Department of Sociology

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Thursday, April 24

7:00 pm–9:00 pm Welcome Reception

Omni Hotel-Harbor Room, 155 Temple Street

Friday, April 25

8:30 am–9:00 am Continental Breakfast

9:00 am–9:15 am Sociology at Yale University

Karl Ulrich Mayer, Chair, Sociology Department, Yale University
Charles H. Long, Deputy Provost, Yale University

9:15 am–9:30 am Welcome & Introduction

Elijah Anderson, Yale University
Raymond Gunn, The College of Wooster

9:30 am–10:45 am ‘Chicago School’ Roots: A Conversation

Gerald D. Jaynes, Moderator, Yale University

David E. Apter, Yale University
Herbert J. Gans, Columbia University
Ruth Horowitz, New York University
William Kornblum, The City University of New York
James F. Short, Jr., Washington State University
Gerald D. Suttles, Indiana University
Robert Washington, Bryn Mawr College

10:45 am–11:00 am Break

11:00 am–12:00 pm Immigrant Life and Culture

Robert C. Smith, Moderator, The City University of New York
Peter Adler, Discussant, University of Denver

Walled Territory: The Everyday Lives of Undocumented Restaurant Employees
Esther Chihye Kim, Yale University

Baseball, Snakes and Nativists: An Ethnographic Experience with Mexican Day Laborers
Carol Cleaveland, George Mason University

12:00 pm–1:30 pm Luncheon Keynote Address:
Urban Ethnography and Research Integrity: Empirical and Theoretical Dimensions

Lorine A. Hughes, University of Nebraska at Omaha
James F. Short, Jr., Washington State University
Philip Kasinitz, Discussant, The City University of New York

1:30 pm–3:00 pm Urban Culture and Entertainment

David Grazian, Moderator, University of Pennsylvania

Movie-Going and Seating: A Note on Film Consumption
Lakshmi Srinivas, University of Massachusetts Boston

Gambling as a Way of Life
Jacob Avery, University of Pennsylvania

Rap Dreams
Jooyoung Lee, University of California, Los Angeles

3:00 pm–3:15 pm Break

3:15 pm–4:45 pm Urban Cultural Patterns

Diane Vaughan, Moderator, Columbia University

Ethnography of Love
Heli Vaaranen, Family Federation of Finland

A Place at the ‘Pet Shop’: Status and Sociability among Brooklyn Rooftop Pigeon Flyers
Colin Jerolmack, The City University of New York

Small Town Life: A Study in Race Relations
Marlese Durr, Wright State University

4:45 pm–5:00 pm Break

5:00 pm–6:45 pm Religious Life and Culture

Arthur Paris, Moderator, Syracuse University

The Mosque and Black Islam: An Ethnographic Study of Muslims in the Inner City
Victoria Lee, Yale University

Urban Immortalities: Toward an Ethnography of Race and Spirituality among African-American Hebrews
John L. Jackson, Jr., University of Pennsylvania

Megachurches and Self-Help: Identifying and Solving Personal Problems
Jimmie Bany, University of California, Irvine
Michelle Peria, University of California, Irvine
David A. Snow, University of California, Irvine
James E. Stobaugh, University of California, Irvine

6:45 pm–8:30 pm Reception and Dinner for Presenters and RSVP Guests

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History-Great Hall (Dinosaur Room), 170 Whitney Avenue

Keynote Address:
Compression: Of Life and Methodology

Paul Willis, Keele University, United Kingdom
Jeffrey C. Alexander, Discussant, Yale University

Saturday, April 26

8:15 am–8:45 am Continental Breakfast

8:45 am–9:00 am Introduction

Jack Katz, University of California, Los Angeles

9:00 am–10:15 am Ethnography: Methodology and Substance

Randall Collins, Moderator, University of Pennsylvania
Patti Adler, Discussant, University of Colorado

Ethnography, Interaction, and Ordinary Trouble
Robert M. Emerson, University of California, Los Angeles

The Ethnographic Ethos and the Qualitative Enterprise
Peter R. Grahame, Pennsylvania State University

Ethnography, Work, and Organizations
Charles Bosk, University of Pennsylvania

10:15 am–10:30 am Break

10:30 am–12:00 pm Neighborhood and Group Relations

William Kornblum, Moderator, The City University of New York
Kai Erikson, Discussant, Yale University

Sanctifying Neighborhood Identity
Andrew Deener, University of California, Los Angeles
Jack Katz, University of California, Los Angeles
Maggie Kusenbach, University of South Florida
Anup Sheth, University of California, Los Angeles
Iddo Tavory, University of California, Los Angeles

Remembering New Haven's Youth in the Fifties
Victor M. Lidz, Drexel University College of Medicine

12:00 pm–1:00 pm Luncheon Presentation:
Precious Places Community History Project: A Collaborative Documentary Project Organized by Scribe Video Center with 43 Community Groups in the Philadelphia Area.

Vida Bajc, Moderator, University of Pennsylvania
Louis Massiah, Founder and Executive Director, Scribe Video Center

1:00 pm–1:30 pm Shuttle Service To Davies Auditorium

1:30 pm–3:30 pm Urban Poor Young Black Men

Elijah Anderson, Moderator, Yale University

Beef: Explaining the Micro-Dynamics of Gun Violence in Philadelphia
Alice Goffman, Princeton University

The Making of a Drug Gang
Waverly Duck, Yale University

Playpen, StatePen, UPenn: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Survival!
Robert Alsbrooks, Miracle Corners of the World

Ethnography and Time
Sudhir A. Venkatesh, Columbia University

3:30 pm–3:45 pm Break

3:45 pm–4:45 pm Poverty and the Unhoused

Philippe Bourgois, Moderator, University of Pennsylvania

Eviction and the Reproduction of Inner-City Poverty
Matthew Desmond, University of Wisconsin-Madison

The Crackhouse, the Visual Page and Other Urban Ethnographic Research Strategies
Terry Williams, The New School

4:45 pm–5:00 pm Break

5:00 pm–7:00 pm The Future of Urban Ethnography: A Conversation

Elijah Anderson, Moderator, Yale University

Scott N. Brooks, University of California, Riverside
Mitchell Duneier, Princeton University
Nikki Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
Katherine Newman, Princeton University
Carol B. Stack, Professor Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Willis, Keele University, United Kingdom
William Julius Wilson, Harvard University

7:00 pm–8:30 pm Closing Reception

Davies Auditorium, Becton Center, 15 Prospect Street

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