Past Events



Education & Inequality: Hyunjoon Park (Penn) and Kuentae Kim, Associate Professor, Dept. of Korean History, Seoul National Univ.

Workshop
"The Legacy of Disadvantaged Origins: Blocked Social Mobility of Descendants of Nobis (Slaves) in Late Joseon (Korea, 19th Century)"
Sep 19, 2014 at -



Penn Social Science and Policy Forum Conference

"The War on Poverty at 50: Its History and Legacy"
Sep 19, 2014 at -

Conference Website & Registration

Penn Sociology's



Mike Hout, Professor of Sociology, New York University

Colloquium
"The Social Recession: Subjective Aspects of the Great Recession and Its Aftermath, 2006-2012"
Sep 17, 2014 at -

Mike Hout uses demographic methods to study social change in inequality, religion, and politics. His current work…



Institute of Education Sciences Lecture: Adam Gamaron, President, WT Grant Foundation

"Social Inequality and Education"
Sep 15, 2014 at -



Culture & Interaction: Junhow Wei

Workshop
“Emotional Display in Cultural Production: The Case of Casting for Reality Television”
Sep 12, 2014 at -

Abstract:  How do cultural industry workers make creative decisions?  Although previous scholars have argued that decisions are shaped by organizational and institutional contexts of production, few have…



Faculty Meeting (Standing Faculty Only)

Sep 10, 2014 at -