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  • 13.september.2008
  • Spring 2009 Seminar Papers
  • 02.February.09
  • 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.

  • 16.February.09
  • New York
  • President's Day: No NYLON
  • 23.February.09
  • 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.

  • 02.March.09
  • 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.

  • 4.May.09
  • New York
  • End of Year Party
  • Chair of Party Planning Committee: Amy LeClair
  • Committee Members: TBD

    • Details to follow.