2016 Junior Theorists’ Symposium

Location: Seattle University 
Wyckoff Auditorium (Engineering 200)

August 19, 2016

To facilitate planning, please RSVP by email to juniortheorists@gmail.com with the subject line “JTS RSVP.”

JTS is a donation-based event, with a suggested donation of $20 per faculty member and $10 per graduate student.

Click below to donate in advance through the Junior Theorists PayPal account.

See below for the full schedule of speakers

8:30 – 9:00 | Coffee and Bagels
 
9:00 – 10:50 | Panel I

• Dan Menchik (Michigan State University) – “The Dynamics of Professional Status Competitions”
• Linsey Edwards (Princeton University) – “Time and Efficacy: Temporal Patterns, Uncertainty, and ‘Neighborhood Effects’”
• Shai Dromi (Harvard University) and Sam Stabler (Yale University) – “Sociological Critique, Pragmatism, and Moral Practice”
• Discussant: Ann Mische (University of Notre Dame)

 
10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee Break
 
11:00 – 12:50 | Panel II

• Abigail Sewell (Emory University) – “The Racism-Race Reification Process: A Meso-Level Framework for Understanding Racial Health Disparities”
• katrina quisumbing king (University of Wisconsin – Madison) – “A Return to Du Bois’ Color Line: Re-Centering Conquest, Exclusion, and Imperialism”
• Sunmin Kim (University of California – Berkeley) – “Contingent Racial Formation: Challenges to the Racial Ideology of the Dillingham Commission (1907-1911)”
• Discussant: Tukufu Zuberi (University of Pennsylvania)

 
12:50 – 2:00 | Lunch
 
2:00-2:45 | Junior Theorist Award
Claudio Benzecry (Northwestern University)
 
2:45 – 4:35 | Panel III

• Anya Degenshein (Northwestern University) – “Beyond Risk: Entrapment, Surveillance, and the Creation of Criminal Biographies”
• Patrick Bergemann (Columbia University) – “From Local Advantage to Global Repression: A Theory of Denunciation”
• Chris Rea (University of California – Los Angeles/Max Planck Institute) – “Domination in 2D: Power and Institutional Change in an Era of Markets”
• Discussant: Mounira M. Charrad (University of Texas – Austin)

 
4:45 – 6:00 | After-panel: On Theory and Method

• Christopher A. Bail (Harvard University)
• Tey Meadow (Columbia University)
• Ashley Mears (Boston University)
• Frederick F. Wherry (Yale University)

 

6:00 – ? | Theory in the Wild: Beer, wine, and good conversation 
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Off-site: The Garage, 1130 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122

 If you have any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to contact the organizers, Anna Skarpelis (aks402@nyu.edu) or Clayton Childress (cchildress@utsc.utoronto.ca)