Welcome to the research seminar, Practices and Politics of Comparison, co-organized by Tampere Centre for Science, Technology and Innovation Studies (TaSTI) and the Research Centre on Transnationalism and Transformation (TRANSIT). The online seminar will take place on Monday 17 March at 12:15-13:45. See below for a Zoom link.
The seminar opens with a talk by Michael Guggenheim (Goldsmiths, University of London) on ”How to Make Good Comparators”. The talk is followed by a discussion with Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen and Nelli Piattoeva reflecting on the themes of the book Practising Comparison: Logics, Relations, Collaborations (edited by Joe Deville, Michael Guggenheim and Zuzana Hrdličková).
Michael Guggenheim is a reader at the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is co-director of the Kitchen Research Unit and he was co-director of the centre for invention and social process. He is the co-founder and convenor of the MA Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths. He has published widely on expertise, lay people, disasters, change of use of buildings, environmental research and food and social theory. He has developed numerous performative experiments, most recently together with Jan-Peter Voss the exhibition “Taste! Experiments for the Senses” at the Museum of Natural History Berlin.
Turo-Kimmo Lehtonen is a professor of sociology and Nelli Piattoeva a professor of sociology of education at Tampere University.
Zoom link: https://tuni.zoom.us/j/61917479024