Sociology Workshops, Colloquia and Events

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2011-2012 Sociology Department Workshops & Colloquia Schedule

Thursdays, 12:30-1:50pm in SSB 101

Thurs, January 19 David Gibson, University of Pennsylvania, Culture & Society Workshop, Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Thurs, January 26 Michael Young, U. Texas, Comparative-Historical Workshop, Rebellion and Breakthrough: Evangelical Disruptions, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Values

Thurs, February 2 Chris Drue, UCSD, Culture & Society Workshop, Land Use Policy and Environmental Culture: A Study of California Counties

Thurs, February 9 David Meyer, UC Irvine, Conservative Movements Workshop, Populists and Plutocrats: The Tea Party and Protest Politics in Contemporary America

Thurs, February 16 Gusfield Distinguished Lecture: James Fowler, UCSD School of Medicine and Department of Political Science, A Massive-Scale Experiment in Social Influence and Political Mobilization.

Thurs, February 23 Rory McVeigh, University of Notre Dame, Conservative Movements Workshop, Educational Segregation, Tea Party Organizations, and the Structuring of Political Polarization

Thurs, March 1 Colloquium: Elizabeth Popp Berman, SUNY Albany, Creating the Market University

Thurs, March 8 Josh Pacewicz, ASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University, Culture & Society Workshop, Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Postindustrial Economy

Thurs, April 12 Edward Walker, UCLA, Conservative Movements Workshop, Commercializing Participation: Public Affairs Consultants, the Mobilization of Anti-Regulatory Sentiments, and the Restructuring of American Democracy


 Thurs, April 26 Stephanie Lee Mudge, Comparative-Historical Workshop, Neoliberalism without Neoliberals: The Late 20th Century Transformation of the Center—and Especially the Left


Thurs, May 3 Colloquium: Laurel Smith-Doerr, Boston University, " Doing Gender and Responsibility: Scientists Talk about their Work."


 Thurs, May 10 April Huff, UCSD Inequalities Workshop Constructing Abortion's Second Victim: Gender, Sexuality, and the Abortion-Mental Health Debate.

Thurs, May 17 Rhacel Parrenas, USC Inequalities Workshop Queering International Marriage co-sponsored by the Center for Research on Gender in the Professions    

Thurs, May 24 Jenn Nations and Kelly Nielsen, UCSD Inequalities Workshop Class and Educational Pathways: the role of opportunity structure in degree choice

Thurs, May 31 Colloquium: Melissa Wilde, University of Pennsylvania, Birth of the Culture Wars: Race, Religion and Contraception in the US Circa 1931

 

Conservative Movements Workshop 2011-12

Culture and Society Workshop

Comparative-Historical Workshop 2011-12

Inequalities Workshop

 

Joseph and Irma Gusfield Lecture Series

Science Studies Colloquium Series

 

Yankelovich Endowed Chair on Social Thought Colloquium Series

 

Center for Research on Gender in the Professions (CRGP)

Center for Comparative Immigration Studies

African and African-American Studies Research Center (AAASRC)

 

UCSD Culture Conference

Sociology Graduate Conference

Honors Seminar Mini Conference

Comparative Historical Conference