9:30

Welcome and Introduction: Michael Lambek

9:40-11:00

Chair: Michael Lambek
• Michael Carrithers "From Inchoate Pronouns to Proper Nouns: How Ethnography Specifies a Whole Populace"
• Heonik Kwon "Writing an International History from a Village Ethnography"

11:30-12:50

Chair: Matthew Engelke
• Joshua Barker "An Interview in an Age of Globalization"
• Knut Myhre "The Pitch of Ethnography: Language, Anthropology, and the Importance of Listening"

1:00-2:30

Lunch and ASA Annual General Meeting (sandwiches will be provided for ASA members wishing to attend AGM)

2:45-4:45

Chair: Charles Stafford
• Rita Astuti "Checking our claims: evidence and inference in anthropology" (background reading: Revealing and obscuring Rivers’s pedigrees: Biological inheritance and kinship in Madagascar)
• Nancy Cartwright / Sophia Efstathiou "Evidence-based policy and its ranking schemes: So, where’s ethnography?"
• Lisa Wedeen "Ethnography as Interpretive Enterprise"

5:00
(Hong Kong Theatre)

Firth Lecture
Janice Boddy "Anthropology and the Civilizing Mission in Colonial Sudan: Themes and Variations in the Key of Ethnography" (References)
Chair: John Gledhill
Discussant: Wendy James

6:15

Reception

9:30-10:50

Chair: Jonathan Spencer
• Paloma Gay y Blasco / Huon Wardle “Ethnography in the Human Conversation”
• Karin Barber "The sociality of texts"

11:10-12:30

Chair: Mukulika Banerjee
• Mao Mollona "Ethnographic realism and the 'new spirit of capitalism'. Experience, classification and class analysis"
• Caroline Humphrey "Subjects and Events in Troubled Times"

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-2:50

Chair: Rita Astuti
• Penelope Harvey "Experimental Relations: anthropology and the impure science of engineering"
• Anna Portisch "Learning the craft of ethnography"

3.10-4.30

Chair: Olivia Harris
• Nathaniel Roberts "Ethnographic particularism and the question of relevance, or, Ethnography for, as, and against anthropology"
• Nanneke Redclift "Modest Witness? situated and situating ethnography"

4:30-5:00

Final discussion. Chair: Olivia Harris