9.00 - 9.50

Registration and coffee

9.50 - 11.00

Opening Plenary Session

Welcoming addresses: John Holmwood (Sussex University), Simon Coleman (Sussex)
Keynote speaker: George Marcus (Rice University, Texas)

11.00 - 11.15

Coffee

11.15 - 13.00

Panel 1: Transnationalism
Chair and discussant: Mike Crang (Durham University)

1. Ester Gallo (University of Sienna)
Problems and possibilities of researching kinship in a transnational context/perspective. An ethnographic experience between Italy and Kerala, South India

2. Bruno Riccio (University of Bologna)
Exploring Senegalese translocal spaces. Reflections on a multi-sited research

3. Kanwal Mand (South Bank University):
Reflections on the use of multi sites for research on transnational lives.

13.00 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 15.45

Panel 2: Researching Rights
Chair and discussant: Andrea Cornwall (IDS)

1. Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers
Following the Plot: Narratives of Albanian Customary Law in Transnational Legal Encounters.

2. Colin Samson (Essex University)
Land, Health and Life: The Survival of Indigenous Communities in the 21st Century.

3. Kathryn Tomlinson (Sussex University)
Multi-sited ethnography or multi-sited anthropology? Reflections on researching indigenous rights in Venezuela

15.45 - 16.00

Coffee

16.00 - 17.45

Panel 3: Development Policy
Chair and discussant: Jock Stirrat (Sussex)

1. Michael Whyte (University of Copenhagen):
Understanding HIV/AIDS in Uganda: a Question of Sites and Positions

2. Ingie Hovland (SOAS):
'What do you call the heathen these days?' The policy field and other matters of the heart in the Norwegian Mission Society

3. Raymond Apthorpe
Being multi-sitedly based as a researcher: good for
multi-sightedness?

20.00

Conference Dinner
Venue: Quod, Brighton

9.00 - 10.45

Panel 4: Multinational Organisations
Chair and Discussant: Sean Conlin (independent consultant)

1. Dinah Rajak (University of Sussex):
From boardrooms to mine shafts: researching the Anglo American corporation

2. Dave Randall (Manchester Metropolitan):
A New Skin for the Old Ceremony: On Multi-Sited Ethnography and Analytic Purpose

3. Michael Hales (SPRU, Sussex)
In the field with designers and in the field with economists - Ground-truthing economists' models of organisation and innovation

10.45 - 11.00

Coffee

11.00 - 12.45

Panel 1: Science and Technology
Chair and Discussant : James Fairhead (University of Sussex)

1. Kaushik Sunder Rajan (University of California, Irvine)
Specters of Marcus: Lively Capital, the Work of Friendship, and 'New' Objects of Ethnographic Interest

2. Sahra Gibbon (University College London)
Travelling with Genes; filming interdisciplinarity

3. Werner Krauss (University of Hamburg)
Migratory birds and migratory scientists: multi-sited ethnography of a contested coastal landscape (Northern Germany)

12.45 - 14.00

Lunch

14.00 - 15.45

Roundtable discussion

Keynote address: James Ferguson (Stanford University)
Michael Whyte
James Fairhead
Chair: Simon Coleman

15.45 - 16.00

Coffee