Loretta Ieng Tak Lou: Freedom as ethical practices
Sasha Newell: The Crowding of Clutter
Sasha Newell (Université libre de Bruxelles) gave a talk titled ‘The Crowding of Clutter: Possession, Heterochrony, and Congestion in U.S. Domestic Life‘ on Friday the 7th of February.
Pauline von Hellerman: Palm Oil World
Ghassan Hage: The Difficult Temporality of Diasporic Nostalgia
Jeremy Walton: Grave Matters
Jeremy Walton (Max Planck Institut) gave a talk titled “Grave Matters: Sepulchral Reflections on the Poverty of Nostalgia for Imperial Diversities” on Friday the 12th of April.
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Ed Simpson: State Highway 31
Ed Simpson (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) gave a talk on Friday 1. March 2019 titled “State Highway 31: A road trip through the heart of modern India“.
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Bill Maurer: The Racial Capitalism of Blockchain
Bill Maurer (UC Irvine) gave a talk titled “The Racial Capitalism of Blockchain: Alternative Markets for Human-Computer Flourishing or Computational Slavery?”on the 8th of Frebruary 2019.
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Catherine Alexander: Indeterminate classifications
Anni Kajanus: Who will yield?
Cris Shore: “Every attempt to manage academia makes it worse”: Metricised Management, Peformativity and Perverse Incentives
