Friday, June 5
(Wolff Conference Room 1103 @ 6 East 16th Street)
9:15am: Julia Ott, Ariane Leendertz, Wolfgang Streeck:
Welcome and Introductory Remarks
9:30am: Uwe Schimank, Ute Volkmann (Sociology, University of Bremen)
“Economizing the Non-Economic: Practices and Consequences”
10:30am: Gerald Davis (Management and Sociology, University of Michigan)
“How American Households Turned into Enron”
Noon: Stefan Lessenich (Sociology, University of Munich)
“The End of Retirement: The Economization of Old Age”
2:30pm: Kim Phillips-Fein (History, New York University)
“Resistance to Retrenchment: Working-Class Attitudes Towards Austerity in 1970s New York”
3:30pm: Andrea Mennicken (Accounting and Sociology, London School of Economics)
“Privatization = Economization? Privatization in the British Prison Service since the 1990s”
5:00pm: Margaret Somers (Sociology and History, University of Michigan)
"Inequality or Social Exclusion: The Economization of the Poverty Industry"
Saturday, June 6
(Orozco Room 712 @ 66 West 12th Street)
9:30am: Howard Brick (History, University of Michigan)
“The Decline of Post-Capitalist Social Theory and the Rise of Economism since the 1970s”
10:30am: Nancy MacLean (History, Duke University)
“Forget Chicago, It’s Coming from Virginia: The 1970s Genesis of Today’s Attack on Democracy”
Noon: Greta Krippner (Sociology, University of Michigan)
“Economies of Difference: Risk Classification and Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets”
1:00pm: Lunch break
2:30pm: Eduardo Canedo (History, University of Connecticut)
“Neoliberal Environmentalism: The Environmental Defense Fund, Market Technologies, and the Public Interest”
4:00pm: S. M. Amadae (Political Science, Ohio State University)
“Does the Social Fit on a Single Scale? The Violence of Commensurability”