OIKOS Conference | Kinship Economy

The OIKOS working group at NYU’s Institute for Public Knowledge invites you to a conference on Kinship Economy, April 27-28, 2018.

Friday, April 27
9:30AM – 10:00AM | Coffee and welcome

10:00AM | Introductory Remarks
      Caitlin Zaloom, Social and Cultural Analysis (SCA), NYU

10:30AM – 12:00PM | Panel 1: Architectures for Surplus
      Nick D’Avella, Hemispheric Institute, NYU
      Maria Jose De Abreu, Anthropology, Columbia
      Jing Wang, Communication, Rutgers

12:00PM – 1:00PM | Lunch

1:00PM – 3:00PM | Panel 2: Circuit Breakers in Overload
      Ebony Coletu, English and African American Studies, Penn State
      Shari Wolk, Media, Culture, and Communication (MCC), NYU
      Gustav Peebles, Anthropology, The New School
      Lily Chumley, MCC, NYU

3:00PM – 3:30PM | Coffee Break

3:30PM – 5:00PM | Keynote – Sylvia Yanagisako 
Edward Clark Crossett Professor of Humanistic Studies,
Chair, Anthropology, Stanford

5:00PM | Reception

Saturday, April 28
9:30AM | Coffee and welcome

10:00AM – 12:00PM | Panel 3: Moral Economies through Body Politics
      Hannah Dick, MCC, NYU
      Reece Peck, Communication, CSI, CUNY
      Isra Ali, MCC, NYU
      Bethany Moreton, History, Dartmouth

12:00PM – 1:00PM | Lunch

1:00PM – 3:00PM | Panel 4: Topologies of Obligation
      Sarah Muir, Anthropology, City College of New York
      Toni Castro-Cosío, Research Associate, MDRC
      Michael Ralph, SCA, NYU
      Marc Michael, Hagop Kevorkian Center, NYU

3:00PM – 3:30PM | Coffee Break

3:30PM – 5:00PM | Panel 5: Networks as Accumulation
     Alex Campolo, MCC, NYU
     Erica Robles-Anderson, MCC, NYU
     Angela Zito, Anthropology and Religious Studies, NYU

5:00PM – 5:15PM | Break

5:15PM – 6:15PM | Wrap-up, reception to follow