Civil Sphere in Latin America ~ Program

The conference will be held at the Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

Presentations and discussion will take place in room 208. Coffee and snacks will be served in the adjoining 2nd floor Rotunda. Lunch for participants will be in room 108.

Time
Friday, June 24 ~ Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
8:45 ~ 9:15

Continental Breakfast
9:15 ~ 9:30
Opening Remarks
Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University
Carlo Tognato ~ National University of Colombia
9:30 ~ 10:30
México
The Civil Sphere and the Hierarchical Structures of Power in México: Between Democracy and Authoritarianism
Nelson Arteaga ~ Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México
co-author: Javier Arzuaga ~ Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
10:30 ~ 11:00

Coffee Break
11:00 ~ 12:00
Argentina
Shaping Solidarity in Argentina’s Civil Sphere: The Public Reframing and Repair of Invisible “Macho” Gender Violence
Maria Luengo ~ Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
12:00 ~ 1:15

Lunch
1:15 ~ 2:15
Chile
Collusion in the Retail Industry and Civil Indignation in Chile. Expanding Jeffrey Alexander’s Civil Sphere Theory (CST)
M. Angélica Thumala ~ Catholic University of Chile & University of Edinburgh
2:15 ~ 2:45

Coffee Break
2:45 ~ 3:45
Brazil
The Carnivalesque Public Space and the Civil Sphere
Fernando Lima Neto ~ Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro
3:45 ~ 4:15

Coffee Break
4:15 ~ 5:15
Brazil
Police Officers in Contradiction: Civilizing and Uncivilizing Pressures in Police Daily Activities in São Paulo
Mayumi Shimizu ~ University of Tokyo, Japan
7:00

Dinner for participants at home of Jeffrey Alexander
Time
Saturday, June 25 ~ Whitney Humanities Center, Room 208
8:45 ~ 9:15

Continental Breakfast
9:15 ~ 10:15
Colombia
Universities as Civil Institutions: Enacting Dissent and Resistance in Colombian Campuses
Carlo Tognato ~ National University of Colombia
10:15 ~ 11:45

Coffee Break
10:45 ~ 11:45
Cuba
La Joven Cuba: Confrontation, Conciliation and Civil Demand Through Blogging
Liliana Martínez Pérez ~ Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), México
11:45 ~ 1:00

Lunch
1:00 ~ 2:00
Venezuela
¿La Clase Media en Positivo? The Civil and Uncivil Uses of “the Middle Class” in Venezuela, 1998-2014
Celso Villegas ~ Kenyon College
2:00 ~ 2:30

Coffee Break
2:30 ~ 3:30
México
Performing Sociedad as Civil Code in Disputes with Local Government in West México
Trevor Stack ~ University of Aberdeen
3:30 ~ 4:00

Coffee Break
4:00 ~ 5:00
Responses
Peter Kivisto ~ Augustana College
Giuseppe Sciortino ~ University of Trento
Isabel Jijon ~ Yale University
5:00 ~ 5:30
Comments
Carlo Tognato ~ National University of Colombia
Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University
 
6:30 ~ 9:30

Private banquet at Study Hotel

Workshop participants only