PROGRAM DETAILS
Thursday, April 10th
6:30p
Welcoming Reception at The Study Hotel
Friday, April 11th
8:00a
Breakfast at The Graduate Club
9:00a
Welcome
Elijah Anderson, Richard Breen, Chair of Sociology, Julia Adams, Deputy Provost
9:30a
Challenges for Human Capital
Orly Clerge, Yale, Panel Moderator
Sean J. Drake, University of California, Irvine
The Model Majority: How Achievement and Ethnoracial Composition in High Schools Destabilize the Racial Order
Joanne W. Golann, Princeton University
The Paradox of Teaching Behavioral Norms at an Urban School
Vani Kulkarni, Yale University
The Rites of Urban Public School Discipline: Restoring Order or Creating Liminality?
Jeff Lane, Princeton University
The Digital Street
10:45a
Coffee and Snack Break
11:00a
A Roundtable: On Doing Fieldwork
Elijah Anderson, Yale; Kathryn M. Dudley, Yale; Mitchell Duneier, Princeton, Jack Katz, UCLA;
William Kornblum, CUNY
Julia Rozanova, Yale University, Moderator
12:30p
Lunchtime Keynote Address
Patti Adler, University of Colorado
Administrative Interference and Overreach: the ‘Adler Controversy’ and the 21st Century University
2:00p
Policing and Imprisonment
Waverly Duck, University of Pittsburgh, Panel Moderator
John M. Eason, Texas A&M University
Finding Beauty in the Hideous: Prison Placement as Reputation Management
Reuben Jonathan Miller, University of Michigan
Race, Carceral Devolution and the Transformation of Urban Poverty in America
Forrest Stuart, University of Chicago
Becoming ‘Copwise’: How Impoverished Residents Negotiate Hyperpolicing in Everyday Life
3:30p
Coffee and Snack Break
4:00p
Everyday Race Relations
Martina Cvajner, Yale, Panel Moderator
Aasha M. Abdill, Princeton University
In & Out: The Public and Private Fathering Behaviors of Men in Low-Income Black Communities
Orly Clerge, Yale University
The Walk: Class and Ethnic Faultlines in an Urban Black Neighborhood
Zandria F. Robinson, University of Memphis
Not Stud’n ‘em White Folks: Black Racial Epistemologies in the Post-Soul South
5:30p
Break – Cocktails
7:00p
Dinner at The Graduate Club
Keynote Address, Alice Goffman, University of Wisconsin-Madison
On the Run: Fugitive Life in an American City
Saturday, April 12th
8:00a
Breakfast at the Graduate Club
9:00a
Urban Spaces and Everyday Interactions
Al Hunter, Northwestern University, Panel Moderator
Martina Cvajner, Yale University
Who Owns the Green? Race, Social Marginality and Interactions in a Public Space
Mike DeLand, UCLA
A Tale of Two Courts: Park Careers and the Character of Public Space
Esther Chihye Kim, Researcher, Beijing, China
Black in Beijing: Social Attitudes and Racial Interactions
10:30a
Coffee and Snack Break
11:00a
Migrants and Immigrants
Orly Clerge, Yale, Panel Moderator
Carol Cleaveland, George Mason University
‘They took all my clothes and made me walk naked for two days so I couldn’t escape’: Latina Immigrant Experiences of Human Smuggling in Mexico
Dana Moss, University of California, Irvine
Repression’s Reach: Dictatorships and Diaspora Communities
David Trouille, James Madison University
Jugadores del Parque: Immigrants, Play, and the Creation of Social Ties
12:30p
Lunchtime Keynote Address
Fred Wherry, Yale University
Fragments from an Ethnographer’s Field Guide: Thick Descriptions, Practical Skepticism, and Big Theory
2:00p
Family, Education and Socialization
Vani Kulkarni, Yale, Panel Moderator
Elizabeth Anne Clark White, UCLA
Timework: An Occupational Ethnography of Guiding
Casey Stockstill, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Stuff of Childhood
Amy Jones, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The New Affirmative Action: Students of Color and the Burden of Diversity Work
**CHANGE IN VENUE**
Reconvene at Quinnipiac Club: Final Two Panels and Evening Events
3:15p
Coffee and Snack Break
3:45p
Performativity and Identity
Martina Cvajner, Yale, Panel Moderator
Celia Bense Ferreira Alves, Paris 8 University, France
Peter’s Place. The Collective Construction of Charisma
Christina Wells, Yale University
From Margin to Center: The Sociology of Art, Ethnographically Wrought
Jooyoung Lee, University of Toronto
Becoming a Snitch
4:45p
French and American Traditions in Urban Ethnography
Elijah Anderson, Yale, Panel Moderator
Carlos Javier Ortiz, Chicago
“We All We Got: A Lost Generation,” Photography from the Streets of Philadelphia and Chicago
Henri Peretz, Paris 8 University, France
The Problem of Black Juvenile Delinquency in the Chicago Tradition
Jean-Michel Chapoulie, Paris, FR
Urban Ethnographic Research in French Sociology