Thinking about the Impossible December 4–5, 2026

Humanities Quadrangle, Yale University

Sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center 

and the Center for Cultural Sociology.

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Co-Conveners:

  • Carlos Eire ~ T. Lawrason Riggs Professor of History and Religious Studies
  • Ivano Dal Prete ~ Senior Lecturer, History and History of Science, Medicine & Public Health
  • Philip Smith ~ Professor of Sociology; Director, Center for Cultural Sociology
  • Etienne Caron ~ Assistant Professor of Immunobiology

CCS Speakers Include: CCS Director Philip Smith; Faculty Fellow Dmitry Kurakin; and Junior Fellow Steven Arrigg Koh.

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