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Catholic revenues paid in wool in Europe led to segmented labor forces creating prosperous capitalist woolen production in Florence 100 to 200 years before the rise of Protestantism. Voluntary and forced migration has facilitated capitalist development since the long-sixteenth century, and in the present era this…
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Xavier Cortada is a Cuban-American artist working across disciplines to engage communities. His work intends to generate awareness and action around climate change, sea level rise, and biodiversity loss. Based in Miami, he has created art at the North and South poles to address environmental concerns at every…
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What becomes of men the U.S. locks up and kicks out? From 2009 to 2020, the U.S. deported morethan five million people—over 90 percent of them men. How does expulsion shape men's lives and sense of themselves? This talk rethinks the old apartheid migrant labor structure to show how the current carceral system weaves…
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The U.S. dollar in Argentina was slowly but progressively popularized from the 1930s until the second decade of the twenty-first century. Over this period, information about the dollar, formerly of interest exclusively for financial agents or foreign trade experts, began holding political relevance for increasingly…
- Mariana LuzziAffiliationCONICET-UNSAM
- Ariel WilkisAffiliationEscuela IDAES (Universidad de San Martin)/CONICETPresentationTalk Title: "How the US Dollar Became a Popular Currency in Argentina"
- Co-sponsored with the Department of Anthropology
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For more than forty years we studied the participation and integration of people with migration background in diverse city contexts. The forgotten group in research up till recently were people without migration background. This one-sided perspective has translated in major empirical and theoretical flaws in how we…
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Luis Flores is a recent doctoral graduate in sociology from the University of Michigan, and incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley (Fall 2025). Drawing on historical methods, his research examines the regulatory politics at the boundary of home and market, shaping the extent to which homes…
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Alejandro Portes teaches across the University of Miami at the School of Law, the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Department of Sociology. Before joining the University of Miami, Alejandro Portes was the Howard Harrison and Gabrielle Snyder Beck Professor of Sociology and director of the Center for Migration…
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The personal data people give in exchange for convenient tools like Gmail and Instagram provides the raw material for predictions about everything from their purchasing power to their character. These algorithmic predictions influence their life chances and generate specific kinds of capital and social expectation:…
- Marion FourcadeAffiliationUniversity of California at BerkeleyPresentationTalk Title: "The Ordinal Society"
- Kieran HealyAffiliationDuke University