2009 CHS Mini-Conference

"Comparing Past and Present"
Sponsored by the Comparative and Historical Sociology Section of the ASA
Berkeley, California
August 12, 2009

8:00 – 8:50 am: Breakfast
Lippman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor

9:00 – 10:50 am: Opening Plenary, "Past and Present: Using Theory"
Lippman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor

John R. Hall, UC Davis
“Apocalypse in the Long Run: Reflections on Huge Comparisons in the Study of Modernity”

Edgar Kiser, University of Washington
“Relationships between the Past and Present: A Typology and Analysis”

Jeffery M. Paige, University of Michigan
“Rethinking Revolution in Evo Morales's Bolivia”

Discussant: Margaret Somers, University of Michigan
Presider: Jack Goldstone, George Mason University

11:00 am – 12:50 pm: Morning Breakout Sessions

Economic Systems (Organizers: Rebecca Jean Emigh, Greta Krippner)
IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way, #5555

Rebecca Jean Emigh, UCLA
“Transitions to Capitalism - Past and Present”

Fred Block, UC Davis
“Crisis and Renewal: The Outlines of a 21st Century New Deal”

Monica Prasad, Northwestern University
“Bryan’s Revenge: The Credit/Welfare State Tradeoff and the Crises of 2008-2009”

Carlos H. Waisman, UC San Diego
“Reconsidering Transitions to Market Capitalism: Institutional Transfers and the Capitalist Class”

Discussant: Marion Fourcade, UC Berkeley
Presider: Emily Erikson, UMASS

Immigration (Organizers: Mara Loveman, David Cook-Martin)
IGS Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall

Susan Bibler Coutin, UC Irvine
“Falling Outside: Lawyering, Central Americans, and the Boundaries of Political Asylum”

Ernesto Castañeda, Columbia University
“Immigrant Political Voice in a Comparative Perspective: New York, Paris and Barcelona”

David Cook-Martin, Grinnell College and David Fitzgerald, UC San Diego
“Liberalism and the Limits of Inclusion: Racialized Preferences in Immigration Laws of the Americas, 1850-2000”

Discussant: Catherine Lee, Rutgers
Presider: Mara Loveman, University of Wisconsin

Collective Action (Organizers: Jeff Broadbent, Jeff Goodwin)
Lippman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor

Jeff Goodwin, New York University and Gabriel Hetland, UC Berkeley
“The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social Movement Studies.”

Joel Stillerman, Grand Valley State University and Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
“Conflict Zones: Space, Time and Metalworkers´ Protest in Chile, 1945-2005”

Jeffrey Haydu and David Kadanoff, UC San Diego
“Political Consumerism, New and Old”

Discussant: Ivan Ermakoff, University of Wisconsin
Presider: Ellen Reese, UC Riverside

Religion (Organizers: Philip Gorski, Geneviève Zubrzycki)
IIS, 223 Moses Hall

Ateþ Altinordu, Yale University
“Comparing the Past and Present of Religious Politics: Political Catholicism and Political Islam in Comparison”

Christopher Pieper and Michael P. Young, UT-Austin
“Two Centuries of Evangelical and Catholic Activism in The United States: What the 19th and 20th Centuries May Tell Us about the 21st”

Nathan Wright, Bryn Mawr College
“Reflections on Religious Change and Persistence from the Mormon Story”

Discussant: Penny Edgell, University Of Minnesota
Presider: Amy Kate Bailey, Princeton University

Gender (Organizers: Nicola Beisel, Kathleen Blee)
Barrows Hall 402

Nicola Beisel, Northwestern University and Sarah Lipton-Lubet
“Appropriating Auschwitz: The Holocaust as Analogy and Provocation in the Pro-Life Movement”

Arlene Stein, Rutgers University
“Our Holocaust: Feminism, Therapeutic Culture, and the Identity Politics of the ‘Second Generation’”

Kathleen M. Blee, University of Pittsburgh
“Gendering Right-Wing Extremism: Past and Present”

Discussant: Brian Donovan, University of Kansas
Presider: Nancy Whittier, Smith College

1:00 – 1:50 pm: Lunch
Lippman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor

2:00 – 3:50 pm: Afternoon Breakout Sessions

Empires (Organizers: Richard Lachmann, Julian Go, George Steinmetz)
IRLE Director’s Room, 2521 Channing Way, #5555

Julian Go, Boston University
“‘New’ Imperialisms: The British and US Empires in Comparison”

Krishan Kumar, University of Virginia
“Empire and Metropolis: The Impact of the British Empire on British Society”

Paul Frymer, Princeton University
“Race, Class and the Building of an American Empire, 1789-1860”

Discussant: George Steinmetz, New School for Social Research
Presider: Richard Lachmann, SUNY Albany

Rights (Organizer: Rebecca Jean Emigh)
IIS, 223 Moses Hall

Alena Alamgir, Rutgers University
“Bureaucratic Disgruntling and Intimate Interventions: Vietnamese Trainees and Temporary Workers in (the Care of) State-Socialist Czechoslovakia”

Ben Herzog, Yale University
“Dual Citizenship and the Revocation of Citizenship”

Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Mareike Gronwald, University of Mannheim
“The Changing Public-Private Pension Mix in Europe: From Path Dependence to Path Departure”

Discussant: Lyn Spillman, Notre Dame
Presider: Victoria Johnson, University of Michigan

States (Organizers: Dylan Riley, Nitsan Chorev)
IGS Harris Room, 119 Moses Hall

Dan Slater, University of Chicago
“State Power and Staying Power: Institutional Origins and Durable Authoritarianism in Malaysia and Singapore”

Jeffrey Broadbent, University of Minnesota, Jun Jin Yu-Ju Chien, University of Minnesota, and EunHye Yoo, University of Minnesota
“Culture and Authoritarian Logic: Regime Response to Environmental Activism in Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China”

Dorith Geva, University of Chicago
“The Sleeping Giant: Selective Service, Breadwinning, and the American State”

Discussant: Ann Orloff, Northwestern
Presider: Marc Steinberg, Smith College

Technologies of Power (Organizer: Rebecca Jean Emigh)
Lippman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor

Erin Murphy, University of Illinois
“Water Torture and the United States: Comparing Debates from the Philippine-American War with the War on Terror”

Adrienne Redd, Arcadia University
“Social Effects of Instantaneous Communication: Parallels between Internet-based Communications and Telegraphy”

Dylan Riley, UC Berkeley and Patricia Ahmed, University of Kentucky, Lexington
“The Limits of State Power: Censuses in Comparative and Historical Perspective”

Discussant: Mitchell L. Stevens, Stanford University
Presider: Elizabeth Popp Berman, SUNY-Albany

4:00 – 5:50 pm: Closing Plenary, "Past and Present: Methods and Models"
Lippman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor

James Mahoney, Northwestern University
“Comparative-Historical Analysis: Generalizing Past the Past”

Andreas Wimmer and Yuval Feinstein, UCLA
“Nationalism’s Rise to Power Across the World: An Event History Analysis of Nation-State Formation, 1816-2001”

Isaac Reed, University of Colorado and Julia Adams, Yale University
“Culture in the Transitions to Modernity: Seven Sociological Models”

Discussant: Richard Biernacki, UC San Diego
Presider: Jeffrey Olick, University of Virginia

6:00 pm: Closing Reception
Lippman Room, Barrows Hall, 8th Floor