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Bill Sewell Conference Schedule
May 30 – 31, 2008
Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street

Friday, May 30, 2008

3:00 – 3:15 pm                          Welcome and Introductions                     
 
3:15 – 5:15 pm                          Opening Panel: Logics of History
           
Geoff Eley, University of Michigan
“Going Back to Gramsci”

Lynn Hunt, UCLA
“Cultural History without Paradigms”
                       
William Reddy, Duke University
"The Implications of Recent Cognitive Research for the Study of History"

Discussant: Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

5:15 pm                                    Reception

Saturday, May 31, 2008

9:30 – 10:00 am                         Breakfast
 
10:00 - 12:00 noon                     Comparison Panel

Nicola Beisel, Northwestern University
"Revisiting the Political Economy of the Sex/Gender System: Schemas, Resources, and the Meaning of Marriage in America's Globalizing Economies"

Neil Brenner, NYU
“Epistemologies of Comparison in Globalized Urban Studies”

Cora Goldstein, California State at Long Beach
“Design and Contingency in History and Politics”

Manu Goswami, NYU
“The Times of Comparison”

Discussant:  Moishe Postone

12:00 – 1:00 pm                        Lunch

1:00 – 3:00 pm                          French History Panel

Christine Haynes, UNC Charlotte
“Toward a De-Reification of the ‘Social’: The Culture of Capitalism in Restoration France”

Jennifer Heuer, UMass Amherst
“’Without the right to petition… all other rights are only illusory’: Political Culture and the Nation in early Restoration France”

Tessie Liu, Northwestern University
“Race, Citizenship, and Freedom in the French and Haitian Revolutions”

Discussant: Allan Tulchin, Shippensburg University

3:00 – 3:15 pm                          Coffee Break

3:15 – 5:15 pm                          Social Transformation Panel

Belinda Davis, Rutgers University
“Coming to Activism in 1950s-60s West Germany”
           
Deborah Gould, University of Pittsburgh
“Moving Politics: Affect, Feelings, and Shifting Political Horizons in the Fight against AIDS”

Grace Huang, St. Lawrence University
“Building Strength from Weakness: Chiang Kai-shek’s Politics of Shame”

Inchoon Kim, Yonsei University (Korea)
“Historical Events as Transformations of Structures: The 1987 Democratization Movement in South Korea”

Discussant: Evalyn Tennant

5:15 – 5:30                               Break

5:30 -6:15 pm                           Closing Discussion

6:15 pm                                    Dinner

This conference has been made possible by the generous support of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT), the France Chicago Center, the Department of Political Science, the Department of History, and the Norman Wait Harris Fund of the Center for International Studies.