ASA Decennial Conference - Anthropology and Science
List of panels
The panels are listed below in alphabetical order of the surname of the convenor or the contact convenor where there is more than one.
Click on the convenor name below to view panel and paper abstracts, and full available contact details of the contact convenor.
Abram: Siting, policies and the use of science/technology as politics by other Means
Bicker, Sillitoe: Beyond science: approaches to local knowledge in development
Bolton/Sykes: Anthropological perspectives on anatomy and dissection
Born: Creativity and innovation in art and science: Alfred Gell and after
Brandtstädter: “Scientific socialism”, rational planning and local knowledge: the postsocialist experience
Campbell: Food, science, and anthropology
Cohn: Seeing and knowing: the use of images in scientific practice
Corsin Jimenez, Janev, Berg: Aw(e)ful and fearful knowledge: ethnographic responses to the industries, machineries and technologies of science
Durand: Anthropology and parascience
Dyck, Armstrong: Sport, science and society: anthropological perspectives
Fairhead, Leach: Science, policy and struggles over African health and environment
Fairweather: Makers of meanings and repositories of knowledge museums in the post-colonial era
Franklin, Nash: Genealogical hybridities
Gledhill: Anthropological knowledge, technologies and the critical analysis of contemporary rural transformations in Latin America
Gooberman-Hill: The science of functioning bodies
Green, Vitellone: Making and abstracting numbers: the culture and politics of counting
Hayden, Barry: Disembedding politics: technoscience and the problem of political representation
Heintz: Cognitive anthropology of science
Henley, Read: Beyond observational cinema – again…
Huby, Hart: Negotiating virtual realities: anthropology in and for the science of health services research
Hughes-Freeland: Technology and performance: production, reproduction and reception
James, Hockey: Technologies of re-membering: constituting life courses, past, present and future
Kaur: Nuclear worlds
Knox, Fumanti, Langer: New methods in the anthropology of science and technologies – postgraduate perspectives
Koerner: 20th century physics, international human rights legislation, and conceptions of human agency
Kwon: Perspectivism from anthropological perspective
Lambert: Anthropology and medical science: notions of evidence
Littlewood: Social anthropology and psychiatry
Macdonald: Exhibition experiments: technologies and cultures of display
Melhuus, Howell: Kinship beyond biology
Mills, Spencer: Making anthropologists: education, training and disciplinary reproduction
Milton, Knight: Science and personhood
Morus, Heatherington: Why are bodies machines?
Navaro-Yashin, Jean-Klein: Politics and truth
Parkin, Hsu: Religion and science
Patel: Science and the cultural politics of reproductive technologies
Saunders: Materializing colour
Simpson, Sexton: Between micro realities and macro ethics: what might an anthropology of contemporary biomedical ethics look like?`
Skinner, Eade: Science, risk and discovery
Wade: Race, ethnicity, biotechnology and science