Workshop 2015-16
YaleCHESS Workshop, Spring 2016
12:00—1:30pm, Whitney Humanities Center, 53 Wall St., Room 208
Light lunch is served from 11:30 pm
Instructions for Responding at CHESS
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January 22
Amanda Anderson, Brown University
“Psyche and Ethos”
February 5
Andrew Sabl, Yale University
“Toleration Isn’t What it Used to Be: From Enlightened Magistrates to Democratic Constitutionalism”
February 19
William Ian Miller, University of Michigan
“Drawing Lines in the Sand: Of Outlaws, Cod, Strangers, Barking Dogs, Babies, and Sanctuary”
March 4
Michele Lamont, Harvard University
“What is Missing? Cultural Processes and Causal Pathways to Inequality”
April 1
Ignacio Gallup-Diaz, Bryn Mawr College
“Pirates into Frenchmen: Shifting Imperial Perceptions of a Hidden Community in Eastern Panama”
April 22
Sid Tarrow, Cornell University
“The Vertical Axis of Pluralism: The Ambivalences of Infrastructural Power”
CHESS Annual Lecture
Jean Strouse, Director, The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Writers and Scholars, New York Public Library
April 8, 2016
YaleCHESS Workshop, Fall 2015
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September 11
Sophia Rosenfeld, University of Virginia
“On Lying: Writing Philosophical History after the Enlightenment and after Arendt”
October 16
Jonathan Kramnick, Yale University
“Three Novels and the Problem of Consciousness”
Matthew Calhoun Shafer Response
October 30
Susan Pedersen, Columbia University
“Britain and the Italo-Ethiopian Crisis”
November 13
Alan Taylor, University of California, Davis
“The Great Leveraging”
November 20
Claudia Goldin, Harvard University
“Generations of Change: Evolution of Career and Family”
December 4
Robert Darnton, Harvard University
“A Literary Tour de France”
CHESS Workshop Responses from Previous Years
YaleCHESS Conference, “States and Capitalism: Past, Present, and Future”
October 2-3, 2015
With l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS)
Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., Rm. 203