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A conference in honor of the 50th anniversary of C. Wright Mills' "The Sociological Imagination"
Friday October 16th, 2009 - Saturday October 17th, 2009, The Graduate Center
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 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more details.

Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Culture,Technology and Work at the Graduate Center, CUNY and the Institute for Public Knowledge at NYU