Join us for the 2018 Junior Theorists Symposium
August 10, 2018
8:30 AM – 5:45 PM

Class of ’49 Auditorium, Houston Hall (2nd Fl)
3417 Spruce Street
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

8:30 – 9:00  | Coffee and Bagels

9:00 – 10:50 | Session I: Power and the State

• Theorizing State Power, Matty Lichtenstein (University of California, Berkeley)
• When Agency is Empty: Gender and the Engines of Authority in the Pakistani Police, Fauzia Husain (University of Virginia)
• The Criminological State, Jing-Mao Ho (Cornell University)

Discussant: Margaret Somers (University of Michigan)

10:50 – 11:00 | Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:50 | Session II: Race, Space, Place

• Political Uses of Race & Ethnicity, Jan Doering (McGill University),
• Health Disparities Formation: Upstream Causes of Between-Group Outcome Differences, Elyas Bakhtiari (College of William and Mary),
• Towards a Theory of the Racialization of Space, Steven Tuttle (Loyola University, Chicago)

Discussant: Alford Young (University of Michigan)

12:50 – 2:00 | Lunch  (provided)

2:00 – 2:30 | Junior Theorist Award Winner’s Presentation

• From a National to a Global Field? Deciphering Global Transformations in the Contemporary Visual Arts,

Larissa Buchholz (Northwestern University)

2:30 – 4:20 | Session III: Structure and Meaning

• Institutional Resistance to Complexity: The Case of Sex and Gender, Madeleine Pape (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Disjointed Fluidity, Jackie Joslyn (University of Arizona)
• Integrating Collective Memory and Strategic Action: Socially Located Memories, Cultural Knowledge, and Muslim Rights Mobilization,Hajar Yazdiha (University of Southern California)

Discussant: Nina Eliasoph (University of Southern California)

4:30 – 5:45 | After-panel

“Getting Out of Our Heads: Taking theory into the Body, Space, and Place”

• Rene Almeling (Yale University)
• Rebecca Hanson (University of Florida)
• Ellis Monk (Harvard University)
• Vanesa Ribas (University of California, San Diego)

5:45 – ? | Theory in the Wild: Beer, wine, and good conversation (off-site)

City Tap House – University City
3925 Walnut Street
Philadelphia, PA

Note: Please be prepared with cash for the bar.

Ready to register?

The Junior Theorists Symposium is an open event. In order to facilitate planning, please RSVP to juniortheorists@gmail.com with the subject line “JTS RSVP.” We suggest a donation of $20 per faculty member and $10 per graduate student to cover event costs, which can be made via PayPal to juniortheorists@gmail.com, or onsite by cash.

**This year’s JTS is made possible through generous support from the Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.