Culture and Society Workshop at UCSD
Schedule 2007 – 2008, 12:30-1:50 in SSB 101
Fall 2007
October 25 (Thursday) (Cancelled due to university closure)
November 15 (Thursday) Courtney Bender (Columbia University)
“Becoming a Mystic: Narrative and Interpretive Practice in Contemporary Spirituality”
December 4 (Tuesday) Mary Blair-Loy and Erin Cech (UCSD)
January 15 (Tuesday) Mignon Moore (UCLA)
February 12 (Tuesday) Andrew Lakoff (UCSD), Eric Klinenberg and Mark Treskon (New
York University)
"Of Risk and Pork: Urban Security and the Politics of Rationality"
March 4 (Tuesday) Evan Schofer (UC, Irvine)
“The Structural Sources of Associational Life”
Spring 2008
April 1 (Tuesday) Eric VanRite (UCSD)
April 15 (Tuesday) Andrew Cheyne and Amy Binder (UCSD)
April 29 (Tuesday) POSTPONED
Nina Bandelj (UC, Irvine) and Frederick Wherry (Univ. Michigan)
“The Cultural Wealth of Nations”
May 9 (Friday) 4th Annual UCSD Culture Conference
May 27 (Tuesday) Jeff Kidder (UCSD)
“Appropriating the City: Space, Theory, and Bike Messengers”
Papers will be available one week before the meeting at: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jhevans/
Convenors: Amy Binder, Mary Blair-Loy, John H. Evans, Andy Lakoff, Kwai Ng
Schedule for Previous Years of the Culture and Society Workshop