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[Updated June 18, 2007]

June 20
DOCTORAL STUDENTS AND YOUNG RESEARCHERS

09:30am
Reception of participants and conference opening

10:00am - 12:00am
Session 1 [Chair: Clara Saraiva || Discussant: Pedro Vasconcelos, Clara Saraiva]

Margarida Moz | When Ethnography and Sexuality Clash.

Maria do Mar Pereira | Media Coverage of Ethnographic Work: Opportunities, Problems and Dilemmas.

Vincent  Planel | Veiled (male) ethnographers: Reflexive blind spots and gender segregation in Yemen.

Lunch

02.00pm - 04:00pm
Session 2 [Chair: Manuela Cunha || Discussant: Luís Fernandes]

Juliana Prates Santana | Street Children: daily routine, trajectories of life and cultural expressions.

Catarina Fróis | Knowing Me, Knowing You: Surveillance, Anonymity and Privacy in Ethnographic Studies: a critical account.

Luís Almeida Vasconcelos | A Festa Trance: Lugar, Transformação e Mobilidade.

Coffee Break

04:30pm – 06:30pm
Session 3 [Chair: Antónia Lima || Discussants: Luís Baptista]

Emília Marques | Making materiality into an anthropological topic: The case of work‑and‑consumption practices and narratives.

Miguel Chaves | As relações subjectivas com o trabalho no quadro das novas classes médias: um ponto de partida para a análise etnográfica.

Susana Durão | The path of reception. Responses to an ethnography about the police force.

07:30pm Porto de honra

June 21
CATEGORIES, QUESTIONS, AGENDAS

09:30am
Reception of participants

10:00am
Manuela Cunha, Antónia Lima, Loïc Wacquant | Opening Ethnografeast 3: Ethnography and the Public Sphere.

10:30am - 12:30am
Session 4 [Chair: João Leal || Discussant: Michael Herzfeld]

David Mosse | Notes on the ethnography of expertise and professionals in international development.

Jean-Yves Durand | A reification is a reification is a reification. Ethnographic authority and the certification of crafts.

Susana de Matos Viegas | Ethnography as mediation: Public categories and the anthropological study of a ‘land traditionally occupied by Indians’ (Brazil).

Lunch

02:00pm - 04:00pm
Session 5 [Chair: Sylvie Fainzang | | Discussant: Loïc Wacquant]

Mario Small | Lost In Translation: How Not to Make Qualitative Research More Scientific.

Miguel Vale de Almeida | Webbing Ring. On Fieldwork Blogging, Ethnography, and the Public Sphere.

Michael Herzfeld | The politics of gesture: ethnographic reflections on the embodiment of globalization.

Coffee Break

04:30pm - 06:30pm     
Session 6 [Chair: Antónia Lima | | Discussant: Ramon Sarró]

Antonádia Borges | Mats, blankets, songs and flags: ethnography of the politics of funerals in contemporary South Africa.

Maria Cardeira da Silva | Fragility as attraction, Orientalism as merchandize, anthropology as marketing.

Karin Knorr-Cetina | Frontrunning ethnography.

June 22
FIELD MEETS PUBLIC SPHERE

10:00am - 12:30am
Session 7 [Chair: José Virgílio Pereira || Discussant: Susana Narotzky]

Marcelo Rosa | Landless experiences: youth and social movements in Brazil and South Africa.

Erik Bahre | The janus head of insurances in South Africa: Networks of inclusion and bureaucracies of exclusion.

Vincent Dubois | Le dévoilement ethnographique des transformations structurelles de l’Etat social. À propos du traitement bureaucratique des « mauvais pauvres »

Antónia Lima | Ethnography as an asset: elites' uses of ethnographic work.

Lunch

02:00pm - 04:00pm
Session 8 [Chair: José Virgílio Pereira || Discussant: Javier Auyero]

Isabelle Coutant | Le sociologue, le délinquant et la sphère publique. Enquête ethnographique en banlieue parisienne au début des années 2000.

Megan Comfort | Clemmer and Sykes in the “Tube” at San Quentin: The Secondary Prisonization of Women Visiting Inmates.

Philippe Bourgois | Neoliberal Lumpen Abuse in the 2000s: A 25 Year Ethnographic Retrospective on Violence.

Coffee break

04:30pm - 06:30pm
Session 9 [Chair: Manuela Ivone Cunha| | Discussant: Cristiana Bastos]

Rayna Rapp | Making the Invisible Visible: an anthropological perspective on learning disabilities.

Chiara Pussetti | Ethnographies of new clinical encounters: Immigrant’s emotional struggles and transcultural psychiatry in Portugal.

Sylvie Fainzang | Between ethnology and the public sphere: a pas de deux.

08:00pm Conference dinner

June 23
THE CIRCULATION OF ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE

10:00am - 12:30am
Session 10 [Chair: Manuela Ivone Cunha || Discussant: Cristiana Bastos]

Javier Auyero & Debora Swistun | The Social Production of Toxic Uncertainty.

Joseph Masco | The Nuclear Public Sphere.

Carolyn Rouse | Stakeholders vs. Interlocutors: Translating Ethnographic Research into Public Policy Speak.

Loïc Wacquant | Social and Professional Obstacles to the Circulation of  Ethnography

Coffee break

01:00pm - 01:30pm
Loïc Wacquant, Manuela Cunha, Antónia Lima | Concluding remarks (retrospect and general discussion)

Organizers:
    
Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (ISCTE, Portugal) / Journal Ethnography / University of California-Berkeley

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