The Interval at Long Now welcomes
Andrew Lakoff (USC anthropologist; CASBS-Stanford fellow)
How We Became "Unprepared": Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
What tools & concepts do climate, health and security authorities rely on to evaluate potential crises? Why have our experts become unsettled by the prospect of surprise? An anthropologist of science & medicine asks how preparedness became the norm for experts charged with managing uncertain futures.
Andrew Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California. His new book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency will be released in August 02017.
"An original, penetrating, and highly readable account of the rationalities and tensions involved in governing global health emergencies in the twenty-first century." — Stefan Elbe, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Centre for Global Health Policy (University of Sussex), on Unprepared
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Lakoff is currently a fellow.
Since 01954 CASBS has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event. Join Long Now for live video of our Seminars and Interval events and many more benefits.
Andrew Lakoff is an anthropologist of science and technology. His most recent work has focused on the production of expert knowledge about risk and the future. This includes his forthcoming book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency on recent controversies in the field of global health security, and a series of writings, in collaboration with Stephen Collier, on the genealogy of emergency government in the United States.
Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California, where he also leads an interdisciplinary research cluster in Science, Technology, and Society. He holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow in medical anthropology at the Harvard Medical School. He is a senior editor of Public Culture and an editor of Limn magazine. At CASBS he is working on projects which address the question of how cities respond to the threat posed by anthropogenic climate change.
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Andrew Lakoff (USC anthropologist; CASBS-Stanford fellow)
How We Became "Unprepared": Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
What tools & concepts do climate, health and security authorities rely on to evaluate potential crises? Why have our experts become unsettled by the prospect of surprise? An anthropologist of science & medicine asks how preparedness became the norm for experts charged with managing uncertain futures.
Andrew Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California. His new book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency will be released in August 02017.
"An original, penetrating, and highly readable account of the rationalities and tensions involved in governing global health emergencies in the twenty-first century." — Stefan Elbe, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Centre for Global Health Policy (University of Sussex), on Unprepared
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Lakoff is currently a fellow.
Since 01954 CASBS has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event. Join Long Now for live video of our Seminars and Interval events and many more benefits.
Andrew Lakoff is an anthropologist of science and technology. His most recent work has focused on the production of expert knowledge about risk and the future. This includes his forthcoming book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency on recent controversies in the field of global health security, and a series of writings, in collaboration with Stephen Collier, on the genealogy of emergency government in the United States.
Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California, where he also leads an interdisciplinary research cluster in Science, Technology, and Society. He holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow in medical anthropology at the Harvard Medical School. He is a senior editor of Public Culture and an editor of Limn magazine. At CASBS he is working on projects which address the question of how cities respond to the threat posed by anthropogenic climate change.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
The Interval at Long Now welcomes
Andrew Lakoff (USC anthropologist; CASBS-Stanford fellow)
How We Became "Unprepared": Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
What tools & concepts do climate, health and security authorities rely on to evaluate potential crises? Why have our experts become unsettled by the prospect of surprise? An anthropologist of science & medicine asks how preparedness became the norm for experts charged with managing uncertain futures.
Andrew Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California. His new book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency will be released in August 02017.
"An original, penetrating, and highly readable account of the rationalities and tensions involved in governing global health emergencies in the twenty-first century." — Stefan Elbe, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Centre for Global Health Policy (University of Sussex), on Unprepared
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Lakoff is currently a fellow.
Since 01954 CASBS has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event. Join Long Now for live video of our Seminars and Interval events and many more benefits.
Andrew Lakoff is an anthropologist of science and technology. His most recent work has focused on the production of expert knowledge about risk and the future. This includes his forthcoming book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency on recent controversies in the field of global health security, and a series of writings, in collaboration with Stephen Collier, on the genealogy of emergency government in the United States.
Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California, where he also leads an interdisciplinary research cluster in Science, Technology, and Society. He holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow in medical anthropology at the Harvard Medical School. He is a senior editor of Public Culture and an editor of Limn magazine. At CASBS he is working on projects which address the question of how cities respond to the threat posed by anthropogenic climate change.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
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Andrew Lakoff (USC anthropologist; CASBS-Stanford fellow)
How We Became "Unprepared": Imagining Catastrophe from the Cold War to Bird Flu
Check-in begins 6:30pm; talk starts 7:30pmat The Interval at Long Now
What tools & concepts do climate, health and security authorities rely on to evaluate potential crises? Why have our experts become unsettled by the prospect of surprise? An anthropologist of science & medicine asks how preparedness became the norm for experts charged with managing uncertain futures.
Andrew Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California. His new book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency will be released in August 02017.
"An original, penetrating, and highly readable account of the rationalities and tensions involved in governing global health emergencies in the twenty-first century." — Stefan Elbe, Professor of International Relations, Director of the Centre for Global Health Policy (University of Sussex), on Unprepared
This event is co-presented by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), where Lakoff is currently a fellow.
Since 01954 CASBS has been a preeminent national and international locus for cutting-edge, interdisciplinary, and transformative thinking and research on some of the most important challenges and issues. Its aim is discovery in the service of advancing social science methods, theories, and topics that address and answer socially significant questions. At the heart of the CASBS enterprise is its residential fellowship program, which attracts the finest minds from psychology, sociology, economics, political science, anthropology, history, philosophy, linguistics, and related disciplines.
Long Now members can watch a free livestream of this event. Join Long Now for live video of our Seminars and Interval events and many more benefits.
Andrew Lakoff is an anthropologist of science and technology. His most recent work has focused on the production of expert knowledge about risk and the future. This includes his forthcoming book Unprepared: Global Health in a Time of Emergency on recent controversies in the field of global health security, and a series of writings, in collaboration with Stephen Collier, on the genealogy of emergency government in the United States.
Lakoff is an associate professor of sociology, anthropology, and communication at the University of Southern California, where he also leads an interdisciplinary research cluster in Science, Technology, and Society. He holds a PhD in sociocultural anthropology from University of California, Berkeley, and was a postdoctoral fellow in medical anthropology at the Harvard Medical School. He is a senior editor of Public Culture and an editor of Limn magazine. At CASBS he is working on projects which address the question of how cities respond to the threat posed by anthropogenic climate change.
You can watch videos of past Interval talks.
Long Now members hear about Interval events first: become a member today.
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