Photo by Elka Rifkin
Sixth Annual NYLON Graduate Student Conference
Friday, March 14 to Sunday, March 16
NYLON is an Anglo-American research group, so called because it began as a joint project of the sociology departments of New York University (NY) and the London School of Economics (LON). Continuing to meet both separately and together, the New York and London groups have come to include people at Columbia University, the New School, Goldsmiths College and Cambridge University. The research group is headed by professors Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett, who seek in NYLON to model intellectual collaboration and international communication. Students from both the U.S. and the U.K. have found it eye-opening to discover the differences in style, assumptions, and intellectual sensibilities that divide British and American sociology - even where broad orientations are similar. Research topics in the group share many concerns, but not either a single topic of analysis or a single analytic perspective. What most unifies the group is concern for the integration of social organization, social action, and the production of meaning - the ways in which social processes are turned by practical activity into cultural forms and in turn inform the improvisation of social practices. Students are committed to developing ways of infusing critical cultural analysis into sociology as a whole and the integration of cultural analysis studies with political economy and structures of social relations in a more complete analytic approach. NYLON hosts weekly workshops in London and New York as well as annual conferences. As part of the Routledge series, Taking Culture Seriously, the first of three edited collections of NYLON members' research was published in August, 2007.
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