Conference Program

 

THE LEGACY OF ALL OUR KIN:

A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF CAROL STACK

 

Sponsored by the Public Humanities Initiative of the American Studies Program, the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, the Urban Ethnography Project, and the Departments of African American Studies, Sociology and Anthropology at Yale University and the Woodrow Wilson School and Department of Sociology at Princeton University.

 

All presentations are in 102 Linsly-Chittenden Hall unless otherwise noted.

 

FRIDAY, MAY 1

8.30-9             Refreshments in Linsly-Chittenden Foyer

9-10.30           All Our Kin in Historical Perspective

Chair: Patricia Pessar, Professor of American Studies, African American Studies and Anthropology, Yale University

Matthew Jacobson, Professor of History, African American Studies, and American Studies, Yale University
All Our Kin and Post-Moynihan America

Elijah Anderson, William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology, Yale University
All Our Kin: A Sociological Appreciation

Sandra Morgen, Associate Dean of the Graduate School and Professor of Anthropology, University of Oregon
What If Ethnography Mattered? From All Our Kin to Welfare ‘Reform’

10.45-12.15           Culture and Economy in Kin Groups

Chair:  Alondra Nelson, Associate Professor of African American Studies, Sociology and American Studies, Yale University

Linda Burton, James B. Duke Professor of Sociology, Duke University
All Our Kin in an Era of the Hook-Up: Complex Relational Ties in Low-Income Rural Families

Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley
Family Life as Bricolage: Getting By and Making Do in the Flats and in the Favela

Deirdre Royster, Professor of Sociology, New York University
Bridging Troubled Waters: The Changing Place of Pleasure, Pain, and Soul in the Black Community

12.30-2            Roundtables in LC 208,103 and 105
Registration required for admission and lunch 

(1) Roundtable in LC 103

Melissa Fay Greene, Journalist and Author, Atlanta, GA

Short-Form Narrative Non-Fiction: Writing & Publishing

(2) Roundtable in LC 105
Carol Stack, Professor Emeritus of Women’s Studies and Education, University of California, Berkeley
Doing Public Anthropology

(3) Roundtable in LC 208
John Jackson, Jr., Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
Media and Ethnography

2.15-3.45         Kinship and Community in Transition

Chair: Kai Erikson, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies, Yale University

Sandra Smith, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley
The Obligation to Give? (Dis)Trust and Exchange among the Black Poor, Then and Now

Wende Marshall, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Public Health Sciences, University of Virginia
Rebuking the Statistically Real: Lessons on Power and Healing from the Rural Black South

Donald Braman, Associate Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School
Crime, Punishment and Families

4-5.30              Keynote Address

Introduction: Beverly Gage, Assistant Professor of History, Yale University

Melissa Fay Greene, Journalist and Author, Atlanta, GA
The Art of Writing for General Readers

5.30-6.30         Reception in LC Foyer

 

SATURDAY, MAY 2

8.30-9            Refreshments in Linsly-Chittenden Foyer

9-10.45            Social Justice Activism in New Haven

Chair: Alicia Schmidt Camacho, Sarai Ribicoff Associate Professor of American Studies, Yale University

Jessica Sager, Co-founder and Executive Director of All Our Kin, Inc., New Haven
All Our Kin In Action: The Growth of a Grassroots Network

Jennifer McTiernan, Founding Executive Director of CitySeed, New Haven
Community-Based Change through Community Food System Work

Kica Matos, Community Services Administrator, City of New Haven
The Elm City Resident Card: Its Impact on the New Haven Community

Joanne Goldblum, Founder and President of the Diaper Bank, New Haven
The Impact of Small Things

11-12.30          Social Networks in Action

Chair: John Szwed, Professor of Music and Jazz Studies, Columbia University, and John M. Musser Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and African American Studies, Yale University

Mario Small, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago
Childcare Centers and the Formation of Supportive Networks among Urban Mothers

Jafari Allen, Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Anthropology,
Yale University
Lover.  Citizen.  Subject.  Black Gay Male ‘Becoming’ Through Networks of Care

Judith Casselberry, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Center for African American Studies, Princeton University
Helping Hands Ministry and the Gift of Helps: Church Women’s Networks

12.45-2.15      Graduate Student Workshop in LC 209
                      Pre-registration required for admission and lunch

Myra Jones-Taylor, Ph.D. Candidate, American Studies Program and Department of Anthropology, Yale University
They Took the Living Room Out of It: The Professionalization of Childcare

Commentator: Mario Small

Alethea Sargent, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Anthropology and the American Studies Program, Yale University
The Costs of Motherhood: Negative Reciprocity Among Homeless Women and Kin in Boston

Commentator: Kai Erikson

LaShawnDa Pittman, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University
Parental Response: Missing Link in African American Caretaking Grandmothers’ Institutional Decision Making

Commentator: Katherine Newman

2.30-4              Politics of Ethnographic Practice 

Chair: Gerald Jaynes, Professor of Economics and African American Studies, Yale University

Mitchell Duneier, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
How Not to Lie with Ethnography: On the Legacy of Carol Stack

Susan Greenbaum, Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
Politics and Method in Representations of Poverty and Race: Carol Stack’s Critical Contributions to Sane/Humane Understanding

John Jackson, Jr., Richard Perry University Associate Professor of Communication and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
The Fieldsite Strikes Back: Anthropologists and Research Subjects

4.15-5.45 pm               Ethnography and Public Culture

Chair: Kathryn Dudley, Professor of American Studies and Anthropology, Yale University

Carol Stack, Professor Emeritus of Women’s Studies and Education, University of California, Berkeley
Writing Ethnography Against Public Reasoning

Katherine Newman, Malcolm Stevenson Forbes Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University
Reflections on the Legacy of All Our Kin