Posts Tagged ‘Sociology’
21 June 2008
The 2008 Henry Myers Lecture of the Royal Anthropological Institute will be given by Bruno Latour on 25 September 2008 at the British Museum in London. The lecture is entitled “Nature and Creation: What good is it for a man to gain his soul, yet forfeit the whole world?” Further details can be found on the RAI website. Here is the abstract:
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Tags:anthropology, climate change, ecology, Henry Myers Lecture, RAI, religion, Royal Anthropological Institute, science, Sociology, spirituality, STS
Posted in Actor-network-theory, Bruno Latour | 1 Comment »
26 March 2008
Audio and video recordings (mostly in French) of the “The Tarde/Durkheim Debate” with Bruno Karsenti as Emile Durkheim, Bruno Latour as Gabriel Tarde, and Simon Schaffer as the Dean are now available from the CRASSH website. The English translation [PDF] is available from Bruno Latour’s website. Photos of the event can be found on the Tarde/Durkheim: Trajectories of the Social conference website.
And here are a couple of videos from YouTube:
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Tags:Bruno Karsenti, CRASSH, Emile Durkheim, Gabriel Tarde, Simon Schaffer, Sociology, University of Cambridge
Posted in Audio recordings, Bruno Latour, Conferences, Social theory | 4 Comments »
8 February 2008
Click here to listen to (1 hour 33 minutes) or download (43.2MB) the recording of Noortje Marres’s talk “Devising Affectedness: Eco-Homes and the Making of Material Publics” delivered at the Information Systems Research Forum at ISIG, LSE on 24 January 2008. The slides and a video recording of the talk are available on the ISRF page.

Tags:climate change, media, Noorte Marres, Sociology, STS
Posted in Actor-network-theory, Audio recordings, ISRF, politics, Science Studies, Social theory | 2 Comments »