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  • 13.september.2008
  • Spring 2009 Seminar Papers
  • 15.january.2009
  • London
  • The exception that proves the rule? Policy makers negotiating multiplicity and seeking authenticity
  • Presenter: Hannah Jones (Goldsmiths)
  • Origins and Originality: Danzón, 'Race' and Nation in the Port of Veracruz, Mexico
  • Presenter: Hettie Malcolmson (Cambridge University)
  • 29.january.2009
  • London
  • An artist's career with new media - Don Foresta
  • Presenter: Frederik Lesage (LSE)
  • The ironies of work, family and Fatherland in China
  • Presenter: Hans Steinmuller (LSE)
  • 02.february.2009
  • New York
  • Charting Antiretrovirals through the Supply Chains of Uganda: A Comparison of Global Fund and PEPFAR Funding Streams
  • Presenter: Alton Phillips
  • Discussant: Jane Jones

    • A draft chapter of Alton's dissertation based on field work in Uganda.

  • 12.february.2009
  • London
  • Mari Boine and the Sami Festival: The politics of indigeneity, environment and modernity
  • Presenter: Thomas Hilder (Royal Holloway)
  • "A foreigner has come again!" Colonial History and the politics of the foreign in the highlands of East Timor
  • Presenter: Judith Bovensiepen (LSE)
  • 16.february.2009
  • New York
  • President's Day: No NYLON
  • 23.february.2009
  • New York
  • 6PM: The Enteprenurial Ethic and the Spirit of Financialism: Some Weberian Thoughts on the Global Meltdown
  • Presenter: Arjun Appadurai

  • This event will welcome Arjun to NYU and the IPK, and I hope you all can attend. For more details and to RSVP, please visit the IPK website.

  • 26.february.2009
  • London
  • The Mexican Food Narratvies, UNESCO, and the polticis of cultural heritage: Gastronomy at the juncture of cosmopolitanism, nationalism and indigeneity
  • Presenter: Ricardo Mazatan (University of Essex)
  • The uses of deterioration: Rise, fall and resistance of "Las Gladiolas" as public housing high-rise
  • Presenter: Melissa Fernandez Arrigoitia (LSE)
  • 02.march.2009
  • New York
  • Cultural Intermediaries
  • Presenter: Ashley Mears
  • Discussant: Tey Meadow

    • Description to follow.

  • Authority on the Line
  • Presenter: Harel Shapira
  • Discussant: David Madden

    • Description to follow.

  • 09.March.09
  • New York
  • 6-8PM: Pierre Bourdieu and the field of sociology in France
  • Presenter: Johan Heilbron

  • The IPK reading group in the history of the social sciences will host a presentation by Johan Heilbron on Pierre Bourdieu and the field of sociology in France. The paper can be downloaded above, and the presentation will be followed by a discussion.

    Members of NYLON are invited to attend. Please RSVP to Nicolas Guilhot (guilhot@ssrc.org) if you plan to attend.

  • 13-15.March.09
  • Cambridge, UK
  • 16.March.09
  • New York
  • Spring Break: No NYLON
  • 23.March.09
  • New York
  • Photographic Representations of Humanitarianism
  • Presenter: Nandi Dill and Jen Telesca
  • Discussant: Laura Noren

    • Description to follow.

  • Blowing up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture
  • Presenter: Melissa Aronczyk
  • Discussant: Ashley Mears

    • Description to follow.

  • 30.March.09
  • New York
  • Epistemic Contests and Emergent Epistemologies
  • Presenter: Owen Whooley
  • Discussant: Melissa Aronczyk

    • Description to follow.

  • The "Public" in Public Housing
  • Presenter: David Madden
  • Discussant: Mark Treskon

    • Description to follow.

  • 6.April.09
  • New York
  • Gaffer: Theorizing the Constitutive Body in the Division of Labor
  • Presenter: Erin O'Connor
  • Discussant: Owen Whooley

    • Description to follow.

  • 13.April.09
  • New York
  • 20.April.09
  • New York
  • Strategic Sociability
  • Presenter: Marion Wrenn
  • Discussant: Melissa Aronczyk

    • Description to follow.

  • 27.April.09
  • New York
  • The State of Sex: Cultural Logics of Legal Gender Classifications
  • Presenter: Tey Meadow
  • Discussant: Amy LeClair

    • Description to follow.

  • 30.april.2009
  • London
  • Identity and orientation
  • Presenter: Eyal Lavi (Goldsmiths)
  • Inside the blue fence: An exploration
  • Presenter: Juliet Davis (LSE)
  • 4.May.09
  • New York
  • End of Year Party
  • Chair of Party Planning Committee: Amy LeClair
  • Committee Members: TBD

    • Details to follow.

  • 14.may.2009
  • London
  • Writing an urban story from the walls of a building: The case of the Post and Telecommunications Palace in Buenos Aires
  • Presenter: Cecilia Dinardi (LSE)
  • Performance and performative spaces
  • Presenter: David Gierten
  • 04.june.2009
  • London
  • Ambivalent Modalities
  • Presenter: Emma Jackson
  • Street cosmopolitanisms: Social space, participation, and belonging
  • Presenter: Suzi Hall (LSE)
  • "Kraut Art Craze": A social and economic history of painting in post-1989 Germany
  • Presenter: Hannah Abdullah (LSE)
  • Maps, flags, rumours, and shouts: Familiarising with the protest scene
  • Presenter: Paolo Gerbaudo
  • Actors, networks, and practices of corruption: The case of Romania's accession to European Union funds
  • Presenter: Roxana Bratu (LSE)
  • 18.june.2009
  • London
  • The right time and the right place: Mexico City, 1949
  • Presenter: Adam Kaasa (LSE)
  • A different limited space: Comparing neo-liberalism and social Catholicism
  • Presenter: Fabio Bolzonaro (Cambridge University)
  • 02.july.2009
  • London
  • Constructing greenness, building technologies in their social and cultural embedment
  • Presenter: Torsten Schroeder (LSE)
  • Media walking as Lefebvrian Rhythmanalysis. "Core Sample", a GPS sound walk
  • Presenter: Frauke Behrendt (University of Sussex)