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Department of Anthropology
The Johns Hopkins University
404 Macaulay Hall
3400 North Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Phone 410-516-7272
Fax 410-516-6080

SCHEDULE:

NUMBER AS INVENTIVE FRONTIER
May 3, 4, 5, 6
Sherwood Room, Levering
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

3^rd May, Saturday

4.30   Film Screening, Ghosts and Numbers directed by Alan Klima,
Followed by Q&A with director
Reception and Dinner to follow

4^th May, Sunday

9.45-10.00 Morning Tea, Sherwood Room
10.00-10.15 Opening Remarks: Jane I. Guyer:  Sensations of the Number Frontier

10.15-11.45 Panel 1: Parameters and Open Questions

Keith Hart: Models of Statistical Distribution between National and World Society
Souleymane Bachir Diagne: 0 and 1 in Boole’s Algebra of Logic
Discussant: Catherine Eagleton

11.45-1.15 Lunch Break

1,15-3.15 Panel 2:  Number Narratives of Creation

Caroline McLoughlin: Playing with Numbers
Diane Nelson: Who Counts? Reckoning the After/Math of war in Guatemala
Charles Stafford: What is Going to Happen Next?
Discussant: Alan Klima           

3.15-3.30 Afternoon Tea

3,30-5.30 Panel 3: Cosmological Amplifications

Julie Chu:  Efficacious Sums and Cosmic Debt: Accounting for Ritual Expenditures in Fuzgou, China.
Naveeda Khan: Nineteen: A Story
Jane I. Guyer: The Eruption of Tradition? On Ordinality and Calculation
Discussant: Souleyman Bachir Diagne

5^th May, Monday

8.45-9.00 Morning Tea

9.00-10.45 Panel 4: Parasites and Patchworks: What Travels?

Vincent-Antonin Lepinay Parasite Formulae: The Case of Capital Guarantee Products
Paul Kockelman: Maps, Terrains and Travelers: Value as an Orienting Principle in a
Space of Relations and Representations.
Discussant: Bill Maurer

10.45-11.00 Tea Break

11.00-1.00 Panel 5:  Calculation’s Effects and Affects.

Federico Neiburg: Sick Currencies, Public Numbers and the Anthropology of Money
Caitlin Zaloom: The Life Science of Calculation: Neuroeconomics and the Problem of
Intertemporal Choice
Caroline Bledsoe:  Dialogues of the Numbers:  Mystery and Debate among the Numbers
in the Spanish Municipal Register
Discussant: Keith Hart

1.00-2.30 Lunch Break

2.30-4.30 Panel 6:  Numbering Otherwise

Bill Maurer: Finger Counting Money
Helen Verran: Numbering Australia's Water Resources: Generalising, (Non)equivalence,
Accounting, and Calculating
Jean Lave: Math Lessons from Liberia
Discussant: TBA

4.30-4.45 Afternoon Tea

4.45-5.15 Agenda Items for Plenary Session

6^th May, Tuesday

8.45-9.00 Morning Tea

9.00-11.00 Final Plenary

Sidney Mintz: Response
Ranen Das: Response
Naveeda Khan: Summary Thoughts and Agenda Items
Jane Guyer: Summary Thoughts and Agenda Items

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