The New School for Social Research Sociology Conference

The full schedule for "Ruptures and Continuities: Historical Change in a Contested World"

Deadline extended to Jan 27!

Send your submissions by January 14, 2019!

The Schedule for Authentic Myths, Fabricated Truths, and the Ordering of Society

Panel D: Fragile Publicis and Democratic Deficits

Discussant: Elzbieta Matynia

Alissa G. Boguslaw (NSSR) - The politics of Branding Multi-vocalist, Dissensus, and Resistance in Kosovo

Patrick Gilger (NSSR) - Fragile Publicis and Positive Liberty

Luca Zazzi (University of Edinburgh) - The figure of Mass: A Theoretical Challenge to Sociology

Panel C: Representation Crisis & Horizontal Collectivities
Discussant: Benoit Challand

Léa Barbisan (University Paris-Sorbonne)
Leaderless Crowds? From Walter Benjamin to Frédéric Liridon, alternative theories of emotional contagion

Benjamin Abrams (Cambridge University)
Autonomous Self-Organization in Egypt's Revolutionary Crowds

Panel B: Dispossession and Social Organization - Discussant: Alana Lentin

Edwin F. Ackerman (Syracuse University)
Two Primitive Accumulations Behind Political Articulation: A Case Study of Post- Revolutionary Bolivia

Jordan Scott (Binghamton University)
The Devaluation of Workers of Color: Racialized Surplus Populations and Black Lives Matter

Panel A: Populism and its Constitutional Regulation Discussant: Bahareh Ebnealian

Evan Bridgman- Fralin (NSSR)
Populism and Constitution Making in Russia: 1990-1993

Heather Anderson (NSSR)
"The Misunderstanding Australia Had to Have": Was the Successful 1967 Referendum a Populist Outcome

Ioanna Christodoulaki (Boston University)
Exploring causes for public disaffection in Great Britain and Greece: what went wrong?

Jürgen Mackert, "We, the People": Populism and Modern Democracy

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