Spring Conference 2019 ~ Program

Session I - What is a state of exception?

Isaac Ariail Reed, CCS Faculty Fellow, University of Virginia

Chair:  Jeffrey Alexander, CCS Director, Yale University
Respondent: Marcus Morgan, CCS Faculty Fellow, University of Bristol, UK

Session II - Symbolism and Value in Political and Economic Life

Chair: Todd Madigan, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
Vasfiye Betul Toprak, University of Virginia
The Two Bodies of Ataturk: The Turkish Revolution as Successful Political Theology
Vanessa Bittner, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
The Kaepernick Effect – Imitation as Path to Symbolic (Re-)Production
Dorothy Wu, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
How Pop Culture Allays Resentment: Japan’s Influence On China Today
Respondent: Natalie Aviles, Yale University Presidential Visiting Fellow ; Co-Convener of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology Workshop

Session III - Autonomy and Solidarity in North America

Chair: Rui Gao, CCS Visiting Faculty Fellow, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Mervyn Horgan, CCS Visiting Fellow, University of Guelph, Canada
Ritual, recognition and reconciliation: some perils and prospects for theorizing the civil sphere in Canada
Chris Worden, University of Guelph, Canada
#MeToo, the Arts, and Under-Enunciated Societalization
James Hurlbert, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
Voluntarism and American Society
Respondent: Adam Valen Levinson, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University

Session IV - Expressive Meanings and Performance

Chair:  Zhuojun Zhang, CCS Visiting Graduate Student, Fudan University, China
Saara Liinamaa, University of Guelph, Canada
“Ne Travaillez Jamais”: Cultural work, conceptual art and institutional artistic critique”
Anne Taylor, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
Audiences Becoming Actors in Charismatic Performance: A study of Sarah Osborn and George Whitefield in the Great Awakening
Helena Funk, CCS Exchange Scholar/ Visiting Student, University of Leipzig, Germany
Language Choice - A Cultural Sociological Phenomenon?
Respondent: Ian Sheinheit, CCS Predoctoral Fellow, State University of New York at Albany

Session V - Symbols as Objects

Chair and Respondent: Dana Hayward, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
Eric Malczewski, CCS Faculty Fellow, School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech
Delineating Material Symbolism/Materiality
Dicky Yangzom, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
Objects in socializing the Self: The Hipster, the Vintage Collector, the Bargain Hunter, and the DIY

Session VI - The Culture of Social Support

Chair: Xi She, CCS Postdoctoral Fellow, China Agricultural University, Beijing
Vida Bajc, UEP Postdoctoral Associate, Yale University
Uncertainty and Practice in a Contested Sanctuary
Elham Pourtaher, State University of New York at Albany
Making sense of the transformation of HIV/AIDS meanings in the Iranian public sphere: comparing results between topic modeling and qualitative coding
Respondent: Emily Campbell, CCS Visiting Graduate Student, The Graduate Center, City University of New York and Visiting Lecturer in Sociology, College of the Holy Cross

Session VII - The Puzzle of Literary De-Consecration: Lessons from an overdetermined case study

Philip Smith, CCS Director, Yale University

Chair and Repsondent: Ron Jacobs, CCS Faculty Fellow, State University of New York at Albany