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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
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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
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Suzanne Coshow, University of Notre Dame
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PLENARY SESSION II
Wednesday, August 14th 2:00 pm - 3:45 am
Paper One: Challenging Psychotherapeutic Authority.  Nancy Whittier, Smith College
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Paper Two: Drag Performances as Social Protest.  Verta Taylor, The Ohio State University
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; Joshua Gamson, Yale University
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Paper Three: Thinking about Challenges/Limits for Feminist Activism in Extra-feminist Settings. Benita Roth, State University of New York at Binghamton
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Paper Four: Reclaiming the Subversive Gospel: The Religious and Political Resistance of the Plowshares Movement. Sharon Erickson Nepstad, Duquesne University and Princeton University
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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
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Paper Two: Preventative Medicine: The Monitoring of Racial Boundaries. Jenny Irons, University of Arizona
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Paper Three: The Role of Trade Unions in Creating and Maintaining a Democratic Society. Barbara Fick, University of Notre Dame Law School
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; Ada Verloren, University of Notre Dame Law School
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Paper Four: Broadening Our Understanding of Contention and Authority.  Doug McAdam, Stanford University
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