School of Anthropology and Museum Studies (SAME), University of Oxford with The British Centre for Durkheimian Studies, Maison Française d'Oxford, and All Souls College

Saturday 9 - Sunday 10 July

64 Banbury Road - Oxford OX2 6PN

Programme

July 9th 2011

11.00 – 11.30 coffee

Setting the Scene

11.30 – 13.00

• Chair: Wendy James
• Willie Watts Miller (Bristol) 'Durkheim's Re-imagination of "Australia": A Case Study of the Relation between Theory and Ethnography'
• Karen E. Fields (Vanderbilt) 'Acquiring A Soul: Religious Life and Scientific Discovery'

13.00 – 14.00 lunch

Cognition and Evolution

14.00 – 15.30

• Chair: Nick Allen
• Harvey Whitehouse (Oxford) 'Durkheimian Anthropology and the Cognitive Science of Religion'
• Emma Cohen (Max Planck, Leipzig) 'Collective Effervescence and Human Cooperation: Modes, Mechanisms, and Measurements'

15.30 – 16.00 tea

16.00 – 17.30

• Chair: Sondra Hausner
• N.J. Allen (Oxford) 'Durkheim's Sacred-Profane Opposition: What Should We Make of it?'
• Clive Gamble (Royal Holloway) 'Durkheim and the Primitive Mind: An Archaeological Retrospective'

19.30 dinner

July 10th 2011

Psychology

9.30 – 11.00

• Chair: David Gellner
• Sondra Hausner (Oxford) 'Is Individual to Collective as Freud is to Durkheim?'
• Louise Child (Cardiff) 'Elementary Forms vs Psychology in Contemporary Cinema'

11.00 – 11.30 coffee

Sociology and Anthropology

11.30 – 13.00

• Chair: Nick Allen
• Adam Chau (Cambridge) 'Rites of Convergence, Sociothermic Affect, and Collective Effervescence'
• Zhe Ji (INALCO, Paris) 'On Civil Religion'

13.00 – 14.00 lunch

14.00 – 14.45

• Chair: Wendy James
• Paul Richards (UCL/Yale) 'African Armed Groups and Social Solidarity'

14.45 – 16.00

Concluding thoughts: Harvey Whitehouse, Clive Gamble, David Gellner, Wendy James, Bill Pickering

Convener: David GELLNER, All Souls College