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Calls for Papers and Participants From Kristóf Nagy: Call-for-Proposal: Infrastructures of Trading and Transferring Art since 1900 Workshop Organized by: Gregor M. Langfeld (University of Amsterdam/Open University, Netherlands)Kristóf Nagy (KEMKI – Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary)Lynn Rother (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany) Deadline: 31 January 2024. Speakers will be informed by 11 February 2024.Dates of the Workshop: June 26–28, 2024.Location of the Workshop: … Continue reading Newsletter Announcements

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SSHA Conference Session Report – The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality

Marissa Combs (Harvard University) reported a book session event for the second volume of the Handbook of the Sociology of Morality at the 2023 Social Science History Association conference in Washington D.C. A lot has changed since the first volume of The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality was published in 2010. What was once considered a peripheral topic addressed in a few literatures has … Continue reading SSHA Conference Session Report – The Handbook of the Sociology of Morality

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Book Review: Seeking Others by Michèle Lamont

Book Review: Seeing OthersBy Estela B. DiazPresidential Postdoctoral FellowPrinceton University With Seeing Others: How Recognition Works – and How it Can Heal a Divided World (Simon & Schuster 2023), Harvard sociologist Michèle Lamont brings her nearly 40 years of expertise into the public sphere. Sociological scholarship and public policy tend to focus on reducing inequality in the distribution of material resources. In Seeing Others, Lamont … Continue reading Book Review: Seeking Others by Michèle Lamont

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Four Questions with Larissa Buchholz

Manning Zhang (Brandeis University) interviews Larissa Buchholz (Northwestern University) about her now book The Global Rules of Art, and her visions in the sociology of art. Manning Zhang: First, congratulations on publishing The Global Rules of Art! Please tell us a bit about the origin story of this important book. Larissa Buchholz: Thank you, Manning. As I explain briefly in the book’s preface, I’ve been … Continue reading Four Questions with Larissa Buchholz

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Letter from the Chair – Monika Krause

Dear Members of the Culture Section, I hope you had a chance to connect with the people, ideas, and perhaps places that matter most to you during the winter break and were able to replenish your energies for the important work you are doing. One of the highlights of my fall semester was to email members of the section, usually sociologists whom I don’t know … Continue reading Letter from the Chair – Monika Krause

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Announcements – January 2024

Dear Members of the Culture Section,  in this edition of announcements, I am re-sending the call for contributions from the editors of our newsletter, Yao Man, Clara Cirdan and Manning Zhang, which asks for your submissions by January 15th.  Don’t hesitate to send news of your publications to asaculturenews@gmail.com. In my role, I sometimes look at an excel sheet with the names of section members and I would … Continue reading Announcements – January 2024

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