Conference Dates: Saturday, July 8-Tuesday, July 11.
Saturday, July 8
6:00-8:00pm – Opening Dinner
Location: North Shore Room, Hilton Orrington, 1710 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL 60201
Sunday, July 9
All conference meals located at Harris Hall, Northwestern University
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
All sessions located at Kresge Hall, Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
8:30-9:30am – Breakfast available
Location: Harris Hall 108
9:30-11:00am – Opening session, Welcome and Keynote
Welcome from organizers: Bruce Carruthers and Stephen Nelson, and Matthew Johnson, Kenneth F. Burgess Professor of Anthropology and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.
Keynote: Elisabeth Clemens (University of Chicago), “The State that Anti-Statism Built: Infrastructural Power in Postwar American Political Development”
Faculty discussant: Steven Vogel (University of California-Berkeley)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
11:00-11:30am – Coffee break
Location: Kresge Hall 2350
11:30am-12:30pm – Graduate student breakout sessions
Session 1: Clare (Xiaoqian) Wan (Brown University), “African Migrants and China’s Globalization: The role of Interracial Linkages in Transnationalism and Migrant Entrepreneurship”
Faculty discussant: Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern University)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
Session 2: Meryem Bezzaz (Sciences Po), “Green Leadership and Power”
Faculty discussant: Steven Vogel (University of California-Berkeley)
Location: Kresge Hall 2410
12:30-1:30pm – Lunch
Location: Harris Hall 108
1:30-2:30pm – Graduate student breakout sessions
Session 1: Clara Baumann (Max Planck Institute): “Transforming “200 Years of Togetherness”? – The Impact of East-South Investment on Traditional Dependency Structures in Colombia”
Faculty discussant: Matthias Thiemann (Sciences Po)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
Session 2: Thomas Haseloff (University of California-Berkeley), “A Social Theory of Speculation: The Life and Death of NFTs”
Faculty discussant: Bruce Carruthers (Northwestern University)
Location: Kresge Hall 2410
2:30-3:00pm – Coffee break
Location: Kresge Hall 2350
3:00-4:00pm – Graduate student breakout sessions
Session 1: Julie Oudot (Sciences Po), “Sequencing the flow to keep it flowing: The introduction of a new management software in the support for RSA recipients”
Faculty discussant: Elisabeth Clemens (University of Chicago)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
Session 2: Bo Won Kim (Northwestern University), “Divergent Paths to Enforcing Transnational Crime: How Informality Impacts International Cooperation”
Faculty discussant: Nitsan Chorev (Brown University)
Location: Kresge Hall 2410
4:00-6:00pm – Break time
Faculty meet to discuss program and next year’s location
6:00-8:00pm – Dinner
Location: LeTour Evanston, 625 Davis St, Evanston, IL 60201
Monday, July 10
All conference meals located at Harris Hall, Northwestern University
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
All sessions located at Kresge Hall, Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
8:30-9:30am – Breakfast available
Location: Harris Hall 108
9:30-11:00am – Keynote
Keynote: Doron Shiffer-Sebba (Northwestern University), “The Family Office: How Elite Family Bureaucratization Perpetuates Wealth Inequality”
Faculty discussant: Jens Beckert (Max Planck Institute)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
11:00-11:30am – Coffee break
Location: Kresge Hall 2350
11:30am-12:30pm – Graduate student breakout sessions
Session 1: Mattia Lupi (Sciences Po), “The crisis of the growth model, social conflict, and the Bank of Italy’s self-restrained independence (1969-1977)”
Faculty discussant: Stephen Nelson (Northwestern University)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
Session 2: Devin Wiggs (Northwestern University), “Labor Unions, Capital Strategies, and Alternative Asset Managers: A Mobilization Model.”
Faculty discussant: Heather Haveman (University of California-Berkeley)
Location: Kresge Hall 2410
12:30-1:30pm – Lunch
Location: Harris Hall 108
1:30-2:30pm – Graduate student breakout sessions
Session 1: Sertaç K. Sen (Brown University), “Vitality through Violence: Feeding (on) Mars in Turkish Thrace”
Faculty discussant: Andre Kaiser (Max Planck Institute)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
Session 2: Camilla Locatelli (Max Planck Institute), “United we bargain, divided we beg: the politics of EU technocratic fiscal rules in Italy”
Faculty discussant: Mathias Thiemann (Sciences Po)
Location: Kresge Hall 2410
Leave at 3:00pm sharp by bus for downtown Chicago and the architectural boat tour
4:00pm – Chicago Architecture Center Boat tour
6:00pm – Dinner at Tanta Chicago, 118 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60654
Transportation back to hotel will be provided at the conclusion of the dinner.
Tuesday, July 11
All conference meals located at Harris Hall, Northwestern University
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208
All sessions located at Kresge Hall, Northwestern University
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208
8:30-9:00am – Breakfast available
Location: Harris Hall 108
9:00-10:00am – Graduate student breakout sessions
Session 1: Danielle Pullan (Max Planck Institute), “What attracts abortion providers? Political, economic, and social predictors of abortion provider distribution in Europe”
Faculty discussant: Patrick Heller (Brown University)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
Session 2: Keenan Wilder (Brown University), “Colony and Class Struggle: Unionization and Empire in Tunisia and Egypt”
Faculty discussant: Pierre Francois (Sciences Po)
Location: Kresge Hall 2410
10:00-10:30am – Coffee break
Location: Kresge Hall 2350
10:30-11:30am- Graduate student breakout sessions
Session 1: Danyang Li (University of California-Berkeley), “Contesting global diffusion of biomedicine: Local adaptation and opposition in Chinese medicine”
Faculty discussant: Nitsan Chorev (Brown University)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
Session 2: Andrés Schelp (Northwestern University), “How does identity shape international exposure? Assessing the influence of international economic benchmarks in the light of nationalist and cosmopolitan identities in Europe”
Faculty discussant: Neil Fligstein (University of California-Berkeley)
Location: Kresge Hall 2410
11:30am-12:30pm – Graduate student breakout session
Session 1: Thomas E Kingston (University of California-Berkeley), “A Coup for Khaki Capital: The Overlooked Economic Dynamics of the 2021 Coup in Burma”
Faculty discussant: Patrick Heller (Brown University)
Location: Kresge Hall 2380
12:30-1:30pm – Lunch and farewell
Location: Harris Hall 108