Civil Sphere Theory in Chicago!

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

In Chicago, on December 21, at the 53rd Annual Conference of the Association for Jewish Studies, a panel was held featuring Civil Sphere Theory: "Cultural Processes: Cultural Sociological Framings of the Rise in Antisemitism." Jeffrey Alexander (Yale) contributed a paper, co-authored with Tracy Adams (Univ. of Haifa): "The Return of Antisemitism? Waves of Societalization and What Conditions Them." Chad Goldberg (UW-Madison) gave a paper, "The End of Multiculturalism?" and Maja Gildin Zuckerman (Post-doc, Copenhagen Business School), gave a paper, "The Eternally Rescued: The Jews and the Boundaries of Danish Civility." All three papers used CST to evaluate the recent upsurge in antisemitism throughout the Western world, and vice-versa, to ask what the implications of that surge are for CST.

https://www.associationforjewishstudies.org/2021program

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She is a cultural sociologist in the tradition of the Strong Program, who focuses on the meaning-making process in her research on international migration. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil., and PhD from Yale University. Recent books include The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (with Carlo Tognato and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds., Palgrave, 2020) and Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (with Victoria Shmidt, Routledge 2021), Besides civil sphere theory, her current research focuses on in-depth cultural sociological analysis and reconstruction of public issues such as perceptions of migration, and the cultural sociology of conspiracy theories.

https://www.cstnetwork.org/jaworsky-bio
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