Past Events



Center for the Study of Contemporary China Policy Roundtable: End of China's One-Child Policy

Feinian Chen, Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland; Yong Cai, Associate Professor of Sociology, UNC Chapel Hill; Feng Wang, Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine
Mar 22, 2018 at -



Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Valerio Bacak, Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

Colloquium
Is there an effect of incarceration on health? Evidence from natural experiments in Denmark
Mar 21, 2018 at -



Education & Inequality Works-in-Progress Meeting

Ran Liu, Andrea Alvarado-Urbina, and Emily Hannum: Feedback on paper for CIES: "Differences at the Extremes? Gender, National Contexts, and Math Performance in Latin America"
Mar 20, 2018 at -



PSC Colloquium Series: Ellis Monk, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Rethinking Ethnoracial Inequality in the U.S. & Brazil: The Consequences of Bodily Capital
Mar 19, 2018 at -



Education & Inequality: Rebecca Clothey, Drexel University School of Education

Education Policy Appropriation, Ethnic Segregation and Cultural Transmission in Urumqi, China
Mar 16, 2018 at -

Rebecca Clothey is a faculty member at Drexel University’s School of Education. Her research interests include international higher education policy, issues of ethnicity, and community driven…



Faculty Meeting (Standing Faculty Only)

Mar 14, 2018 at -



Penn Alumni Reading Club: Tukufu Zuberi, Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania

We Were Eight Years In Power: An American Tragedy
Mar 13, 2018 at -

Join Penn Professor Tukufu Zuberi for an interactive discussion of Ta-Nehisi Coates’s We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy. This program, free and open to all Penn alumni, is co-hosted by the…



Penn Science Cafe; Regina Baker, Assistant Professor, Penn Sociology

Poverty in the American South
Mar 13, 2018 at -

As a sociologist, Regina Baker studies inequality, social stratification, and families, particularly in the U.S. South. Although poverty and uneven development exist everywhere, this part of the…



Education & Inequality Works-in-Progress Meeting

Natalie Young; CIES practice talk: "Getting the Teacher’s Attention: Socioeconomic Differences in Parent-Teacher Contact in China and Implications for Students’ Experiences in the Classroom"
Mar 13, 2018 at -



PSC Colloquium Series: Kelly Musick, Professor, Cornell University

TBA
Mar 12, 2018 at -