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Culture Section of the American Sociological Section

20th Anniversary Dinner and Mini-Conference on Modeling

August 14-15, 2007

New York City

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The Culture Section will hold the first of two mini-conferences this summer to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Culture Section of the ASA. We will also hold an anniversary dinner on August 14. (This is in addition to our usual hotel reception.) Information on times and locations, as well as the mini-conference program, is below. We ask that you register for each of these activities by sending in the form at the bottom of the page by June 15, 2007. Space is limited, on a first-come first-serve basis, so please send in your registration forms in as soon as possible! We do expect to reach capacity, especially for the dinner on August 14. Please contact Kate Levitt at asaculture-conference@communication.ucsd.edu with any of your questions and concerns regarding these events and other mini-conference logistics.


Tuesday, August 14, 2007

6pm-9pm: Anniversary Dinner

Salam Restaurant

104 W. 13th Street at 6th Avenue


Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Mini-conference on Models in Cultural Sociology

The Wagner School and Sociology Department

New York University

Puck Building, 295 Lafayette Street


8:30am - 9:00 am Coffee and breakfast


8:45am - 9:00 am Welcome

Chandra Mukerji


9:00am - 10:00am First Plenary

Traditions of modeling in cultural sociology


Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University Institutions

Elizabeth Long, Rice University Narratives

John Mohr, UC Santa Barbara Formalizations


10:30am - 11:00am Coffee Break


11:00am - 12:00pm Second plenary

"Found" models and models we use to study them


Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Swarthmore College Art

Fred Turner, Stanford University Counterculture

Eviatar Zerubavel, University of Pennsylvania Ancestry

Richard Peterson, Vanderbilt University Culture


2:00pm - 3:00pm Topical Workshops on Modeling Practices I


A. Scenes

Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University

David Grazian, University of Pennsylvania

Mark Jacobs, George Mason University

B. Democracy/Politics

Michael Schudson, UC San Diego

Barry Schwartz, Swarthmore College

Nina Eliasoph, USC


C. Arts/Media

Tia DeNora, University of Exeter

Vera Zolberg, New School University

Lyn Spillman, University of Notre Dame


D. Education/identity

Mitchell Stevens, New York University

Elizabeth Armstrong, University of Indiana

Amy Binder, UC San Diego


3:00pm - 3:30pm Coffee Break


3:30pm - 4:30pm Topical Workshops on Modeling Practices II


A. Toolkits/epistemic cultures

Ann Swidler, UC Berkeley

Karin Knorr-Cetina, University of Chicago

Michele Lamont, Princeton University


B. Political Culture

Richard Madsen, UC San Diego

Andrew Perrin, UNC Chapel Hill

Brian Steensland, Indiana University


C. Gender/sexuality

Cynthia Epstein, CUNY

Steve Epstein, UC San Diego

Stephanie Laudone, Fordham University


D. Things/materiality

Harvey Molotch, New York University

Vida Bajc, University of Pennsylvania

Bart Simon, Concordia University


4:30pm - 6:00pm Closing remarks and Reception


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