[Pragmatismi] Lectures by Robert Fairbanks (June 10) and Mustafa Emirbayer (June 11)

[Nelli Tiainen]

Dear All,

As a part of a two-day symposium on the question of ambiguity of  
action we welcome you to participate in the two plenary lectures June  
10 and 11, 2014 given by:

- Prof. Robert P. Fairbanks II (University of Pennsylvania and Bryn  
Mawr College, US) “How it Works? Recovering Citizens in Post-Welfare  
Philadelphia” (June 10, 13.30-14.45 in Siltavuorenpenger 3A, aud. 107)  
and
- Prof. Mustafa Emirbayer (University of Wisconsin) on “Relationality  
and Ambiguity” (June 11, 9.30-10.45 in Siltavuorenpenger 3A, aud. 107)


Mustafa Emirbayer (Ph.D. 1989, Harvard University) is Professor of  
Sociology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.  He has published  
numerous influential essays on classical and contemporary social  
theory, organization studies, ethnomethodology, social network  
analysis, cultural sociology, social movement studies, research on  
social revolutions, social work, studies of civil society and the  
public sphere, and the historical sociology of education.  Currently,  
he is completing a two-volume project on the sociology of race in  
America (coauthored with Matthew Desmond).    One of these two  
companion volumes, Racial Domination, Racial Progress: The Sociology  
of Race in America (McGraw-Hill), was published in 2009; the other,  
The Racial Order, is under contract with The University of Chicago  
Press.  Emirbayer is a past winner of the Lewis Coser Award for  
Theoretical Agenda-Setting and is chair of the Theory Section of the  
American Sociological Association.

Robert Fairbanks is a Lecturer and Fellow in Urban Studies at the  
University of Pennsylvania, and a Visiting Professor of Sociology at  
Bryn Mawr College. His fields of interest include urban ethnography,  
urban studies, welfare state theory, and critical social policy  
analysis. Professor Fairbanks teaches courses on urban poverty, the  
political economy of urban development, and the history and philosophy  
of the welfare state. His research focuses on the ways in which  
informal poverty survival mechanisms articulate with the restructuring  
of the contemporary welfare state and the political economy of cities.  
His most recent book, How it Works: Recovering Citizens in  
Post-Welfare Philadelphia (University of Chicago Press, 2009), is an  
ethnographic project that examines how unlicensed, unregulated drug  
and alcohol recovery houses operate as street-level anti-poverty  
strategies and mechanisms of governmentality in postindustrial  
Philadelphia. He has recently co-edited a project titled, "Critical  
ethnography in the neoliberal city" which appeared as a special issue  
of Ethnography. Professor Fairbanks is currently working on a book  
entitled, “Structure Up: The Political Economy of Prison-Based  
Treatment in Illinois and Chicago”, which is an ethnographic study of  
the largest addiction treatment prison in the United States.

Lectures are open for public. They are part of a symposium on  
ambiguity of action. Symposium is organized by Vulnerable Lives –  
Research Group led by Prof. Marja Liisa Honkasalo.

Please find the symposium program and abstracts on the website:  
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/ambiguityofaction/
For more information, please contact kaisa.ketokivi at helsinki.fi or  
anna.leppo at helsinki.fi.

Vulnerable Lives – Research Group

Marja-Liisa Honkasalo
Kaisa Ketokivi
Anna Leppo