Instruments of Obligations Conference
Fri, 4/4—Sat, 4/5 · 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Anthropology Department
Obligations generate worlds made through the bonds and fractures of relations.
How does an obligation’s meaning shift when it is unmoored from its original context?
What kind of morphologies can obligations undergo?
What frictions emerge?
By focusing on the instruments that give obligations specific relational forms and tempos, this event, involving six panels over two days, explores the new configurations and broken attachments produced in the wake of obligation’s redeployment.
Friday 4 April from 13:00
Opening Keynote at 4:30pm: ‘Non-Sovereign Obligations’ by Yarimar Bonilla, Princeton University
Saturday 5 April from 10:00
Closing Keynote at 4:30pm: ‘Interpellating Imperial Publics: Cultivating Defenders of the Israeli State’ by Alejandro Paz, University of Toronto
Conference hosted by Anthropology at Princeton,
co-sponsored by the Humanities Council
Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities
University Center for Human Values
Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
Program in Latin American Studies
Center for Collaborative History
Near East Studies Department
