Conference Schedule

November 3(Fri)

9:50am: Paola Marrati (JHU) Opening | Chair
10:00am: Veena Das (JHU)
Paper: TBA
10:45am: Eleanor Kaufman (UCLA)
Paper: The Inhuman, the Inanimate, and the Incorporeal
11:30am: Catherine Mills (U New South Wales) Respondent
12:00pm: Discussion

2:30pm: Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT) | Gabrielle Spiegel (JHU) Chair
Paper: What's wrong with the question, 'What is Life?'
3:15pm: Mabel Wong (JHU) Respondent
3:30pm: Henri Atlan (EHESS, Hadassah)
Paper: Living and knowing as self organizing processes
4:15pm: Stefanos Geroulanos (JHU) Respondent
4:30pm: Coffee
4:45pm: Paul Rabinow (UC Berkeley)
Paper: Tomorrow's Vital Difference
5:30pm: Sylvain Perdigon (JHU) Respondent
5:45pm: Discussion

9:50am: Todd Meyers (JHU) Opening | Pamela Reynolds (JHU) Chair
10:00am: Margaret Lock (McGill U)
Paper: Genomic Probabilities and Vital Politics
10:45am: Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard U)
Paper: The Dismemberment of the Body in a Cynical Vision of Life
11:30am: Richard Baxstrom (JHU) Respondent
12:00pm: Discussion

2:30pm: Ruth Leys (JHU) | Jane Bennett (JHU) Chair
Paper: Life, Emotions, Error
3:15pm: Emily Martin (NYU)
Paper: The Pharmaceutical Person
4:00pm: Mary Fissell (JHU) Respondent
4:30pm: Coffee
4:45pm: Discussion
5:45pm: Jane Bennett (JHU) Closing Remarks