Apologies for cross-posting
Dear all,
The IIK seminar series at ESADE have moved online because that increases their reach. Given that I would like to invite you all to attend any/all of our seminars! We have already had a fantastic group of scholars present last term. See the link to past seminars at the end of this email.
On May 28 Professor Tim Ingold will present his always interesting work! Please contact me if you would like to be added to the mailing list for these seminars.
I hope to see many of you attend this upcoming talk!!
Speaker: Professor Tim Ingold
Affiliation: University of Aberdeen
Webpage: https://www.timingold.com/
Date: May 28, 2025
Time: 3:00-4:30pm CET
ZOOM Link: Please email me for the Zoom link to the talk.
Seminar Title:
The Loaf and the Laptop
Abstract:
A loaf of bread and a laptop computer are of rather similar weight and volume. Both are products of human artifice, and draw for their manufacture on a range of materials and techniques. Yet the loaf has been around for at least eight thousand years, whereas the laptop computer has been with us for no more than forty. And while both the loaf and the laptop are embedded in wider fields of social, spatial and temporal relations, the principles on which these relations rest are diametrically opposed. This lecture asks: which of these two things will outlast the other? Will the future be one of laptops without loaves, or loaves without laptops?
Bio:
Tim Ingold is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold's current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018), Correspondences (2020), Imagining for Real (2022) and The Rise and Fall of Generation Now (2023). Ingold is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2022 he was made a CBE for services to Anthropology.
Past Seminars: https://www.esade.edu/faculty-research/en/institute-innovation-knowledge-management/events?_gl=1*10li91t*_up*MQ..*_ga*ODE0Mjk5NTA4LjE3NDcyOTkxMDY.*_ga_S41Q3C9XT0*czE3NDcyOTkxMDUkbzEkZzAkdDE3NDcyOTkxMDUkajAkbDAkaDE3ODYyNDE5MzA.
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