Recent Civil Sphere in India Conference at Yale

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Jeffrey Alexander hosted a group of scholars on October 22 and 23, 2022, at Yale University to workshop their chapters for the forthcoming volume, The Civil Sphere in India (Polity Press). Jeff’s co-organizer, Suryakant Waghmore of the Indian Institute of Technology in Bombay, participated via Zoom, as did three other participants who were unable to come to Yale.

Co-Organizers: Jeffrey Alexander, Yale University; Suryakant Waghmore, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. Commentators: Carlo Tognato, University of Minnesota, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies; and Trevor Stack, University of Aberdeen.

Generously supported by: The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale, and the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.

Special thanks to CCS Junior Fellow Shivani Choudhary for her assistance with this event.

The photo album can be found here

The full program can be found here

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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