Agenda
Culture, Contention and Conflict:
October 11 and 12, 2002, Princeton University
Supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and hosted by the
Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Friday, October 11, 2002
4:00 p.m.: Public Symposium (Robertson, 016)
Panelists
Gerald Graff, University of Illinois at Chicago, Department
of English
Michael Kammen, Cornell University, Department of History
Nell Painter, Princeton University, Department of History
Moderator
Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs.
Saturday, October 12, 2002 (Working Meeting)
Introductions (9:00 a.m. to 9:15 a.m.)
Panel 1: Public Controversies (9:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.)
Panelists
Amy Binder, University of Southern California, Department
of Sociology
“Public
School Curriculum Controversies: The Cases of Afrocentrism
and Creationism in the Late 20th Century United States.”
Bethany Bryson, University of Virginia, Department of Sociology
“Common Culture: Conflict and the Meaning of Multiculturalism
in English Literature”
Steven Tepper, Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural
Policy Studies
“Culture,
Conflict and Community: Rituals of Protest or Flairs of
Competition”
Discussant
Jennifer Hochschild, Harvard University, Department of Government
Moderator
Arcadio Diaz-Quinones, Princeton University, Spanish and
Portuguese Languages and Cultures
Panel 2: Public Opinion (11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
Panelists
Wayne Baker, University of Michigan, Business School
“North Star Falling: A Question of Values”
Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University, Department of Sociology
“Public Opinion
and Political Vulnerability: Why Has the National Endowment
for the Arts Been Such an Attractive Target”
Nancy DiTomaso, Rutgers Graduate School of Management
“Race,
Ethnicity and God: Religious Conservatives and Racial Politics"
John Evans, University of California-San Diego, Department
of Sociology
“Have Americans’
Attitudes Become More Polarized? – An Update”
Discussant
Susan Herbst, Northwestern University, Department of Political
Science
Moderator
Larry McGill, Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural
Policy Studies
Lunch (12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.)
Panel 3: Media Depictions (1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.)
Panelists
Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department
of Sociology
“Mediating Cultural Conflicts: Newspapers’
role in focusing or diffusing the scope of conflict in the
abortion debates in Germany and the U.S.”
Susan Olzak, Stanford University, Department of Sociology
“Right-Wing Violence
and the Public Sphere in Germany: The Dynamics of Discursive
Opportunities”
Brian Steensland, Indiana University, Department of Sociology
“Cultural Conflict
through Policy Framing: The Case of Debates over Guaranteed
Income Policy in the U.S., 1966-1980.”
Discussant
Larry Bartels, Princeton University – Director, Center
for the Study of Democratic Politics, Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs
Moderator
Tom Levin, Princeton University, Department of Germanic Languages
and Literatures
Group Discussion (3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.)
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