Places of Knowledge: Relocating Science, Technology, and Medicine

October 3-5, 2008
Cornell University
Ithaca, New York

Place: Clark Hall, 7th floor

Workshop Schedule

Friday, October 3

1:30 - 2:00pm Opening Remarks: Trevor Pinch (Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University) & Suman Seth (Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University)

2:00 - 4:00pm Mobility, Contingency, and Locality

Chair & Discussant: Stacey Langwick (Department of Anthropology, Cornell University)

Helen Tilley (Department of History, Princeton University), "African Colonialism and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge: the British Empire, Expertise, and Unintended Consequences, 1890-1960"

Mary S. Morgan (London School of Economics & University of Amsterdam), "'On a Mission' and Mutable Mobiles"

Johanna Crane (Department of Science & Technology, Cornell University), "How Science Travels: Knowledge, Difference, & Inequality in Transnational AIDS Research"

4:00 - 4:45pm Break

4:45 - 5:45pm Plenary Session: Richard Rottenburg (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, & Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany), "Extending the Lab to the South. Postcolonial Entanglements of Science and Politics"

6:00 - 7:30pm Reception: AD White House (dinner in separate groups by your own arrangement)

Saturday, October 4

9:00 - 9:30 am Coffee and Continental Breakfast

9:30 - 11:30am Crafting Knowledge and the Place of Practice

Chair & Discussant-Adelheid Voskuhl (Department of History of Science, Harvard University)

Götz Hoeppe (Department of History and Sociology, University of Constance, Germany), "Misconceiving the Indian Oil Sardine: Kerala Fisherfolk and Science, ca.1900 2002"

Matthew Crawford (Department of History/Science Studies Program, University of California, San Diego), "From Forest to Pharmacy and Back Again: Traveling Tree Bark and the Failed Circulation of Knowledge in the Spanish Atlantic World (1751-1773)"

Simon Werrett (Department of History, University of Washington), "Locations of Art: Fireworks, Orientalism, and the Invention of the Congreve Rocket"

11:30 - 11:45am Break

11:45 - 1:00pm Technology, Technopolitics, and Locality

Chair & Discussant: Sara Pritchard (Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University)

Tim Mitchell (Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University), "The Resources of Economics: Making the 1973 Oil Crisis"

Niklas Hultin (Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Swarthmore College), "Postcolonial Dis-/connections: Toward a Social History of Information and Communications Technology in the Gambia"

1:00 - 2:00pm Lunch

2:00 - 3:15pm Local and Global Medicines

Chair & Discussant: TJ Hinrichs (Department of History, Cornell University)

Judith Farquhar (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago), "Person, Object, Archive: Locations and Translations of Knowledge in Chinese Medicine"

Julie Laplante (University of Ottawa & Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany), "Shades of Knowledge: Making Global Medicines"

3:15 - 3:30pm Break

3:30 - 5:30pm Landscapes and the Place of Knowledge

Chair & Discussant: Raymond Craib (Department of History, Cornell University)

Elana Shever (Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University), "Toward a Genealogy of the Grounds of Knowledge in Argentine Patagonia"

Megan Tracy (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, James Madison University), "Pasteurizing China's Grasslands and Sealing in Terroir"

Judith Carney (Department of Geography, UCLA), "Landscapes of Technology Transfer: African Rice and Plantation Food Fields"

7:00pm Dinner: Pangea (by invitation only)

Sunday, October 5

8:30 - 9:00am Coffee and Continental Breakfast

9:00 - 10:15am Partnership and Exchange

Chair & Discussant: Stephen Hilgartner (Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University)

Alette Fleischer (Department of History of Science & Technology, University of Twente, The Netherlands), "Trading Places: (Ex)Changing Nature And Knowledge in the Company's Garden at the Cape of Good Hope"

René Gerrets (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany), "Forging Partnerships in Tanzanian Malaria Control: The Cultural Politics of Data Production"

10:15am - 10:30am Break

10:30am - 11:45am The Local and the Quotidian

Chair & Discussant: Peter Dear (Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University)

Carla Nappi (Department of History & Philosophy, Montana State University), "Making Logic Local: Recipes for a Comparative History of Reason"

Fa-Ti Fan (Department of History, SUNY Binghamton), "Places, Everyday Epistemology, and Earthquake Prediction in Communist China"

11:45am - 12:15pm Closing Remarks: Otto Sibum (Department of History of Science, Uppsala University)

12:15pm Lunch (depart as needed)

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