CCS Annual Conference ~ Spring 2010
April 23rd, 24th & 25th, 2010
Overview
The 2010 CCS Spring Conference, Meaning and Social Process, includes contributions from CCS Junior Fellows, as well as from Faculty Fellows Radim Marada, Volker Heins and Andrea Cossu, Visiting Fellows Gordon Lynch and Bing Xu and Visiting Graduate Student Ping Wang. We are also pleased to welcome as participants Faculty Fellow Michelle Lamont and 3 of her students from the Sociology Department at Harvard University and Faculty Fellow Ron Jacobs and 3 of his students from the Sociology Department at the State University of New York, Albany.
Venue
The conference will be held at the Center For Cultural Sociology at 8 Prospect Place, New Haven
Contact Information
For information about the conference please contact the CCS Administrator Nadine Amalfi by e-mail (cultural dot sociology at yale dot edu) or phone, (203) 432-9855.
Conference Program
| Time | Friday, April 23rd ~ 8 Prospect Place |
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| 4:30 ~ 5:00 | Coffee/Tea |
| 5:00 ~ 5:15 | Opening Remarks Philip Smith Yale University |
| 5:15 ~ 6:20 | Session I ~ Keynote Address
The BBC, Gaza and the DEC Appeal: Exploring Ambiguities in the Mediatization of the SacredGordon Lynch Commentator:Ron Jacobs |
| 6:20 ~ 7:30 | Reception |
| Time | Saturday, April 24th ~ 8 Prospect Place |
| 8:45 ~ 9:15 | Coffee |
| 9:15 ~ 10:25 | Session II ~ Migration, Race & Difference Chair: Bing Xu Institute of Sociology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; CCS Visiting Fellow Lou Dobbs Leading the Multitude: The Immigrant Threat to the “American People”:
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| 10:25 ~ 10:40 | Break |
| 10:40 ~ 11:50 | Session III ~ Social Change, Trauma & Moral Construction Chair: Rene Almeling Yale University The Spiral of Cultural Trauma:
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| 11:50 ~ 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 ~ 1:40 | Session IV ~ CCS Faculty Fellow Chair: Giuseppe Sciortino Trento University, CCS Visiting Fellow Socio-Emotional-Cognitive (Sec) Platforms as a Condition for Successful Interdisciplinary CollaborationsMichèle Lamont Commentator:Jensen Sass |
| 1:40 ~ 1:55 | Break |
| 1:55 ~ 3:05 | Session V ~ Performance, Narrative & State Chair: Sarah Egan Yale University, CCS Junior Fellow Pirates, states, and adverbsMatthew Norton The Legitimizing Logics of Hugo Chávez’s Performances:
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| 3:05 ~ 3:30 | Coffee Break |
| 3:30 ~ 4:30 | Session VI ~ CCS Faculty Fellows Chair: Anna Lund Linnaeus University, Sweden; CCS Visiting Fellow Remembering generationsRadim Marada Vigilance, Blame, and Justice:
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| 6:00 ~ 8:30 | Banquet Conference participants only The Kitchen Table |
| Time | Sunday, April 25th ~ 8 Prospect Place |
| 9:15 ~ 9:45 | Coffee |
| 9:45 ~ 10:55 | Session VII ~ Coding the Aesthetic Chair: Sam Nelson Yale University, CCS Junior Fellow Making Silence: the social life of noise among the noise-cancellingJoe Klett How Can a Literature Book Become a Classic?
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| 10:55 ~ 11:10 | Break |
| 11:10 ~ 11:50 | Session VIII ~ Faculty Fellow Chair: Jonathan Roberge University of Ottawa, Canada; CCS Visiting Fellow Knowing the Worst:
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| 11:50 ~ 1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 ~ 1:40 | Session IX ~ CCS Faculty Fellow Chair: Gary Alan Fine Northwestern University, CCS Visiting Fellow Journalism, Opinion, and the War on Terror:
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| 1:40 ~ 2:00 | Break |
| 2:00 ~ 3:10 | Session X ~ Class, Race & Culture Chair: Ateş Altinordu Yale University, CCS Junior Fellow ‘Tomorrow is Never Promised:’
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| 3:10 | Closing Remarks Jeffrey Alexander |