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SCHEDULE
09:30
Coffee and Breakfast
10:30
1:30
4:00
3:30
Coffee and Breakfast
9:45
10:30
1:30
CONSPIRACY/THEORY considers the intersection of conspiracy and theory, focusing on the imbrication of complex systems across politics, economics, militarism, and technology in the present. Exploring the conditions for knowing in a world where there is often too much information but not of the right kind to judge evidence, ascertain the nature of truth claims, or resolve issues of agency and intent, one goal is to examine how and when intuition, experience, and judgement become marked as either conspiratorial or theoretical. Understanding the elective affinities between conspiracy and theory while appreciating the seductions of each, this project engages the theoretical in conspiracy and the conspiratorial in critical theory, grappling as well with the ways in which suspicion, opacity, networks, uncertainty, and mass mediation function today.
This event is free and open to the public. Registration is not necessary. Please email cacarandang@uchicago.edu with any questions or concerns.
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PRESENTERS
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ABOUT
Nadia Abu el-Haj (Anthropology, Columbia University)
Hussein Agrama (Anthropology, UChicago)
Kathleen Belew (History, UChicago)
Lisa Davis (Anthropology, Princeton University)
Robin Derby (History, University of California-Los Angeles)
Joe Dumit (Science Studies and Anthropology, University of California-Davis)
Faith Hillis (History, UChicago)
Darryl Li (Anthropology, UChicago)
Louisa Lombard (Anthropology, Yale University)
Joseph Masco (Anthropology, UChicago)
Bob Meister (History of Conscious, University of California-Santa Cruz)
Timothy Melley (English and American Studies, Miami University)
Rosalind Morris (Anthropology, Columbia University)