School of Anthropology and Museum Studies (SAME), University of Oxford with The British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, Maison Française d'Oxford, and All Souls College
Saturday 9 - Sunday 10 July
64 Banbury Road - Oxford OX2 6PN
Programme
July 9th 2011
11.00 – 11.30 coffee
Setting the Scene
11.30 – 13.00 Chair: Wendy James Willie Watts Miller (Bristol) 'Durkheim's Re-imagination of "Australia": A Case Study of the Relation between Theory and Ethnography' Karen E. Fields (Vanderbilt) 'Acquiring A Soul: Religious Life and Scientific Discovery'
13.00 – 14.00 lunch
Cognition and Evolution
14.00 – 15.30 Chair: Nick Allen Harvey Whitehouse (Oxford) 'Durkheimian Anthropology and the Cognitive Science of Religion' Emma Cohen (Max Planck, Leipzig) 'Collective Effervescence and Human Cooperation: Modes, Mechanisms, and Measurements'
15.30 – 16.00 tea
16.00 – 17.30 Chair: Sondra Hausner N.J. Allen (Oxford) 'Durkheim's Sacred-Profane Opposition: What Should We Make of it?' Clive Gamble (Royal Holloway) 'Durkheim and the Primitive Mind: An Archaeological Retrospective'
19.30 dinner
July 10th 2011
Psychology
9.30 – 11.00 Chair: David Gellner Sondra Hausner (Oxford) 'Is Individual to Collective as Freud is to Durkheim?' Louise Child (Cardiff) 'Elementary Forms vs Psychology in Contemporary Cinema'
11.00 – 11.30 coffee
Sociology and Anthropology
11.30 – 13.00 Chair: Nick Allen Adam Chau (Cambridge) 'Rites of Convergence, Sociothermic Affect, and Collective Effervescence' Zhe Ji (INALCO, Paris) 'On Civil Religion'
13.00 – 14.00 lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Chair: Wendy James Paul Richards (UCL/Yale) 'African Armed Groups and Social Solidarity'
14.45 – 16.00 Concluding thoughts: Harvey Whitehouse, Clive Gamble, David Gellner, Wendy James, Bill Pickering
