Agenda

Cultural Dynamics Conference:
Princeton University, March 30-31, 2001

The conference is co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University

Friday, March 30, 2001 Dodds Auditorium - Robertson Hall

8:30 a.m. - 9:15 a.m.. - Coffee and Pastries

9:15 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.. - Welcome, Stanley N. Katz, Princeton University Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies

9:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. - The Sociology of Monsters: Embodied Philosophy Uncovered in Japanese and American Popular Culture.

Keynote address by Albert Bergesen, Department of Sociology, Arizona University.

Respondents -- Michèle Lamont, Department of Sociology, Princeton University. Second respondent TBA.

11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. - Panel: Identity and Social Change

One Body: Black Identities & Religious Community
Michelle Fowles, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

National Identity and Social Change: Evidence from Central and East European Transition Countries
Nina Bandelj, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

What You Take for Granted: Religion, Family and Gender Today
Penny Becker, Department of Sociology, Cornell University.

Finding the Self in the Mass: Identity in the Age of Polls, Surveys and Statistics
Sara Igo, Department of History, Princeton University.

12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. - Lunch

1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Panel: History and Memory

The Memory of Surrender: Representations of Moments of Historical Transition
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Department of Sociology, Swarthmore College.

Policy-making Regimes and Portrayals of the Nation in Postwar Japan and the Germanys
Julian Dierkes, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

The Socio-Cognitive Organization of Kinship: Steps to a Sociology of Ancestry and Descent
Eviatar Zerubavel, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

Show Me the Money: Who Do Universities Honor?
Miguel Centeno and Kelly Ann Hoffman, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

3:15 p.m. - 4:45 p.m. - Technology and Social Change. Keynote address by W. Russell Neuman, University of Pennsylvania and University of Michigan.

Respondents - Viviana Zelizer, Department of Sociology, Princeton University and Edward Tenner, Department of English, Princeton University.

 

Saturday, March 31, 2001 Dodds Auditorium - Robertson Hall

8:45 a.m. - 9:15 a.m. - Coffee and Pastries

9:15 a.m.- 10:45 a.m.  - Stability and Change in the Expression of Public Opinion from Antiquity to the Internet.

Keynote address by David Zaret, Department of Sociology, Indiana University.

Respondents -- John Martin, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University and Paul Starr, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

11:30 a.m.- 1:00 p.m. - Panel: Cultural and Social Change

Public Discourse, Public Opinion & Demographic "Facts": Debate Over Single-Parent Families, Working Wives and Mothers, and Family Size in the Twentieth-Century United States
Margaret Usdansky, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

Cross-talk in Action: Rethinking the Culture-Network Link
Ann Mische, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University.

When Old Media Were New: Historical Lessons for the Study of the Internet
Eszter Hargittai, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

The Implications of Things
Harvey Molotch, New York University and University of California, Santa Barbara

1:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. --  Lunch

2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. - Culture and Globalization: Emerging Trends and Theoretical Approaches.

Keynote address by Diana Crane, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

Respondents - Paul DiMaggio, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.. Second respondent TBA.

33:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m. - Closing remarks

Sponsored by the Sociology Department and the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University. Support from the Pew Charitable Trusts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through grants to the Center is gratefully acknowledged.