| FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 2024 | |
| 11:45 - 1:00 | Lunch |
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1:00 - 1:15 |
Welcome: Yagmur Karakaya ~ CCS Associate Director ~ Yale University |
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1:15 - 2:15 |
Session I ~ Keynote Jeffrey Guhin ~ University of California at Los Angeles Structural Narratives as Biographical Anchors: Towards a Narrative Theory of Alienation Chair & Respondent: Yagmur Karakaya ~ CCS Associate Director ~ Yale University |
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2:15 - 2:30 |
Coffee Break |
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2:30 - 3:45 |
Session II ~ Social Performance and Gender Chair: Yuqing Dorothy Wu ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University Nicolás Rudas ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University Reacting to the performance of violence: resonance and the depths of authenticity Carla Escobar Ortiz ~ Sociology Graduate Student ~ Yale University Unlocking Gender: Self-Transformation Narratives, Performativity, and Subjectivity Shifts in the Experiences of Formerly Incarcerated Women Jane Jia-Yin Wang ~ State University of New York at Albany Overrepresented, overlooked, and under pressure: Understanding the “international homeless” Chinese queer/women through intersectionality lenses. Respondent: Eleanor Townsley ~ CCS Faculty Fellow ~ Mount Holyoke College |
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3:45 - 4:15 |
Coffee Break |
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4:15 - 5:25 |
Session III ~ Civil Sphere in War and Peace Chair: Tracy Adams ~ CCS Research Affiliate Brad West ~ CCS Faculty Fellow ~ University of South Australia Drawing on Reserves? (Re)theorising civil sphere and market influence in civilian-military relations Steven Arrigg Koh ~ CCS Visiting Fellow ~ Boston University School of Law The U.S. Supreme Court and the American Civil Sphere Respondent: Ronald Jacobs, CCS Faculty Fellow, State University of New York at Albany |
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5:25 - 6:45 |
Reception ~ 210 Prospect Street |
| SATURDAY, APRIL 27, 2024 | |
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8:45 - 9:15 |
Continental Breakfast |
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9:15 - 10:30 |
Session IV ~ Solidarity Reimagined: Social Movements Online and Offline Chair: Chenyang Xie ~ CCS Visiting Graduate Student ~ Fudan University Willa Sachs ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University “People’s Courts” and Alternative Visions of Legality: The Role of Mock Trials in Social Movement Mobilization Muhammad Amasha ~ Sociology Graduate Student ~ Yale University Meeting Swidler’s Challenge Beyond Dual Process Theory: Intellectuals’ Political Moral Dilemmas Settled through Asabiyya-based Consequentialist Ethics Yingyu Zang ~ CCS Visiting Graduate Student ~ Fudan University Bring the Audience Back Online: Social Performance with Chinese Gen Z’s Discourse of “Social Phobia” Respondent: Sena Şahin ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University |
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10:30 - 10:45 |
Coffee Break |
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10:45 - 12:05 |
Session V ~ Speaking Truth to Power: Actors of Narration Chair: Muhammad Amasha ~ Sociology Graduate Student ~ Yale University Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup ~ CCS Postdoctoral Fellow ~ Yale University How to tell the truth and make friends: Activist strategies of truth-telling Asma Rahimyar ~ Sociology Graduate Student ~ Yale University Examining Afghans’ Right to Interiority Beyond the International Humanitarian Regime’s Hermeneutical Paradigm Yuqing Dorothy Wu ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University Rethinking Soft Power: Beyond State Ideology to Cultural Sociology Respondent: Jeffrey Guhin ~ University of California at Los Angeles |
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12:05 - 1:15 |
Lunch |
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1:15 - 2:40 |
Session VI ~ Sights of Resonance Chair: Willa Sachs ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University Yagmur Karakaya ~ CCS Associate Director ~ Yale University Gifting of Hagia Sophia: An Icon’s Role in Extractive Sacralisation Marcel Knöchelmann ~ CCS Postdoctoral Fellow ~ Yale University A Poetic Being-in-the-World: The Strong Program and the Theory of Resonance in Conversation Anne Taylor ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University The Enchantment of ‘Cianalas’: Homesickness, Tourism and the Sacred in the Scottish Highlands Respondent: Dmitry Kurakin ~ CCS Faculty Fellow ~ Yale University |
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2:40 - 3:00 |
Coffee Break |
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3:00 - 4:00 |
Session VII ~ Symbolic Boundaries: The Cultural Sociology of Belonging Chair: Anne Taylor ~ CCS Junior Fellow ~ Yale University Qing Tingting Liu ~ State University of New York at Albany “Be Yourself”: Unpacking the Meaning of a Working Holiday Visa to Chinese Youths Fanling Cheng ~ State University of New York at Albany Identity Art Reexamined: New Trends in Biography Narrative and Presentation Strategies Respondent: Tracy Adams ~ CCS Research Affiliate |
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4:00 - 4:15 |
Closing Remarks: Dmitry Kurakin ~ CCS Faculty Fellow ~ Yale University |
| 6:00 - 10:00 |
Banquet ~ Lazeez Restaurant ~ Conference participants only |