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The Politics and Protest Workshop

The Politics and Protest Workshop
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Ave. Dept of Sociology
Phone (212) 817-8790

Thursdays 4.15 - 6.15, Meet at the Dept of Sociology, 6th Floor. Dinner nearby afterward.

Organized by James M. Jasper and
John Krinsky

2011-2012 Assistant:
Jane McAlevey and Kevin Moran

The workshop follows Tilly's Rules of Etiquette

Papers will be posted one week before each workshop

Green Tips:
Authors, send us your paper as a single spaced document.
Everyone, try printing double-sided it really saves paper! (Hit 'Print' then click on 'Properties' and select double-sided)

Spring 2012

February 9: Jeff Goodwin, "Social-Movement Theory Today: An Insider's Critique"
Critics: John Krinsky, David Siegel. Please email: ppworkshop@gc.cuny.edu for paper

February 16:
Critics:

March 1: Amy Holmes, "There are weeks when decades happen: Structure and Agency in the Egyptian Revolution"
Critics: Jeff Goodwin

March 8: Alicia Swords, "Untold Stories, Peoples' Histories, and Movement Universities: Political Education in the Americas"
Critics: Jim Jasper

March 15: John Krinksy, "Pre-Occupied: The articulation of existing labor and community organizing with Occupy Wall Stree"
Critics: Caroline Lee

March 22: Louis Esparza, "Occupy Los Angeles: A cultural model of movement cycles."
Critics: Bogdan Vasi

March 29: Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar, "How common citizens transform politics: the cases of Mexico and Bolivia"
Critics: Susan Woodward, Jose Laguarta.

April 5: Elizabeth Borland, "Perceiving Shifting Obstacles in the Fight for
Abortion Rights in Argentina"
Critics: Heidi Swarts

April 19: Lesley J. Wood, "Internationalism Transformed - The World Festival of Youth and Students, 1947-2010"
Critics:

April 26: Susan Woodward, "tbc"
Critics: Yakov Lowinger

May 3: David Siegel, "Riding on Empty: External Abeyance Structures and New York's Critical Mass"
Critics: