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May 27, 2020
CCS Director Jeffrey Alexander presented his work on “The Performativity of Objects” in front of over two-hundred participants worldwide in a zoom lecture hosted by our...
Isaac Reed
May 20, 2020
CCS Faculty Fellow Isaac Reed’s new book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies, is now available from University...
Philip Smith
May 15, 2020
CCS Director Philip Smith has been awarded the Fellowship of the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” for the project, “Wagner,...
Labels: Making Independent Music
May 7, 2020
The new book, Labels. Making Independent Music, by CCS Faculty Fellow & AJCS Associate Editor Ian Woodward , and Yale Sociology/CCS graduate and Faculty Fellow Dominik...
Jeffrey C. Alexander
May 5, 2020
Read Jeffrey Alexander’s  comments on the effects of collective/cultural trauma during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the article COVID-19 Is Traumatizing All of Us...
May 1, 2020
Jeffrey Alexander will be presenting his paper, The Performativity of Objects, remotely via Zoom in a department seminar for our affiliate center, The Bar Ilan Center for...
Jeffrey Alexander
April 9, 2020
Jeffrey Alexander recently wrote this short commentary for a compilation of remarks written by various experts, All Great Minds Think for Themselves, for the Social Trends...