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the 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting, August 6-10, is now open. 

iF you were unable to attend last year's (2020)asa first Virtual meeting please peruse those theory events below

SCHEDULE OF THEORY EVENTS  2020
All Times were pacific standard time

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Monday August 10TH, 2020

Globalizing Social Theory
Date:                                 Monday, August 10 8:30-10:10 am (PST)
Organizer/Presider:           Nitsan Chorev (Brown University)
Panelists:
                                                 Claire Decoteau (University of Illinois-Chicago), "A Postcolonial Theory of Autism"
 
                                                 Ryan Centner (London School of Economics), "Clashing Power Geometries: Circulations of Radical                                                             Social Theory and the Transformation of Centrality in Caracas"
 
                                                 Wen Xie (University of Chicago), "Generation as Structure: Market Transformation in the Socialist                                                                 Industrial Heartland in China"
 
                                                 Anna Katharina Skarpelis (Harvard University), "Treacherous Translation: Globalizing Comparative                                                             Social Theory"
 

 
Lewis A. Coser Lecture and Salon
Date:                                The discussion of Monika's lecture will be rescheduled for September.
Organizer:                            Greta Krippner (University of Michigan)
Presider:                                Simone Polillo (University of Virginia)
 
Lecturer:                                Monika Krause (London School of Economics), "On Reflexivity"*
                                                *Note: Monika's pre-recorded lecture will be available ahead of this live discussion.
We regret any inconvenience that rescheduling may cause, and we look forward to seeing you at this exciting event in September!
        

Tuesday August 11th, 2020.

 
Democracy in Distress
Date:                                Tuesday, August 11 8:30 - 10:10 am (PST)
Organizer/Presider:          Greta Krippner (University of Michigan)
 
Panelists:                              Ivan Ermakoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison), "Law Against the Rule of Law"
 
                                                 Dylan Riley (University of California-Berkeley), "Type Reversion: Political Genetic Codes and the Turn to
                                                 the Right"
 
                                                 Stephanie Mudge (University of California-Davis), "Harbingers of Distress: The Rise of Politics-for-Its-
                                                 Own-Sake"
 
                                                 Marco Garrido (University of Chicago), "Dissensus as a Dilemma of Democracy"
 
Discussant:                           Margaret Somers (University of Michigan)
          
 
 
Canonization
Date:                                Tuesday, August 11 10:30 am - 12:10 pm (PST)
Organizer/Presider:          Greta Krippner (University of Michigan)
 
Panelists:                              Julian Go (University of Chicago), "Provincializing, and Then Expanding, the Canon"
 
                                                Julia Potter Adams (Yale University) and Hannah Brueckner (NYU Abu Dhabi), "Can Women Be
                                                Remembered?" Wikipedia, Scholarly Notability, and Mechanisms of Disciplinary Canonization"
 
                                                Stefan Bargheer (UCLA), "Heritage Without History: Collective Forgetting and the Making of the Canon"
 
Discussant:                          Michael Burawoy (University of California-Berkeley)
 
          
 
Heretical Theories
Date:                                Tuesday, August 11 2:30 - 4:10 pm (PST)
Organizer/Presider:          Sarah Quinn (University of Washington)
 
Panelists:                              Freeden Blume Oeur (Tufts University), "Beneath the Veil: The Du Boisian Flame and the Psychic Life of
                                                 Race"
 
                                                 Fiona Greenland (University of Virginia), "Iconoclasm as Heretical Meaning-Making: Bringing Animism
                                                 Back into Social Theory"
 
                                                 Isaac Ariail Reed (University of Virginia), "Kafka's Sociology: On the Relationship Between Power and
                                                 Authority"
 
                                                 Marcin Serafin (Polish Academy of Sciences), "The Unfinished Project of Human Ecology: The Emotional                                                   Dynamic of an Unsuccessful Theorizing Dyad"   

Theory Section Round Tables

Table 1. Theorizing Polity and Society
Date:                                 Tuesday, August 11 12:30 - 1:30pm (PST)
Organizer:                             Angelina Grigoryeva (University of Toronto) 
Presider:                                Alissa Boguslaw (Coe College)
 
Presentations:                      Alissa Boguslaw (Coe College), "The Competition for Kosovo’s Flag and Anthem and the Limits of                                                               Sovereignty"
 
                                                  David Dietrich (Texas State University), "God-King Trump: A Weberian Examination of Executive                                                                  Authority in the Trump Era"
 
                                                  Victor Lidz (Drexel University College of Medicine) and Helmut Staubmann (University of Innsbruck),                                                          "Power in the Context of Political Homeostasis"
 
                                                   Sudhir Chella Rajan (IIT Madras) "A Social Theory of Corruption" (Note: presenter will submit a pre-                                                             recorded presentation and/or will also participate in the live event)
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Table 2. Novel Theoretical Approaches to Social Life
Date:                                   Tuesday, August 11 12:30 - 1:30pm PST
​Organizer:                                Angelina Grigoryeva (University of Toronto) 
Presider:                                   Dmitry Kurakin (Higher School of Economics)
 
Presentations:                         Justin Beauchamp, "Pedagogical Responsibility: A Max Weber and Paulo Freire Comparison"
 
                                                     Francisco Durán del Fierro (University College London), "The Ethical Dimension of Critique in                                                                         Higher Education"
 
                                                     Dmitry Kurakin (Higher School of Economics) "Mystery, Culture, and Cognition: Towards a                                                                             Sociological Understanding of Mystery Within the 'Cognitive Turn' Debate"
 
                                                     Filipe Carreira da Silva (University of Lisbon), "Beginnings: A Heretical Social Theoretical Approach"
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business meeting

Tuesday, August 11th from 1:30 - 2:10 pm (PST)

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