ANTHEM

On 6 June 2008 Bruno Latour will be giving a lecture entitled “Can Modernity be Modernized?” at the University of Bologna, on the occasion of receiving the ISA Medal for Science from the Institute of Advanced Studies.

A lot seems to be going on in Canada next week… In addition to the objectivity conference in Toronto there is also the “What is an Organization? Materiality, Agency, and Discourse” ‘preconference’ (to the ICA’s 58th annual conference) on 21-22 May 2008 at the Université de Montréal, in, you guessed it, Montreal.

Keynote Speakers:

• Barbara Czarniawska (U Göteborg, Sweden)
• Bruno Latour (Sciences Po, Paris, France)
• Haridimos Tsoukas (ALBA, Greece, University of Warwick, UK)
• Linda Putnam (U of California, Santa Barbara, USA)

The main conference page with the detailed programme is here. During the conference Bruno Latour will be awarded an Université de Montréal honorary doctorate.

If you happen to be in Canada and near Toronto next weekend, you might be interested in this conference on the nature of objectivity organised at the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto: “Reclaiming the World: The Future of Objectivity,” 23-25 May 2008. The keynote speaker is Bruno Latour. The programme is available here [PDF] and some abstracts and papers can be downloaded from here.

Bruno Latour will give a public lecture at the European Institute at the LSE between 18:30 and 20:00 on Monday 4 February 2008. The lecture is entitled “Another European Tradition: traceability of the social and the vindication of Gabriel Tarde” and is part of the 2008 Franco-British Europe Dialogue series.

Here is a recording (46 minutes) of this week’s discussion. The reading schedule can be viewed here.

A recording of the second ANTHEM session of the current term is available here (2 hours 13 minutes). The reading schedule can be accessed here.

Graham Harman will be giving a talk entitled “On Actors, Networks, and Plasma: Heidegger vs. Latour vs. Heidegger” at ISIG at the LSE at 12:00 on Thursday 29 November 2007.

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The first ANTHEM session of the current term from 16 October 2007 had been recorded and posted on this site. Click here to listen (1 hour 22 minutes). Further details on the current reading schedule are available here.

The ANTHEM reading sessions are currently under way. Please click here to see the current reading schedule. In the Michaelmas term (October to December 2007) we will be reading Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory in five instalments. Recordings of each session will be posted on this site. We invite you to join us in reading this book, listen to the discussion, and post your comments. If you would like to become a standing member of the ANTHEM gathering, you can apply for membership here. We are looking forward to a great discussion on this forum.