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SUMMARY:Cases and Scale in Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Conference organized by Michael Osman and Cristóbal Amunátegu
 i (University of California\, Los Angeles)\n\nIn the last few decades\, de
 bates stemming from the science and history “wars” have called attenti
 on to the ways in which cases are constructed and proven across discipline
 s. This has led to questions about the nature and selection of evidence\, 
 the role of scale\, and the function of narrative in “making” a case. 
 These questions seem apt\, since for all their explanatory potential\, cas
 es also imply risks: they can collapse into anecdote\, or devolve into ove
 rspecialized accounts disconnected from broader elucidatory aims. They can
  also fall prey to naturalizations of all kinds: despite claims to the con
 trary\, cases are often made and seldom found. Pressure on the case\, howe
 ver\, remains proof of its widespread use and continuous theorization. For
  some examples\, in 2005 Jean-Claude Passeron and Jacques Revel published 
 the study Pensar par cas\, and in 2007 Critical Inquiry dedicated a double
  number to the subject. That same year Charlotte Furth\, Judith T. Zeitlin
 \, and Ping-chen Hsiung edited the volume Thinking with Cases: Specialist 
 Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History. More recently\, in 2019 Lucio Biasi
 ori and Carlo Ginzburg co-edited A Historical Approach to Casuistry: Norms
  and Exceptions in a Comparative Analysis\, and Markus Asper published the
  collection Thinking in Cases: Ancient Greek and Imperial Chinese Case Nar
 ratives.\n\n“Cases and Scale in Historiography” builds on these examin
 ations by inviting scrutiny on the relationship between the case and one o
 f its constitutive elements: scale. Among many other things\, cases are a 
 way of managing distance: between the past and the present\, the far away 
 and the near\, norms and exceptions\, ideation and reality. Thus defined\,
  cases are inevitably bound to the shifting measures and temporalities of 
 scale\, something which may seem at odds with today’s dominant culture o
 f scholarly specialization. Like magnets\, cases have the potential of cen
 tripetally attracting different knowledge\, sites\, and periods in order t
 o solve the problems they pose. To deal with the spatiotemporal vagaries o
 f scale\, however\, entails facing a wide-ranging set of historiographical
  and epistemological difficulties: the scalar analysis imposed by cases se
 ems to pit historiographical specificity against both blind specialization
  and Diogenean erudition. By pointing to the links between scale and the c
 ase\, then\, our invitation is to explore the limits and possibilities of 
 the historian as both expert and generalist.\n\nSpeakers\nDaniel M. Abrams
 on\, Boston University\nZeynep Çelik Alexander\, Columbia University\nSam
 aa Elimam\, University of California\, Los Angeles\nSylvia Lavin\, Princet
 on University\nXavier Nueno\, École Polytechnique Fédéral de Lausanne\n
 Andrei Pop\, University of Chicago\nLaurent Stalder\, Federal Institute of
  Technology Zurich\n\n\n\nProgram Schedule\n\n9:30 a.m.\nCoffee and Regist
 ration\n\n10:00 a.m.\nDirector’s Welcome\nCarla Gardina Pestana\, Univer
 sity of California\, Los Angeles\n\nIntroductory Remarks\nCristóbal Amun
 átegui\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nPanel 1\nRespondent: A
 yala Levin\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n10:15 a.m.\nZeynep 
 Çelik Alexander\, Columbia University\n“From the Leaf to the Empire: Th
 e Marianne North Gallery at Kew”\n\n10:35 a.m.\nSamaa Elimam\, Universit
 y of California\, Los Angeles\n“Sources of the Nile: The Ottoman Search 
 for Historical and Geographical Origins\, 1839–1842”\n\n10:55 a.m.\nDa
 niel M. Abramson\, Boston University\n“Landmark American Government Cent
 ers”\n\n11:15 a.m.\nDiscussion\n\n12:00 p.m.\nLunch\n\nPanel 2\nResponde
 nt: Hannah Landecker\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n1:20 p.m.
 \nLaurent Stalder\, Federal Institute of Technology Zurich\n“Things in A
 rchitecture”\n\n1:40 p.m.\nXavier Nueno\, École Polytechnique Fédéral
  de Lausanne\n"In Media Lex: Reporters\, Authority\, and a Factory of Case
 s”\n\n2:00 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n2:30 p.m.\nCoffee Break\n\nPanel 3\nRespo
 ndent: Michael Osman\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\n3:00 p.m.
 \nSylvia Lavin\, Princeton University\n“Architecture Deranged”\n\n3:20
  p.m.\nAndrei Pop\, University of Chicago\n“Using Science Fiction (Ir)re
 sponsibly”\n\n3:40 p.m.\nDiscussion\n\n4:10 p.m.\nClosing Remarks\nMicha
 el Osman\, University of California\, Los Angeles\n\nPlenary Discussion (a
 ll speakers and respondents)\n\n4:40 p.m.\nReception\n\n\n\nThe conference
  is free to attend and will be held in-person at the Clark Library. Regist
 ration will close on Monday\, March 10. Seating is limited at the Clark Li
 brary\; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.\nLoading…\n\n\
 n\nImage: Eric Gill\, [Pigotts]\, 1930. Pencil and ink on paper\, 16 x 12 
 in. Eric Gill Artwork Collection\, UCLA William Andrews Clark Memorial Lib
 rary.
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