What happens to Sociology’s ‘big questions’ in an age of environmental uncertainty?
14 May 2024 at 3:00:00 pm
Part 1
May 14th, 8am PST/11am EST/4pm BST/11pm HKT via Zoom
Daniel Aldana Cohen (UC Berkeley): The Case for Red-Sky Social Science: Or, Four Theses for Climate Sociology
Discussant: Juliet Schor (Boston College)
Rebecca Elliott (London School of Economics): Commemorative climates: Exploring the intersections of heritage, value, and climate loss
Discussant: Jeffrey Olick (University of Virginia)
Patrick Greiner (Vanderbilt University): Peering into a paradox: Theorizing socio-technical momentum and its challenges to realization of sustainable transitions and just futures
Discussant: Benjamin Sovacool (Boston University)
Concluding remarks: Richard York, University of Oregon
Part 2
May 21st, 8am PST/11am EST/4pm BST/11pm HKT via Zoom
Hillary Angelo (UC Santa Cruz): Climate Change as Large-Scale Social Transformation
Discussant: William H. Sewell Jr. (University of Chicago)
Kalyani Monteiro Jayasankar (University of Southern California): Unequal Times: Temporal Agency in an Era of Climate Change
Discussant: Iddo Tavory (New York University)
Caleb Scoville (Tufts University): Infrastructural Betrayal: California Water Politics in a Changing Climate
Discussant: Fernando Dominguez Rubio (UC San Diego)
Concluding remarks: Elisabeth Clemens, University of Chicago
Registration: https://hku.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvduivpjMrGdZVICmlTRDqqJQ3jLR7Aeez