Spring 2008
Workshops, Colloquia and Events
April 1st (Tue) Culture and Society Workshop with Eric Van Rite (UCSD) ¤ “Patient Safety Goes Global: International Standardization, Patient Empowerment and the World Alliance for Patient Safety” ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101
April 8th (Tue) Gender/Inequalities Group with Jon Shafran (UCSD) ¤ "Weight Training Men: Motivations and Meanings" ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101
April 14th (Mon) Science Studies Colloquium with Sharon Traweek (UCLA) ¤ "Knowledge Makers Building Pasts and Futures in Changing Ecologies: Physicists, Anthropologists, and Historians in Japan, Europe, and the US" ¤ 4:00pm-5:30pm in Room 3027, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Muir College
April 15th (Tue) Culture and Society Workshop with Andrew Cheyne and Amy Binder (UCSD) ¤ “Making a Place for Hip-Hop: The Globalization of Culture and the Varieties of Elite Valorization” ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101
April 22nd (Tue) Gender/Inequalities Group with Liberty Walther (UCSD) ¤ "Preconceived Notions: The Social Construction of Gender in the Case of Male Infertility" ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101
April 24th (Thur) The Yankelovich Endowed Chair on Social Thought Colloquium Series presents Alan Wolfe, Professor of Political Science and
Director of the Boisi Center for Religion and
American Public Life at Boston College, Name of Talk TBD ¤ 4pm - 5:30pm with reception immediately following, Faculty Club. Click here for more information.
April 29th (Tue) Culture and Society Workshop with Nina Bandelj (UC, Irvine) ¤ “The Cultural Wealth of Nations” ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101
May 5th (Mon) Science Studies Colloquium with Karen Barad (UC Santa Cruz) ¤ 4:00pm-5:30pm in Room 3027, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Muir College
May 6th (Tue) Gender/Inequalities Group with Ruth Milkman (UCLA)¤ "Class Disparities among Women: Market Fundamentalism, and Work-Family Policy in California" ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101 ¤ Co-sponsored by Critical Gender Studies
May 9th (Fri) 4th Annual Culture Conference. Craig Calhoun (President of SSRC and University Professor at NYU) and Ann Swidler (Professor at UC Berkeley) will be this year's keynote speakers, while Ann Hironaka (UC Irvine), Peter Levin (Barnard College), and David Pellow (UC San Diego) will participate in a panel discussion. Click here to go to the conference web site for up to date information and more details.
May 10th (Sat) Department of Sociology 40th Birthday Celebration ¤ Join us in marking this significant milestone in our department's history and celebrating with friends and colleagues from the past ¤ 5pm -7pm ¤ Atkinson Pavilion, Faculty Club. Click here for more details.
Science Studies Colloquium Students' Choice Speaker -- Ruth Schwartz Cowan (University of Pennsylvania) ¤ 4:00pm-5:30pm in Room 3027, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Muir College
May 15th (Thur) Gender/Inequalities Group with Cecilia Ridgeway (Stanford) "How Easily Do Social Differences Become Status Differences? Gender Matters." ¤12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101 ¤ Co-sponsored by Critical Gender Studies
May 19th (Mon) Science Studies Colloquium with Charis Thompsoh (Berkeley) ¤ "Genomics as a Technology of the Self?" ¤ 4:00pm-5:30pm in Room 3027, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Muir College
May 23rd (Fri) Science Studies Colloquium with Akos Rona Tas (UCSD) ¤ 12:15pm in Room 3027, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Muir College
May 27 (Tue) Culture and Society Workshop with Jeff Kidder (UCSD) ¤ Topic TBD ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101
June 2nd (Mon) Science Studies Colloquium with Chandra Mukerji (UCSD) ¤ Impossible Engineering" ¤ 4:00pm-5:30pm in Room 3027, Humanities & Social Sciences Building, Muir College
June 5th (Thur) Gender/Inequalities Group with Belinda Robnett (UCI) ¤ "Gendered Resource Returns: African American Institutions and Political Engagement" ¤ 12:30pm - 1:50pm in SSB 101
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