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1 Culture Section 20th Anniversary Symposium

Cultural Sociology and its Others

Thursday July 31, 2008

Harvard Business School


Preliminary Program 5/08

8.15 am – 9.00 am Coffee and Breakfast


9.00 am --9.15 am Welcome: Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame


9.15 am --10.30 am Plenary: Boundaries and Trading Zones I


Chandra Mukerji, University of California, San Diego

Karen Cerulo, Rutgers University

Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University

Diana Crane, University of Pennsylvania


10.30 am- 11.00 am Coffee Break


11.00 am - 12.15 pm Topical Workshops


A. Culture and Stratification


Cynthia Epstein, Graduate Center, CUNY

Mitchell Stevens, New York University

Elizabeth Armstrong, Indiana University, Bloomington

Omar Lizardo, University of Notre Dame


B. Popular Culture and Communications


Ron Jacobs, University at Albany, SUNY

Laura Grindstaff, University of California, Davis

Jennifer Lena, Vanderbilt University


C. Culture and Politics


Mabel Berezin, Cornell University

Andrew Perrin, University of North Carolina

Jean-Pierre Reed, University of Memphis


12.15 pm --1.45 pm Lunch


1.45 pm -- 3.00 pm Topical Workshops


A. Culture and Economy


Paul Hirsch, Northwestern University

Mary Blair-Loy, University of California, San Diego

Fred Wherry, University of Michigan


B. The Arts and Humanities


Priscilla Ferguson, Columbia University

Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College

Victoria Johnson, University of Michigan


C. Culture and History


John R. Hall, University of California, Davis

Jason Kaufman, Harvard University

Genevieve Zubrzycki, University of Michigan


3.00 pm – 3.30 pm Coffee Break


3.30 pm – 4.45 pm Plenary: Boundaries and Trading Zones II


Nicola Beisel, Northwestern University

Mark Jacobs, George Mason University

Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University

Michele Lamont, Harvard University


4.45 pm -- 6.30 pm Closing Remarks and Reception

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