Meaning in Place ~ Conference Program

Time
Friday, April 29 ~ 210 Prospect Street, Room 203
1:00 ~ 1:15
Opening Remarks

Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University. CCS Director

1:15 ~ 2:15
Session I - Special Trauma Session

Chair: Kyung-Man Kim ~ Sogang University, Seoul, South Korea. CCS Visiting Fellow


Vietnam: A War Not A Country

Ron Eyerman ~ Yale University. CCS Director

Magnus Ring ~ Lund University, Sweden. CCS Faculty Fellow

Todd Madigan ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow

2:15 ~ 2:30

Coffee Break

2:30 ~ 3:45
Session II - History, Injury, Memory

Chair: Anne Marie Champagne ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


Reconstructing the Political Processes of New Haven Municipal Firefighting

Carolyn Ly ~ Augustana University. CCS Faculty Fellow


Hard-Earned History, Undeserved Memories: Economics and Morality after the Fall of the Soviet Union

Till Hilmar ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


Photographing Recovery: Survivors of Sexual Assault in Visual Culture

Dana Hayward ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


Respondent: Vanda Černohorská ~ Masaryk University, Czech Republic. CCS Visiting Graduate Student

3:45 ~ 4:00

Coffee Break

4:00 ~ 4:55
Session III - China, Ideology, Modernity

Chair: Todd Madigan ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


Did We Invade Others? The Imperial History in the Chinese and British History Textbooks from the 1950s

Zhaojin Lu ~ State University of New York at Albany


Microblog as a Symbolic Battlefield: the Contestation and Sinicization of Democratic Ideology in China

Muyang Li ~ State University of New York at Albany


Respondent: She Xi ~ China Agricultural University, Beijing. CCS Visiting Graduate Student

5:00 ~ 6:30

Reception, Lounge at 210 Prospect Street

Time
Saturday, April 30 ~ 210 Prospect Street, Room 203
9:00 ~ 9:30

Continental Breakfast

9:30 ~ 10:55
Session IV - Religion, Body, Health

Chair: Till Hilmar ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


For Faith’s Sake: European Mosques and the Civic-Religion Divide

Elisabeth Becker ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


Narratives of HIV/AIDS in the Iranian Newspapers

Elham Pourtaher ~ State University of New York at Albany


Gender Dramas: Mastectomy, Iconic Power, and the Mise-en-Scène of the Body

Anne Marie Champagne ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


A Situated Perspective on the Social and Spatial Impact on Recreational Drug Use

Cecilie Astrupgaard ~ University of Copenhagen, Yale Sociology Exchange Scholar


Respondent:  Abby Stivers ~ State University of New York at Albany. CCS Predoctoral Fellow

10:55 ~ 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 ~ 12:20
Session V - Education, Meaning, Russia

Chair: Shai Dromi ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


Culture and Education: Underappreciated Junction

Dmitry Kurakin ~ Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia. CCS Faculty Fellow


Meaning Networks and Multi-dimensional Choice in Educational and Life Course Decision Making

Timothy Malacarne ~ Mount Holyoke College. CCS Faculty Fellow


Respondent: James Hurlbert ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow

12:20 ~ 1:30

Lunch

1:30 ~ 2:25
Session VI - Markets and Meanings

Chair: Nickie Michaud Wild ~ Mount Holyoke College. CCS Faculty Fellow


Advertising Morality: How Advertisers Think about the Social Good (with Andrew Cohen)

Shai Dromi ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow


Regulating Market Innovation: The Case of “E-hailing” in New York City

Nicholas Occhiuto ~ Yale University. Sociology Graduate Student.


Respondent: Jin Su Joo ~ Yale University. CCS Junior Fellow

2:25 ~ 2:45

Coffee Break

2:45 ~ 3:50
Session VII - Identity, Materiality, Nature

Chair: Cecilia Li ~ State University of New York at Albany


Materiality, Iconic Nature, and Social Resonances in the Physical Landscape

Eric Malczewski ~ Harvard University, CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow


Can we really distinguish between civic and national solidarity? How social club sociability resurrects civic nationalism from below

Danny Kaplan ~ Bar-Ilan University, CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow


Respondent: Ron Jacobs ~ State University of New York at Albany. CCS Faculty Fellow

3:50 ~ 4:00
Closing Remarks

Philip Smith ~ Yale University. CCS Director

6:30 ~ 9:30

Banquet at Trinity Bar and Restaurant

Conference participants only