Rhetoric and Remains of the Field: Intentionality and Materiality in the Struggle for Reality

2nd Meeting of the DFG research network Global Cultures of Enquête: Towards a praxeology of surveying (17th to 21st Century)

Thursday, Dec 5

14:00 – 14:15 Welcome & Introduction
14:15 – 15:00 Léa Delmaire (Paris)
Surveying, Categorizing and Prescribing in the Age of Antibiotics: TB Visiting Nurses and Enquêtes Practices in Turkey (1940s-1960s)
15:00 – 15:45 Frederico Ágoas (Lisbon)
Failed Ethnographies, Bureaucratic Expertise, and a Sociological Survey: From the Classification of ‘Pure Groups’ to the Study of ‘Societies as They Are Now’ in Guinea under Portuguese Colonialism (1918-1948)
Chair: Martin Herrnstadt (Bremen)

15:45 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:45 Tal Arbel (Philadelphia)
The materiality of World Surveying: Internationalization of Scientific Polling in the first half of the 20th century
16:45 – 17:30 Julien Vincent (Paris)
New intentions and old routines? Reframing the cadastral survey of France in the context of the end of the Republic and the beginning of Empire (1802-1807)
Chair: Léa Renard (Heidelberg)

18:00 – 19:30 Keynote Lecture: Christine von Oertzen (Berlin)
The Social Construction of Statistical Facts: Hunting and Taming Census Data in 19th Century Prussia

20:00 Dinner

Friday, Dec 6

09:30 – 10:30 Bremen post-colonial: Guided city tour (tbc)

11:00 – 12:30 Network meeting
Organization of next meetings and discussion about publication strategy

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 15:30 Work-in-progress: Informational Citizenship: Toward a Global Ethnography of Practices and Infrastructures of Datafication in the Global South (ERC InfoCitizen, University of Antwerp)
Moisés Kopper: Building an Ethnographic Theory of Practices and Infrastructures of Datafication: An Ethnography of Numbers in the Making
Eugênia Motta: From Abnormality to Community: Challenging Official Representations of the Favela in the Brazilian Population Census
Daniela L. de Andrade: Prospects for Population Censuses in Portugal: Exploring Controversies and Future Challenges
Aluízio Marino: Mapping new Forms of Participation through Citizen Generated Data in the Global South
Discussant: Frederico Ágoas (Lisbon)

Participants

Frederico Ágoas (Lisbon)
Daniela L. de Andrade (Antwerpen)
Tal Arbel (Philadelphia)
Nina Baur (Berlin)
Chikouna Cissé (Abidjan)
Anna Echterhölter (Vienna)
Léa Delmaire (Paris)
Martin Herrnstadt (Bremen)
Nicole Holzhauser (Braunschweig)
Moisés Kopper (Antwerpen)
Aluízio Marino (Antwerpen)
Daniel Midena (Fidji)
Eugênia Motta (Rio de Janeiro)
Christine von Oertzen (Berlin)
Martin Petzke (Bielefeld)
Laure Piguet (Fribourg)
Léa Renard (Heidelberg)
Laurens Schlicht (Saarbrücken)
Anne Schult (St. Louis)
Stephan Strunz (Dresden)
Julien Vincent (Paris)
Jakob Vogel (Paris)

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