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Cultural Dynamics
Conference
March 30-31, 2001
Princeton University
The conference is co-sponsored by the Sociology Department
and the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton
University
Program
updated: March 28, 2001
| Friday,
March 30 |
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 |
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. |
| 3:30 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.
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