UPCOMING PUBLIC SEMINAR: "Building Infrastructures. Monitoring Development" by Casper Bruun Jensen [24 January 2017]

9.00-12.00, Alumni Meeting Room, Floor 12, Building 3, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University

Organized by Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS), Chulalongkorn University

Casper Bruun Jensen is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Osaka University. He is a Science, Technology and Society (STS) scholar. His theoretical and ethnographic works cover a wide range of issues such as Practical Ontology, Symmetrical Anthropology/Amodernism, Lateral Analysis, Multinaturalism/Environment, Development and Infrastructure.

His recent publications include:

Infrastructures and Social Complexity – A Companion, edited by Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita. Routledge, 2016.

Monitoring Movements in Development Aid: Recursive Partnerships and Aid Infrastructures, co-written with Brit Ross Winthereik. MIT Press, 2012.

Ontologies for Developing Things: Making Health Care Futures Through Technology. Sense Publishers, 2012.

The lecture is funded and organized by Center for Social Development Studies, Chulalongkorn University (CSDS Chula).

Please join us on the date. And if you are interested to familiarize yourself prior to the talk, please consult the articles below:

Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen & Atsuro Morita. 2016. "Introduction: Infrastructural Complications" in Infrastructures and Social Complexity – A Companion, edited by Penny Harvey, Casper Bruun Jensen and Atsuro Morita. Routledge, 2016.

Casper Bruun Jensen. 2016. "Pipe Dreams: Sewage Infrastructure and Activity Trails in Phnom Penh" Ethnos, DOI: 10.1080/00141844.2015.1107608