CCS 2008 ~ THE EXPERIENCE OF MEANING
May 2 & 3, 2008
Overview
The CCS Spring Conference for 2008 will feature participants from around the globe. The sessions are organized around the conference theme of ‘The Experience of Meaning’. Through theoretical work and via the empirical exploration of historical and contemporary sites speakers will reflect upon the ways that culture profoundly influences the constitution of our lives as subjects, witnesses and readers. Topics include encounters with films, texts and icons; the negotiation of roles and identities; and the cultural process through which moral boundaries are constructed and renewed. 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
This year the sessions will allow for each presenter to speak for 15 minutes, immediately followed by 5 minutes of questions. One commentator will provide insights at the end of the session for 10 minutes. This will leave 5 remaining minutes for the presenters to respond to the comments
| Time | Friday, May 2nd ~ 230 Prospect Street |
|---|---|
| 9:15 ~ 9:45 | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:45 ~ 10:00 | Philip Smith Welcome address and State of the CCS report |
| 10:00 ~ 11:00 | Session I ~ KEYNOTE ADDRESS ~ Iconic Experience Chair: Jesse Einhorn. Rethinking the PanopticonPhilip Smith (Yale University). Commentator: Pavel Barša |
| 11>00 ~ 11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15 ~ 12:45 | Session II: Breaking Boundaries Chair: Sam Nelson The Boarders of Ashkenazi IntelligenceJensen Sass (Yale University) Religious Bodies, Secular Minds: New Understandings of Religion and Secularism in EgyptJeffrey Guhin (Yale University) The Colonization of ‘Up’: Building the Vertical in New York City and TokyoRyan Sayre (Yale University) Commentator:Claudio Benzecry |
| 12:45 ~ 1:30 | Lunch |
| 1:30 ~ 3:00 | Session III: Texts and Meanings Chair: Michael Yarbrough Transformations and Receptions of Asian American Images in U.S. Film: A Cultural PerspectiveCarolyn Ly (Yale University) Trauma ‘Undoing’ in In the Time of the ButterfliesAdrienne Wallace (Yale University) Homosociality, the Modern Nation, and the Abject: Re-Visions of National Identity in Bertolucci’s ConformistNatasha Kirsten Kraus (Yale University) Commentator: Jonathan Roberge |
| 3:00 | Adjourn for the day |
| 4:00 | CCS Fellow Isaac Reed
Sussman Award Presentation “Interpretation and Social Knowledge”Williams Hall, Room 107 |
| 5:30 | Department Reception ~ SOM Dining Hall ALL ARE WELCOME |
| Time | Saturday, May 3rd ~ 230 Prospect Street |
| 9:15 ~ 10:00 | Continental Breakfast |
| 10:00 ~ 11:30 | Session IV: Sound and Vision Chair: Ates Altinordu The ‘Minimal Self’: John Cage and the Modern Artistic PersonaEduardo de la Fuente (Monash University) The Ears Remain Open: Noise Music toward the Social Definition of NoiseJoseph Klett (Yale University) Social Iconology: An Overlooked DomainDominik Bartmanski (Yale University) Commentator: Isaac Reed |
| 11:30 ~ 12:30 | Lunch |
| 12:30 ~ 2:00 | Session V: Performance and Identity Chair: Caroline Gray Power, Performance, and Public SpaceJason Mast (University of California, Los Angeles) Innocent Commandments? The ESMA and the performance of perpetrators’ split identitiesCarlo Tognato (National University of Colombia, Bogotá) “Maybe it’ll take a woman to clean up the House”: Nancy Pelosi and the Renegotiation of Gender in American Civil DiscourseChristine Slaughter (Yale University) Commentator: Mats Trondman |
| 2:00 ~ 2:15 | Coffee Break |
| 2:15 ~ 3:15 | Session VI: Constructing The Self Chair: Sarah Egan Heroes, Devotees, Addicts and Nostalgics. Repertories of engagement in the quest for self transcendenceClaudio Benzecry (University of Connecticut). Immigration, Religion and Human Security in the United StatesB. Nadya Jaworksy (Yale University) Commentator:Sunwoong Park |
| 3:15 ~ 4:45 | Session VII: The Culture Club and the Strong Program: Origins of a New Paradigm over the Generations Featured Speaker: Phil Smith (Generation 2) With Commentary from Jeff Alexander (Generation 1), Ron Jacobs (Generation 2), Jason Mast (Generation 3) & Isaac Reed (Generation 3.5) |
| Time | Christopher Martin’s Restaurant 860 State Street. |
| 6:00 ~ 7:00 p.m. | Cocktails |
| 7:00 | Banquet |