- Previous Workshops:
- Spring 2009 Workshop Schedule
- Fall 2008 Workshop Schedule
- Workshops Prior to Fall 2008
- 13.september.2008
- Fall 2009 Workshop Schedule
- 21.September.09
- New York
- Welcome back!
- 28.September.09
- New York
- Progressive religious advocacy and expertise
- Presenter: Ruth Braunstein
- Discussant: Owen Whooley
- 5.October.09
- New York
- Cholera Becomes a Microbe: Koch's Microscope and the Notion of Discovery
- Presenter: Owen Whooley
- Discussant: Ernesto Castañeda
This chapter discusses the reception of the bacteriological idea of cholera in the United States.
- 12.October.09
- New York
- Coming Home: Reentry and Reintegration from Prison and the Military
- Presenter: Nandi Dill
- Discussant: Mustafa Avci
This dissertation proposal discusses the re-entry and reintegration of people returning from prison and coming back from war.
- 19.October.09
- New York
- 6PM: NYU's Tony Judt to Deliver the 2009 Remarque Lecture, "What Is Living and What Is Dead in Social Democracy"
- New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
- 566 LaGuardia Place (at Washington Square South)
- The lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by NYU's Remarque Institute.
Members of NYLON are encouraged to attend.
- 26.October.09
- New York
- "I Wasn't Sure if This Was Sanctuary": Re-imagining Religious-Political Strategy
- Presenter: Grace Yukich
- Discussant: Hillary Angelo
A dissertation chapter about religion, immigration and political strategy.
- 2.November.09
- New York
- The Cultural Figure of the Passenger: Cultural Practices and Artifacts in Urban Infrastructures of Transit
- Presenter: Stefan Hoehne
- Discussant: Minou Arjomand
Dissertation proposal
- 9.November.09
- New York
- Dissertation proposal
- Presenter: Tey Meadow
- Discussant: Amy LeClair
This "ethnography of a category" tracks the recent appearance of "childhood gender variance" through worlds of psychology and psychiatry, law and politics, and the family. While each understands non-normative gender behaviors and identities in children differently, the consolidation of diagnositc communities around evolving rhetorics of gender deviance provides a lens through which to view larger shifts in the social meaning of gender.
- 16.November.09
- New York
- TBD
- Presenter: Alton Phillips
- Discussant: Jen Telesca
This chapter presents a history of the culture of response to the AIDS pandemic.
- 23.November.09
- New York
- TBD
- Presenter: Ernesto Castañeda
- Discussant: Matt Powers
This chapter presents the findings of the dissertation, comparing different immigrant political mobilizations in New York, Paris, and Barcelona.
- 30.November.09
- New York
- No NYLON
- 7.December.09
- New York
- TBD
- Presenter: Hannah Jones
- Discussant: Daniel Aldana Cohen
- TBD
- Presenter: Jane Jones
- Discussant: Solon Barocas
This paper discusses British public policies to prevent violent extremism and threats to cohesion.
This chapter discusses how wealthy black donors build status through donations to prestigious organizations.
- 14.December.09
- New York
- TBD
- Presenter: Mark Treskon
- Discussant: David Wachsmuth
This paper presents findings from an ethnography of re-zoning.