Final workshop for 2013-14!

Posted on May 31, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us Thursday, June 5 at 6pm at Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.) for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

“Contradictions of Individualism in Political Theory: towards a critical social theory of individualism in modernity “
Fabian Arzuaga
PhD Candidate
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory

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Next Workshop, May 26

Posted on May 16, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us  Monday, May 26 at 4pm at Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.) for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

“Administering Creative Destruction: The Campaign Form in Shanghai Factories, 1949–1958”
Jake Werner
PhD Candidate
Department of History, University of Chicago

The workshop will be immediately followed by the fifth annual Social Theory Workshop BBQ. To accommodate both events, the workshop will take place at 4pm, with the BBQ to follow. Food and drink will be provided!

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

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Next workshop, May 15

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us  Thursday, May 15 at 6pm at Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.) for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

 “Making Do in the Promised Land: Work, Labor and Profit among Chicago’s New Africans”
Lisa Simeone
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

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Next Workshop, April 24

Posted on April 11, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us  Thursday, April 24 at 6pm at Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.) for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

“The Spanish Temporal Fix: 25% unemployment, or, the Crisis of the Social Division of Time”
Alvaro Briales
PhD Candidate
Departmento de Sociología I (cambio social)
Universidad Complutense de Madrid

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

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Next Workshop April 10 Robert Meister

Posted on April 5, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us next Thursday (April 10) at 6pm at Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.) for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

“Just Optionality”
Robert Meister
Professor of Social Sciences and Political Thought
History of Consciousness Department
Politics Department
UC Santa Cruz

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

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Next workshop, March 13

Posted on March 6, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us next Thursday (Feb 27) at 6pm for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

“The Psyche in Late Capitalism: Theodor Adorno, Max Horkheimer, and the Crisis of Internalization”

Benjamin Y. Fong
Harper Fellow in the Society of Fellows
Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division
University of Chicago

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

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Next Workshop, Feb 27

Posted on February 20, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us next Thursday (Feb 27) at 6pm for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

“Who Are Choice Feminists? Proposals for the Revival of Progressive Feminism”

Ashleigh Campi
PhD Candidate
Department of Political Science
University of Chicago

All papers will be distributed in advance of the workshops via the Social Theory Workshop list serv. To join this list serv go to: lists.uchicago.edu and search for “Social Theory”

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Next workshop, Feb 13

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us this Thursday (Feb 13) at 6pm for the following paper and discussion at the Social Theory Workshop:

The Failure of Left Internationalism

Eli Thorkelson
PhD Candidate
Department of Anthropology
University of Chicago

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Next workshop, Jan. 30

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us for the next Social Theory Workshop, Thursday January 30 at 6pm in Wilder House (5811 S Kenwood Ave).

“Duels in the European Novel: Honor, Reputation, and the Limits of a Bourgeois Form”

Ben Merriman
PhD Candidate
Department of Sociology
University of Chicago

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Next workshop, Jan 16

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Arzuaga

Please join us for the next Social Theory Workshop, Thursday January 16 at 6:15pm in Wilder House (5811 S Kenwood Ave). (please take notice of the delayed start)

“The Dual Character of Paperwork in the Qing Empire’s Treaty Ports”

Stacie Kent
PhD Candidate
Department of History
University of Chicago

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