3rd Ethnographies of Science & Technology Workshop
第三回「科学技術の民族誌研究会」
Onto-logical Things and Anthropological Matters
Date and Time: February 11, 2012, 14:30~17:00
Venue: Seminar Room, East Building, Mita Campus, Keio University
Access: http://www.keio.ac.jp/access.html
Open to public. Admission Free. No registration is required.
This event will be held in English; no interpretation provided.
For further details contact: Gergely Mohacsi (mohacska@z3.keio.jp)
WORKSHOP ABSTRACT
As part of material cultures or symbolic systems, artifacts are established subjects of anthropological conceptualization. Some have been looking for the footprints of ancient civilizations at archeological sites, while others have been tracing the manifestation of social order through gifts and commodities. The basic concern of most, if not all, of these approaches has been with the ways in which things are used and understood by humans. This workshop starts from a different question, namely, what things do? Such an ontological shift has been the topic of a series of experimental work during the past decade. Bizarre, as it may sound, the promise of such a shift is that it enables us to look beyond the human-centered framework of anthropology. The two presenters will propose two different ways to do so, followed by a discussion including other possibilities.
PROGRAM
14:30 Introductory Remarks
Miyasaka Keizo (Cultural Anthropology, Keio University)
14:45 Ontological Phase-Shifts: The Electronic Patient Record, ca. 1995
Casper B. Jensen (IT University of Copenhagen)
15:30 Where the Wild Things Are: Can we conceive of objects beyond/before relationality?
Fabio Raphael Gygi (Doshisha University, Department of Sociology)
16:15 (Coffee Break)
16:30 General Discussion
Moderator: Mohacsi Gergely (CARLS, Keio University)