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Bruno Latour visits Columbia University

New York

A Public Lecture, Gaia Global Circus, and Graduate and Faculty Workshops

Monday, September 22, 2014 to Thursday, September 25, 2014

Alliance is pleased to announce that Anthroplogist and sociologist Bruno Latour will visit Columbia University September 22-25. During his visit, he will give a public lecture (with Q&A by Nicholas Lemann of the Columbia School of Journalism), participate in both student and faculty seminars, and oversee three performances of his play "Gaia Global Circus" at The Kitchen in Chelsea. The play will be in French with English subtitles and include an open debate in English with the audience after each performance. Latour’s visit is presented in co-sponsorship with the Brown Institute for Media Innovation, The Center for Science and Society, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences and the Maison Francaise. To learn more please visit the website.

September 22-25

- Public Lecture with Q&A by Prof. Nicholas Lemann, Monday, September 22nd at 5:30PM, Furnald Lawn


- Tuesday, September 23, 12-3PM, Graduate Student Workshop, Brown Institute for Media Innovation, Pulitzer Hall


- Tuesday, September 23, 8PM, Latour's Play, Gaia Global Circus, for Columbia students & faculty at The Kitchen


- Wednesday and Thursday, September 24, 25, 8PM, Public Performances of Gaia Global Circus at The Kitchen


Speaker(s):

Bruno Latour

Professor and Vice-President for Research at Sciences Po Paris

Bruno Latour, born in 1947 in Beaune, Burgundy, from a wine grower family, was trained first as a philosopher and then an anthropologist. From 1982 to 2006, he has been professor at the Centre de sociologie de l'Innovation at the Ecole nationale supérieure des mines in Paris and, for various periods, visiting professor at UCSD, at the London School of Economics and in the history of science department of Harvard University.

He is now professor at Sciences Po Paris, after five years 2007-2012 as the vice-president for research. As of October 2013, he is part-time Centennial professor, at the LSE, London.

After field studies in Africa and California he specialized in the analysis of scientists and engineers at work. In addition to work in philosophy, history, sociology and anthropology of science, he has collaborated into many studies in science policy and research management. He has written Laboratory Life (Princeton University Press), Science in Action, and The Pasteurization of France. He also published a field study on an automatic subway system Aramis or the love of technology and an essay on symmetric anthropology We have never been modern. He has also gathered a series of essays, Pandora's Hope:Essays in the Reality of Science Studies to explore the consequences of the " science wars". After having directed several thesis on various environmental crisis, he published a book on the political philosophy of the environment Politics of Nature (all of those books are with Harvard University Press and have been translated in many languages).

In a series of books, he has been exploring the consequences of science studies on different traditional topics of the social sciences: religion in On the Modern Cult of the Factish Gods, and Jubiler ou les tourments de la parole religieuse, and social theory in Paris ville invisible, a photographic essay on the technical & social aspects of the city of Paris (available on the web in English Paris Invisible City). After a long field work on one of the French supreme Courts, he has recently published a monograph la Fabrique du droit-une ethnographie du Conseil d'Etat (also now in English). A new presentation of the social theory which he has developped with his colleagues in Paris is available at Oxford University Press, under the title: Reassembling the Social, an Introduction to Actor Network Theory.

After having curated a major international exhibition in Karlsruhe at the ZKM center, Iconoclash beyond the image wars in science, religion and art, he has curated another one also with Peter Weibel Making Things Public The atmospheres of democracy which has closed in October 2005 (both catalogues are with MIT Press).

While in Sciences Po, he has created the médialab to seize the chance offered to social theory by the spread of digital methods and has created, together with Valrie Pihet a new experimental program in art and politics (SPEAP).

Having been awarded and ERC grant to pursue an inquiry into modes of existence, he is now for three year engaged into the making of this collaborative digital platform.
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P.s: Est-ce que Bruno Latour est lié à un autre Latour des vignes? Il se trouve que qu'âne l'a rencontré, un jour, il y a longtemps, à Saint-Tropez. Dasn les années 80. C'est pour ça.