C. Wright Mills: "taking it big"

On 16-17 October 2009, the CUNY Graduate Center will host a conference in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of C. Wright Mills’s The Sociological Imagination. The event will be sponsored by the Center for the Study of Culture, Technology and Work at the Graduate Center and the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU:

Held in honor of the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of The Sociological Imagination, C. Wright Mills’ manifesto for both the social sciences and for the vanishing breed of political intellectuals, this two-day conference seeks to update Mill’s vision of “taking it big” in the social sciences by focusing on the role of intellectuals, questions of power, the middle class, culture and political theory as well as the political nature of scholarship. Speakers include Stanley Aronowitz, Craig Calhoun, Tom Hayden, Russell Jacoby, Adolph Reed, Marshall Berman, Lynn Chancer and Stephen Bronner.

Registration required. Contact 212-817-2001 or email greenbergandrew@gmail.com.

An official conference announcement is available here.

Reflections on the field

Daniel Vaca

Daniel Vaca is the Robert Gale Noyes Assistant Professor of Humanities at Brown University, where he teaches in the Department of Religious Studies. A historian of religion and culture in North America, he specializes in the relationship between religious and economic activity in the United States. His first book, Evangelicals Incorporated: Books and the Business of Religion in America (Harvard, 2019) examines how evangelical ideas, identities, and alliances have developed through commercial strategy and corporate initiative. The co-chair of the American Academy of Religion's program unit on Religion and Economy, Daniel serves on the editorial board of The Immanent Frame.

C. Wright Mills: “taking it big”

Daniel Vaca

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

Daniel Vaca

Mobilizing social science for the public good.

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