Colloquium Series - Sociology Department
The Sociology Department's weekly colloquium brings in leading scholars from other colleges and universities, as well as from Penn, to present their current research and engage in discussion with faculty and graduate students. These lively exchanges are the main forum in which the department as a whole gathers. Each semester's colloquium schedule includes scholars doing research in a range of subfields and using varied methods. Regular attendance is an excellent way to learn about the latest research in the field and to stay in touch with colleagues.
Department of Sociology 2009-2010 Colloquium Series
Noon
103 McNeil Building
University of Pennsylvania
3718 Locust Walk Philadelphia, PA
FALL 2009
September 16, 2009 -
David Brady, Duke University
"More Than Just Nickels and Dimes: A Multi-Level Analysis of Working Poverty Across Affluent Democracies."
September 23, 2009 -
Jose Casanova, Georgetown University
"Secularizations, Religious Transformations, and Sacralizations."
September 30, 2009 –
Omar Lizardo, Notre Dame University
"Seeing Culture Like UNESCO: Uncovering the Building Blocks of Organizational Cognition during Unsettled Times."
October 7, 2009 –
Karyn Lacy, University of Michigan
"Growing Up Around Blacks: Strategic Assimilation in Middle-Class Suburbia"
October 21, 2009 –
Lynne Haney, New York University
"Offending Women: Power, Punishment, and the Regulation of Desire."
October 28, 2009 –
Shaun R. Harper, Penn - Graduate School of Education
"College Men without Gender: The Sociohistorical Origins of the Model Gender Majority Myth in American Higher Education."
November 4, 2009 –
Jeffrey Goodwin, NYU
“The Strange Disappearance of Capitalism from Social Movement Studies”
November 18, 2009 –
Kathleen Gerson, NYU
"The Unfinished Revolution: A New Generation Negotiates Gender, Work, and Family Change"
December 2, 2009 –
Melissa Wilde, Penn Sociology
“Creating the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth: Birth Control, Eugenics and Religion in the early Twentieth Century”
SPRING 2010
January 20, 2010 –
Philip Smith, Yale University
"Encounters with Rude Strangers in Public Places: A Systematic Investigation of Everyday Incivility'
January 27, 2010 –
Hannah Brueckner, Yale University
"Scripts in Adolescent Relationships"
February 17, 2010 –
Shamus Khan, Columbia University
“Privilege: The Education of an adolescent Elite at St. Paul School”
February 24, 2010 –
Mary Brinton, Harvard University
"TBA"
March 3, 2010 –
Ann Swidler, UC Berkeley
"TBA"
March 24, 2010 –
Mauro Guillen, Penn - Wharton
“Lottery as Social Networking”
March 31, 2010 –
Jonah Berger, Penn - Wharton
"TBA"
April 7, 2010 –
Jeff Manza, NYU
"TBA"
April 21, 2010 –
Agnes van Zanten, Observatoire Sociologique du Changement, CNRS, Paris
"The interweaving of cultural and economic capital in family school choice in France"
April 28, 2010 –
David Gibson, Penn Sociology
"TBA"