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Calendar of Sociology Colloquia

2012-2013 Sociology Lecture Series

(Funding provided by the department of sociology, the Goldberger Lectureship and cosponsors listed below.)

Time and Place (unless noted otherwise): Tuesdays, 12-1pm; Zimmer Lounge, Maxcy Hall


FALL 2012

THURSDAY, September 27, 6:15-7:30pm: Eric Klinenberg, NYU

“Going Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone”

*Note day and time: cosponsored with PSTC and the Brown Club of Rhode Island.  Petteruti Lounge*

October 2: Sarah Soule, Stanford University

“Prayers, Protest, and Police: The Role of Religion in Differential State Repression of Collective Action Events in the United States, 1960-1965.”

THURSDAY, October 4, 12-1pm: Hyunjoon Park, University of Pennsylvania

“Causal Effects of Single-Sex Schools on Adolescent Outcomes: Random Assignment in Korean High Schools.”

*Note day and time: cosponsored with PSTC.  Seminar room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.*

THURSDAY, October 18, 12-1pm: David Grusky, Stanford University

“The Payoff to Skill in the Third Industrial Revolution.”

*Note day and time: cosponsored with PSTC.  Seminar room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.*

November 13: Tyson Smith, Brown University

“Warring Identities: Identity Strain in the Post-deployment Mental Health of American Veterans of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan”

December 4: Rene Almeling, Yale University

“A Market for Bodily Knowledge: Analyzing the Medical Profession’s Response to Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing”


SPRING 2013

February 5: Jennifer Jennings, NYU

February 26: Xavier de Souza Briggs, MIT

FRIDAY, March 8, 12-1pm: Lincoln Quillian, Northwestern University

*Sponsored by S4. Seminar room, Mencoff Hall, 68 Waterman St.*

March 12: Bart Bonikowski, Harvard University

March 19: Mary Pattillo, Northwestern University

*Cosponsored with S4*

April 2: Wendy Espeland, Northwestern University

April 9: Rogers Brubaker, UCLA

*Cosponsored with the Watson Institute.*

April 16: Ethan Michelson, Indiana University-Bloomington

April 23: Antonio Maturo, Università di Bologna

April 30: Lingxin Hao, Johns Hopkins University



Previous Colloquia

April 24 -- Asef Bayat, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
April 17 -- Dingxin Zhao, University of Chicago. Performance Legitimacy and China’s Economic Development
March 20 -- Nancy Davenport (Columbia University) Columbia University, Institute for Social Research and Policy. Residents’ Storytelling Work in the Hospital
March 19 -- Yuri Kazepov (University of Urbino, Italy) The New Boundaries of Citizenship in Urban Europe: Rescaling Social Policies and the New Role of Local Welfare Arrangements.
March 13 -- Jason Owen Smith, University of Michigan. Relational Signals and Institutional Expectations: Ego Networks and Market Value Across Five High-Technology Sectors
February 21 -- Edward Telles (Princeton University)
February 21 -- Gary Gereffi, Duke University, Globalization and Development in a Post-Washington Consensus World: New Research Challenges and ControversiesNovember 15-- Stanley Aronowitz, City University of New York
November 2 -- Michèle Lamont, Harvard University. Responses to Discrimination and Social Resilience Under Neo-Liberalism: The Case of Brazil, Israel and the United States
October 21 -- Andreas Glaeser, University of Chicago. Competence, Power and Critique: Approaching Agency Hermeneutically
September 20 -- Greg Elliott, Brown University. Intimate Partner Violence and Women’s Physical Abuse of Their Children: The Role of  Depression as Mediator
May 3 -- Leslie Salzinger, Boston College. Beneath the Model: From “Developing Nation” to “Emerging Market,” Deal by Deal
April 26 -- Magda Nico, PhD Candidate, Lisbon University Institute. Transitions to Adulthood in Portugal and Europe: Variability, Disorder and Windows of Opportunity for Agency
April 19 -- Jennifer Darrah, Harvard University
April 12th -- Cedric de Leon, Providence College. We are not all Egyptians, or Democratization from Above: Political Parties in the U.S. Secession Crisis, 1844-1861
April 5 -- Mark Suchman, Brown University. Sharing is (S)caring on the Digital Frontier: The Challenges of IT Governance in Healthcare Organizations
March 22 -- Mary Fennell, Brown University. Cancer Treatment in the 21st Century: An Organizational Perspective
March 8 -- Nancy Luke, Brown University. The South India Community Survey (SICS): An Introduction
March 1 -- Luca Mori, Università di Verona. Putting all the Cards on the Table: Collective Memory and Social Memory in Performance Flow

February 25 -- Steven Lukes, New York University. The End of Progress
February 15 -- Julia Adams, Yale University. Sovereignty and Sociology: From State Theory to Theories of Empire
February 8 -- Charles Lemert, Wesleyan College. Globalization Troubles: Errors, Omissions, Theoretical Confusions
February 1 -- Phil Brown (co-sponsored by Swearer Center), Brown University. Engaged Scholarship: Serving Academia and the Community

December 7 -- Julian Go (Associate Professor at Boston University) "All the World's a Field: Global Structures and Imperial Forms"
November 30 -- Catherine Bliss (Postdoc at Brown University) "Making Race in the Decade of the Genome"
November 16 -- Philip Kasinitz (Professor at City University of New York)
November 9 -- Laurel Smith-Doerr (Associate Professor at Boston University)
November 2 -- Josh Whitford (Assistant Professor at Columbia University)
October 26 -- David Lindstrom (Professor at Brown University)
October 19 -- Mary Fennell (Professor at Brown University) "The Organizations of Cancer Care in the 21st Century:  Profound Change in Technology, Environments, Process and Structure"
October 12 -- Michael White (Professor at Brown University) "The Geometry of Assimilation"
October 5 -- Gianpaolo Biaocchi (Associate Professor at Brown University)
September 28 -- Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell (Assistant Professor at Brown University) "Network Enactment:  How Managerial Interpretations Influence Advice Network Formation"