Rights, Islamic Law and Forgiveness"

      • October 28, 2005

    • Tavia Nyong'o, "Why was Jim Crow called Jim Crow"

      • November 4, 2005

    • Nina Siulc, "UnWelcome Citizens: Criminal Deportees and Civic Life in the Dominican Republic"

      • November 11, 2005

    • Alexei Yurchak, "Bioaesthetics and the Irony of the Absurd: Russian Artists at the End of Communism"

      • November 18, 2005

    • Ilana Feldman, "Difficult Distinctions: Refugee law, humanitarian practice, and the identification of people in Gaza"

      • December 2, 2005

    • Munir Fakher Eldin, "Rethinking the collapse of British rule in Palestine"

      • December 9, 2005

    • Andrew Lakoff, "Preparing for the Next Emergency: Security Rationality in the Contemporary U.S."

      • January 20, 2006

    • Valdimar Hafstein, "Claiming Culture: Intangible Heritage and the Government of Community"

      • January 27, 2006

    • Nivedita Menon, "Outing Heteronormativity: Nation, Citizen and Feminist Disruptions"

      • February 3, 2006

    • Leshu Torchin, "The Burden of Witnessing: Visual Media and the production of the Rights Claims"

      • February 17, 2006

    • Natasha Iskander, "Innovating for Political Change: Emigrants, Infrastructure, and Economic Development in Rural Morocco"

      • February 24, 2006

    • Jangam Chinnaiah, "Whose Nation? Nationalism and Dalits in Telugu Country 1900-1950"

      • March 3, 2006

    • Anouk de Koning, "The Social Life of Reform: Cairo's professional middle class in Egypt's new liberal era"

      • March 10, 2006

    • Steve Rusow, "Democratic Theory? Pluralizing Democratic Subjects in Global Spaces"

      • March 24, 2006

    • Margaret Somers, "From Poverty to Perversity: The Powers and Politics of Market Knowledge"

      • March 31, 2006

    • Aditya Nigam, "Empire, Nation and Minority Cultures: A Postnational Perspective"

      • April 7, 2006

    • Tavia Nyong'o, "History, Memory & Black America"

      • April 14, 2006

    • Nina Siulc, "You Can Lock My Body But My Mind Is Free: Re-emplacement and the Transnationalization of Stigma among Deportees in the Dominican Republic"

      • April 21, 2006

    • Arzoo Osanloo, "Human Rights in Iran: The Politics and Prose of a Discursive Space"

      • April 28, 2006

    • Forrest Hylton, "An Evil Hour: Colombia in Historical Context"

      • May 10, 2006

    • Michel Callon, "Technosciences, economic markets and dialogical democracy"

    Seminar Papers (2004-2005)

    October 1, 2004

    • Sheri Fink, "Injecting Controversy: The Power of Local Knowledge and the Humanitarian Marketplace to reduce HIV/AIDS Incidence to the Illicit Drug Market"

      • October 8, 2004

    • Philip Mirowski, "Market Made Flesh: Callon, Performativity, and a Crisis in Science Studies, augmented With Consideration of the FCC auctions"
      "The Scientific Dimensions of Social Knowledge and their Distant Echoes in 20th-Century American Philosophy of Science"

      • October 15, 2004

    • Caitlin Zaloom, "Materials of the Market: City, Buildings, and the Chicago Board of Trade"

      • October 22, 2004

    • Andrew Barry, "Public Knowledge and Demonstration: Politics and the Pipeline"

      • October 29, 2004

    • Vincent Lepinay, "Markets-in-Law: Legal Outeractionism in Securities Markets"

      • November 5, 2004

    • Julie Graham, "Enabling Ethical Economies: Cooperativism and Class"

      • November 12, 2004

    • Dieter Plehwe, "Epistemic Communities, Discourse Communities, and Transnational Advocacy Coalitions, but where do those larger ideas come from? Theoretical Reflections on 'Knowledge Actors' and a brief introduction to a (transnational neoliberal) Meta-Discourse Community ('Weltanschauungsgemeinschaft') : the Mont Pelerin Society"

      • November 19, 2004

    • Peter Levin, Barnard College, "Information, Prices, and Sensemaking in Financial Futures Trading"

      • December 3, 2004

    • Allison Truitt, "The Limits of Neoliberalism: Dollarization in Vietnam"

      • December 10, 2004

    • Koray Caliskan, "How does a Global Market Work? Commodities, Prices and their Circulation"

      • January 21, 2005

    • LaDawn Haglund, "Ties that Collide: Embeddedness under Democratization and Neo-liberalization"

      • January 28, 2005

    • Timothy Mitchell, "Economy and Culture"

      • February 4, 2005

    • Chia Yin Hsu, "Looking to the 'Far East': Railroad Colonialism, the 'National Economy', and Territorializing Russianness in Manchuria, 1896-1903"

      • February 11, 2005

    • Susanna Rosenbaum, ""'I Count': Campaigning to make Mothers' Work Visible and Valued"

      • February 18, 2005

    • Thomas Bender, "Social Scineces and a Social Economy"

      • February 25, 2005

    • Ozlem Altan, "Apolitics of Power: Mapping Elite Capitals in the Middle East"

      • March 4, 2005

    • Michel Callon, "Why Virtualism Paves the Wave to Political Impotence. A Reply to Daniel Miller's Critique of The Laws of The Markets"

    • Michel Callon, "Background Information"

      • March 11, 2005

    • Zuhre Aksoy, "The Market and Crop Genetic Diversity: The Case of Turkey"

      • March 25, 2005

    • Neil Brenner, "The Neoliberalization of Urban Governance in Western Europe: Comparative Perspectives"

      • April 1, 2005

    • Elliott Colla, "The Artifaction of the Memnon Head: Egyptian Antiquities Collection in the Early 19th Century"

      • April 8, 2005

    • Philip Mirowski, "Rethinking the Commercialization of Science: The Laboratory"
      "Chapter 1:5 Myths concerning Modern Science"

      • April 15, 2005

    • Vincent Lepinay, "The Promise of Stem Cells"

      • April 22, 2005

    • Andrew Barry, "Cracks in the Oil Economy"

    • Peter Shulman, "Petroleum Politics: National Security and the Legacy of Teapot Dome"

      • May 24, 2005

    • Michel Callon, "What does it mean to say that economics is performative?"

    • Callon's Background Paper, "Economic Experiments and the Construction of Markets"


    Conferences

    Project on The Authority of Knowledge in A Global Age (2004-2005)

    How Neoliberalism Became a Transnational Movement

    Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict (2003-2004)

    Contemporary Politics and Political Cultures in South East Asia

    Contemporary Politics and Political Cultures In Africa

    Project on the Cold War as Global Conflict (2002-2003)

    Weapons of Mass Destruction: Cold War Legacies in a Post-9.11 World


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