Location: Philosophy Hall
(in front of Rodin’s The Thinker map)
8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration
and Breakfast. 301 Philosophy Hall.
8:40 a.m. Welcoming
David Stark, Chair, Sociology Department. 301 Philosophy Hall.
9:00-10:45 a.m. Panels 1-3
Format:
Each presenter will talk for up to 20 minutes. Then the discussant will
comment on all the papers for up to 20 minutes, and then the discussion
will then be
opened up to
questions and comments from faculty and students in the audience and
responses by the panelists.
1. Migration and
Inequality [Room 201B Philosophy Hall]
Yao Lu, Sociology, Department,
Columbia
University
·
Feeding into the Underclass:
Trajectory
of
Undocumented Latino Immigrants
Esther Chihye Kim,
(Sociology
Department,
Yale University)
·
Politics of Reproduction
Among Urban
Migrants in
China
Chang Kuei-Min,
(Department of
Political
Science, Columbia University)
·
Why Poor Villagers
Demand Less
Social
Protection? Decomposition of the Rural-Urban Gap in Social Policy
Preference
Weihua An, (Sociology
and Social
Policy,
Harvard University)
·
Beliefs and Attitudes
toward
Economic Inequality
in Contemporary China: What do Cross-National Data tell us?
Dong-Kyun Im,
(Sociology
Department, Harvard
University)
2. The Worth of Networks
[Room 507 Philosophy Hall]
David Stark, Chair, Arthur
Lehman
Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Columbia University
·
Reciprocity in Online
Relationships
Patrick
Park, (Sociology Department, Cornell University)
·
Kin-Network Structure,
Size and
Social Support
Eric Hedberg, (Sociology Department, The University of Chicago)
·
Signaling Trust and
Creating Value
through
Social Networks: Structural and Individual Contributions
Chia-Jung Tsay,
(Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School)
3. Civic Engagement and Resistance [Room 201A
Philosophy Hall]
Debra Minkoff, Chair, Department of
Sociology,
Barnard
College, Columbia University
·
Making Citizens: How
Associations
Stimulate Individual
and Civic Engagement
Matthew Baggetta,
(Sociology
Department,
Harvard University)
·
Painting with
Permission: Legal
Graffiti in New
York City
Ronald Kramer,
(Department of
Sociology,
Yale University)
·
Sites of Resistance:
Death Row
Homepages and The
Politics of Compassion
Ezra Tessler, (History
Department,
Columbia
University)
11:00 – 12:45
p.m. Panels 4-6
4. History, Contentious
Politics, and the Public Sphere [Room 201A]
Andreas Koller, Research Fellow,
Social Science
Research
Council and New York University
·
Domestic Civility:
Locating Private
Political
Action
Alison Gerber,
(Sociology
Department, Yale
University)
·
Battling with the Bhils:
Gandian
Legatees and
the Economics of Non-Violent Protest
Thakur Vikramaditya,
(Department
of
Anthropology, Yale University)
·
Small State, Big
Revolution:
Geography and the
Revolution in Laos
Anoulak Kittikhoun,
(Department of
Political
Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York)
5. Evaluation of Quality, Knowledge,
and Expertise [Room 507]
Angela
Aidala, Associate Research
Scientist
(MSPH), Sociology Department, Columbia University
·
Cultural Dimensions of
Quality in
Art Museums:
Lessons for Evaluation in Non-Profit Organizations
Mark Pachucki,
(Sociology
Department,
Harvard University)
· Knowing We Know:
Detecting Scientific Consensus
Uri Shwed,
(Department of
Sociology,
Columbia University)
·
The Birth of the
American Medical
Association:
An Organizational Solution to an Epistemological Problem
Owen Whooley,
(Department of
Sociology, New
York University)
6. Educational
Achievement and Class Reproduction [Room 201B]
Shamus Khan, Sociology Department,
Columbia
University
·
Negotiating Race and
Gender: How High Schools affect Achievement through the Allocation of
Status Rewards
Megan Holland, (Sociology
Department, Harvard University)
·
Apron Strings Attached:
Parental
Dependence and
Hindered Development
Sylvie Honig,
(Sociology
Department, the
University of Chicago)
·
Toward a Theory of Generations
Yelena Biberman,
(Political
Science, Brown
University)
12:45-1:30 p.m. Lunch
[301 Philosophy Hall]
1:30 – 2:30
Keynote Speech [301 Philosophy Hall]
Saskia Sassen, Robert S.
Lynd
Professor of Sociology, Member of the Committee on Global Thought,
Columbia
University, and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of
Economics.
2:45-4:30 p.m. Panels 7-8
7. The Inertia of
Capital [Room 507]
Josh Whitford, Sociology Department,
Columbia
University
·
Mortgage debt as a Motor
of
Spatio-temporal Fix
Matthias Thiemann,
(Department of
Sociology, Columbia University)
·
Does Urban Reputation
Matter?
Estimating the
Cost of a “Bad” Reputation on Housing Prices
Matthew Kaliner,
(Sociology
Department, Harvard University)
·
Developmental Effects of
Local
Government
Revenue Effort under Devolution 1987-2002
Lisa Cimbaluk,
(Sociology
Department, Cornell
University)
8. Boundaries and
Ethnicity [Room 201A]
Ervin Kosta, Sociology
Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York
·
Relational Nationalism
in Serbia
Danilo Mandić,
(Sociology
Department
Harvard University)
·
Uneven Development and
Categorical
Inequality: A
Relational Synthesis
Kacper Poblocki,
(Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University)
·
Sleepwalking to
Segregation: Drift,
Layering,
and Synchronization of Multicultural and Counter-Terrorism Policy in
the United
Kingdom 2000-07
Christopher Bail,
(Sociology
Department,
Harvard University)
4:45 – 6:30 p.m. Panels
9-10
9. Economic Sociology
[Room 507]
Daniel Beunza, Business School,
Columbia University
· Unproductive Labor as
Gift in Modern
Capitalism
Jared Hanneman,
(Sociology
Department,
Graduate Center, City University of New York)
· Integrating or
Fragmenting: Gravity
in the
Global Trade 1950-2000
Min Zhou, (Sociology
Department,
Harvard
University)
· Extending the W(y) Model
of Production Markets: Ambiguity, Segmentation, and Dynamics
Xiaolu Wang,
(Sociology Department,
Columbia University)
10. Urban Space and
Economic Disparities [Room 201A]
Cuz Potter, Urban Planning, Columbia
University
·
"Space for Lease": Small Business and
Gentrification in a Chicago Neighborhood
Teresa Gonzales,
(Sociology
Department,
University of California Berkeley)
·
Participation in
Context:
Neighborhood Diversity
and Organizing Involvements in Boston
Van Tran, Corina
Graif and Alison
Denton
Jones, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)
·
Parallel Cities: Urban
Form,
Urbanization and Residential
Segregation in a Latin American City
Omar Pereyra, (Sociology Department,
Brown University)
6:45-7:30
p.m. Informal dinner [310 Philosophy Hall]
8:00
p.m. Play [Columbia University’s Miller Theatre. 2960
Broadway at 116th Street]
Toni Morrison’s, Margaret
Garner & Assia Djebar’s
*The
Daughters of Ishmael*
The performance will be accompanied by
a discussion with Morrison, Djebar, Leila Ahmed (Harvard Divinity
School), Richard Danielpour (Manhattan School of Music) Angela Davis
(University of California, Santa Cruz), Gina Dent (UCSC), Clarisse
Zimra (Southern Illinois University), and
the performers, opening questions of feminism, femininity, slavery, and
Islam. The event will be moderated by University Professor Gayatri
Chakravorty Spivak.
See: flyer