Apr 29th 2011
The Lives of Things
@ Franke Institute for the Humanities
1100 E 57th St, Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Friday, April 29th, at 4:30PM
On view through Saturday, April 30th
25 years after the publication of Arjun Appadurai’s The Social Life of Things (SLOT) this conference seeks to assess the enormous role the volume has played in catalyzing and shaping scholarly interest in things. In both a retrospective and forward-looking spirit, we will explore the ways in which topics such as the circulation of objects, the construction of object “agency,†the transformation of value, and the commodity form have been adopted and adapted from SLOT by a wide variety of scholars. Speakers have been invited to trace a broad and interdisciplinary trajectory from Appadurai’s landmark essay to their own contemporary work on the lives of things.
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