Bill Maurer, University of California, Irvine, "Money Immaterial: The Cashless Past, A Cashless Future, and The Public Good."
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Location: Annenberg Auditorium
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Wed Mar 7, 2018
Mon Mar 19, 2018
Practicing Anthropology in the 'Real World'
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Location: W210 Meeting Room, Duncan Student Center
On Monday, March 19th the Department of Anthropology is sponsoring a panel formed by three practicing and professional anthropologists. The event will be held from 2:00-3:30pm in W210 Meeting Room in the Duncan Student Center on March 19th, 2018. If you have any interest or any daunting questions that you want and need answered before you get your degree in anthropology, please come!
Thu Mar 22, 2018
The Half-Life of Bureaucratic Objectivity
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Location: 1030 Jenkins Nanovic Hall
"The Half-Life of Bureaucratic Objectivity"
Professor Anna Weichselbraun, Stanford University
Nuclear safeguards inspectors at the International Atomic Energy Agency verify state compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. The authority of their verification practices is constantly at risk of being undermined by the technopolitics of nuclear things. Inspectors rely on bureaucratic objectivity to keep the political distinct from the technical, a widespread concern for technocratic governance in the international liberal order. When special inspections reveal Iraq’s secret nuclear weapons program in the 1990s, the IAEA’s established practices are called into question. In the aftermath of this event, bureaucrats at the IAEA attempt to maintain the authority of bureaucratic reason while attempting to make the inspections regime more robust. The way that inspectors respond to changes in safeguards methodology, reveals the tenacious grip that bureaucratic objectivity has on the ways that knowledge is produced at the IAEA.…