MIT Department of Anthropology

 Thinking After Latour: A Harvard + MIT Symposium

MIT Anthropology

 Thinking After Latour: A Harvard + MIT Symposium

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Sept 22 9:30AM - 5:00PM + Sept 23 9:30AM-5:00PM Sept 22: Harvard BARKER CENTER, 12 Quincy St.
Sept 23: MIT, MEDIA LAB, 75 Amherst St.

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Sep 22

Contexts and Fields

On September 22, 2023 at 9:30 am

Environment: Lab & Beyond Lab

On September 22, 2023 at 2:00 pm

Sep 23

Gaia Without Purity

On September 23, 2023 at 9:00 am

Methods: Natural Science–Social Science–Arts

On September 23, 2023 at 2:00 pm
 

Session 1 (Friday Morning, Harvard): Contexts and Fields

“We have always been Modern! But you haven’t.” Projit Mukharji, Antoine Picon 

“A Serious Man”, Steven Shapin, Isabelle Stengers 

Session 2 (Friday Afternoon, Harvard): Environment: Lab & Beyond Lab

“What’s in it for the Algae?” Leah Aronowsky

“Staging Sensitivity: Latour and the Strategies of Global Climate Science” Deborah Coen, Hélène Mialet

“Thinking with Hybrids: Pathogens, Disease, History, Coloniality” Amit Prasad

Session 3 (Saturday Morning, MIT) : Gaia without Purity Frédérique Aït-Touati, Paul Edwards, Naomi Oreskes, Anna Tsing  

Session 4 (Saturday Afternoon, MIT): Methods: Natural Science–Social Science–Arts Stefan Helmreich

“Crunchy Concepts, Slippery Angels; Thinking with Art after Latour” Caroline Jones, Joseph Koerner, Michèle Lamont