Under the theme Third Wave, Fourth Wave, Critical Turn? the mini conference will bring together over 40 comparative historical sociologists to consider the sub-discipline’s present and future. Find the full schedule here.
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2024 ASA Mini-Conference
Intersectional Solidarity: Emerging Comparative Historical Perspectives
Comparative Historical Sociology Mini-Conference
McGill University
August 9, 2024Register for Free: http://bit.ly/4c7WbBq (lunch provided)
chsminicon2024@gmail.comState Violence and Empire
Luis Rubén González Márquez · Heidi Nicholls · Corey R. PayneGender, Reproduction, & State Power
Joss Greene · Khoa Phan Howard · Esther MoraesLand, Settlement, and Post-coloniality
Lauren Crosser · Ben Kaplow · Lindsay Maurer ·Rahardhika UtamaDemocracy, the State, & Redistribution
Samantha Agarwal · Nabila Islam · Juho Korhonen
Racial Categories and Racialization
Elizabeth Adetiba · Sharan Kaur Mehta & Sarah Iverson · Demar LewisSolidarity and Labor
Benjamin Abrams · Rishi Awatramani · Youbin Kang · Bahar TabakogluPlenary: Unsettling Settler Colonialism
Julian Go · James Fenelon · Areej Sabbagh-Khoury · Yvonne Sherwood -
2024 CHS Miniconference
August 9, 2024
Montreal
Intersectional Solidarity: Emerging Comparative Historical Perspectives
The 2024 CHS Conference will center emerging comparative historical perspectives on the theme of intersectional theory, analysis, and solidarity. The planning committee encourages the submission of papers around, but not limited to, the following themes:
- Indigeneity, Indigenous peoples, decolonial politics and intersectional solidarity
- Empire, nation, nationalism, citizenship, migration, and borders
- Race, ethnicity, class, gender, and sexuality
- Revisiting modernity: politics, religion, identity
- States, Political Economy, and (Post)Coloniality
Please submit a title and abstract of not more than 500 words to the planning committee at chsminicon2024@gmail.com by February 29, 2024.
Please contact any member of the organizing committee, if you have questions: Samantha Agarwal (sagarwal@american.edu), Rishi Awatramani (rawatra1@jhu.edu), Berfu Aygenc (berfuaygenc@gmail.com), Benjamin Kaplow (benjamin.kaplow@yale.edu), Veda Hyunjin Kim (vhkim@owu.edu) -
Join us! 2023 ASA Mini-Conference
Making Space: Thinking Against the Grain in Historical Sociology
Register here for the upcoming CHS Mini-Conference: bit.ly/chsmini2023
Following last year’s mini-conference and ongoing conversations within historical sociology, this conference aims to create a space to further extend the purview of historical sociology, and to critically reflect on roads not taken. As such, this year’s panels will touch on questions of continuity and rupture, colonialism, resistance, racial capitalism, and understudied critical approaches to both the archive and the field. In line with the conference theme, we will close the day with an invited plenary on “Thinking Against the Grain.” The panel will highlight the experiences and contributions of sociologists Theresa Beardall, Zine Magubane, Michael Murphy, and Vrushali Patil who have modeled alternative approaches to historical sociology.
We welcome scholars who have not yet found a place in the mainstream of the discipline or CHS subfield, or who draw from adjacent disciplines and subfields to enrich our conversations and move the field of historical sociology in new and exciting directions. The mini-conference is open to scholars of all levels, and we especially encourage graduate students and junior scholars to join. In order to make the conference accessible to participants, we intend to keep fees as minimal as possible; only faculty will be charged nominal fees. A catered lunch will be offered along with an invitation to continue the conversation at a local bar (drinks not covered).
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2023 CHS Mini-Conference
Making Space: Thinking Against the Grain in Historical Sociology
Register here for the upcoming CHS Mini-Conference: bit.ly/chsmini2023
Following last year’s mini-conference and ongoing conversations within historical sociology, this conference aims to create a space to further extend the purview of historical sociology, and to critically reflect on roads not taken. As such, this year’s panels will touch on questions of continuity and rupture, colonialism, resistance, racial capitalism, and understudied critical approaches to both the archive and the field. In line with the conference theme, we will close the day with an invited plenary on “Thinking Against the Grain.” The panel will highlight the experiences and contributions of sociologists Theresa Beardall, Zine Magubane, Michael Murphy, and Vrushali Patil who have modeled alternative approaches to historical sociology.
We welcome scholars who have not yet found a place in the mainstream of the discipline or CHS subfield, or who draw from adjacent disciplines and subfields to enrich our conversations and move the field of historical sociology in new and exciting directions. The mini-conference is open to scholars of all levels, and we especially encourage graduate students and junior scholars to join. In order to make the conference accessible to participants, we intend to keep fees as minimal as possible; only faculty will be charged nominal fees. A catered lunch will be offered along with an invitation to continue the conversation at a local bar (drinks not covered).
For questions, please email the conference organizers at chsmini2023@gmail.com.
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2022 CHS Mini-Conference
Engaging History: Legacies, Omissions, and New Directions in Comparative Historical Sociology
2022 Mini-Conference, ASA CHS Section
Registration and COVID Guidelines:
Registration is now closed. If you would like to be placed on the waitlist please email us at chsminiconference2022@gmail.com and we will let you know as soon as we know if spots are available.
Due to the increased number of COVID cases and in line with LA city and county guidelines we will be requiring all guests to wear a mask during the event. While food will be served we encourage people to take their food outside so as to minimize mask removal indoors. Please also be prepared to show your COVID vaccination card upon request.
Livestream:
Program:
USC Taper Hall – August 5th, 2022
8:30–8:45 AM Welcome/Introduction
8:50–10:20 AM Panel 1: Targeted Medicine: Race, Disease, and Death in the US and Brazil THH 202
- Aja Antoine-Jones, “Germs and Jim Crow: The Effect of Residential Segregation on Tuberculosis Mortality in Atlanta, Georgia 1920-1927.” University of California, Berkeley.
- Surbhi Shrivastava, “From home to the hospital: Medicalization of childbirth among black mothers in nineteenth-century Brazil.” Emory University.
- Marzena Woinska, “Managing Micro-Interactions: The Cultural Meaning of Targeting.” CUNY, Hunter College.
- Danielle McCarthy, “How Death Gave Birth to a Gendered Anti-Black Field: A case study of the OB/GYN Profession.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
DISCUSSANT: Alexandre White, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University
10:30–12:00 PM Panel 2: After Decolonization: Colonial Legacies and Connected Sociologies of Indigenous Land Rights, Political Movements and Global Migration Flows THH 202
- Rina Agarwala, “The Migration-Development Regime: Recasting Global Migration Studies to illuminate History and Class.” Johns Hopkins University.
- Mabrouka M’Barek, “The Proletarianization of Kinship-Based Qabilas: France’s colonial strategy to accelerate the Tunisian hinterland integration into global capitalism in 1881-1940.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Mushahid Hussain, “Grounding Decolonization: Political Movements, Development Regimes, and the Prehistory of Bangladesh, 1947-71.” Cornell University.
- Ricarda Hammer, “Decolonization beyond Political Independence: Departmentalization, the Politics of Recognition, and Anticolonial Imaginaries from Martinique.” University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
DISCUSSANT: Julian Go, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
12–1:30 PM Lunch
CONCURRENT PANELS – ROOMS THH 202 & THH 208
1:30–3:00 PM Panel 3: Erasures and Eruptions: Processes of Denial and Persistence THH 202
- Yannick Coenders, “Colonial Recursion: State Categories of Race and the Emergence of the non-Western Allochthone.” Northwestern University.
- Veda Hyunjin Kim & Joshua Kaiser, “Colonial/Imperial Unknowing: Erasures of Empires’ Genocidal Violence from the 1948 Genocide Convention to Today.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
- Berenike Firestone, “Building the Big Tent: How Mainstream Conservative Politics in Post-WWII Germany Shaped Regional Trajectories in Far-Right Success.” Columbia University.
DISCUSSANT: Angel Adams Parham, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia
1:30–3:00 PM Panel 4: Categories in Motion: Contested Trajectories and Border Crossings THH 208
- Sunmin Kim, Carolyn Choi, Amy Park, and Joseph Chong, “Category Traversing: Early Korean Immigrants Eluding the American State.” Dartmouth College.
- Anjanette Chan Tack, “How Ethnic Gender Conflicts Shape Racial Alignment: Gendered Racial Schemas and Ethno-Racial Identity Choice.” Yale University.
- Luisa Farah Schwartzman and Anne Pollock, “Drugs, race, colonialism and the making of the modern world.” University of Toronto & King’s College London.
- Bryan Sargent, “Historical Sociology and the Latent Heat of White Supremacy.” University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
DISCUSSANT: Jordanna Matlon, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University
3:00–3:30 PM Coffee Break
3:30–5:30 PM Plenary: Pathways to Knowledge in CHS THH 202
- Heidi Nicholls, “Seeing Race Like a State: New Avenues for Studying Empires and Racism.” University of Virginia.
- Anna Skarpelis, “Race in Parentheses: Historical Legacies in the Production of Racial Absence.” University of Basel, eikones & Social Science Center Berlin.
- Laura Kirsten Nelson, “Situated Knowledges and Partial Perspectives: Toward a Radical Objectivity in Comparative Historical Sociology.” University of British Columbia.
- Alannah Caisey, “‘Being Free’: A Critical Genealogy of Black Women’s Liberatory Pedagogies Through Scholar-Activism.” University of Pittsburgh.
DISCUSSANT: Elisabeth S. Clemens, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago 6:00 PM Drinks at Prank Bar (1100 S Hope Street)
Logistics:
We’re excited to host the 2022 ASA Comparative Historical Section’s Mini-Conference, to take place Friday August 5, 2022. Please find below additional logistical details on the day’s event.
Registration: Registration is now closed. If you would like to be placed on the waitlist please email us at chsminiconference2022@gmail.com and we will let you know as soon as we know if spots are available.
COVID Logistics: Due to the increased number of COVID cases and in line with LA city and county guidelines we will be requiring all guests to wear a mask during the event. While food will be served we encourage people to take their food outside so as to minimize mask removal indoors.
Please also be prepared to show proof of COVID vaccination upon request.
Location: All panel sessions will be in Taper Hall on the University of Southern California-Dornsife campus. We have two rooms reserved (THH 202 & 208) but most events will take place in the larger auditorium THH 202.
The USC Campus is a short train ride away from the LA Convention Center/JW Marriott where the main ASA Conference is being held.
Attendance: We encourage people to attend the entire day’s events if possible. The plenary session at the end of the day will open into a Town Hall meeting for collective reflection on the day’s conversations. This is an opportunity for us to think hard about new paths forward for the discipline.
Optional Drinks: We invite all participants–panelists and audience alike–to continue the conversation over drinks and food after the event. This informal gathering will take place after the mini-conference at 6PM and we will gather at:
Prank Bar
1100 S Hope St
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Catering: We are able to provide lunch for registered participants in addition to coffee and tea. Please note we will not be providing breakfast food.
Documents:
Email for inquiries: chsminiconference2022@gmail.com
Co-Sponsored by the Department of Sociology at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Organizing Committee:
Anjanette Chan Tack (Yale University), Mishal Khan (UC-Hastings), Deisy Del Real (University of Southern California), Katrina Quisumbing King (Northwestern University), A.K.M. Skarpelis (Berlin Social Science Center, eikones), Omri Tubi (Northwestern University), Alexandre White (John Hopkins University).
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The Crisis of History and the History of Crisis
Mini-Conference, sponsored by the Comparative-Historical Sociology Section of the American Sociological Association, August 10, 2018
All panels and reception to be held at the University of Pennsylvania, Ronald O. Perelman Center for Political Science and Economics, 133 S. 36th St., Philadelphia, August 10, 2018
More information at: https://chsconference2018.weebly.com/registration.html
Schedule (August 10):
9:00 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:30 – 11am: Plenary – The Crisis of the American University
Speakers: Michael Bérubé, Clyde W. Barrow, and Kim Voss
11:10am-12:40pm (90 minutes)
- PANEL: CONSTRUCTING CRISIS – Julia Adams, Discussant
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- Josh Pacewicz and Ben Merriman, “A Divergence, not a Rupture: State Political Ecologies and the Disarticulation of Federal Policy”
- Alissa Boguslaw, ” Event Activism and the Transformation of a Crisis: The Case of Ongoing-Conflict Kosovo”
- Constance Nathanson and Henri Bergeron, “”Crisis in Context”: Sagas of HIV Blood Contamination in the US and France”
- Jean Louis Fabiani, “Crises in Education During the French Third Republic: Theories of Crisis as Building Strategies for Survival in the Field”
- Atef Said, “Ongoing Revolutionary Crisis or Crisis in the Historiography of Revolutions: Notes from the Arab Spring and the Egyptian Revolution of 2011”
- PANEL: CITIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN CRISIS – Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Discussant
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- Xuefei Ren, “Housing Crises and Informal Settlements in Guangzhou, Mumbai, and Rio de Janeiro”
- Ya-Wen Lei, “The Flexible Welfare State: Legitimation, Local Development, and “Housing for All” in China”
- Luis Flores, “Splitting the American Oikos: The Household-Market Divide and Socio-Economic Transformations”
- Oliver Cowart, “Capital, Locality and Power in the Epistemology of Local Governance.”
- Benjamin Bradlow, “Embedding Cohesion: Public Goods Distribution in São Paulo, 1989-2016”
- PANEL: CRISIS AND CONTENTIOUS ORGANIZING – Eric Schoon, Discussant
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- Kristin George, “Embattled Terrains: The Duality of Religious and Political Struggle”
- Hüseyin Raşit, “Competing Revolutionaries: Legitimacy and Leadership in Revolutionary Situations”
- Luyang Zhou, “How the Bolshevik Revolution Made Itself Un-Replicable for Chinese Communists: A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Repression Regimes in Russia and China”
- Stuart Schrader, “A Comparative Compulsion: Theorizing the Moving Map of Counterinsurgency”
- Maryam Alemzadeh, “Bureaucracy of Brotherhood: The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and Revolutionary Institution-Building During the Iran-Iraq War”
- PANEL: SOUTHERN SOLUTIONS – Melissa Wilde, Discussant
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- Christy Thornton, “Capitalist Crisis and Global Economic Governance: Reform from the South”
- Amy Zhou, “”For the Mothers and Children of our Country”: HIV Policy Innovation from the Global South”
- Natalie Young, “Chinese Citizen or Global Citizen? Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism at an International School in Beijing”
- Nada Matta, “Class Capacity and Cross-Gender Solidarity: Women Organizing in an Egyptian Textile Factory”
- Chungse Jung, “Global Crisis and Popular Protests: Protest Waves of the 1930s and 2010s in the Global South”
Lunch: 12:40-2:10pm (90 minutes)
2:10-3:40pm (90 minutes)
- PANEL: ECONOMIC CHANGE AND CRISIS – Anthony Chen, Discussant
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- Paul Chang, ”The Evolution of the Korean Family: Historical Foundations and Present Realities”
- Dan Hirschman, “Transitional Temporality”
- Pierre-Christian Fink, “The Leading Edge of a New Financial Regime: Crisis at Franklin National Bank”
- Onur Ozgode, “Resilience Governmentality: Toward a Genealogy of Systemic Risk Regulation”
- Beverly Silver, “Crisis, Class and Hegemony: The Current Crisis in World-Historical Perspective”
- PANEL: THE STATE AND/IN CRISIS – Richard Lachman, Discussant
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- Alexander Roehrkasse, “Counting in Crisis: Measuring American Marriages, 1867–1906”
- Yueran Zhang, ”Preempting “No Taxation without Representation”: The Case of Taxing Private Homeownership in China”
- Erez Maggor, “The Politics of Innovation: Lessons from Israel 1980-2008”
- Chandra Mukerji, “The Wars of Religion and Sovereignty”
- Johnnie Lotesta, “The Right and the Crisis of Labor”
- PANEL: CRISES OF DEMOCRACY – James Mahoney, Discussant
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- Anna Skarpelis, “Beyond Aryans: Making Germans in the Nazi Empire”
- Barış Büyükokutan, “The Knowledge Trap: Turkey’s Buddha Cult and the Crisis of Populist Power”
- Marcel Paret, “From Passive Revolution to Fractured Militancy in South Africa’s Democratic Transition”
- Andreas Koller, “Democratic Crisis: ‘Gobsmacked’ Post-2016 Political Science and Self-Understanding of the American Public Sphere”
- Mathieu Desan, “Crisis and Political Conversion: The Case of the French Neo-Socialists”
- PANEL: CRISES AND MOBILIZATION – Charles Kurzman, Discussant
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- Laura Acosta Gonzalez, “Using Victimhood for Doing Politics: Why the Colombian Peace Referendum Failed”
- Ahmad Al-Sholi, “Limits of a Labor-Free Democracy Movement: The Case of the Failed Arab Spring in Jordan”
- Şahan Savaş Karataşlı, “Crisis and Nationalism in World History, 1492-Present”
- M. Ali Kadivar, Adaner Usmani, and Benjamin Bradlow, “The Long March: Contentious Mobilization and Deep Democracy”
- Jonah Stuart Brundage, “The Social Sources of Geopolitical Power: French and British Diplomacy and the Dynastic-Patrimonial State, 1689–1789″
4:00-5:45pm (105 minutes): Plenary – An Age of Crisis: Social, Political, Cultural, & Historical
Speakers: Elisabeth S. Clemens, Isaac Reed, George Steinmetz, & Robin Wagner-Pacifici
Reception: 6-9pm
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Mini-conference of the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section
The 2018 Mini-Conference of the Comparative and Historical Section: “The Crisis of History and the History of Crisis”
August 10, 2018
University of Pennsylvania campus, Philadelphia
We are living in an era of crises in political economy, state-society relationships, geopolitics, and academia. The 2018 mini-conference of the Comparative and Historical Section of the ASA beckons sociologists and fellow travelers at all career stages to submit papers dealing with crises of capitalism, empires, the state and other social institutions, authoritarianism, social unrest,imperialism, and knowledge production from historical, comparative and critical-theoretical perspectives broadly understood.
The miniconference will be held at the University of Pennsylvania campus in Philadelphia on August 10, the day before the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association. The title of the conference, suggested by earlier chairs of the section, is “The Crisis of History and the History of Crisis.”
This conference is being organized by Kim Voss and George Steinmetz, together with Baris Büyükokutan, Luis Flores, Robert Jansen, Simeon Newman, Tasleem Padamsee, Melissa Wilde, and several others.
The conference will include two plenary sessions. The first, on “The Crisis of the American University in Comparative and Historical Perspective,” will include talks by Michael Bérubé, Clyde W. Barrow, and Kim Voss. Michael Bérubé (Pennsylvania State University) serves on the American Association of University Professors’ Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure and is the author of ten books including The Humanities, Higher Education, and Academic Freedom: Three Necessary Arguments.Clyde W. Barrow (University of Texas) is the author of the classic Universities and the capitalist state: corporate liberalism and the reconstruction of American higher education, 1894-1928 (1990), of The Postindustrial University: Fiscal Crisis and the Changing Structure of Academic Labour (1992), and most recently of The Entrepreneurial Intellectual in the Corporate University (2018).
The second plenary session will be on crisis in general–social, political, cultural, and historical. Confirmed speakers are Elisabeth S. Clemens, Robin Wagner-Pacifici, Isaac Reed, and George Steinmetz.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 500 words through the electronic abstract submission form: HERE. The extended deadline for paper submission is
February 28, 2018March 15, 2018.You can access the mini-conference flyer from HERE.
