Ordinary Extraordinary: The Anthropology of Risk, Limits and Exposure 6-7 November 2014 Department of Anthropology University College London 14 Taviton Street, London, WC1H 0BW Workshop Programme Thursday 6th November 2014 8:30 – 9:00 Coffee/Tea 9:00 - 9:15 Welcome: Welcome from the organisers 9:15 – 10:05 Keynote 1: Stephen Lyng (Carthage College) The New Subjectivity of Risk 10:10 – 12:05 COMMUNITIES EXPOSED AND PRECARIOUS Marie Kolling (University of Copenhagen) From slum to social housing: New homes, new problems and uncertainties in Recife, Northeast Brazil Julie Shackleford (UCL) Changing trajectories: Reflections on homes, homeland, and heritage in crisis Syria Giovanni Gugg (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) Ordinary life in the shadow of Vesuvius: Surviving the announced catastrophe Hannah Swee (UCL) Keeping disasters under control: Anticipating and predicting cyclones in the Australian Tropics Discussant: Helene Joffe (UCL) 12:05 – 13:00 Lunch 13:05 – 14:35 Cathryn Townsend (UCL) Sliding into inequality: Crisis and resilience among Baka hunter-gatherers David Jeevendrampillai (UCL) Being local: It’s what Lefi would have wanted (IWLWHW). Carol Balthazar (UCL) The market tsunami: Cultural and natural challenges in an economically deprived English seaside town Discussant: Karen Henwood (Cardiff University) 14:35 – 15:00 Coffee Break 15:05 – 16:35 RISK MANAGEMENT: COMMUNITY, INSTITUTIONS AND INDIVIDUALS Mei L. Trueba (University of Leeds) ‘Looking at risk with two eyes’ Plural and shifting rationalities of risk and risk management amongst Bolivian cooperative miners Iben Karlsen (University of Copenhagen) Between standardization and expertise: Risk and accident prevention in a Danish wind turbine production factory Alessandro Blasimme (INSERM) Play at your own risk: new biomedicine and the socio-technical transformation of experimental risk Discussant: Åsa Boholm (University of Gothenburg) Dinner 18:00 Friday 7th November 2014 8:30 - 9:00 Coffee/Tea 9:00 – 9:50 Keynote 2: Åsa Boholm (University of Gothenburg) Risk and Anthropology 9:55 – 11:50 PRIVATE EXPOSURE: BODY, GENDER AND SEXUALITY Jonathan Skinner (University of Roehampton) “At the risk of embarrassment”: Convention, revolution and imagination on the exposed dance floor Matthew Leyshon-McGuire (University of Cambridge) The politics and risks of visibility: The 'coming out' of sexual minorities in South Korea Janine Su (UCL) Connecting mobility and manhood in a Turkish urban centre Victoria Robinson (University of Sheffield) Re-conceptualising sporting masculinities, the everyday and risk Discussant: Sophie Day (Goldsmiths, University of London) 11:50-12:45 Lunch 12:50-14:20 VOLUNTARY RISK TAKING AND EDGEWORK Ellen Potts (UCL) Sailing into the storm: Negotiating the vicissitudes of life in the UK climate justice movement Gülin Kayhan (Waseda University) Deep Play in Whale Wars: Commodified Edgework at the End of the Social Dimitra Kofti (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology) The ‘ungrateful’ steel work: Risk, danger and uncertainty in a Bulgarian industrial town Discussant: Allen Abramson (UCL) 14:20 – 15:50 Matthew Bunn (University of Newcastle, Australia) Echoing Improvisation: balancing risk and intensity in the practice of alpine climbing Jason Pine (State University of New York) Methlabs and the work of the securitized risk-taker Philipp Schröder (Humboldt University of Berlin) ‘No risk, no champagne’ – skills, success and the ‘culture of decision-taking’ among post-Soviet businessmen from Kyrgyzstan Discussant: Stephen Lyng (Carthage College) 15:50 – 16:15 Coffee Break 16:20 – 17:10 Guest speaker: Lord Giddens Living in the high opportunity, high risk society 17:10-18:00 Discussion and closing remarks