Friday, May 24th, 9h30-13h00
Collège de France, Amphithéâtre Budé
11 place Marcelin Berthelot, Paris 5e

Welcome by the organizers Sandra Laugier and Perig Pitrou

I. 9h45-11h30 Detail as Method
Perig Pitrou, CNRS - Collège de France - Université PSL, When Details Reveal the Presence of Non-
Human Agents
Frédérique Ildefonse, CNRS - ENS, The Patience of the Detail
Marco Motta, Johns Hopkins University, Details in a Minor Key

II. 11h45-13h00 The Politics of Details
Estelle Ferrarese, Université de Picardie-Jules Verne, CURAPP, Adorno’s Micrological Gaze
Emily Apter, Micropolitics of Safety/salut public: Thinking and Living with Philosophical Untranslatables

III. 14h00-15h45 Ordinary Details
Sandra Laugier, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Details of Language and Details of the Mind
Bhrigupati Singh, Brown University, Detail as a Bridge between Everyday and Metaphysical Shores
Albert Ogien, CNRS - EHESS, Awareness of Details

16h00-17h30 Chair : Claude Imbert, ENS
Carlo Severi, CNRS - EHESS, Wittgenstein, Political Discourse and the Anthropology of Communication
Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University, On Absence: The Mutual Vulnerability of Concepts and Experience

17h30-18h00 Discussion Baptiste Cornardeau, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Yves Erard, Université de Lausanne, Paola Marrati, John Hopkins University

Saturday, May 25th, 9h30-13h30
Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
12 place du Panthéon, 75005 Paris, salle 216, 2e étage

V. 9h30-11h15 Details of Dying – and of Living
Fabien Provost, Université Paris Nanterre, (Anatomic) Details-In-Use:
Obscure Autopsies and the Classification of Deaths in India
Anne M. Lovell, INSERM - CERMES, Endings
Lotte Buch Segal, University of Edinburgh, Details of an Ordinary Grief

VI. 11h30-12h45 Experiencing Details
Andrew Brandel, Harvard University, Detail in our Dreams:
Some Thoughts on Animism from Borges, Le Guin and Cavell
Claire Brunet, ENS Saclay, The Visual Experience of the Details

12h45 General Discussion