Richard Rottenburg: Keynote Lecture, "On Authorizing Knowledge in Development Arenas"

Richard Rottenburg is Chair of Anthropology at the Institute for Anthropology and Philosophy at Martin-Luther University and a Max Planck Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, where he heads the Law, Organization, Science, and Technology Research Group. Among his many publications, he is the author of "Far-Fetched Facts: A Parable of Development Aid" (2009), and is co-editor of "Rethinking Biomedicine and Governance in Africa. Contributions from Anthropology" (2012), and "Identity politics and the new genetics -- re/creating categories of difference and belonging" (2012).