Past Events



**Cancelled Due to Weather** Middle East Center Graduate Student Colloquium Talk - Doga Kerestecioglu

"Secular after State-Breakdown: Political Struggles and Institution-Building in France 1789-1906, Mexico 1910-1940, Turkey 1920-1938"
Feb 13, 2014 at -

This paper proposes a new sociological theory of secularism by studying the rise of secular societies in cases transitioning to a secular state through revolution. For long, scholars assumed that modern…



Faculty Meeting (Full Professors Only)

Faculty Meeting (Full Professors Only)
Feb 12, 2014 at -

 



Population Studies Colloquium: Emily Owens, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Pennsylvania

"Immigration, Employment Opportunities, and Criminal Behavior"
Feb 10, 2014 at -

 



Race, Ethnicity and Immigration: Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, Assistant Professor of Demography, University of Texas at San Antonio

Workshop
"Immigration and Union Formation: Comparing Trajectories for Mexicans and Mexican Americans from a Binational Perspective"
Feb 7, 2014 at -

Race, Ethnicity and Immigration: Gabriela  Sanchez-Soto, Assistant Professor of Demography, University of Texas at San Antonio

From Gabriela Sanchez-Soto's…



Asian American across the Disciplines Speaker - Grace Kao

Feb 5, 2014 at -

Presented by the Asian American Studies Program (ASAM) at Penn.

http://asam.sas.upenn.edu/events/asian-america-across…



*Event Cancelled Due to Weather* Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Signature Program: Dorothy Roberts

"Prison, Foster Care, and the Systemic Punishment of Black Mothers"
Feb 5, 2014 at -

Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology, Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, and Professor of Africana Studies, will explore how the U.…



Vivian Louie, Visiting Professor, Hunter College

Colloquium
"Keeping the Immigrant Bargain: The Costs and Rewards of Success in America"
Feb 5, 2014 at -

Vivian Louie, Visiting Professor, Hunter College

Dr. Louie received her Ph.D and M.A. from the Yale University Department of Sociology, M.A. from…



PSC Colloquium: Daniel A. Levitis - Research Fellow - Max Planck Institute For Demographic Research

"The Demography, Evolution and Semantics of Post-reproductive Lifespan"
Feb 3, 2014 at -

 



Education & Inequality: Aaron Pallas, Professor of Sociology, Teachers College, Columbia University

Workshop
"Hijacking the money train: School spending in New York City"
Jan 31, 2014 at -

Aaron Pallas, Professor of Sociology, Teachers College, Columbia University



Race in the Academy - Dorothy Roberts

"The New Biopolitics of Health Inequities"
Jan 30, 2014 at -

 For more information, visit:
http://www.gse.upenn.edu/content/race-academy-presents-dorothy-e-roberts-professor-…