The thing things (to cite Heidegger) and objects matter. The 2009 CRESC annual conference, Objects – What Matters? Technology, Value and Social Change, will review the object turn in social theory by focusing on the relationship between objects and value. The conference will take place in Manchester between 2-4 September 2009. Read the full call for papers and panel proposals here. According to the socializing finance blog keynote speakers will include Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara), Graham Harman (American University Cairo), Annemarie Mol (University of Twente), and Kathleen Stewart (University of Texas, Austin).
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Tags: Annemarie Mol, Avery Gordon, CRESC, Kathleen Stewart, object turn
2 December 2008 at 1:25 am |
[...] list of speakers have been updated and confirmed on the CRESC website for the Objects – What Matters? Conference in Manchester on 1-4 September 2009. They are: Mario Biagioli (Harvard University); Patricia Clough [...]