See below and attached for information about the Junior Theorists Symposium. I encourage CITAMS members to consider attending! Best, Dr. Dustin Kidd Director of General Education<https://undergradstudies.temple.edu/about/gened> Associate Professor, Sociology Chair, CITAMS section of ASA<https://citams.org/> Temple University He/Him/His Schedule an Appointment<https://dustin-kidd.youcanbook.me/> www.dustinkidd.net<http://www.dustinkidd.net/> ________________________________ Dear colleagues, Join us at the annual Junior Theorists Symposium! When: August 17th, 2023 | 8:30am - 5pm ET Where: Temple University, Gladfelter Hall Register: RSVP to join us here<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjJEhKcH1rRvtvaI-BFr3MEyDzx5P37sIicC_MQjbXhxzktQ/viewform?usp=sf_link> The Junior Theorists Symposium is a conference featuring the work of emerging sociologists engaged in theoretical work, broadly defined. Sponsored in part by the Theory Section of the ASA, the conference has provided a platform for the work of early-career sociologists since 2005. The symposium will be held as an in-person event on Thursday, August 17 prior to the 2023 ASA Annual Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. It is our honor to announce that Claire Decoteau (University of Illinois-Chicago), Greta Krippner (University of Michigan), and Victor Ray (University of Iowa) will serve as discussants for this year’s symposium. Daniel Hirschman (Cornell University), winner of the 2022 Junior Theorist Award, will deliver a keynote address. Finally, the symposium will include an after-panel titled “Why Theorize?" This panel will bring scholars, thinkers, and doers into conversation to explore convergences, tensions, and a range of possible responses to the question: why theorize? Panelists will include Zine Magubane (Boston College), Iddo Tavory (New York University), Diane Vaughan (Columbia University), and Karida Brown (Emory University). Panel #1: Dr. Claire Decoteau, discussant * Madison Renner - How events begin: Rupture, routine, and retrospection in the discovery of global warming * Zachary Griffen - Our Money or Our Lives: How Competing Fields Make Claims on Public Health * Cristina Awadalla - Making Feminist Sense of Contemporary Nicaraguan Politics: The Engendered Aesthetic Politics of Orteguismo Panel #2: Dr. Victor Ray, discussant * Jenny Logan - On Rape and Property * Danya Lagos - Capitalism and Trans Identity * Jorge Daniel Vasquez - The Du Boisian Sociology of Irene Diggs: Gender, Colonialism, and the Latin American Color Line * Shadrick Small - Containment and the Cycle of Racial Stagnation Panel #3: Dr. Greta Krippner, discussant * Melissa Osborne and Jeffrey Nathaniel Parker - Capital without Capitalists?: Social and Cultural Capital Theorizing as Object Fetishization * Julia Byeon - What is the relationship between the financial and real economy?: A case study of financialization in the commodities sector * Julia Dessauer - Managing Up: Assistant Work and Patrimonial Relations in Hollywood We’ll celebrate the conclusion of the 2023 JTS at the Chinatown Beer Garden<https://www.chinatownbeergarden.com/> in the early evening. REGISTER FOR THE JTS HERE <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScjJEhKcH1rRvtvaI-BFr3MEyDzx5P37sIicC_MQjbXhxzktQ/viewform?usp=sf_link> We hope you’ll join us. Please also share this invitation widely with colleagues, students, and anyone else interested! Looking forward to seeing you in August! Best, Jon and Wendy ------- Jonathan Shaffer, Ph.D. Hecht-Levi Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Infectious Disease Ethics Johns Hopkins University Berman Institute of Bioethics Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities at the University of Oxford https://www.jonathanshaffer.net<https://www.jonathanshaffer.net/>