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Federmann School of Public Policy and Government

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  • Limor Samimian-Darash is an Associate Professor at the Federmann School of Public Policy and Government at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

    Education

    B.A. (2001) Anthropology, Sociology, and Psychology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (magna cum laude)

    M.A. (2003) Anthropology, Sociology (Organizational Sociology), The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (magna cum laude)

    Ph.D. (2009) Anthropology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Visiting Student Researcher (2006-2008), Department of Anthropology, and the Center for Science, Technology & Society, University of California at Berkeley

    Postdoctoral Fellow (Jan.-Apr. 2010), Department of Anthropology and International Forum for U.S. Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

    Postdoctoral Researcher (2010-2012), Department of Anthropology, Stanford University

    Research Interests

    Her research interests include security and preparedness, anthropology of the state and policy, biosecurity, emergency, theory of risk and uncertainty, and governing technologies of the future (scenarios).

    She has studied for more than 10 years the topics of preparedness for future risks and uncertainties in fields of health and security. In the past few years she has specifically focused on scenarios as a dominant way to address future uncertainties through imagination and narration. In her ISF-funded research (2015-2018) Turning Points exercises in Israel, she explored through extensive fieldwork, nation-wide emergency preparedness exercises. In her current research project on Global Scenarios, funded by the ISF (2019-2022) she examines forms, practices, and conceptualizations of future plausibilities through scenarios in global organizations in the fields of health and energy. Her BSF-funded research on future imagination technologies (2019-2022), comparatively examines modalities of future imagination, design, and planning in the high-tech sector in Israel and the US.

    Samimian-Darash was chosen as one of five promising early-career social scientists in Israel, for the Alon Fellowship (2013–2016). Her recent publications include: 'Uncertainty by Design: Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology' (Cornell University Press); 'Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases' (University of Chicago Press); 'Encapsulation: Governing Actual Uncertainty in the Coronavirus Pandemic' (Sociology of Health & Illness); ‘From Crisis to Emergency: The Shifting Logic of Preparedness’ (Ethnos); ‘Practicing Uncertainty: Scenario-Based Preparedness Exercises in Israel’ (Cultural Anthropology); ‘Governing Future Potential Biothreats: Toward an Anthropology of Uncertainty’ (Current Anthropology).

     

     

     

    For more details on Limor Samimian-Darash's work, see interview in Cultural Anthropology

     

     

    Uncertainty_By_Design

    Uncertainty by Design: Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology, by Cornell University Press (2022). 

     

    Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases

    Modes of Uncertainty: Anthropological Cases, by University of Chicago Press (2015).

     

Latest News

  • Paper Presentation: "Creeping Socio-Ecological Catastrophes: Is Excluding the Long Term in Decision-Making Inevitable?" Symposium, the Finnish Strategic Research Consortium, Helsinki, Finland (Nov.).
  • Program Committee Member for the 2021 Science, Technology and Civilisation Seminar on "Living with... - From the Covid 19 Pandemic to the Climate Crisis," The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel (July).
  • Invited Lecture: "Governmentality in the Time of Corona," Plenary Session – Annual Meeting of the Israeli Anthropological Association (July).
  • Paper Presentation: "Uncertainty by Design: Imagining and Enacting the Future Through Scenarios," Annual meeting of the Society of Social Studies of Science, (Aug.).
  • Panel Organizer: "Governing Desired and Undesired Futures," Annual meeting of the Society of Social Studies of Science, (Aug.)
  • Invited Keynote Lecturer: Uncertainty by Design: Imagining and Enacting the Future through Scenarios, Workshop organized by the Cluster of Excellence on Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS), University of Hamburg, Germany (Nov.)
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Recent Publications

  • Uncertainty by Design: Preparing for the Future with Scenario Technology
  • "Encapsulation: Governing Actual Uncertainty in the Coronavirus Pandemic"
  • Governing Uncertainty, Producing Subjectivity: From Mode I to Mode II Scenarios
  • An Emergency of Circulation: Entry Screening in the UK During the 2014 Ebola Epidemic
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