Workshop of the CEU Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Hungary
Venue: Popper room, Nador ut. 9
9-10 May 2019,
Conveners: Daniel Monterescu, Andre Thiemann
Wednesday, 19.00 Drinks and informal get-together
Ruin pub “Potkulcs” (Csengery utca 65/b, 1067Budapest)
Thursday, 9 May 2019
9.00 Registration
9:30 Opening remarks: Daniel Monterescu and Andre Thiemann
9.45 Keynote Lecture I: Meneley, Anne (Trent University, CAN)
Seeds, Plants, and Possibilities of Regeneration
10.45 Coffee break
11:00 Session 1: Spatializing Value (Moderator: Guntra Aistara)
Sarah Sippel (Leipzig, GER)
Determining land’s value: the social practice of farmland valuation in Australia
Stefan Voicu (CEU)
Baking Value: Soils, Seeds and Standards in Wheat Commodity Chains
Lammer, Christof (Klagenfurt, AUS)
Knowing quality food: certification and people as globalizing infrastructures of value in China
Monterescu, Daniel (CEU)
The Quest for the Holy Grail: Indigenous Wines, Science and the Colonial Politics of the Local
13:30 Rooftop Lunch
14.45 Session 2: Consuming the Unique (Moderator: Alex Kowalski)
Victoria Huszka (PhD candidate University of Bonn, Dep. Cultural Anthropology & Folklore Studies)
Instagram: The Role of Digital Infrastructure in the Visual Production of Regional Uniqueness
Barna, Emília (Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics)
The creation of value through music export programs and music industry showcase events: a semi-peripheral perspective on the global music economy
Gora, Sasha (Munich, GER)
“Food is Everywhere”: Culinary Infrastructure and Noma Tulum
Kautt, York (Giessen, GER)
Scarcities and the art of valorisation of food
17.15 Coffee break
17:45 - 18:45 Keynote Lecture II: Jean-Louis-Fabiani (CEU)
Live at the Village Vanguard: The paradox of recorded presence
20.00 Dinner at “Zeller” (Hercegprímás u. 18, 1051 Budapest)
Friday, 10 May 2019, 9 + 10 speakers
9.00 Morning coffee
9.30 Keynote Lecture III: Claudio E. Benzecry (Northwestern University, IL, USA)
The world at her fit: Scale-making, uniqueness and standardization
10.30 Coffee break
10.45 Session 3: The Politics of Valuation (Moderator: Anne Meneley)
Karpova, Yulia (OSA&CEU, Budapest)
Banishing the potter from the exhibition hall: Leningrad studio ceramics in search of non-consumer values
Thiemann, Andre (CEU)
Turning raspberries into gold: On the politics and poetics of a globalizing value chain.
Alexander, Kelly (Duke University, USA)
Edible Cultures: The Politics and Ethics of Recuperating Food Waste in Brussels, Belgium
12.45 Rooftop Lunch
14.00 Session 4: The Labours of Value (Moderator: Andrew Cartwright)
Ana, Daniela (MPI Halle, GER)
Soils, Yeasts and Other Wine Things: Re-creating Value in a Moldovan winery
Škobić, Milan (Northwestern University, USA)
Food cultivation and normalization of exploitation: case of Southern Banat
Saleh, Elizabeth (American University Beirut)
Cooking without Mother: Syrian Underage Waste Pickers and the Reconfiguration of House-holding in Beirut
16.00 Coffee break
16.30 Session 5: Travelling Taste (Moderator: Claudio Benzecry)
Gosztonyi, Balázs (Corvinus, Budapest)
Bricolage Valuation: Valuation of second-hand steel bicycles (vintage bikes) in Hungary
Kruger, Oscar (Kent)
Message in a Bottle
Raviv, Yael (New York University)
Breaking Bread: Performing National Identity in Israel and Palestine at the Intersection of Food and Art
18.30 Concluding Plenary Debate
20.00 Dinner at “Tasting Table Budapest” (Bródy Sándor utca 9, 1088 Budapest)