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Seminars

All seminars are in 165 Wallace Hall on Mondays from 12:15 -1:30pm (except as noted) and are open to the public. Please feel free to bring a lunch for noon events.

Fall 2012

► September 17
"Information Technology, the Disappearance of Middle-class Work, and the Long-term Crisis of Capitalism"
Randall Collins, The Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

► October 1
Job practice talk - "Not Quite Treatment, Not Quite Punishment: A Case Study of American Juvenile Justice in the Get-Tough Era"
Michael Schlossman, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology

► October 8
Job practice talk - Getting Ahead While Falling Behind: Gender and Behavioral Skill in the Labor Market Pipeline"
Jayanti Owens, Doctoral Candidate, Sociology

► November 5
"The Reemergence of State-owned Firms in Central and Eastern Europe"
Besnik Pula, ASA/NSF Postdoctoral Research Associate, CSSO
 
► November 19
"Formalist and Relationalist Theory in Social Network Analysis"
Emily Erikson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University 
 
► December 3
"Choosing the Next Experiment: Tradition, Innovation, Efficiency and the Ecology of Scientific Ideas"
James Evans, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

Spring 2013

 ► February 18
"Racial and Nonracial Factors in Neighborhood Mobility"
Lincoln Quillian, Professor of Sociology and Faculty Fellow, Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University
 
► March 4: 
Nicole Marwell, Associate Professor of Public Affairs and Sociology, Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
 

► March 11
“The Structural and Cultural Cartography of Tolerance: Stigma, Mental Illness and the Public”
Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor's Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

► March 25
"Democracy, Coercion and Imitation: The Spread of Shareholder Capitalism, 1970-2011"
Mauro Guillen,  Dr. Felix Zandman Endowed Professor of International Management and Professor of Sociology (secondary appointment), University of Pennsylvania

► April 8
"The Political Economy of Public Health: IMF Conditionality and Tuberculosis in Postcommunist Society"
Lawrence King, Professor of Sociology and Political Economy, Cambridge University

► April 22 - 3rd Annual Theorodology Prize Lecture
Andrew Abbott, Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago