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Movements as Collective Challenges to Authority Structures

University of Notre Dame August 14-15, 2002

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PLENARY SESSION I

Wednesday, August 14th
8:30 am - 10:15 am

Paper One:  Social Movements as Challenges to Authority: Resistance to an Emerging Conceptual Hegemony.  David A. Snow, University of California, Irvine   

Paper Two:  Soft Repression: Ridicule, Stigma and Silencing in Gender-based Movements.   Myra Marx Ferree, University of Wisconsin-Madison    

Paper Three:  Authority Within Movements.  Francesca Polletta, Columbia University   

Paper Four:  Setting the Reach of Protest: Institutions, Movements and Social Ties in Spanish Working-Class Collective Action.  Robert Fishman, University of Notre Dame       Suzanne Coshow, University of Notre Dame    

PLENARY SESSION II

Wednesday, August 14th
2:00 pm - 3:45 am

Paper One:  Challenging Psychotherapeutic Authority.  Nancy Whittier, Smith College      

Paper Two:  Drag Performances as Social Protest.  Verta Taylor, The Ohio State University     ; Joshua Gamson, Yale University    

Paper Three:  Thinking about Challenges/Limits for Feminist Activism in Extra-feminist Settings.  Benita Roth, State University of New York at Binghamton   

Paper Four:  Reclaiming the Subversive Gospel: The Religious and Political Resistance of the Plowshares Movement.  Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Duquesne University and Princeton University    

PLENARY SESSION III

Thursday, August 15th
2:00 pm - 4:15 pm

Paper One:  Controlling Protest: New Directions for Research on the Social Control of Protest.  Jennifer Earl, University of California, Santa Barbara   

Paper Two:  Preventative Medicine: The Monitoring of Racial Boundaries.  Jenny Irons, University of Arizona   

Paper Three:  The Role of Trade Unions in Creating and Maintaining a Democratic Society.  Barbara Fick, University of Notre Dame Law School   ; Ada Verloren, University of Notre Dame Law School   

Paper Four:  Broadening Our Understanding of Contention and Authority.  Doug McAdam, Stanford University