2015 Junior Theorists’ Symposium: Conference Program

The conference program for the 2015 JTS, hosted at the University of Chicago on August 21, 2015

8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee and Bagels

9:00 – 10:50 | Race and Gender

• Clayton Childress (University of Toronto) – “Cultures of Inequality: The “Double Match” of Race and Meaning”
• Sarah Mayorga-Gallo (University of Cincinnati) – “Diversity as Ideology in Multiethnic Spaces” 
• Jason Orne (University of Wisconsin – Madison) – “A Theory of Sexual Racism”
  

Discussant: Patricia Hill Collins (University of Maryland)

10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee

11:00 – 12:50 | The State and Globalization

• Anna Skarpelis (New York University) – “Insidious Racialization: Welfare State Development in 20th Century Germany and Japan”
  
• Ana Velitchkova (Centre for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies) – “Multiple Language Carriers and Status: Political Organization and Embodied Competences in the Global Esperanto Field”
  
• Jeffrey Weng (University of California – Berkeley) – “Linguistic Modernity: The Limits of Ideology and State Power in the Creation of Modern Standard Languages”

Discussant: George Steinmetz (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor)

12:50 – 2:00 | Lunch

2:00-2:30 | Junior Theorist Award

• Claire Laurier Decoteau (University of Illinois – Chicago) 
  
• Isaac Ariail Reed (University of Virginia)
  

 
2:30 – 4:20 | Culture

• Natalie B. Aviles (University of California – San Diego) – “Moving targets in the 'War on Cancer': toward a pragmatic event-based theory of organizational culture in the National Cancer Institute”
  
• Larissa Buchholz (Harvard University) – “The Rise of China in the Global Art Auction Market: A Global Field Analysis”
  
• Brad Vermurlen (Notre Dame) – “The Production of Marginal Culture: The Case of Calvinist Hip-Hop”

Discussant: Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University)

4:30 – 5:45 | After-panel: On Abstraction

• Kieran Healy (Duke)
• Virag Molnar (The New School)
• Andrew Perrin (UNC-Chapel Hill)
• Kristen Schilt (University of Chicago)
  

5:45 – ? | Theory in the Wild: Beer, wine, and good conversation (off-site)

 

The Junior Theorists Symposium is an open event. In order to facilitate planning, please RSVP to juniortheorists@gmail.com with the subject line “JTS RSVP.” We suggest an on-site donation of $20 per faculty member and $10 per graduate student to cover event costs. The exact locations will be announced later this summer.