8:30 - 9:00
Breakfast

9:00 - 9:15
Welcoming
Thomas Di Prete, Chair of Columbia Sociology Department

9:15 - 11:00
Faculty Panel on C Wright Mills:
Todd Gitlin (Columbia)
Stanley Aronowitz (CUNY)
Steven Lukes (NYU)

11:00 - 11:15
Break

11:15 - 12:45
Graduate Student Panel 1
"Location of Power: Public, Party, Elite"

Andreas Koller (NYU)
"Mills' Anticipation of Habermas' Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: The Emergence of the Power Elite as a Result of the Transformation of the Public "

Solon Simmons (U. of Wisconsin)
“The Democratic Disconnect: Comparing the Stories Political Parties Tell About Themselves to Those That People Tell About Them”

Tom Medvetz (U. C. Berkeley)
"The Transformation of American Think Tanks, 1970 to today"

Discussant: Charles Tilly (Columbia)

12:45 - 2:00
Lunch

2:00 - 3:30
Graduate Student Panel 2
"Expertise and the Workings of Power"

Gregoire Mallard (Princeton)
“The American Nation Facing Nuclear Proliferation 1945-1953: The Post-War Challenges to Sovereign Power in the Construction of Expertise on Nuclear Proliferation”

Nidhi Trehan (LSE)
"Neo-liberal Human Rights Entrepreneurs as a New Power Elite? The Unintended Consequences of the 'Romani Rights Movement' in Eastern Europe"

Meg Stalcup (U. C. Berkeley)
"The “War on Drugs” and National Security"

Discussant: Priscilla Ferguson (Columbia)

3:30 - 3:45
Break

3:45 - 4:45
Keynote Address:
Paul Rabinow (U.C. Berkeley)

4:45 - 5:45
Wine and Cheese