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All events take place in 411 Fayerweather Hall at noon unless otherwise noted here. Funding for this series is generously provided by ISERP. All are welcome to attend.
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
Past Colloquium Series
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"
