Weekly Talks - Spring 2012
Week 1 (02/06 - 02/10)
Monday (2/6)
Title: Postracial Dreams, American Realities
Speaker: Larry Bobo, Harvard University
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Sociology Colloquium
Monday (2/6)
Title: A Roundtable on the Historical Study of Criminal Law
Panel: Gerry Cadava, Northwestern; Risa Goluboff, UVA; Michael Willrich, Brandies
4:30pm; Dickinson Hall 211
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs; Program in American Studies
Tuesday (2/7)
Title: Social Regulation of Human Gene Expression
Speaker: Steve Cole, UCLA School of Medicine
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (2/8)
Title: Singing the Gospel: Using Musical Practices to Build Religious and Racial Communities
Speaker: Allison Youatt Schnable, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Thursday (2/9)
Title: Elections and Government Accountability: Evidence from the Court
Speaker: James Snyder, Harvard University
12:00pm; Wallace Hall 300
Sponsor: Center for Study of Democratic Politics
Thursday (2/9)
Title: Establishing New Foundations for Cyber Security
Speaker: Richard W. Linderman, Air Force Research Laboratory, Rome, N.Y
4:30pm; Sherrerd Hall 101
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Thursday (2/9)
Title: Born in the Zocalo: Art and Protest in Oaxaca, Mexico
Speaker: Douglas Massey, Princeton University; Kevin McCloskey,University of Pennsylvania
4:30pm; Robertson Hall Bowl 016
Sponsor: Woodrow Wilson School
Week 2 (02/13 - 02/17)
Monday (2/13)
Title: Economic Categories in Neoliberal Society
Speaker: Marion Fourcade, University of California-Berkeley
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop, the Center for the Study of Social Organization
Monday (2/13)
Title: Democracy Deficit or Democracy Surplus? Agency Rulemaking in the Electronic Age
Speaker: Michael Herz, Cardozo School of Law
4:30pm; Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Tuesday (2/14)
Title: Births and Infections: their Dynamics and Interactions in sub-Saharan Africa
Speaker: Audrey Dorelien, Princeton University.
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (2/15)
Title: Hierarchical Capitalism: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of Equitable Development in Latin America
Speaker: Ben Ross Schneider, MIT
Sponsor: Project on Democracy and Development Speaker Series
Thursday (2/16)
Title: Portfolio Politics
Speaker: Wendy Rahn, University of Minnesota
12:00pm; Wallace Hall 300
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
Thursday (2/16)
Title: On Learning to Die in Miami
Speaker: Carlos Eire, Yale University
5:30pm; Aaron Burr Hall 219
Sponsor: Program in Latin American Studies
Week 3 (02/20 - 02/24)
Monday (2/20)
Title: The Marginal Man Revisited: Jews and Modernity in the Chicago School of Sociology, 1920s to 1930s
Speaker: Chad Alan Goldberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison and Institute for Advanced Study (2011-2012)
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Sociology Colloquium
Tuesday (2/21)
Title: Rebuilding a Devastated Population: Family, Fertility, and the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Speaker: Jenna Nobles, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (2/22)
Title: External Validity and Partner Selection Bias
Speaker: Hunt Allcott, NYU
12:15pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Wednesday (2/22)
Title: Producing Motion Pictures: Ideas and the Interaction Inside the Hollywood Studios
Speaker: Ronny Regev, Princeton University
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Wednesday (2/22)
Title: Unhinged Signs, Craked Walls and the Rage of Order: Reflections on Arts and Anthropology
Speaker: Michael D. Jackson, Harvard Divinity School
4:30pm; Aaron Burr 219
Sponsor: Clifford Geertz Commemorative Lecture, Department of Anthropology
Thursday (2/23)
Title: Exploring the Effects of Implicit and Explicit Racial Cues on Black Attitudes about Whites
Speaker: Vicent Hutchings, University of Michigan
12:00pm, Wallace Hall 300
Sponsor: Center for the Study of Democratic Politics
Week 4 (02/27 - 03/02)
Monday (2/27)
Title: The Assumptions That Ground the Field: A Mid-Range Agenda for Economic Sociology
Speaker: Alejandro Portes, Princeton University
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop, the Center for the Study of Social Organization
Monday (2/27)
Title: Beyond Legal Mobilization: Rethinking Rights and Power
Speaker: Michael MCann, University of Washington
4:30pm; Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Tuesday (2/28)
Title: Obesity among the Children of Immigrants: Selection, Adaptation, and Assimilation
Speaker: Jennifer Van Hook, Pennsylvania State University
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (2/29)
Title: tba
Speaker: Liran Einav, Stanford University
12:15pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Wednesday (2/29)
Title: Religion in China Today
Speaker: Fenggang Yang, Purdue University
4:30pm; 202 Jones Hall
Sponsor: Department of Religion; Program in East Asian Studies
Week 5 (03/05 - 03/09)
Monday (3/5)
Title: Troubling Gender: Youth and Cumbia in Argentina's Music Scene
Speaker: Pablo Vila, Temple University
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Sociology Colloquium
Tuesday (3/6)
Title: Enthnoracial Indentification and Skin Color in Latin America's Pigmentocracy
Speaker: Edward Telles, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Tuesday (3/6)
Title: Lost in Translation: Celebrating Entrepreneurship while Acknowledging its Costs.
Speaker: Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
7:00pm; Friend Center Convocation Room:
Sponsors: Advancing the Boundaries of Entrepreneurship Public Lecture Series; The Graduate School, Keller Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Butler College
Wednesday (3/7)
Title: How Can We Serve You: Artist-Run Nonprofits in the Netherlands
Speaker: Margo Handwerker, Architecture, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Wednesday (3/7)
Title: Seeing like a citizen, acting like a leader in modern China
Speaker: David Strand, Dickinson College
4:30pm; Jones Hall 202
Sponsor: Program in East Asian Studies
Wednesday (3/7)
Title: The Implications of Alzheimer’s Risk for Household Financial Decision-making
Speaker: Robert J. Willis
12:15pm; Wallace Hall 300
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Week 6 (03/12 - 03/16)
Monday (3/12)
Title: From Pirates to Pinochet and Back Again
Speaker: Eugene Kontorovich, IAS School of Social Science
4:30pm; Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Tuesday (3/13)
Title: Mortality Attributable to Obesity: Controversies, Evidence, and Challenges
Speaker: Neil Mehta, Assistant Professor of Global Health, Emory University.
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (3/14)
Title: When Did an Opera Canon Emerge, and Was It 'Classical' Music?
Speaker: William Weber, California State University
12:00pm; Robertson Hall 029
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Wednesday (3/14)
Title: tba
Speaker:
12:15pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Week 7 (03/26 - 03/30)
Monday (3/26)
Title: TBA
Speaker: Matthew Snipp, Stanford University
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Sociology Colloquium
Tuesday (3/27)
Title: Family Size and Investment in Children over the Fertility Transition
Speaker: Tom Vogl, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Tuesday (3/27)
Title: The People and the State: Reflections on American Political Development (Lecture 1: The Liberal Premise)
Speaker: Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
4:30pm; Dodds Auditorium, Roberston Hall
Sponsor: WWS
Wednesday (3/28)
Title: Charter Cities and The Startup Dynamics
Speaker: Paul Romer, NYU
4:30pm; Dodds Auditorium
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Thursday (3/29)
Title: Turkey as a Country of Migration: Bridging History with Contemporary Greek Migration to Istanbul
Speaker: Georgia Mavrodi, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center For Migration and Development
Thursday (3/29)
Title: Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom
Speaker: Rebecca MacKinnon
4:30pm; 101 Sherrerd Hallp
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Thursday (3/29)
Title: The People and the State: Reflections on American Political Development (Lecture 2: Membership and Might)
Speaker: Ira Katznelson, Columbia University
4:30pm; Bowl 16, Robertson Hall
Sponsor: WWS
Friday (3/30)
Title: The Dunning-Kruger Effect: Updated Observations About the Failure of Ignorance to Recognize Itself
Speaker: David Dunning, Cornell University
12:30pm; Green Hall, Room 0-S-6
Sponsor: Psychology Department, Public Lectures, Colloquium Series
Week 8 (04/02 - 04/06)
Monday (4/2)
Title: Flexibility on the Job and at Home: The Importance of Gender and Class
Speaker: Naomi Gerstel, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Russell Sage Foundation
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop, the Center for the Study of Social Organization
Monday (4/2)
Title: Land Restitution in South Africa: Voice from Below
Speaker: Bernadette Atuahene, Chicago-Kent Law School
4:30pm; Kerstetter Room, Marx Hall
Sponsor: Program in Law and Public Affairs
Monday (4/2)
Princeton Dialogues: Kids Don’t Want to Fail (Harvard University Press, 2011; Author: Angel Harris)
Discussants: Mary Cororan (Univeristy of Michigan); William Darity (Duke University); Barbara Schneider (Michigan State University)
4:30pm; Bowl 2, Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Department of Sociology
Tuesday (4/3)
Title: A Global Perspective on Physiological Change with Age
Speaker: Eileen Crimmins, University of Southern California
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (4/4)
Title: tba
Speaker: Shing-Yi Wang, NYU
12:15pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Thursday (4/5)
Title: Polarized Change: The Politicization of the U.S. Immigration at the State and Local Level
Speaker: Karthick Ramakrishnan, University of California Riverside
12:00pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsort: Center For Migration and Development
Thursday (4/5)
Title: The Paradox of Communists Effectively Promoting Capitalism
Speaker: Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University
4:30pm; Jones Hall 202
Sponsor: Contemporary China Colloquium
Friday (4/6)
Title: Medical Work/Nursing Work: Everyday Contests of Expertise within Primary Care
Speaker: LaTonya Trotter, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Week 9 (04/09 - 04/13)
Monday (4/9)
Title: Law, Norms and the Motherhood/Caretaker Penalty
Speaker: Shelley Correl, Stanford University
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Sociology Colloquium
Tuesday (4/10)
Title: Great Expectations? Population Projections and Politics in 20th-Century Britain and France
Speaker: Emily Marshall, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (4/11)
Title: Our Ancestors, Our Heroes: Saudi Tribal Campaigns to Suppress Historical Docudramas
Speaker: Nadav Samin, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Wednesday (4/11)
Title: tba
Speaker: Larry Temkin, Rutgers University
12:15pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Thursday (4/12)
Title: Mexican Policy Challenges and New Perspectives on Migration
Speaker: Rene Zenteno, University of California, San Diego
4:30pm; 219 Aaron Burr Hall
Sponsort: Center For Migration and Development; OPR; Program in Latin American Studies
Week 10 (04/16 - 04/20)
Monday (4/16 )
Title: Social Movement Organizational Collaboration: Networks of Learning and the Diffusion of Protest Tactics, 1960-1995
Speaker: Sarah Soule, Stanford University (Business School)
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Sociology Colloquium
Tuesday (4/17)
Title: Is it Really a Sensitive Question? What We Can Learn From Simply Asking
Speaker: Michelle Hindin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (4/18)
Title: Children's Mental Health in Mixed-Immigration Status Families
Speaker: Julia Gelatt, Princeton University
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development, Working Paper Series
Wednesday (4/18)
Title: tba
Speaker: Gabriella Conti, Univeristy of Chicago
12:15pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing
Thursday (4/19)
Title: How Political Actors Frame Immigration in Western Europe
Speaker: Marc Helbling, Social Science Research Center Berlin & WWS
12:00pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center For Migration and Development
Friday (4/20)
Title: Self Control and Liquitiy: How to Design a Commitment Contract
Speaker: David Laibson, Harvard University
12:30pm; Green Hall, Room 0-S-6
Sponsor: Psychology Department, Public Lectures, Colloquium Series
Week 11 (04/23 - 04/27)
Monday (4/23)
Title: TBA
Speaker: Jesper B. Sørensen
7:00pm, Friend Center Convocation Room
Sponsors: Advancing the Boundaries of Entrepreneurship Public Lecture Series; The Graduate School, Keller Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Butler College.
Monday (4/23 )
Title: Global Corporate Citizenship and the “’Girl Effect’
Speaker: Elizabeth Bernstein, Barnard College; Institute for Advanced Study
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop, the Center for the Study of Social Organization
Tuesday (4/24)
Title: Body Weight, Weight Change, and Mortality Risk
Speaker: Laura Blue, Princeton University
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (4/25)
Title: The Price of Visibility: Discrimination Experiences Amongst Young Immigrants in Spain
Speaker: René Flores, Princeton University
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development, Working Paper Series
Friday (4/27)
Title: Meta-Monitoring During Intergroup Interactions
Speaker: Wendy Berry-Menders, University of California, SF.
12:30pm; Green Hall, Room 0-S-6
Sponsor: Psychology Department, Public Lectures, Colloquium Series
Week 12 (04/30 - 05/04)
Monday (4/30)
Title: Turning Regression Inside Out: How to Make the Most of 'General Linear Reality' in the Study of Social Organization
Speaker: Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona
12:15pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop, the Center for the Study of Social Organization
Monday (4/30)
Event: Second Annual Theorodology Prize Lecture
Honoring Harrison White, Giddings Professor of Sociology at Columbia University
4:30pm-6pm; 300 Wallace Hall
Panelists:
Peter Bearman, Columbia University
Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona
Ann Mische, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Tuesday (5/1)
Title: Modeling Migration Responses to Shocks.
Speaker: Sara Curran, Associate Professor of International Studies and Public Affairs, University of Washington
12:00pm; Wallace 300
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (5/2)
Title: Threat to Group Identity: Immigration and Support for Race Targeted Policies
Speaker: Maria Abascal
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm; Wallace 165 (Marvin Bressler Conference Room)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development, Working Paper Series
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