Past Events



Melody Boyd

Colloquium
"Navigating Neighborhoods: How Social Networks and Space Shape the Decisions and Experiences of Families in Housing Mobility Programs."
Oct 5, 2011 at -

Postdoctoral Researcher, Population Studies Center, University of Pennsylvania

Population Studies Center



Education & Inequality: Jessica McCrory Calarco

Workshop
"'I Need Help!' Social Class and Children's Help-Seeking in Elementary School."
Sep 30, 2011 at -

Graduate Student of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

University of Pennsylvania



Elijah Anderson

Colloquium
"The Cosmopolitan Canopy: Race and Civility in Everyday Life"
Sep 28, 2011 at -

William K. Lanman, Jr. Professor of Sociology at Yale University and the Charles and William Day Distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Social Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania



Urban Ethnography: Kira Baker-Doyle

Workshop
TBA
Sep 23, 2011 at -

 Assistant Professor of Education, Pennsylvania State University, Berks

Pennsylvania State University, Berks



Chinyere Osuji

Colloquium
"Black-White Couples and Perceptions of Racial Boundary-Policing in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro.”
Sep 21, 2011 at -

Postdoctoral Researcher

Center for Africana Studies

University of Pennsylvania

 



Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration: Roberto G. Gonzales

Workshop
“Learning to be illegal: Undocumented young adults and the confusing and contradictory routes to adulthood”
Sep 16, 2011 at -

Assistant Professor

University of Chicago

 



Culture & Interaction: Charles Bosk

Workshop
"What We Talk about When We Talk about Risk: Refining Surgery’s Hazards in Medical Thought"
Sep 9, 2011 at -

We will be discussing a paper co-authored by Charles Bosk, available here:

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As is our custom, there will NOT…



Education and Inequality Workshop: "The Expanding Reach and Growing Interpenetration of Education in Modern Life"

Workshop
May 5, 2011 at -

Jal Mehta, Harvard University and Scott Davies, Visiting Scholar, Penn

 

Discussant Panel:

Randall Collins, University of Pennsylvania,  David Karen, Bryn…



Urban Ethnography: Bethany Weed

"Religion in Daily Life: Islam in a West African Urban Take-Out Restaurant"
Apr 22, 2011 at -

Graduate Student

The University of Pennsylvania



Kara Joyner

Colloquium
"Sibling Resemblance in Cohabitation and Marriage"
Apr 20, 2011 at -

 Kara Joyner

Bowling Green State Univesity

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