Thinking with Bourdieu Today:
Interdisciplinary and Transnational Approaches
a three-day conference
Thursday, April 25, 2024
The Remarque Institute, 60 5th Avenue 8th fl.
17:30 Keynote Lecture
Gisèle Sapiro Extending Bourdieu's Research Program to Bridge the Humanities and the Social Sciences
(Chair, Camille Robcis)
Friday, April 26, 2024
The Remarque Institute, 60 5th Avenue 8th fl.
10:00 Literary Theory and Bourdieusian Critical Approaches
John Guillory, "Degrees of Separation: Some Notes on Social Capital"
Sylvaine Guyot, "Literary Metabolization: From Mapping to Molding the Field"
Morgane Cadieu, "The Bourdieu of the Novel"
Tristan Leperlier, "Plurilingual Literary Fields in a Transnational Context"
(Chair, Emily Apter)
13:30 Habitus (in-)flexibility: Thinking with and Beyond Bourdieu about Individual Class/Gender/Race Mobilities?
Muriel Darmon, "How Can the Inflexible Habitus be Flexible?"
Mustafa Emirbayer, "Racial Habitus and the Life Course"
Emmanuel Beaubatie, "Moving across the Social Space of Gender: Reflections from a Study on Gender Mobility in Trans Paths"
Chantal Jacquet, "Beyond the Notion of Class Defector: The Concept of Transclass"
(Chair, Frédéric Viguier)
16:00 Historical Sociology/Intellectual History
Johan Heilbron, "Intellectual History as Historical Sociology?"
Stephanie Mudge, "The Transnational Historical Sociology of Commodified Democracy: A Field Approach"
Gil Eyal, "Trusting as a Skillful Act: Thinking with Pierre Bourdieu's Analysis of Le Sens Pratique to Reconstruct the Sociological Theory of Trust"
(Chair, Stefanos Geroulanos)
Saturday, April 27, 2024
La Maison Française, 16 Washington Mews
09:00 Transnational Fields and comparativism
Rodney Benson, "Heteronomy's Multiplicity: Implications for the Generation of Public Service News in a Moment of Civic Crisis"
Larissa Buchholz, "Theorizing the Geographic Dimension of Multi-Scalar Global Fields: Insights from the Global Visual Arts"
Jason Ferguson, "Search for a Method: From Social Space to Fields in a Multi-Scalar Global Sociology"
(Chair, Gisèle Sapiro)
11:00 Postcolonialism and fields
George Steinmetz, "Context, Field, Text: From 'Decolonizing' Sociology to Writing its History"
Madeline Bedecarré, "The Sociological Turn in Postcolonial Literary Studies: Field Theory & African Literature"
J. Siguru Wahutu, "African Journalists: What's Bourdieu Got To Do With Them?"
(Chair, Thomas Dodman)