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9:30-10:00: Registration (pre-register online)
10:00-11:00: Keynote Address
11:15-12:45: Session I
12:45-1:30: Lunch
1:45-3:15: Session II
3:30-5:00: Session III
5:15-6:15: Closing Plenary
6:30: Reception

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Keynote Address

Patricia Ticineto Clough: “Troubling the Sociological Imagination: Methodological Considerations”

Session I

Panel 1: The Field of Vision

Discussant: Bill Kornblum

• Marnie Brady: Shock and Awe in Midtown: Policing as Spectacle
• Karen Gregory: Solves All Problems: Psychic Readers in New York City
• Tsedale Melaku: Manhattanism Now and Then: A Comparative Analysis of Congestion in Midtown between the 1940s and Today
• Erin Siodmak: Telling Truth and Telling Lies: Questions of Methodology

Panel 2: Bodies and Sexualities

Discussant: Patricia Ticineto Clough

• Nolen Gertz: What’s Wrong With the Torturer
• Melissa Maldonado-Salcedo: The Critical Aesthetics of Disorder: The Crisis of Size in Buenos Aires
• Laura Mauldin: The Hear & Now: Deafness, Biotechnology and the Family
• Alyson Spurgas: (Un)Queering Identity: The Biosocial Production of Intersex/DSD

Session II

Panel 3: Labor and Accumulation in Crisis

Discussant: Eric Lichten

• Jared Hanneman: Re-thinking Unproductive Labor in Capitalism
• Elaine da Silveira Leite: Crisis or Opportunity? The Rise of Personal Finance in Times of Crisis in Brazil
• Justin Myers: The Neoliberalization of Everyday Life: Decomposition, Reintegration and Accumulation Through Finance Capital’s Debt-Bondage
• Abe Walker: The Revolution Will Not Be Narrativized: Union Competition and Rank-and-File Power

Panel 4: Secularism and Religion

Discussant: Saadia Toor

• John D. Boy: The Crisis of Western Secularity: Secularization as a Spatial Process
• Jesse Carlson: ‘Big Children in University Chairs’: Wondering about a Sociology of Miracles
• Sam Han: Auto-deconstruction of Christianity: A Political Appraisal
• Mitra Rastegar: Meet the Muslims: Ambivalent Tolerance in Post-9/11 Muslim Community Profiles in the New York Times

Session III

Panel 5: Subjects of History

Discussant: Victoria Pitts-Taylor

• Cathy Borck: Productions of Subjectivity: Discursive and Relational Intimacies in Contexts of Analysis
• Sebastian G. Guzman: Power, Legitimacy and Crisis: the Question of Historical Continuity in Bourdieu and Habermas
• Michael D. Phillips: When is Enlightenment?: Kant and Foucault on the Subject and Society
• Aaron Weeks: Foucault and Freudo-Marxism

Panel 6: Reimagined Communities and Publics

Discussant: Frances Fox Piven

• Alan Bourke: Relevance, Irreverence, and Rhetoric: Reflections on the Democraticization of Sociological Knowledge
• Laura Lovin: Experiences and Productions of Ethnicity: from Ethnicities that Sell to Ethnictities that Stick
• Francesca Manning: From Community to Communism
• Lilia Raileanu: Waiting in Uncertainty
• Haj Yazdiha: Cultural Hybridity: Reimagining the Collective

Closing Plenary

Sujatha Fernandes, Eric Lichten, Randy Martin, and Saadia Toor: “Responding to the Crises of Our Time: Critique and the Sociological Imagination”