Past Events



Mark S. Mizruchi, Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan

Colloquium
"The Fracturing of the American Corporate Elite"
Mar 19, 2014 at -

Mark S. Mizruchi, Barger Family Professor of Organizational Studies, Professor of Sociology, and Professor of Business Administration at the University of…



PSC Colloquium: Shripad Tuljapurkar, Professor of Biology and Population Studies, Stanford University

"Beyond Age: How Phenotypic Variation Affects Demography and Evolution"
Mar 17, 2014 at -

Shripad Tuljapurkar is Professor of Biology and the Dean & Virginia Morrison Professor of Population Studies at Stanford…



Department of Religious Studies Colloquium - Darren Sherkat, Professor of Sociology, SIU Carbondale

“Getting Beyond Believing but not Belonging"
Mar 5, 2014 at -

Professor Sherkat will discuss excerpts from his new book  “Changing Faith: The Dynamics and Consequences of American’s Shifting Religious Identities



Natasha Warikoo, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University

Colloquium
"What Merit Means: Admissions, Diversity, and Inequality at Elite Universities in the United States and Britain"
Mar 5, 2014 at -

Natasha Warikoo, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard University



**Cancelled due to weather** Population Studies Center Colloquium: Norbert Schady, Pricipal Economic Advisor for the Social Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank

"Can Better Teachers Compensate for Deficits in Early Childhood?" Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Mar 3, 2014 at -

Norbert Schady is the Principal Economic Advisor for the Social Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). He holds a bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. In…



CAMRA Penn Screening Scholarship Media Festival: Tukufu Zuberi

TBD
Mar 2, 2014 at -

Camra at Penn invites you to explore how diverse and creative uses of multimedia are changing knowledge production and the research imagination, in a day of panel discussions, film screenings, sound and image…



Becoming an Adult in East Asia: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches Conference

Mar 1, 2014 at -

With support from the Population Studies Center, the Center for East Asian Studies at Penn, and the Academy of Korean Studies, Hyunjoon Park has organized the conference, Becoming an Adult in East…



Panel - Gender, Sexuality & Women Studies at Penn Conference

"Race, Class, Gender and Religion"
Feb 28, 2014 at -

Panel:
Melissa Wilde (organizer), Sociology, Moderator

Katie ClonanRoy and Charlotte Jacobs, Education: “Towards a Model of Positive Youth…



Culture and Interaction (Co-Sponsored by Urban Ethnography): Diane Vaughan, Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

Workshop
"Mistake and Error; Risk and Stress: Air Traffic Control and the Social Transformation of Risky Work"
Feb 28, 2014 at -

Diane Vaughan received her Ph.D. in Sociology, Ohio State University, 1979, and taught at Boston College from 1984 to 2005.  During this time, she was awarded fellowships at Yale (1979-82), Centre…



Becoming an Adult in East Asia: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Approaches Conference

Feb 28, 2014 at -

With support from the Population Studies Center, the Center for East Asian Studies at Penn, and the Academy of Korean Studies, Hyunjoon Park has organized the conference, Becoming an Adult in East…