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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:The Winter 2023 Roy A. Rappaport Lectures: \"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale\"
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Anthropology proudly presents\n\nThe Roy A. Rappaport Lectures\nwith Michael Lempert\n\n\"From Small Talk to Microaggression: A History of Scale\"\n\nLecture Series Abstract:\n\nWhat trouble can come from straining to know a thing closely\, \"microscopically\"? These lectures explore the political\, epistemological\, and ontological problems caused by observational scale. Since the mid-twentieth century\, US social scientists studying face-to-face interaction have been by turns fascinated and frustrated by the \"small\" scale of their object and the scrutiny it seemed to demand. They repurposed recording technologies to know social interaction--and often also to control it\, where control meant bottom-up liberal social engineering\, from shoring up democracy to streamlining hiring. Scale became politicized anew in the 70s as scholars of interaction faced questions that vexed social movement activists. How did the \"interpersonal\" relate to the \"institutional\,\" \"micropolitics\" to \"mass\" politics? Similar scalar contestation has roiled many fields and has shaped how disciplines understand their internal differences.\n\nLectures will be held at 3:00 p.m. in the Rackham Assembly Hall\, 4th Floor\, on\n\nJanuary 20\, 2023 | How Scale Broke the World\n\nFebruary 10\, 2023 | Talk Therapy and the Shrinking Science of Conversation\n\nMarch 17\, 2023 | Liberal Technologies of Social Interaction\n\nApril 14\, 2023 | Micropolitics or Tempest in the Transcript?\n\nLectures will also be available via webinar:\nhttps://umich.zoom.us/j/91475190155\n\nMichael Lempert is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. He is an interdisciplinary linguistic anthropologist who writes widely on social interaction. He is the author of Discipline and Debate: The Language of Violence in a Tibetan Bud­dhist Monastery (University of California Press\, 2012\; winner of 2013 Clifford Geertz Prize)\, coau­thor (with Michael Silverstein) of Creatures of Politics: Media\, Message\, and the American Presidency (Indiana University Press\, 2012)\, and co-editor (with E. Summerson Carr) of Scale: Discourse and Dimensions in Social Life (University of California Press\, 2016). He was formerly Assistant Professor of Linguistics at Georgetown University\, visiting professor at l’École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) in Paris\, residential fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS) at Stanford and fellow at the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan. He is currently leading a team-based ethnography of \"liberal listening\,\" funded by The Wenner-Gren Foundation.
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CATEGORIES:AEM Featured,Anthropology
LOCATION:Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) - Assembly Hall
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