Social Theory Group, July 1988-1995

Coorganizers: Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, Thomas McCarthy, and Moishe Postone.
Participants: John Bowen, Tim Breene, Craig Calhoun, Michael Dyson, Geoff Eley, Nancy Fraser, Susan Gal, Michael Geyer, Linda Gordon, George Hogenson, Michael Kennedy, Gail Kligman, Benjamin Lee, Edward LiPuma, John MacAloon, Jane Mansbridge, Thomas McCarthy, Elizabeth Mertz, James Oakes, Moishe Postone, Lee Schlesinger, Margaret Somers, George Steinmetz, John Stephens, Sharon Stephens, Charles Taylor, Michael Warner, Bernard Weissbourd, Mayfair Yang.

Micro-Macro Workshops, September 1987-May 1988

Coorganizers: Thomas McCarthy and Moishe Postone.
Speakers: Leigh Starr and Adam Przeworski.
Participants: Keith Baker, Craig Calhoun, Vincent Crapanzano, Fred Dallmayr, Michael Geyer, Harry Harootunian, Jack Heinz, George Hogenson, Gail Kligman, Benjamin Lee, Edward LiPuma, John Lucy, Jane Mansbridge, Thomas McCarthy, Elizabeth Mertz, James Oakes, Moishe Postone, Adam Przeworski, John Stephens, Sharon Stephens, Arthur Stinchcombe, Bernard Weissbourd, David Van Zandt.

Pierre Bourdieu Conference, March-April 1989

Coorganizers: Craig Calhoun, Edward LiPuma, and Moishe Postone.
Speaker: Pierre Bourdieu.
Participants: Lau Brousseau, Rogers Brubaker, Craig Calhoun, Aaron Cicourel, James Collins, Jean Comaroff, Hubert Dreyfus, Joe Errington, Nicholas Garnham, William Hanks, Beate Krais, Scott Lash, Benjamin Lee, Edward LiPuma, John Lucy, Paul Rabinow, Lee Schlesinger, Wolfgang Stark, George Steinmetz, David Swartz, Ivan Szelenyi, Loic Wacquant, Michael Warner, Bernard Weissbourd.

This conference resulted in the publication of Bourdieu: Critical Perspectives (Polity, 1993).

The Autonomization of Life-Spheres and the Problem of Modernity, June 1985

Speaker: Georg Markus.
Participants: Fernando Coronil, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Moishe Postone, Rafael Sanchez, Terry Turner, Bernard Weissbourd, James Wertsch.

The Implications of the Preconceptual for Social Theory, October 23-24, 1985

Speakers: Hubert Dreyfus and John Searle.
Participants: Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Moishe Postone, Lee Schlesinger, Michael Silverstein, Milton Singer, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd.

Wittgenstein and Approaches to Political Theory, January 9-11, 1986

Speaker: Hanna Pitkin.
Participants: Nancy Fraser, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Greg Urban, Elizabeth Mertz, Richard Parmentier, Moishe Postone, Lee Schlesinger, Milton Singer, Michael Silverstein, Bernard Weissbourd, Meredith Williams.

Postmodernism and Critical Theory, January 16-18, 1986

Speaker: Martin Jay.
Participants: Vincent Crapanzano, Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Moishe Postone, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd, Meredith Williams, Nancy Fraser, Lee Schlesinger, Thomas McCarthy.

On the Relationship of Social Practice, Social Structures, and Social Values, March 22-23, 1986

Speaker: Pierre Bourdieu.
Participants: Asif Agha, Craig Calhoun, Vincent Crapanzano, Nancy Fraser, William Hanks, Benjamin Lee, Edward LiPuma, John Lucy, Thomas McCarthy, Elizabeth Mertz, Norris Minick, Richard Parmentier, Moishe Postone, Marshall Sahlins, Lee Schlesinger, Michael Silverstein, Milton Singer, Debra Spitulnik, Betsy Traub, Terry Turner, Greg Urban, Bernard Weissbourd.

Colloquium on Social Mediation: Beyond the Antinomy of the Material and the Cultural, held at the meetings of the American Ethnological Society, May 1985

Coorganizers: Elizabeth Mertz and Moishe Postone.
Participants: Benjamin Lee, John Lucy, Elizabeth Mertz, Moishe Postone, Lee Schlesinger, James Wertsch.