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CBSM Workshop 2007
Movement Cultures, Strategies, and Outcomes
Program Schedule
Hofstra University, August 9-10
(subject to change)

Wednesday, August 8
Registration

Thursday, August 9
8-9 a.m. Breakfast

9-10:45 a.m. Plenary Session I: Strategy: Conceptual Foundations and Agendas

11 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Thematic Workshops I (6 concurrent workshops)

  • Mobilization: Does Collective Identity Matter?
    Organizer: Belinda Robnett (UC Irvine)
  • Building Bridges Over Great Divides? Social Inequalities and Movement Strategies
    Organizers: Ellen Reese, Jane Ward, Christine Petit, and Shoon Lio (UC Riverside)
  • Hip Hop Culture and Social/Global Change
    Organizer: Mark Wilson (UC Berkeley)
  • Law and Social Movements
    Organizer: Anna-Maria Marshall (University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign)
  • Reforming "Immigration Reform": Strategies for Redefining the Terms of the Immigration Policy Debate
    Organizers: Gregory Maney (Hofstra) and Nadia Marin Molina (Workplace Project)
  • Transnational Linkages and Movement Cultures
    Organizers: Anna-Liisa Aunio, Suzanne Staggenborg, and Kathleen M. Fallon (McGill)

1-2:30 p.m. Lunch

  • Bridging the Activist-Academic Divide
    Organizers: Char Ryan and Bill Gamson (Movement & Media Action Research Project)

2:45-4 p.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions (5 panels)

  • Identity Deployment, Movement Culture, and Political Strategy
    Organizers: Kristine Olsen and Mary Bernstein (University of Connecticut)
  • The World Social Forum Process and Global Social Change: Prospects and Challenges
    Organizer: Jackie Smith (Notre Dame)
  • The New Immigration Politics: Movements for Reform, Rights, or Restrictions
    Organizers: Rhys Williams (U. of Cincinnati)
  • Open Panel: Topic TBA
  • Open Panel: Topic TBA

4:15-5 p.m. Plenary Session II: The Formation and Development of Strategy

5:15-7:45 p.m. Dinner Reception and Evening Entertainment

Friday, August 10

8-9 a.m. Breakfast

9-10:45 a.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions (5 panels)

  • Labor and the "New Social Movements": Differences in Strategy, Organization and Perspective
    Organizers: Paul Mishler (Indiana University at South Bend) and Marc Dixon (Florida State)
  • Neoliberal Reforms and Popular Movement Strategies in the Global South
    Organizer: Paul Ameida (Texas A&M)
  • Resisting Political Repression
    Organizers: Kelly Moore (U. of Cincinnati) and Christian Davenport (U. of Maryland)
  • Open Panel: Topic TBA
  • Open Panel: Topic TBA

11 a.m.-12:45 p.m. Thematic Workshops I (6 concurrent workshops):

  • Engaged Scholarship: How Public & Policy Sociology Can Affect Movement Cultures, Strategies & Outcomes
    Organizers: Robert Kleidman (Cleveland State) and Jackie Smith (Notre Dame)
  • The Politics of Feminist Framing
    Organizers: Lyndi Hewitt and Holly McCammon (Vanderbilt)
  • Social Movement Publicity
    Organizers: Ashley Currier and Kathleen Blee (University of Pittsburgh)
  • Narratives and Health Social Movements
    Organizers: Matthew E. Archibald and Charity Crabtree (Emory)
  • War without End?: Evaluating Peace Movement Strategies
    Organizers: Lynne Woehrle (Mount Mary College) and Patrick Coy (Kent State)
  • Insider Activism: Blurring the Lines Between Institutions and the Grass-Roots
    Organizer: Benita Roth (Binghamton)

1-2 p.m. Lunch
Caucus meetings and informal networking

2:45-4 p.m. Concurrent Panel Sessions (5 concurrent panels)

  • Strategy, Tactics, and Collective Identity
    Organizer: Lee Smithey (Swarthmore College)
  • Authors Meet Activists!
    Organizer: Gregory Maney (Hofstra)
  • The Morality of Food as a Social Movement
    Organizers: Gary Alan Fine and Michaela DeSoucey (Northwestern)
  • Open Panel: Topic TBA
  • Open Panel: Topic TBA

4:15-5 p.m. Plenary Session III: Strategy and the Cultural and Political Consequences of Movements

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