"FIFTH ANNUAL MARY DOUGLAS SEMINAR: RISK, REGULATION AND BIAS
New developments in the study of institutional and organisational shaping of how dangers are understood and dealt with
Friday 6th June 2014
UCL Department of Anthropology
The Marchmont Room, 19-26 Cartwright Gardens, London WC1H 9EF
Programme
9.00-9.30. Coffee, tea
9.30-9.45. Welcome, introductions
News and information exchange. We shall make a table available this year on which colleagues can display
sample copies of recently published books which make use of theory derived from Mary Douglas’ work,
and on which publishers’ flyers for such books can be made available.
Chair: Perri 6, Professor in Public Management, School of Business and Management, Queen Mary, University of London
9.45-10.30. Brendon Swedlow, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University; Research Associate, Centre
for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science
Three cultural boundaries of science, institutions, and policy: a theory of coproduction
10.30-10.40. Discussant: Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilisation, University of Oxford, co-
Director of the Oxford Geoengineering Programme and Principal Investigator of the Climate Geoengineering Governance
project
10.40-11.00. break: coffee, tea, fruit juice, water
11.00-11.15. Q and A
11.15-12.00. Chair: Albert Baumgarten, Professor Emeritus of Jewish History, Department of Jewish History, Bar-Ilan
University
Nick Papadopoulos, Researcher, Brunel Business School, Brunel University London
Diagnosing unintentional pathways into isolate ordering
12.00-12.15. Discussant: tbc
12.15-13.00. Q and A
13.00 Lunch break: [Lunch is not provided, but there are plenty of cafes, sandwich bars and other
catering establishments very nearby].
14.00-14.45. Martin Lodge, Professor of political science and public policy, Department of Government, London School of
Economics and Political Science
Researching cultural theory and regulatory policy
14.45-15.00. Discussant: Brendon Swedlow, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University; Research
Associate, Centre for the Analysis of Risk and Regulation, London School of Economics and Political Science
15.00-15.30. Q and A
15.30-15.45. break: coffee, tea, fruit juice, water
15.45-16.15. Clare Heyward, James Martin Fellow on the Oxford Geoengineering Programme and an Associate Fellow of
Climate Geoengineering Governance project, and also University of Warwick
and
Steve Rayner, James Martin Professor of Science and Civilisation, University of Oxford, co-Director of the Oxford
Geoengineering Programme and Principal Investigator of the Climate Geoengineering Governance project
Apocalypse nicked!
16.15-16.30. Discussant: tbc
16.30-17.00. Q and A
17.00 Close of formal proceedings
... Opportunity for informal conversations ...
To reserve a place, please e-mail Catherine Darlington [catherine.darlington@brunel.ac.uk]. To cover
refreshments on arrival, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, a charge of £10.00 is payable. For those with
UK bank accounts, payment is requested in advance by cheque in sterling, made out to ‘The Mary
Douglas Seminar’. The cheque should be sent by post to Catherine Darlington, 261 Tolcarne Drive,
Pinner, Middlesex, HA5 2DW, United Kingdom, with a covering note. Those attending from outside
the UK may pay in cash on the day of the seminar, because we are unable to accept cheques in other
currencies."
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