Monday 23 May

Room 222, Wentworth College University of York

17.00-18.30: Public Lecture Michèle Lamont, Harvard University - Cultural boundaries and inequality in comparative perspective

Chair: Mike Savage, University of York

19.30: Dinner at Loch Fyne Restaurant (optional)

 

Tuesday 24 May

Bowe Room, Grays Court, York

09.30-10.00: Arrival and coffee

10.00-10.15: Welcome and Introduction - Mike Savage and Elizabeth Silva

10.15-12.15: Session 1: Comparative analyses of fields

 

• Cultural Capital in the UK and Finland: Methodological issues in comparative work on tastes

Semi Purhonen, University of Helsinki & David Wright, University of Warwick

• ‘There’s something fundamental about what makes you laugh’: Comedy taste and symbolic boundaries

Sam Friedman, University of Edinburgh & Giselinde Kuipers, University of Amsterdam

• Responses to discrimination and social resilience under neo-liberalism: The case of Brazil, Israel and the United States

Michèle Lamont, Crystal Fleming & Jessica Welburn, Harvard University

Discussant: Annick Prieur, University of Aalbor

 

12.15-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.45: Session 2:  Analyzing complex field dynamics

• Unruly objects, judgments and boundary drawing in the field of contemporary art conservation

Fernando Dominguez & Elizabeth Silva, The Open University

• By-product data and the hidden dimensions of the musical field

David Beer, University of York

• Field, sub-field and local social spaces: Structural levels of “low brow” music and social conditions of cultural domination

Vincent Dubois, University of Strasbourg & Jean-Matthieu Méon, Université Paul Verlaine-Metz

• New technologies and cultural participation in the French-speaking part of Belgium

Laurie Hanquinet, University of York 

Discussant: Dieter Vandebroeck, Free University of Brussels 

 

15.45-16.00: Afternoon refreshments

16.00-18.15: Session 3: Methodological innovations and tensions

• Geometric data analysis of French cultural practices

Frédéric Lebaron, Université de Picardie – Jules Verne/CNRS, Philippe Bonnett & Brigitte Le Roux, Université Paris Descartes/CNRS

• The bairro is not here': Social divisions and symbolic boundaries in a council housing area of Porto (1977-2010)

Virgílio Borges Pereira, University of Porto

• The same everywhere?

Roger Burrows, University of York

• The Internationalisation of the Swiss Business Elite: an attempt to tackle "methodological nationalism" by the means of field analysis

Felix Bühlmann, Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

Discussant: Alan Warde, University of Manchester

19.30: Dinner at Melton’s Too 

 

Wednesday 25 May

09.00-10.45: Session 4: Close relationships, gender and the body   

• The family as field: General properties and broader significances

Will Atkinson, University of Bristol

• The link between gender and cultural capital in Finland

Tuomo Laihiala, University of Helsinki

• An exploration of the ‘fell runners habitus’ in a shifting socio-cultural field: Developing an ethnography of running in the English Lake District

Sarah Nettleton, University of York

Discussant: Elizabeth Silva, The Open University

10.45-11.00: Morning refreshments

11.00-12.45: Session 5: Class and domination

• Class, status or both

Predrag Cvetičanin, Centre for Empirical Cultural Studies of South-East Europe, Serbia & Mihaela Popescu, California State University, San Bernandino

• Politics of the service class: The case of Scandinavia

Magne Flemmen, University of Oslo & Johs Hjellbrekke, University of Bergen

• Exploring cultural oppositions within privileged and underprivileged positions: the case of Aalborg

Jakob Skjøtt-Larsen, University of Aalborg

Discussant: Jukka Gronow, University of Helsinki

12.45-13.45: Lunch 

13.45-14.30: Closing session including discussions about the future