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Friday

Saturday

8

Registration

Coffee, Muffins, etc.

8:00-9:00

Coffee, Muffins, etc.

8:20-9:00

9

 

Welcome

B. C. Smith (Toronto)

BA 1170

9:00-9:15

 

Plenary D

A. Cussins (Universidad Nacional, Bogota)

"Freedom and Constraint in the Construction of Objectivity"

Commentary: K. Eldred (Toronto)

 

10

Plenary A

R. Kukla (University of South Florida) and M. Lance (Georgetown)

"Objectivity and Publicity"

Commentary: C. Richardson (Toronto)

BA 1170

9:15-10:30

 

BA 1180

9:00-10:10

 

 

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session B

10:15 – 12:00

 

Coffee 

10:30-10:45

Conc. B1

BA 1160

M. Pettit (York)

 “Deception, Objectivity, and the Character of Experiments in Early Twentieth-Century
Psychology”

Commentary: C. Green (York)

 

E. Tal (Toronto)

“Do Scientific Instruments Have Objective Functions?”

Commentary: J. Luo (Toronto)

B2

BA 1170

B. Mak (Toronto)

“Authenticity and the Premodern Record”

 

K. Biddick (Temple)

Sovereign Cuts / Science Studies: Archive / Abandonment / Exteriorities

Session Commentary: J. Ricco (Toronto)

B3

BA 1180

Klaassen (ICS, Toronto)


“Kantian Pragmatism, Weak Naturalism, and Objectivity: The Persistent Problem of Nature in
Habermas”

Commentary: A. Gibeault (Boston College)

 

Plenary B

J. Rouse (Wesleyan)

“Two Concepts of Objectivity”

Commentary: A. Chakravartty (Toronto)

BA 1170

10:45-12:00

11

 

 

 

 

12

Lunch 

12:00-1:30

Lunch

12 - 1

1

 

Plenary E

K. Barad (Santa Cruz)

"Learning with Land & Sea Critters: Objectivity and the Ontology and Ethics of Knowing"

Commentary: B. C. Smith (Toronto)

BA 1180

1:00-2:15

Plenary C

A. Lowe (Factum Arte)

Remote presentation of two films-- "Peter Greenaway: Leonardo's Last Supper"; and "Big Bang Pop"

Facilitator: B. C. Smith (Toronto)

BA 1160

1:30-2:45

2

 

 

 

 

Concurrent Session A

 2:50-4:30

Plenary F

BA 1180

L. Suchman (Lancaster)

"Subject/Objects"

3

Conc. A1

BA 1170

M. Kenney

(Santa Cruz)

 “’How Rats Transport Eggs’: Wonder and Empiricism in E. W. Gudger’s Unnatural Histories”

Commentary: A. Klein (Toronto)

 

B. Miller (Toronto)

“Objectivity and the Social Epistemology of the Bendectin Trials

A2

BA 1180

R. Manning (USF)

“Objective Norms and Selection History”

Commentary: D. Walsh (Toronto)

 

N. Myers (York)

“Molecular Model-making and the Re-Modeling of Objectivity”

Commentator: E. Hamm (York)

Commentary: A. Viseu (York)

2:15-3:30

Coffee

3:30-3:45

 

4

 Commentary: K. Borgerson (Dalhousie)

 

Plenary G

Artist Symposium:

S. Diamond (OCAD)

Candice Hopkins (Western Front, Vancouver)

Diane Borsato (Guelph)

 "Re-enactments: performing histories in art and research practices"

BA 1160

3:45-5:00

Coffee: 4:30-4:55

5

Keynote Address

B. Latour (Sciences Po Paris)

Commentary: I. Hacking (Toronto)

BA 1160

5:00 (sharp) - 6:30

 

Transport to OCAD 5:00-5:30

 

Welcome

Sara Diamond (OCAD)

5:30-5:45 

 

5:45-?

Tour of Tatau: Samoan Tattooing and Global Culture: Photographs by Mark Adams

Introduction by Charles Reeve 

 

Opening reception for Milgram Reenactment by Rod Dickinson

 

Followed by

Screening of The Battle of Orgreave by Jeremy Deller and Mike Figgis

60 minutes

 

Discussion to follow

6

 

 

Reception

6:30-8:00

8

 

 


 
 
 
 
 
   
     
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