2011 American Anthropological Association Meeting, Montreal

4-0230 ANTHROPOLOGIES OF FORECASTING AS ANTHROPOLOGIES OF THE FUTURE
Friday, November 18, 2011: 08:00-11:45

Organizers: Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) and Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)
Chairs: Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)
Discussants: Ben Orlove (Columbia University) and Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

08:00
Future Forecasting and the End of Relativism: A Challenge for Anthropology
Will Rollason (Brunel University)

08:15
Forecasting Credit: Living Proleptically In the Brazilian Amazon
Jeremy M Campbell (Roger Williams University)

08:30
The Secret Life of Forecasts: Examining the Production and Use of Tornado Warnings As Social Processes
Heather Lazrus (National Center for Atmospheric Research), Amy Nichols (University of Oklahoma) and Stephanie Hoekstra (University of Oklahoma)

08:45
Functions and Interpretations of Ambiguous Language In Predictions
Karen E Pennesi (University of Western Ontario)

09:00
On the Simulation of Deforestation Scenarios In Making REDD Carbon Market
Shaozeng Zhang (University of California, Irvine)

09:15
Discussant
Ben Orlove (Columbia University)

09:30
Discussion

09:45
Break

10:00
Forecasting As History: Japan’s Modern Earthquakes
Kerry Smith (Brown University)

10:15
Articulating Future Health Effects and Climate Change: Collaborative Modeling Systems and Future Epistemologies
Brandon J Costelloe-Kuehn (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

10:30
Looking After Today: Resource Depletion and Hydrocarbon Culture In Industrial Trinidad
Jacob Campbell (University of Arizona)

10:45
Social Impact Assessment and the Anthropology of the Future In Canada’s Oilsands
Clinton N Westman (University of Saskatchewan)

11:00
Clouds In the Forecast: The Future, Climate Science, and Humanitarian Aid
Soo-Young Kim (Columbia University)

11:15
Discussant
Renzo Taddei (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)

11:30
Discussion