WEEKLY TALKS
Fall 2009
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| First half of semester | Second half of semester |
| Week 1: 9/21-9/25 | Week 7: 11/9-11/13 |
| Week 2: 9/28-10/2 | Week 8:11/16-11/20 |
| Week 3: 10/5-10/9 | Week 9:11/23-11/27 |
| Week 4:10/12-10/16 | Week 10:11/30-12/4 |
| Week 5:10/19-10/23 | Week 11: 12/7-12/11 |
| Week 6:10/26-10/30 | Week 12:12/14-12/18 |
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Monday (9/21):
12:15pm--
Heather Haveman, UC Berkeley
"Going (More) Public: Ownership Reform among Chinese Firms."
Discussant: Rourke O’Brien, Princeton.
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop
Tuesday (9/22):
12:00pm--
Adrian Raftery, Univeristy of Washington
“Probabilistic Projections of HIV Prevalence Using Bayesian Melding.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (9/23):
12: 15pm --
Martin Wittenberg, Univeristy of Cape Town
“TBA.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Thursday (9/24):
12: 15pm --
Andrew Moravcsik, Princeton University
“Where Have the Big Voices Gone?
Explaining the Recent Decline in Verdi and Wagner Singing.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (9/28):
12:15pm--
George Steinmetz, University of Michigan
"The Devil’s Handwriting:
Precoloniality and the German Colonial State in Qingdao, Samoa, and Southwest Africa."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Cultural & Inequality Workshop
Tuesday (9/29):
12:00pm--
Jeremy Freese, Northwestern University
"Integrating Genotypic Information into Social Science: The Cautionary Tale of DRD2.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (9/30):
12: 15pm --
Eric Verhoogen, Colulmbia University
“Exports and Wage Premia: Evidence from Mexican Employer-Employee Data.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Thursday (10/1):
12:00pm--
Lunch seminar:
Craig Levine,
Senior Counsel and Policy Director, New Jersey Institute for Social Justice
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (10-5):
12:15pm--
Charles Perrow, Yale University
"Organizations and Global Warming."
Discussant: Erik Vickstrom, Princeton
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop
Tuesday (10/6):
12:00pm--
Taryn Dinkelman, Princeton University
"The Long-Term Human Capital Effects of Being Born in a Drought:
Evidence from the Cape Area Panel Study 2002-2006.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (10/7):
12: 15pm --
Chang-Tai Hsieh, University of Chicago
“TBA.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Thursday (10/8):
12:00pm--
Anny Bakalian and Mehdi Bozorgmehr, City University of New York
“Backlash 9/11: Middle Eastern and Muslim Americans Respond.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development
12:00pm(10/8)--
Lunch seminar:
Camille Sailer,
Director, International Trade, NJ Economic Development Authority
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
4:30pm (10/8)--
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
"Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age." (click)
Sherrerd Hall, Room 101
Sponsor: Center for Information Technology Policy
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (10/12):
12:15pm--
Valerie Lewis, Princeton University
"TBA."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Cultural & Inequality Workshop
Tuesday (10/13):
12:00pm--
V. Joseph Hotz, , Duke University,
“Impact of Regulations on the Supply and Quality of Care in Child Care Markets.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
12:00pm(10/13)--
Lunch seminar:
Robin Dougherty,
Greater Newark Conservancy & Elizabeth Johnson, Isles
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Wednesday (10/14):
12: 15pm --
Charity Chan, Princeton University
“Alternative Copyright and Distribution
Methods in Experimental Music in the U.S.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
12: 15pm (10/14)--
Abhijit Banerjee, MIT
“TBA.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Thursday (10/15):
12:00pm--
Leo R. Chavez, University of California, Irvine
“The Latino Threat: Constructing Mexicans and Other Latinos
as a Threat to National Identity and National Security.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development
12:00pm(10/15)--
Lunch seminar:
Renee Steinhagen,
Founder & Executive Director, New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday(10/19):
12:15pm--
Cecilia Ridgeway, Stanford University
"How Does Gender Inequality Persist in the Modern World?"
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Cultural & Inequality Workshop
12:00pm(10/19)--
David Salisbury, Department of Health, London
"The challenge of introducing new vaccines: The UK experience."
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Tuesday (10/20):
12:00pm--
Ann Case & Christina Paxson, Princeton, sociology
"The Impact of the AIDS Pandemic on Health Services in Africa:
Evidence from Demographic and Health Surveys.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Thursday (10/22):
12:00pm--
Lunch seminar:
Peter J. Madonia,
Chief Operating Officer, Rockefeller Foundation
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (10/26):
12:15pm-
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Alexander Kalev, University of Arizona
"How You Downsize Is Who You Downsize:
Structural Vulnerability and Accountability in Layoffs."
Discussant: Victoria Reyes, Princeton
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop &
Program in Law and Public Affairs
Tuesday (10/27):
12:00pm--
Timothy Smeeding, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Understanding the Mechanisms Behind Intergenerational Persistence:
A Comparison Between the U.S. and U.K.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (10/28):
12: 15pm --
Joachim Voth, Pompeu Fabra University
“TBA.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Check also: Princeton Calendar
FALL RECESS
Monday (11/9):
12:15pm-
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Deborah Becher, Visiting Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
"The Political and Moral Classification of
Property Ownership: the Case of Eminent Domain."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop
Tuesday (11/10):
12:00pm--
Ronald Lee, University of California, Berkeley
"Some Economic Consequences of the Demographic Transition
and Population Aging: Insights from National Transfer Accounts.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Thursday (11/12):
12: 15pm --
Betty Farrell, University of Chicago
“TBA."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
12:00pm(11/12)--
Lunch seminar:
Janellen Murphy Dffy
Senior POlicy Adivosr, New Jersey Office of the Governor
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (11/16):
12:15pm--
Bonnie Thornton Dill, University of Maryland
"TBA."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Cultural & Inequality Workshop
Tuesday (11/17):
12:00pm--
Moshe Semyonov, University of Illinois at Chicago
“Spatial Segregation of Ethnic Immigrants in European Societies.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Thursday (11/19):
12:00pm--
Elaine Enriquez and Miguel A. Centeno, Princeton University
“Legacies of Empire: States and Nations in the Metropole.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development
12:00pm(11/19)--
Lunch seminar:
Simon Bertrang
Program Manager, Office of Deputy Mayor for Economic Development, NYC
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (11/23):
12:15pm--
Dominic Akyel,
Doctoral fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, Germany
"Digging deeper into the funeral market:
The marketization of the German death-care industry."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop
Tuesday (11/24):
12:00pm--
Sofya Aptekar, Princeton University
“Immigrant Naturalization and Nation-Building in North America.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (11/30):
12:15pm--
Sofya Aptekar, Princeton University
“Immigrant Naturalization and Nation-Building in North America.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Cultural & Inequality Workshop
Tuesday (12/1):
12:00pm--
Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
“Low Fertility in Developed Countries: Is it Time for a Reversal?”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (12/2):
12: 15pm --
Alessandro Tarozzi, Duke University
“TBA.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Thursday (12/3):
12:00pm--
Jon Shefner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
“The Illusion of Civil Society in Latin America.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development
12:00pm(12/3)--
Lunch seminar:
Eileen McGinnis
Senior Vice President, The Whitman Strategy Group
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (12/7):
12:15pm--
Ezra Zuckerman, MIT
"Why Identity? A Prolegomenon to any
Account of Social Organization or Human Action."
Discussant: David Pedulla, Princeton University
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Economic Sociology Workshop
Tuesday (12/8):
12:00pm--
Georges Reniers, Princeton University
“Polygyny and the Spread of HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Case of Benign Concurrency.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Wednesday (12/9):
12:15pm--
Angus Deaton, Princeton
“TBA”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Center for Health & Wellbeing
Thursday (12/10):
12:00pm--
Chizuru Ushida, Nanzan University
“Bilingual Education and Latino Immigrant Children.”
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (290 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development
12: 15pm (12/10)--
Yael Berda, Princeton University
“The Spatial Policing of Graffiti in NYC."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies
12:00pm(12/10)--
Lunch seminar:
ML Wernecke
Policy Director, PA Department of PUblic Welfare
035 Robertson Hall
Sponsor: Policy Reserch Institute
Check also: Princeton Calendar
Monday (12-14):
12:15pm--
David Harding, University of Michigan
"Rethinking the Cultural Context of Disadvantaged Neighborhoods."
Marvin Bressler Conference Room (165 Wallace Hall)
Sponsor: Cultural & Inequality Workshop
Tuesday (12/15):
12:00pm--
Thomas Espenshade, Princeton University
“Race, Class, and the Selective College Experience.”
300 Wallace Hall
Sponsor: Office of Population Research
Check also: Princeton Calendar