Goldsmiths Department of Sociology Annual Lecture: Amade M'Charek Thu 24th Oct 4-6
Goldsmiths Department of Sociology Annual Lecture
Thursday, 24th October, 4pm-6pm
Professor Stuart Hall Building LG 02
Goldsmiths, University of London
Amade M’charek (Professor of Anthropology of Science, University of
Amsterdam)
Race, Face and Forensic Identification
**
The face is evident and intricate. In everyday life the face is
ubiquitous. Yet in social theory the face is rather absent. In my
lecture I want to move beyond the representational model and attend to
the work that a face can /do,/ and to what the face is /capable of/. I
introduce the concept of the /tentacular/ to analyze how the face draws
certain publics together and how it feeds on that public to assume
content and contours. My examples come for the field of forensic
genetics, where DNA-phenotyping is used to produce a ‘composite face’ of
the unknown individual. I will show that this novel technology is not so
much aimed at the /individual suspect/ but at a /suspect population/,
clusters of individuals. I argue that this population is racialized
through the biologization of the phenotype.
This process prompts the question: what is race? To answer this, I
suggest that we need to ‘care’ for race, i.e., to invent methods that
are open-ended and allow us to follow race around and examine how it
shifts and changes in practice. I propose the concept of /generous
methods/ to show that the slipperiness of race is not simply a matter of
‘multiplicity’; race is not only an ‘object multiple’. As a word and a
practice, race is different ontological things altogether. Different
realities: race is an object, a tool, and a theory. Three different yet
connected realities, contributing to its slipperiness as well as its
virulent nature.
--
----------------------------------
Michael Guggenheim
17 Popham Street
N1 8QW London
UK
___
EASST's Eurograd mailing list
Eurograd (at) lists.easst.net
Unsubscribe or edit subscription options: http://lists.easst.net/listinfo.cgi/eurograd-easst.net
Meet us via https://twitter.com/STSeasst
Report abuses of this list to Eurograd-owner@lists.easst.net
EASST-Eurograd
30 recent messages
- 24/04/2024 PhD Position at STS Vienna
- 24/04/2024 CfA: International Conference "Popular Health and Social Media" (University of Siegen, 12-13 September 2024)
- 24/04/2024 [CfP] Digital Transformations and Climate Change
- 24/04/2024 Hau of Finance Online Seminar Series - 'Crisis, Speculation and the Making of a Climate Haven" - Sarah Besky, Cornell University - Tuesday April 30 @15h CEST
- 24/04/2024 Funded PhD in AI and libraries, University College Dublin
- 20/04/2024 CFP: Workshop on Generative AI as a method in social sciences
- 20/04/2024 Webinar Reminder: Alternative Pathways for Patient Access to Advanced Therapies
- 20/04/2024 CfP: 6th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Autonomous Systems (FMAS 2024)
- 20/04/2024 Participatory prototyping biomaterials: 2 year research position (post-doc level)
- 20/04/2024 Call for papers - Minerva Special Issue "Little Science, Big Science, Global Science: The Growth of Science and its Consequences"
- 20/04/2024 Call for Papers: TIME/LESS - Sensing, Planning, Designing in Complex Cities and Regions (AESOP TG Planning & Complexity)
- 20/04/2024 Call for Papers: TIME/LESS - Sensing, Planning, Designing in Complex Cities and Regions (AESOP TG Planning & Complexity)
- 17/04/2024 2nd CFP: 4th Workshop on Agents and Robots for reliable Engineered Autonomy (AREA 2024)
- 17/04/2024 April 26 - Seminar session with Niels Ten Oever - Sanctions, Standards, and Sovereignty
- 15/04/2024 PhD Studentship: Forming Futures
- 15/04/2024 PhD Studentship: Forming Futures
- 15/04/2024 Reminder: TATuP: CfA 34/1 (2025): "Practices and concepts of 'care' in sustainability transformations"
- 15/04/2024 Two PhD vacancies in Social Studies of Scholarly Communication and Peer Review
- 15/04/2024 3-year fully funded PhD position on digital infrastructure breakdown
- 15/04/2024 [Deadline: 23 Apr] International Summer Digital Workshop: Gender and Innovation in Post-Pandemic Ableism: Social, Environmental, and Digital Justice
- 13/04/2024 April 18, 13:15 - Webinar Anna Nikolaeva, "Politics of non-knowing"
- 13/04/2024 CfA: SI environ|mental urbanities
- 13/04/2024 Vernon Press - "Science, Technology and Society for a Post-Truth Age: Comparative Dialogues on Reflexivity"
- 13/04/2024 Conference "Imaginations of Autonomy" Registration Reminder
- 13/04/2024 Athena VU Amsterdam is hiring: Three career track (to tenured) assistant professorships | Transformative Learning | Management of Innovations | System transformation in health and well-being (last one in Dutch)
- 06/04/2024 AUP Liveable Futures Series: call for proposals
- 06/04/2024 Scientific Officer for Sustainable Food Systems and Risk Communication
- 06/04/2024 Bonn History and Philosophy of Physics research seminar in the summer term of 2024
- 06/04/2024 PhD Position - University of Amsterdam on "Contested Epistemologies of Sustainability"
- 06/04/2024 7th STS Italia Summer School | ArTS in Society - Application deadline April 28, 2024