Politics and Protest Workshop
Thursdays from 4 to 6, in the CUNY Graduate Center Sociology
Department (365 Fifth Avenue, 6th floor).
Jim Jasper (jjasper@gc.cuny.edu) and John Krinsky (jkrinsky@ccny.cuny.edu).
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Welcome to the Politics and Protest Workshop. BASICS We meet from 4-6 on Thursday afternoons at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 34th Street and 5th Avenue, in the sociology department conference room, 6-112. All workshop attendees are expected to have read the paper in advance. The workshops begin with extended criticism and suggestions from two designated critics. After a response by the paper's author, the queue is opened, and we alternate between critics' interventions and the author's responses. The purpose of the workshop is for authors to present unfinished work and to seek suggestions for its improvement. Typically, authors append a prefatory note about what they are most interested in improving onto their paper submissions (which should not be more than 50 pages, double-spaced, normal-sized font, including notes and references). Those who can, dine at a local restaurant afterwards.
The workshop was started in the Fall of 2008, inspired by the example of the Workshop on Contentious Politics, convened by Charles Tilly at Columbia from 1996-2008, and in various forms and places before that, since the 1960s. Because the workshop fostered a real intellectual community of people interested in politics and protest from a number of disciplinary standpoints, and because the ethos of the workshop is to be constructive in criticism and gracious in its receipt, a number of workshop veterans agreed that we should try to continue something that, if not identical, reproduced much of the spirit and form of the Contentious Politics workshop. |