Spring Conference 2022 ~ Program

              Back off Screen, Back on Track: The Return of an Invented Tradition

FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 2022

All sessions to be held at 53 Wall Street, New Haven - Room 208

11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 1:00 Welcome: Philip Smith, CCS Director, Yale University
1:00 - 2:55

Session I ~ The Meanings of the Everyday and the Exceptional

Chair: Isabel Jijón, Postdoctoral Associate, Fox International Fellowship Program, Yale University

Tracy Adams, CCS Postdoctoral Fellow
De-Commemoration as Social Protest

Jan Vana, CCS Postdoctoral Fellow
Normal Love: Reading Sally Rooney as Social Theory of Romantic Relationships

Jason Mast, Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow at the University of Trento and Yale University
Eventness and the contest of meanings over January 6 2021

Federico Brandmayr, Postdoctoral Associate, MacMillan Center, Yale University
The Use of Sociological Knowledge in Everyday Practices of Critique and Justification

Respondent: Renxue Wan, CCS Visiting Graduate Student, Fudan University

2:55 - 3:30 Coffee Break
3:30 - 4:30

Session II ~  Keynote - Boundaries and Borders

Chair & Respondent: Ronald Jacobs, CCS Faculty Fellow, State University of New York at Albany

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, CCS Faculty Fellow, Masaryk University
It’s all about the boundaries: Navigating migrant and refugee issues through boundary work

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 2022

All sessions to be held at 53 Wall Street, New Haven - Room 208

11:45 - 12:45 Lunch
12:45 - 2:20

Session III ~ Making Sense of National Experiences

Chair: Samantha Larkin, Yale University

Willa Sachs, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
Presidential versus Civil Power: Public Opinion, Feminism, and Party Politics in the U.S.

Nicolás Rudas, CCS Junior Fellow, Yale University
How radical rhetoric escalates: Marxist commitment and group affiliation at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia in the 1970s

Rebeca Herrero Saenz, State University of New York at Albany
A Computational Grounded Theory Approach to the Changing Media Narratives of Organ Donation and Transplantation in Spain (1954-2019)

Jiwon Yun, Yale University
Living Through a Regime of Immobility with Alternative Mobilities: Lessons from YouTube Vlogs on South Korean Government-Mandated Facility Quarantine

Respondent: Tracy Adams, CCS Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University

2:20 - 2:50 Coffee Break
2:50- 4:10

Session IV ~ Symposium ~  Durkheim and the Durkheimian Tradition

Chair : Jeffrey Alexander, CCS Director, Yale University

Marcel Fournier, University of Montreal
Who is Durkheimian? (in this room)

Steven Lukes, New York University
DURKHEIM’S ENEMIES

Marcus Morgan, CCS Faculty Fellow, University of Bristol, UK
Much more than ‘yet another’ book on Durkheim

4:10 - 4:30 Coffee Break
4:30 - 5:10

Response: Philip Smith, CCS Director, Yale University

The Durkheimian Cosmos: Contentious Map Making

5:10 - 5:25 Closing Remarks: Jeffrey Alexander, CCS Director, Yale University
6:00 - 10:00 Banquet ~ Zinc Restaurant