Making as Praxis ? Making in Action ?

State-making, identity-making, war-making, policy-making, and meaning-making have all become common theoretical concepts in recent years; sometimes the hyphen is dropped to create new words, e.g., placemaking. “Making” signifies the actor-oriented, dynamic, and historical nature of socio-cultural and political activities under study, making it a popular concept useful to various disciplines.
This workshop aims at examining where the diverse subjects of “making” may lead us in analyzing socio-cultural processes.
It will especially explore culture-related activities that form programs (ideals) and practices (praxis) of nurturing, internalizing, or enabling that contribute to societies in both positive and negative ways. These may include making as self-improvement, performing (sense-making), devotions (religion-making), social relations (e.g., kinship and gender), skill, technology, politics (e.g., new populism), or AI-scape production (the cultural world AI provides).
We will pay special attention to how these “makings” relate to the society under study, and to the world as a whole.

 

L'événement est ouvert à toute personne intéressée par le programme. Si vous souhaitez assister à certaines interventions, merci de vous inscrire auprès de salome.deboos@univ-lyon2.fr.

Thursday, the 6th of November 2025

OPENING SESSION 9h – 9h45: wellcome adresses Stephane Chretien, Professor in Mathmatics, Dean of the UFR Anthropology, Sociology and Political Sciences, University Lumière Lyon2 James Walker, Vice president, International Relations, University Lumière Lyon 2 9h45 – 10h Coffee Breack UNDERSTANDING HUMAN BEING THANKS TO TECHNOSCIENCES AND NEUROSCIENCES 10h – 10h45: Theory-Making in American Cultural Anthropology, or Can Neuroscience Help? Shuenn-Der YU, Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei – Taïwan  10h45 – 11h30: Technoscience and science fiction: A world-making imaginary Marie-Clémence JALABER, PhD student, Laboratoire de recherche historique Rhône-Alpes (LARHRA) – UMR 5190, University Lumière Lyon2. 11h30 – 12h15: Life as Autofabrication: The role of AI Wei-Wen CHUNG, Professor Emeritus, National Chengchi University, Taïwan. 12h15 – 14h: Lunch Break Served at Cafetariat IDENTITY MAKING PROCESS 14h – 14h45: Sensory Weaving: Making Cross-ethnic Identity in Taiwan’s Yunnanese Dage Community Tasaw Hsin-chun LU, Institute of Musicology, National Taiwan Unviersity, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taïwan. 14h45 – 15h30: Local lives, global shifts: Identity-making processes among Djiboutian women Ibtissem BATTOUM, PhD Student, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Enjeux Contemporains, University Lumière Lyon2. 15h30 – 15h45: Coffee break 15h45 – 16h30: Making salt tea and eating tsampa: The zaskari identity in motion Salomé DEBOOS, Professor of Anthropology, UFR Anthropology, Sociology, Political Sciences, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Enjeux Contemporains, Université Lumière Lyon 2.

Friday, the 7th of November 2025

STATE MAKING IDENTITY 9h – 9h45: Narration, Ritual Making, and the Ethnography of Development among the Hmub of the Eastern Yun-Gui Plateau Mei-ling CHIEN, Professor in Anthropology – ethnology, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taïwan. 9h45 – 10h30: On the use of handicrafts for state-making in India Raphaëlle KOGEL, PhD Student, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Enjeux Contemporains, University Lumière Lyon 2 10h30 – 10h45 Coffee breack MAKING THE WORLD, SHAPING THE ENVIRONMENT. 10h45 – 11h30: Flavor of the Mountains: The Development of Taiwan’s High-Altitude Agriculture Chia-Ling HSU, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan. 11h30 – 12h15: Bears, roosters, pheasants: The making of the emblematic animal. Gersande PASQUINI, PhD Student, Laboratoire d’Anthropologie des Enjeux Contemporains, Université Lumière Lyon2. 12h15 – 12h45 : Closing session Resume of the two days conferences and perspectives for the future. 12h45 – 14h30 : Lunch Break 14h30 – 16h: ANTHROPOLOGIST ON THE EDGE OF THE WORLD Shuenn-Der YU, Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei – Taïwan. Shuenn Der YU, is scheduled to deliver a presentation on the subject of conducting research projects within the Korean context, with family members. 19h Formal Dinner Venue Dinner: Brasserie Le Sud, Maison Baucuse, 20, place Bellecour 69002 Lyon.

→ Consulter le site de l'événement : https://making.sciencesconf.org/