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Featured Sessions on Public Sociologies The featured sessions aim to validate a public sociology that speaks across and beyond disciplines, that converses with all manner of publics, that affirms but also transcends local and national differences, that engages with the pressing issues of our time, and that, in so doing, vitalizes all sociology. Public sociology has many faces and many languages. So, with the help of the Ford Foundation, the world's most renown sociologists and public intellectuals will congregate in San Francisco to create a World Sociological Forum, a clashing of voices and perspectives on social science's public mission.
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OPENING PLENARY Friday, August 13th, 6:30-8:15 p.m., cosponsored with the Association of Black Sociologists (ABS), Sociologists for Women in Society (SWS), and the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP)
W.E.B. DuBois: Lessons for the 21st Century
Four distinguished scholars discuss the lessons to be extracted from W.E.B. Du Bois’s long career as academic and sociologist, editor and journalist, activist and publicist, Marxist and Pan-Africanist.
Presider: Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
Panelists: Aldon Morris, Northwestern University Patricia Hill Collins, University of Cincinnati Gerald Horne, University of Houston Manning Marable, Columbia University
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PLENARY Saturday, August 14th, 12:30-2:15 p.m. Speaking to Powers: A Global Conversation
A conversation among four sociologists from different countries (France, Norway, United States and Mexico) who have tried in various ways, to use their knowledge to affect the wider political process and who will discuss what they have learned from this endeavor.
Presider: Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University
Panelists: Johan Galtung, Transcend, An International Peace and Development Organization Pablo Gonzalez Casanova, National Autonomous University, Mexico Paul E. Starr, Princeton University Alain Touraine, Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, France
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PUBLIC ADDRESS Saturday, August 14th, 7:30-9:30p.m. Human Rights and Ethical Globalization
Mary Robinson, Former President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
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ASA AWARDS CEREMONY & PRESIDENTIAL PLENARY Sunday, August 15th, 4:30-6:30 p.m. For Public Sociology
Michael Burawoy, University of California, Berkeley
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PLENARY Monday, August 16th, 12:30-2:15 p.m. Speaking to Publics: Limits and Possibilities
What publics can sociologists address? Are they disappearing? What are the ways of addressing them? Why should we bother to address them? Four commentators who straddle the boundaries of sociology from different directions discuss these questions and their own experiences with diverse publics.
Presider: Bernice Pescosolido, Indiana University
Panelists: Barbara Ehrenreich, Writer William Julius Wilson, Harvard University Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York Eric Wanner, Russell Sage Foundation
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PUBLIC ADDRESS Monday, August 16th, 7:30-9:30 p.m. Public Power in the Age of Empire
Arundhati Roy, Public intellectual-at-large, activist, and writer
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CLOSING PLENARY Tuesday, August 17th, 5:00-7:00 p.m. The Future of Neoliberalism
Both Paul Krugman and Fernando Henrique Cardoso built their academic reputations for contributions to the theory of the international economy – the one an economist of trade and the other a sociologist of dependency. Both became public figures in the era of neoliberal ascendancy – the one a vitriolic columnist for The New York Times and the other Minister of Finance and then President of Brazil. In the light of their background in social science and their high profile political engagements, how do they view the future of politics and the market and, thus, of the world?
Presider: Juliet Schor, Boston College
Panelists: Paul Krugman, Princeton University and The New York Times; Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Former President of Brazil and Sao Paulo University
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CLOSING RECEPTION Tuesday, August 17th. 7:30-9:30 p.m. Closing Remarks: Sociologist as President
Fernando Henrique Cardoso
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