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All events take place on Wednesdays in 509 Knox Hall at noon unless otherwise noted here. A light buffet lunch will be served - partial funding is provided by ISERP.
All are welcome to attend.
Fall 2009
September 23
Karen Barkey (Columbia): “Empire and Toleration: Some Comparative Thoughts”
October 21
Richard Sennett (New York): “The Decline of the Skills Society”
November 4
Brian Uzzi (Northwestern): “Outstanding Scientific Impact: Formation and Performance Patterns of Scientists' Collaboration Networks”
Thursday, November 12
Olivier Godechot (CNRS//Ecole Normale Superieure): “Hold-up in Finance: The Condition for High Wages in the Financial Industry”
November 18
David Stark (Columbia): “The Network Costs of Political Ties: Blockage and Brokerage in a Polarized Economy”
Thursday, December 3
Michele Lamont (Harvard): “How Professors Think”
December 9
Joan Fujimura (Wisconsin/Madison):
“Different Differences: Human Populations and the New Genomics”
Past Colloquium Series
Spring 2009
Thursday, February 12
John Levi Martin (Chicago):
February 25
Kieran Healy (Duke):
Thursday, March 12
Claude Rosental (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales):
March 25
Rogers Brubaker (UCLA):
Thursday, April 23
Ash Amin (Durham):
April 29
Jens Beckert (Max Planck):
Fall 2008
September 10
Christel Kesler (Oxford and Barnard):
"Does Immigration Reduce 'Social Capital'? Diversity, Cohesion, and Conflict Across Advanced Democracies, 1980-2000"
September 17
Evan Schofer (California, Irvine): “The State, World Society, and Associational Life"
September 24
Quincy Thomas Stewart (Indiana):
"Labeling Death: The Link Between Race, Hypertension Prevalence and Hypertension Related Death"
October 22
Andrew Perrin (North Carolina):
"Where Does the Public Come From? Contemporary Lessons for Public Opinion Research from the 1949 Gruppenexperiment"
October 29
Omar M. McRoberts (Chicago):
"State 'Regulation' of Religion and the Art of Bonsai: Black Denominations in the New Deal Era"
Spring 2008
Thursday, January 24
Emmanuelle Saada (Columbia): "The Children of the Empire: Citizenship, Nationhood and Race in the French Context"
Thursday, January 31
Harvey Molotch (NYU) and Noah McLain (NYU): "Learning From the Subway: How to Do Security For Example"
Wednesday, February 13
Carol Heimer (Northwestern): "Soft Law, Hard Science, and the Politics of Health: How Scientific Claims Become Moral Obligations in HIV Treatment"
Thursday, February 21
Judith Blau (North Carolina): "The Human Rights Cities Movement"
Wednesday, February 27
Mitchell Stevens (NYU): "Individualized Consideration and Social Inequality in Selective College Admissions"
Wednesday, March 12
Philip Gorski (Yale): "The Churching of America and the Unchurching of Europe: A Historical Accounting in Four Mechanisms"
Wednesday, March 26
Michael Hout (UC/Berkeley) and Scott Lynch (Princeton): "Subjective Health and Income Since 1972"
Wednesday, April 23
John Torpey (CUNY Graduate Center): "Reconsidering American Exceptionalism"
Wednesday, April 30
Courtney Bender (Columbia): TBA
Fall 2007
Thursday, October 4
Todd Gitlin (Columbia/Journalism): "Movements and Parties: The Netroots, the Conservative Movement, and the Problem of Outsider-Insider Relations in Politics"
Wednesday, October 17
Marion Fourcade (UC/Berkeley): "Price and Prejudice: On the Practice of Economic Theory"
Wednesday, October 24
Abram De Swaan (Amsterdam): "Explaining Mass Annihilation: Some Problems and Prospects for Social Science"
Wednesday, October 31
Allan Silver (Columbia): "Mobilization for War in American Society, 1947-2007"
Monday, November 12
Cheol-Sung Lee (Utah): "The Institutional Origin of Social Trust: The Configuration of Social Policies and The Coordination of Interests in Rich Democracies"
Wednesday, November 14
Frances Fox Piven (CUNY Graduate Center): "Can Power from Below Change the World?"
Monday, November 19
Yao Lu (UCLA): "Labor Migration and the Health of Adults Left Behind: A Longitudinal Analysis of Indonesian Data"
Monday, November 26
Felix Elwert (Wisconsin): "Cohabitation, Divorce, and the Trial Marriage Hypothesis"
Spring 2007
Wednesday, January 31
Kristina Orfali (Columbia): The Social Boundaries of the Morally Acceptable: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Life and Death Decisions in Medicine
Wednesday, February 21
Alain Quemin (Université de Marne-la-Vallée): The Illusion of an International Contemporary Art without Borders. An Empirical Survey of Globalization in the Visual Arts
Wednesday, February 28
Ion Bogdan Vasi (Columbia): The Development of the Wind Energy Industry and the Environmental Movement, 1980-2005
Wednesday, March 21
Viviana Zelizer (Princeton): Circuits in Economic Life
Wednesday, March 28
Guobin Yang (Barnard): Globalization, Cultural Translation, and Civic Environmentalism in China
Wednesday, April 25
M. Victoria Murillo (Columbia): Partisan Politics in an Era of Globalization: the Reform of Latin American Public Utilities
Fall 2006
Wednesday, September 13
Diane Vaughan (Columbia): "Distinction, Class, and the Construction of Occupational Boundaries: The Case of Air Traffic Control"
Wednesday, September 27
David Halle (UCLA): "The Structure and Dynamics of Contemporary Art: Lessons from Chelsea, New York's Newest Commercial Art Gallery District"
Thursday, October 5
Arthur Alderson (Indiana)
Co-sponsored with the Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality - 801 IAB, 2:00 p.m.
"Change in the World City System: How New is the 'New Geography of Inequality'?"
Wednesday, October 18
Ann Morning (NYU): "Race by the Book: How Textbooks Teach Human Difference"
Wednesday, October 25
Alford Young (Michigan): "Black Men Rising: A Cultural Sociological Perspective on Engaging Upward Mobility and Confronting Race"
Thursday, November 2
Cybelle Fox (Harvard): "Expelling the “Aliens”: Race, Immigration and the American Welfare State"
Wednesday, November 8
Jeremy Freese (Wisconsin - Madison): "Genetics and the Future of Analytic Social Science"
Wednesday, November 15
Shamus Khan (Wisconsin): "The Production of Privilege: Life at an Elite Boarding School"
Tuesday, November 21
Carla Shedd (Bryn Mawr): "Exploring the Minds of Marginalized Minors: Race, Place, and Perceptions of Injustice Among Chicago Youth"
801 IAB, 12:00 p.m.
Thursday, November 30
Scott Lash (London): "The Construction of Markets in China: a Sociological Preview"
Spring 2006
Wednesday, February 8
Priscilla Ferguson (Columbia): "Flower Power: Notes for a Sociology of Roses"
Wednesday, February 22
David Weiman (Barnard): "The Political Economy of Mass Incarceration: A Labor Market Perspective"
Wednesday, March 1
Timothy Mitchell (NYU): "The Properties of Markets"
Wednesday, March 22
William Bielby (Penn): "Managerial Discretion, 'Subtle' Bias, and the Politics of Expertise: Litigating Statistical Proof of Employment Discrimination"
Wednesday, March 29
Nicole Marwell (Columbia): "Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City"
Wednesday, April 26
Lawrence King (Yale): "The Sociology of Economic Genocide: Mass Privatization and the Postcommunist Mortality Crisis"
Fall 2005
Wednesday, September 21
Peter Levin (Barnard): "Making the Trade: Information, Prices, and Technology in Open Outcry and Electronic Futures Markets"
Wednesday, September 28
Shai Lavi (Tel-Aviv University): "The Modern Art of Dying: A History of Euthanasia in America"
Wednesday, October 5
Aaron Gullickson (Columbia): "Black/White Interracial Marriage 1850-2000"
Wednesday, October 12
Martin Gargiulo (INSEAD): "Cooperation Network Structure and Individual Effectiveness in Knowledge-Intensive Organizations"
Wednesday, October 26
Joshua Whitford (Columbia): "Is it collaboration if there's no trust? The contested relational structure of American manufacturing"
Wednesday, November 9
Bogdan Vasi (Columbia): "Democracy and Civil Liberties in America: The Diffusion of Resolutions to Protect the Bill of Rights among U.S. Cities after 9/11"
Wednesday, November 16
Mignon Moore (Columbia): "'Who Wears the Pants?' Household Decision-Making in Lesbian-Headed Families"
Wednesday, November 30
Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego): "Accounting, Revealing, and Disclosing: Toward a History of Public Frankness Since 1960"
