CCS 2009 – CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY AT THE CROSSROADS
May 8 & 9, 2009
Overview
The 2009 CCS Spring Conference, Cultural Sociology at the Crossroads, includes contributions from CCS Junior Fellows, Visiting Fellows, Pre-Doctoral Fellows and Post-Doctoral Fellows. We are pleased to welcome as participants Faculty Fellow Ron Jacobs and eight of his students from the Sociology Department at the State University of New York, Albany. Download the Flyer (PDF)
Venue
The conference will be held at the Center For Cultural Sociology at 230 Prospect Street, New Haven Map
Contact Information
For information about the conference please contact the CCS Administrator Nadine Amalfi by e-mail (cultural dot sociolgy at yale dot edu) or phone, (203) 432-9855.
Conference Program
| Time | Friday, May 8th ~ 230 Prospect Street |
|---|---|
| 9:15 ~ 9:45 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:45 ~ 10:00 | Opening Remarks Ron Eyerman (Yale University) (State University of New York, Albany) |
| 10:00 ~ 11:00 | Session I Chair: Ron Jacobs When Good Ballots Go Bad:Voting Ritual Failure in the 2000 Presidential Election (Yale University) Political Turning Points:Clinton, Gingrich, and the Oklahoma City Bombing (University of California, Los Angeles) Commentator:(Yale University) |
| 11:00 ~ 12:00 | Session II Chair: Rui Gao (Yale University) Celebrity as a Symbol:The Use of Celebrity in American Intellectual Magazines (State University of New York, Albany) The Peculiar Lives of Newspaper PhotographsJulia Sonnevend Commentator:(Yale University) |
| 12:00 ~ 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 ~ 2:00 | Session III Chair: Volker Heins (Frankfort University) Enlightenment or Entertainment:The Convergence of Politics and Entertainment Media Brought about by China’s “Super Girl” (State University of New York, Albany) Sacramental Ambiguities:Universalism Versus Radical Difference In Early Modern Missionary Encounters (Yale University) Commentator:Jason Mast |
| 2:00 ~ 2:15 | Coffee |
| 2:15 ~ 3:15 | Session IV Chair: Sonja van Wichelen (Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam) Transnational Cultural Exchange in East Asian Media(State University of New York, Albany) Towards a Cultural Understanding of Media SystemsMatthias Revers Commentator:(Yale University) |
| Time | Saturday, May 9th ~ 230 Prospect Street |
| 9:30 ~ 10:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 10:00 ~ 11:00 | Session V Chair: Christine Slaughter (Yale University) Continuity and Tradition in the Anglophone Caribbean:An Exploration of Embodied Social Memory Sorcha Brophy-Warren Just Another Brick in the Wall:Employing Cultural Trauma Theory to Understand the Discontents of German Reunification Lukas Fendel (Albert-Ludwigs-University, Freiburg, Germany, Yale University Exchange Scholar) Commentator:Volker Heins |
| 11:00 ~ 12:00 | Session VI Chair: Anibal Gauna-Peralta (State University of New York, Albany) Publicity without Solidarity:What does it mean to participate in a social movement in the digital age? Tanya Omeltchenko Good ‘Ol Boy Talk vs. the Bolgosphere in the Case of Former Senator George AllenIan Sheinheit Commentator:Jingsi Wu |
| 12:00 ~ 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 ~ 2:00 | Session VII Chair: Tim Malacarne (Yale University) The Performance and Rhetoric of Theater Critics in Quebec:A Tale of Tough Love’s Sociology (University of Ottawa) Kulturkampf als KüchekampfFrancisco Raul Cornejo de Souza (University of São Paulo, Fox International Fellow at the MacMillan Center, Yale University ) Commentator:(Trento University) |
| 2:00 ~ 2:15 | Coffee |
| 2:15 ~ 3:15 | Session VIII Chair: Alison Gerber (Yale University) The Intolerable Monstrous: The Case of Face Transplantation(Yale University) “And That’s When He Snapped”:A Comparison of Domestic Violence Narratives on the Oprah Winfrey Show and NBC News Programs (State University of New York, Albany) Commentator:(State University of New York, Albany) |
| 6:30 | Banquet (Conference participants only) |