Workshop on Culture, History, and Society

“A Republic of Prophets: Culture Wars and Civil Religion from Winthrop to Obama” Speaker: Philip Gorski, Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Yale University. Discussant: Jill Lepore, David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History...

"The Rise of China in the Global Art Market" Speaker: Larissa Buchholz, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows. Discussant: Michèle Lamont, Center Director; Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate. Robert I. Goldman Professor of...

“Measuring Cultural Durability: Conceptual Clarification, a Method and an Empirical Test” Speaker: Stephen Vaisey, Associate Professor of Sociology, Duke University. Contact: Fangsheng Zhu fzhu@fas.harvard.edu Faculty Directors of the HCS Workshop...

“Waves of War: Nationalism, State Formation, and Ethnic Exclusion in the Modern Worlds" Speaker: Andreas Wimmer, Lieber Professor of Sociology and Political Philosophy, Columbia University. Contact: Fangsheng Zhu fzhu@fas.harvard.edu Faculty Directors...

"From Status to Contract? Commerce and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Europe" Speaker: Francesca Trivellato, Frederick W Hilles Professor of Sociology, Department of History, Yale University. Discussant: Dan Smail, Professor of History, Department of...

"Chinese Cultural Variation in Pricing: Perpetuation of Maoist Inequities under a Market Regime" Speaker: Vince Feng, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University. "Belonging Before Believing: Bloc Recruitment and Group Ethos in the Making...

"The Consolations of Discipline" Speaker: Miguel Centeno, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Discussant: Bruce Western, Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Professor of Criminal Justice Policy, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University. Contact...

"Before Method: Analytic Incursions into Historiographies" Speaker: Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Columbia University. Commentator: Diane Davis, Professor of Urbanism and Development, Harvard University. Co-sponsored by the...