Bringing Fieldwork Back In: An Ethnography Retreat
NOVEMBER 4 - 6, 2010
Yale Urban Ethnography Project • Greenberg Conference Center
391 Prospect Street • New Haven, CT
A primary goal of our conference is to bring together ethnographers and cultural theorists from across the United States and abroad to share their work, to learn from one another, and to fellowship. Hence, we work towards developing a community of scholars that appreciates the value of fieldwork and continues to work in the traditions of DuBois, Park, Thomas, Blumer, Hughes, Drake and Cayton, Goffman, Geertz, Gans, and Becker, among others.
Organizers: Dana Asbury, Duke Austin, Esther C. Kim, Taly Noam, and Elijah Anderson
Program
Updated 11.3.10
Thursday, November 4
Omni Hotel-Harbor Room, 155 Temple Street
7:00 pm–9:00 pm
Reception and Greeting
Peter Salovey, Provost, Yale University
Elijah Anderson, Yale University
Friday, November 5
Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect Street
8:30 am–9:00 am
Registration
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am–9:15 am
Welcome and Introduction
Julia Adams, Chair, Sociology Department, Yale University
Elijah Anderson, Yale University
9:15 am–9:45 am
Ethnography Conference Tradition
Elijah Anderson, Yale University
9:45 am–10:50 am
Ethnography and Representation:
Faces of Fieldwork
Dana Asbury, Yale University
Scott Brooks, University of California, Riverside
Nikki Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara
Esther Chihye Kim, Yale University
10:50 am–11:20 am
Break
11:20 am–12:00 pm
Pose Switching: Presentations of Manhood
among Black Men in College
Brandon A. Jackson, Florida State University
12:00 am–12:40 pm
Disputing Careers and Legal Process in Pick-Up Basketball
Mike De Land, University of California, Los Angeles
12:40 pm–1:40 pm
Lunch and Speaker
Moral Economies of Violence in the U.S Inner
City: Ethnographic Notes from Puerto Rican
North Philadelphia
Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania
1:40 pm–2:20 pm
The Presentation of Self in Emigration
Martina Cvajner, University of Trento, Italy
2:20 pm–3:20 pm
The Legacy of Caste
Elijah Anderson, Yale University
Duke Austin, Yale University
Craig Holloway, Yale University
Vani Kulkarni, Yale University
3:20 pm–3:50 pm
Break
3:50 pm–4:30 pm
How the Ghetto Became Black
Mitch Duneier, Princeton University
Alice Goffman, University of Michigan
4:30 pm–5:10 pm
Board to Death: Atlantic Cityʼs Unhoused Underworld
Jacob Avery, University of Michigan
5:10 pm–5:50 pm
A Theory of Litter
Alexandra K. Murphy, Princeton University
6:00 pm–8:30 pm
Keynote Address and Dinner
The Emotions of Social Classes:
Evidence from Visual Ethnography
Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania
Comments by Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University
Saturday, November 6
Greenberg Conference Center, 391 Prospect Street
8:30 am–9:00 am
Continental Breakfast
9:00 am–9:20 am
Introduction
Christina Wells, Yale University
Guiseppe Sciortino, University of Trento, Italy
9:20 am–10:00 am
Influx: Whoʼs Moving In?
Betty McCall, Lycoming College
10:00 am–10:40 am
Life after the Shooting
Jooyoung Lee, University of Pennsylvania
10:40 am-11:00 am
Break
11:00 am–11:40 am
Manhood within the Margins: Culture,
Crisis, and Masculinity in the Making of Middle
Class Black Men
Saida Grundy, University of Michigan
11:40 am–12:20 pm
An Ethnographic Portrait of a Precarious Life
Waverly Duck, University of Pittsburgh
12:20 pm–1:00 pm
How Things Get Lost: The Social Construction that Somethingʼs Missing
Brandon Berry, University of California, Los Angeles
1:00 pm–1:50 pm
Lunch
1:50 pm–2:30 pm
Making it by Having and by Doing:
The Need for Fieldwork-Based Interviews to
Explain Stratification Processes
Jack Katz, University of California, Los Angeles
2:30 pm–3:00 pm
Closing Comments
Vida Bajc, Methodist University
Elijah Anderson, Yale University