AUGUST 10, 2018
Perelman Center Auditorium (Lower Level)
Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
113 South 36th Street
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA, PA
Perelman Center Auditorium (Lower Level)
Perelman Center for Political Science & Economics
113 South 36th Street
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
PHILADELPHIA, PA
PLENARY SESSIONS:
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THE CRISIS OF THE AMERICAN UNIVERSITY IN COMPARATIVE AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
9:30am- 11:00am |
AN AGE OF CRISIS: SOCIAL, POLITICAL, CULTURAL, AND HISTORICAL
4:00pm-5:45pm |
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Full Schedule:
9:00am: Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30- 11:00am: Morning Plenary - The Crisis of the American University
11:10am- 12:40pm: Concurrent Sessions
PANEL 1: CONSTRUCTING CRISIS - Julia Adams, Discussant
PANEL 2: CITIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN CRISIS - Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Discussant
PANEL 3: CRISIS AND CONTENTIOUS ORGANIZING - Eric Schoon Discussant
PANEL 4: SOUTHERN SOLUTIONS - Melissa Wilde, Discussant
12:40- 2:10pm: Catered Lunch
2:10- 3:40pm: Concurrent Sessions
PANEL 5: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND CRISIS - Anthony Chen, Discussant
PANEL 6: THE STATE AND/IN CRISIS - Richard Lachmann, Discussant
PANEL 7: CRISES OF DEMOCRACY - James Mahoney, Discussant
PANEL 8: CRISES AND MOBILIZATION - Charles Kurzman, Discussant
4:00 - 5:45pm: Afternoon Plenary - An Age of Crisis, Social, Political, Cultural, & Historical
6:00- 9:00pm: Buffet Dinner and Reception
9:30- 11:00am: Morning Plenary - The Crisis of the American University
- Speakers: Clyde W. Barrows, Michael Bérubé, & Kim Voss
11:10am- 12:40pm: Concurrent Sessions
PANEL 1: CONSTRUCTING CRISIS - Julia Adams, Discussant
- Alissa Boguslaw, "Almost Sovereign: Constructing Crisis in Kosovo”
- Jean Louis Fabiani, “Crises in Education During the French Third Republic: Theories of Crisis as Building Strategies for Survival in the Field”
- Constance Nathanson and Henri Bergeron, “'Crisis in Context': Sagas of HIV Blood Contamination in the U.S. and France”
- Josh Pacewicz and Ben Merriman, “A Divergence, not a Rupture: State Political Ecologies and the Disarticulation of Federal Policy”
- Atef Said, “Ongoing Revolutionary Crisis or Crisis in the Historiography of Revolutions: Notes from the Arab Spring and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011”
PANEL 2: CITIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN CRISIS - Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Discussant
- Benjamin Bradlow, “Embedding Cohesion: Public Goods Distribution in São Paulo, 1989-2016”
- Oliver Cowart, "Capital, Locality and Power in the Epistemology of Local Governance."
- Luis Flores, “Splitting the American Oikos: The Household-Market Divide and Socio-Economic Transformations”
- Ya-Wen Lei, “The Flexible Welfare State: Legitimation, Local Development, and 'Housing for All' in China”
- Simeon Newman, “The Making of Violent Urban Latin America, 1940s-1980s”
PANEL 3: CRISIS AND CONTENTIOUS ORGANIZING - Eric Schoon Discussant
- Maryam Alemzadeh, “Bureaucracy of Brotherhood: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Revolutionary Institution-Building During the Iran-Iraq War”
- Kristin George, “Embattled Terrains: The Duality of Religious and Political Struggle”
- Hüseyin Raşit, “Competing Revolutionaries: Legitimacy and Leadership in Revolutionary Situations”
- Stuart Schrader, “A Comparative Compulsion: Theorizing the Moving Map of Counterinsurgency”
- Luyang Zhou, “How the Bolshevik Revolution Made Itself Un-Replicable for Chinese Communists: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Repression Regimes in Russia and China”
PANEL 4: SOUTHERN SOLUTIONS - Melissa Wilde, Discussant
- Chungse Jung, “Global Crisis and Popular Protests: Protest Waves of the 1930s and 2010s in the Global South”
- Nada Matta, “Class Capacity and Cross-Gender Solidarity: Women Organizing in an Egyptian Textile Factory”
- Christy Thornton, “Capitalist Crisis and Global Economic Governance: Reform from the South”
- Natalie Young, “Chinese Citizen or Global Citizen? Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism at an International School in Beijing”
- Amy Zhou, “'For the Mothers and Children of our Country': HIV Policy Innovation from the Global South”
12:40- 2:10pm: Catered Lunch
2:10- 3:40pm: Concurrent Sessions
PANEL 5: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND CRISIS - Anthony Chen, Discussant
- Paul Chang, ”The Evolution of the Korean Family: Historical Foundations and Present Realities”
- Pierre-Christian Fink, “The Leading Edge of a New Financial Regime: Crisis at Franklin National Bank”
- Dan Hirschman, “Transitional Temporality”
- Onur Ozgode, “Resilience Governmentality: Toward a Genealogy of Systemic Risk Regulation”
- Beverly Silver, “Crisis, Class and Hegemony: The Current Crisis in World-Historical Perspective”
PANEL 6: THE STATE AND/IN CRISIS - Richard Lachmann, Discussant
- Johnnie Lotesta, “The Right and the Crisis of Labor”
- Erez Maggor, “The Politics of Innovation: Lessons from Israel 1980-2008”
- Chandra Mukerji, “The Wars of Religion and Sovereignty”
- Alexander Roehrkasse, “Counting in Crisis: Measuring American Marriages, 1867¬–1906”
- Yueran Zhang, "Preempting 'No Taxation without Representation': The Case of Taxing Private Homeownership in China”
PANEL 7: CRISES OF DEMOCRACY - James Mahoney, Discussant
- Barış Büyükokutan, “The Knowledge Trap: Turkey’s Buddha Cult and the Crisis of Populist Power”
- Mathieu Desan, “Crisis and Political Conversion: The Case of the French Neo-Socialists”
- Andreas Koller, “Democratic Crisis: 'Gobsmacked' Post-2016 Political Science and Self-Understanding of the American Public Sphere”
- Marcel Paret, “From Passive Revolution to Fractured Militancy in South Africa’s Democratic Transition”
- Anna Skarpelis, “Beyond Aryans: Making Germans in the Nazi Empire”
PANEL 8: CRISES AND MOBILIZATION - Charles Kurzman, Discussant
- Ahmad Al-Sholi, “Limits of a Labor-Free Democracy Movement: The Case of the Failed Arab Spring in Jordan”
- Laura Acosta Gonzalez, “Using Victimhood for Doing Politics: Why the Colombian Peace Referendum Failed”
- Jonah Stuart Brundage, “The Social Sources of Geopolitical Power: French and British Diplomacy and the Dynastic-Patrimonial State, 1689–1789”
- M. Ali Kadivar, Adaner Usmani, and Benjamin Bradlow, “The Long March: Contentious Mobilization and Deep Democracy”
- Şahan Savaş Karataşlı, “Crisis and Nationalism in World History, 1492-Present”
4:00 - 5:45pm: Afternoon Plenary - An Age of Crisis, Social, Political, Cultural, & Historical
- Speakers: Elisabeth S. Clemens, Isaac Reed, George Steinmetz, & Robin Wager-Pacifici
6:00- 9:00pm: Buffet Dinner and Reception
Speakers:
Clyde W. Barrow
studies state theory, American political thought, higher education policy, and gambling policy. His recent books include The Entrepreneurial Intellectual in the Corporate University (2017) and Toward a Critical Theory of States: The Poulantzas-Miliband Debate After Globalization (2016). |
Michael Bérubé
serves on the American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and is the author of ten books including The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments. |
Elisabeth Clemens
is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago as well as a former Master of the Social Sciences Collegiate Division. Her research explores the role of social movements and organizational innovation in political change. She is the current editor of the American Journal of Sociology. |
Isaac Reed
is a historical and cultural sociologist with particular interests in the philosophy of social science, the historical origins of American modernity and the development of the American state, and the social theory of power. Most recently, he was co-editor of Social Theory Now (Chicago 2017). |
George Steinmetz
is a social theorist and a historical sociologist of states, empires, and social science. He is currently working on two main projects. The first is a project on the emergence of sociology in the former British and French overseas colonies between the 1930s and the 1960s. The second is a reconstruction of sociology as historical socioanalysis. He is the current chair of the ASA section on Comparative and Historical Sociology. |
Kim Voss
studies social movements, labor, inequality, higher education, and comparative-historical sociology. Her current research explores contemporary social movements, worker identities in a new era of immigration, and the shifting competitiveness of college admissions. She is Associate Dean of the Graduate Division at UC Berkeley, and past chair of the ASA section on Comparative and Historical Sociology. |
Robin Wagner-Pacifici
is the author of a number of books, most recently What is an Event? (Chicago 2017) and The Art of Surrender: Decomposing Sovereignty at Conflict’s End. |
Thanks to Supporters:
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University of California--Berkeley, Department of Sociology
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University of Pennsylvania, School of Arts and Sciences
Robert A. Fox Leadership Program |
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University of Michigan, Department of Sociology |
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The Ohio State University, Department of Sociology |
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Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association |
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