Past Events



PSC Colloquium: Jennifer Beam Dowd, Associate Professor - CUNY, School of Public Health

"Is Life Expectancy Really Falling for the Least Educated? Challenges in Measuring Trends in Health Disparities"
Apr 13, 2015 at -



Urban Ethnography Workshop: Gary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University

Workshop
“Sticky Cultures: Memory Publics and Communal Pasts in Competitive Chess."
Apr 10, 2015 at -

Sticky Cultures: Memory Publics and Communal Pasts in Competitive Chess

In a departure from previous workshop meetings, participants will be expected to read “Sticky Cultures: Memory Publics…



Penn Urban Studies Lecture: Douglas Massey, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University

Segregation and Social Inequality
Apr 9, 2015 at -

 Douglas Massey, Henry G. Bryant Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University, took up the study of racial segregation in the United States in his acclaimed 1998 book, …



Media Activism Research Collective (MARC): Meet Simone Brown, Associate Professor, African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness
Apr 8, 2015 at -

Simone Browne, Associate Professor in the Department of African and…



Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Stanford University [Co-Sponsored with the Penn Program on Race, Science, and Society]

Colloquium
“The Past and Present Significance of Racial Mobility”
Apr 8, 2015 at -

Professor Saperstein received her B.A. in Sociology from the University of Washington and her Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the…



PSC Colloquium: Michael S. Rendall, Professor of Sociology & Director of the Maryland Population Research Center - University of Maryland

"Disparities by Race in Long-term Population Displacement from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina"
Apr 6, 2015 at -



Center for the Study of Contemporary China Forum: Ran Liu, Ph.D student, Penn Sociology

The Internalization of Institutional Constraints: Barriers to Inter-organizational Collaboration among Chinese NGOs
Apr 3, 2015 at -

Based on in-depth interviews and observational data from NGO practitioners in China, this study examines the practice of inter-organizational collaboration and the impact of…



Faculty Meeting (Standing Faculty Only)

Apr 1, 2015 at -



PSC Colloquium: Sarah A. Burgard, Associate Professor of Sociology & Epidemiology - University of Michigan

"Intersectional Race-by-Gender Disparities in Preventive Health Practices among U.S. Adults"
Mar 30, 2015 at -



Race, Ethnicity and Immigration Special Workshop: Philippe Fargues, Director of the Migration Policy Center at the European University Institute

"Organized chaos: How the Mediterranean Sea has become the world's most lethal migratory route."
Mar 27, 2015 at -

*Co-sponsored with the Population Studies Center and the Middle East Center