Celebration of Jeffrey Alexander and His Work at Fall 2024 Conference
In October 2024 The Yale Center for Cultural Sociology hosted the conference, “Working towards Meaning Together: Jeffrey Alexander’s Legacy for Sociology,” marking the retirement of CCS Founding Director Jeffrey Alexander.
The event was organized around a festschrift-in-the making, edited by Celso Villegas (Kenyon College) and Galen Watts (Waterloo University). Contributors to this book, along with other invited scholars, have all worked closely with Jeff, have made independent use of his ideas, or have been his most engaged critics. We welcomed a selected pool of invited scholars from around the world, friends, colleagues and students of Jeff spanning the length of his career.
As we celebrated Jeff’s legacy, we reflected on his influence and shared our gratitude for the many ways he generously supported and inspired us, both intellectually and personally.
This event was generously funded by the Center for Cultural Sociology and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale.
Jeffrey Alexander Conference Photo Gallery
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Phil Smith
Lisa McCormick, Nadya Jaworsky, Ron Jacobs
Nadya Jaworsky
Mustafa Emirbayer, Isaac Reed, Jason Mast
Giuseppe Sciortino
Matthew Norton
Fred Wherry and Phil Smith
Giuseppe Sciortino, Dmitry Kurakin, and Martina Cvajner
Culture Club: Agnes Ku, Anne Kane, Jeffrey Alexander, Phil Smith and Ron Jacobs
Culture Club: Agnes Ku, Anne Kane, Jeffrey Alexander, Phil Smith and Ron Jacobs
Reception
Jeffrey Alexander and Julia Sonnevend
Jeffrey Alexander and John Ahn
Pedro Callari Triviño Moisés, Jeffrey Alexander, Frederic Vandenburghe
Jason Mast, Anna Lund, Nadya Jaworsky
Toasting Jeff
Jessie Dong, student and filmmaker, at reception
Reception
Reception
Jean-François Côté and Anna Lund
Anna Lund
Phil Smith, Anne Kane and Lyn Spillman
Lyn Spillman
Nelson Arteaga Botello, Carlo Tognato, Nicolás Rudas, Jeffrey Alexander, Pedro Callari Triviño Moisés, Carla Escobar Ortiz, Danny Mollericona Alvaro, Phil Smith
Willa Sachs, Sena Şahin, Jeffrey Alexander, Shivani Choudhary
Nelson Arteaga Botello, Jeffrey Alexander, Carlo Tognato
Nicolás Rudas, Jeff Alexander, Pedro Callari Triviño Moisés
Yingyu Zang and Jeffrey Alexander
Dmitry Kurakin
Jeff with Canadians: Fuyuki Kurasawa, Jean-François Côté, Lisa McCormick, Jeff, Lily Ivanova, Galen Watts, Mervyn Horgan
Fuyuki Kurasawa, Jeff Alexander, Mervyn Horgan
Celso Villegas, Jeff Alexander, Galen Watts
Anne Kane and Jeffrey Alexander
Shivani Choudhary
Carla Escobar Ortiz, Shivani Choudhary and Willa Sachs
Jason Mast, Phil Smith, Anne Kane, Jeffrey Alexander, Ron Jacobs, Agnes Ku, Lisa McCormick, Isaac Reed
Celso Villegas and Nicolás Rudas
Dmitry Kurakin and Phil Smith
Danny Mollericona Alvaro, Nicolás Rudas, Yingyu Zang
Yingyu Zang and Nadine Amalfi
Yingyu Zang, Shivani Choudhary, Sena Şahin
Anna Lund and Phil Smith
Jenny Bae, Sena Şahin, Jeffrey Alexander, Shivani Choudhary, Carla Escobar Ortiz
Danny Mollericona Alvaro, Phil Smith, Jenny Bae
Marcel Knöchelmann and Carla Escobar Ortiz
Eric Malczewski and Jeffrey Alexander
Ron Jacobs and Agnes Ku
Nicolás Rudas and Pedro Callari Triviño Moisés
Jeffrey Alexander and Anna Lund
Phil Smith and Anne Taylor
Jeffrey Alexander, Anne Taylor, and Isaac Reed
Anne Taylor and Jeffrey Alexander
Phil Smith with CCS Fellows
Phil Smith, Anna Lund, Dmitry Kurakin
Jeffrey Alexander, Nadine Amalfi, Dr. John Leventhal
Jeffrey Alexander speech
Jeffrey Alexander
Banquet group photo
Photos from Working towards Meaning Together: Jeffrey Alexander’s Legacy for Sociology - October 2024.
Thank you to all of the participants who shared photos to be included in this gallery.