A Celebration of the Life and Works of Charles Tilly

A Celebration of the Life and Works of Charles TillyOctober 3–5, 2008

Organized by the Social Science Research Council, co-sponsored with Columbia University and the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP)

Albert O. Hirschman Prize Ceremony

• Craig Calhoun: Welcoming remarks (64kb)
• Ira Katznelson: “On the Practice of Originality” (84kb)
• Joan Scott: Remarks (88kb)

Contention, Change, and Explanation: A Conference in Honor of Charles Tilly

Panel 1: Appreciating a Mentor

• Sun-Chul Kim: “Grudging Consent”
• Mona El-Ghobashy: “Chuck Tilly, Magnanimous Mentor”
• Ernesto Castañeda-Tinoco: “The Pedagogic Performances of Charles Tilly” (216kb)
• Andreas Koller: “Charles Tilly, Pragmatism and the Public Sphere”(128kb)

Columbia University Memorial

Speakers included Alan Brinkley, Nicholas Dirks, Mirjam Kuenkler, Al Stepan, Harrison White, Ron Aminzade, Doug McAdam, Viviana Zelizer,Charlotte Cottier, and Chris Tilly.

Panel 2: States, Social Change, and Historical Social Science

• Immanuel Wallerstein: “What is Historical Social Science?” (76kb)
• William Sewell: “Early Tilly: The Vendee and Historical Social Science” (80kb)
• John Merriman: “The Origins of Modern Terrorism in Fin-de-Siecle Paris”
• Jack Goldstone: “From Structure to Agency: Personal and Theory Reflections on Historical Dynamics” (72kb)

Panel 3: Contentious Politics I

• Sidney Tarrow: “Debating War, States, and Rights with Charles Tilly: A Contentious Conversation” (92kb)
• Javier Auyero: “Patronage and Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship” (228kb)
• Adam Ashforth: “Relational Sociology Run Off the Rails, or How Chuck Tilly Helped me Think About Spiritual Insecurity in Post-Apartheid Soweto.”

Panel 4: Contentious Politics II

• Michael Hanagan: “Agendas for the Study of Labor Protest” (144kb)
• Wayne te Brake: “The Contentious Politics of Religious Conflict and Coexistence”
• Barry Wellman: “Networking Chuck” (1.8mb)
• Chair: Richard Bensel

Panel 5: Explanation in Social Science and Everyday Life

• Harrison White: “Trust and Rule”
• Lynn Eden: “Tilly’s Trouble with Stories: The Narrator and the Case of the Missing Disposition” (620kb)
• Viviana Zelizer: “Chuck Tilly and Mozart” (76kb)
• Roberto Franzosi: “Tilly’s Pathbreaking and Enduring Legacy: Quantitative Narrative Analysis in Socio-Historical Research”