*Special Colloquium* First Annual Rex J. L. Heymann Lecture: Mario Small, Quetelet Professor of Social Science, Columbia University

Our first inaugural Rex J. L. Heymann Lecture will be given by Dr. Mario Small who is a Quetelet Professor of Social Science in the Department of Sociology at Columbia University. The Rex J. L. Heymann Lecture Series fund was established to support public lectures on the relationship between space and social life at the University of Pennsylvania. 

Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Vida Maralani, Associate Professor of Sociology, Cornell University

Using data from nationally representative surveys fielded between 1965 and 2019, we assemble a historical time series for breastfeeding practices by race and education for children born between 1930 to 2019. Using these data, we investigate how and when breastfeeding became a practice differentiated by socioeconomic status and what this reveals about intersectional experiences of mothering practices in the U.S. We also investigate whether changes in patterns of family formation and fertility timing explain persistent differences in breastfeeding practices by race and education.

Penn Sociology Colloquium Series: Akira Drake Rodriguez, Assistant Professor of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania

The City of Atlanta was the first US city to have federally-financed subsidized housing (with the opening of Techwood Homes in 1936) and the first major city in the US to demolish most of it in the mid-2010s. Throughout this history, tenant organizations in these public housing developments created a wealth of political capacity -  originating, fostering, and shaping urban social movements.