Description and Creativity conference

Approaches to collaboration and value from anthropology, art, science and technology

A conference at King's College, Cambridge

3rd - 5th July 2005

Opening -  Panel 1  -  Panel 2  -  Panel 3  -  Panel 4  -  Closing

Closing panel

Tuesday 5th July, 5.30 pm – 7.30pm

Commentary and reflection led by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Simon Schaffer.

This session will be an opportunity for Simon Schaffer and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro to reflect on what they have heard, and to add their own thoughts. The conference brings together many diverse people and approaches. For this reason, license is given here for our commentators to draw whatever connections they see as interesting and important. This will then be a way for all participants to re-view the emergent themes of the conference. Given the brilliance of these commentators, we can expect a challenging, enlightening, and also highly entertaining finale.

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Bio:
Eduardo Viveiros de Castro teaches anthropology at the Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro. He was Simon Bolívar Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Cambridge (1997-98) and Directeur de Recherche at the CNRS in Paris (1999-2001). His publications include From the Enemy's Point of View: Humanity and Divinity in an Amazonian Society (1992) and A Inconstância da Alma Selvagem (2002). He is currently the director of the "Núcleo de Transformações Indígenas" (NuTI), a project/research group sponsored by the National Research Council of Brazil - www.nuti.scire.coppe.ufrj.br/index.php

Simon Schaffer

Bio:
Simon Schaffer is Professor of History of Science in the University of Cambridge. He coauthored Leviathan and the air pump: Hobbes, Boyle and the experimental life (1985) and has edited work in the history of science, philosophy and systems of thought in the early modern and Victorian periods. he has recently published papers on William Rivers and the relations between anthropology and the sciences.