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 Calendar of Events: 2008-2009

 

SPRING QUARTER 2008

 APRIL

2          Muriel Darmon

           "The Fifth Element :Social Class and the Sociology of Anorexia"

           12:00-2:00 / 279 Haines Hall

           Sponsored by the Gender Working Group

 

4           Robert Crosnoe (Univ. of Texas-Austin)

             “Mexican Immigrants, their Children, and American Schools”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the UCLA Migration Study Group

 

7           Paul Amato (The Pennsylvania State University)

             “Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines    

             Sponsored by the Family Working Group

 

10        Rob Jansen (UCLA)

             “Populist Mobilization: The Emergence of a New Mode of Political Practice in Early 20th Century

             Peru”

             5:00-6:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

18        Maurice Crul (Univ. of Amsterdam)

             “The Integration  of the Second Generation in Europe: The Importance of the National and Local

             Integration Context”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored  CCPR / Migration Study Group 

  

24        Loic Wacquant (Berkeley)

             “Comparing Apples and Oranges: Revisiting Urban Marginality in Europe and America”

             5:00-6:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

25        Troy Duster (NYU)

             "A Post-Genomic Surprise: The Molecular Re-Inscription of Race in Clinical Medicine and 

              Forensic Science (With some unanticipated social consequences for Identity and 

             Identification)"

              2:00-4:00 / 135 Haines Hall, Library and Media Center

              Sponsored by the Race and Ethnicity Working Group / Center for Society and Gentics/ Center for

              African American Studies

 

28        Mignon Moore (UCLA)

             “Invisible Families: Preliminary Results of a Study of Black and Latina Lesbian Households”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Family Working Group

 

30          Frederic Martel

              "TBA"

               1:30-3:00 / 279 Haines

                Sponsored by the Culture Working Group

 

MAY

 1           Murray Feshbach (Georgetown Univ.)

             “The Demographic Crisis in Russia”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CEES & CCPR

 

2           Jeff Cohen (Ohio State)

             “The Global Impact of Local Events: Civil Unrest and Migration in Oaxaca, Mexico”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the UCLA Migration Study Group

 

5           Valerie Oppenheimer (UCLA)

             “A Demographer's Retrospective: A Career of Interdisciplinary Adventures”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines 

              POSTPONED

              Sponsored by the Family Working Group

 

7           Arline Geronimus (Univ. of Michigan)

             “TBA”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR / Migration Study Group

 

8          Anne Pebley (UCLA)

            "Collective Efficacy in Rich, Poor, and Middle Class Neighborhodds in Los Angeles"

             12:15-1:45 / 2355 Public Affairs

             Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Social Welfare

             

8           Gustav Brown (UCLA)

             “Framing Matters: Activists, Institutions and Interpretations of Violence in West Kalimantan &

              Ambon”

             5:00-6:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

8-10    International Graduate Student Conference

           "Europe's Borderlands: Migration, Trafficking, and Regional Integration

           in Interdisciplinary Perspective"

           8th :    6:30-7:30pm / Italian Culture Institute

           9th :    9:00am - 6:00pm / 10383 Bunche Hall

           10th :   8:00am - 2:30pm / 306 Royce Hall

            Sponsored by the UCLA Center for European & Eurasian Studies/ UCLA International

           Institute / Centre Pluridisciplinaire / Center for the Study of Global France

 

14        Kathleen Harris (Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) **CANCELLED**

             “TBA”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR

 

14        Jennie Brand and Yao Lu (UCLA)

             "Ethics Seminar"

             12:00-2:00 / 9383 Bunche Hall

             Sposored by CCPR

  

14         Timothy D. Taylor (UCLA)

              "The Rise of the Radio Jingle"

              1:30-3:00 / 279 Haines

              Sponsored by the Culture Working Group

               

15         Ivan Szelenyi (UCLA)

             "Reforming Welfare States: Comparative Perspectives"

              (Reception to Follow Talk) 

              3:00-6:00 / Faculty Center -- Sequoia Room

 

16        Reuel Rogers (Northwestern)

             “Black Ethnic Options: Afro-Caribbean Immigrants and the Politics of Group Identity”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the UCLA Migration Study Group and the Center

             For Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

 

21        David Autor (MIT)

             “TBA”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR

 

22        Julia Adams (Yale)

             “Poststructuralist Foundations of Social Theory, or the Unknown James Coleman”

             5:00-6:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

28        Marianne Bitler (UCI)

             “Can Subgroup-Specific Mean Treatment Effects Explain Heterogeneity in Welfare Reform?”

             12:00-2:00 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR

  

30        Claire Jean Kim (UCI)

             “Multiculturalism Goes Imperial: Reflections on Race, Culture, and Animals”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the UCLA Migration Study Group

 

30        Valerie Oppenheimer (UCLA)

             "A Demographer's Retrospective: A Career of Interdisciplinary Adventures"

             1:30-3:00 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the UCLA Family Working Group

 

30       David Halle (UCLA)

            "Competition and Change in the Locus of Cultural Production and Success: Triumph of Chelsea Over Soho in NYC"

             3:15-4:45 / 279 Haines

           Sponsored by the Innovation & Creativity Workshop / Culture Working Group

 

JUNE

4        Bret Thompson (UCSB)

           "Gangsta Rap, Crime Stats, and Rethinking the Frankfurt School"

            1:30-3:00 / 279 Haines

            Sponsored by the Culture Working Group

 

5         Gabriel Rossman (UCLA)

           "Climbing the Chart"

             2:00-3:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Innovation & Creativity Workshop / Culture Working Group

 

 5          Deborah Yashar (Princeton)

             “Violence, Citizenship, and Public Security in Post-Authoritarian Latin America”

             5:00-6:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)


WINTER QUARTER 2008

 JANUARY

 11        Katharine Donato (Vanderbilt Univ.) **CANCELLED**

             “Public Service Use and Contributions among Mexican Immigrants: An Assessment of            

              Post-Reform Shifts”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by CCPR / Migration Study Group

 

11        Nelson Lichtenstein (UCSB)

             “Wal-Mart:  Toward a Social and Cultural History”

             12:00 / 6275 Bunche

             Sponsored by the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

 

16        Florencia Torche (NYU)

           “Educational Assortative Mating and Inequality: A Test from a Latin American  Perspective”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR / Migration Study Group

 

17        Roger Waldinger (UCLA)

             “Rethinking Transnationalism”

             5:00-6:30 / Haines 279

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

18        Guang Guo (University of North Carolina)

             “Genetic Propensities, Social Contexts, and Human Behaviors”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

 

22        Patti Donze (UCLA)

             “Gender and the Promotion of Recording Artists by their Labels”

             12:00-1:00 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Gender Working Group / Culture Working Group

 

 23        Kjerstin Elmen-Gruys (UCLA)

             “Does This Interaction Make Me Look Fat? Fat Talk as Emotional Labor in a ‘Plus Size’ Clothing

              Store”

             12:00-1:00 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Gender Working Group

 

23        Hyeyoung Oh (UCLA)

           “Becoming ‘Beautiful’… Becoming ‘American’? A Study on Constructions of Beauty and Identity

             Among Korean 

             and Filipina Women in the United States”

            12:00-1:00 / 279 Haines

            Sponsored by the Gender Working Group

 

 23        Dora Costa (UCLA)

             “Do Social Networks Reduce the Negative Health Effects of Stress”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR

 

24        Abigail Saguy (UCLA) / Anna Ward (UCLA)

             “How Culture Travels: ‘Coming Out’ as Fat”

             4:00-5:00 / 352 Haines

             Sponsored by CPSC / Gender Working Group

 

25        Daniel Tichenor (Rutgers)

             “A Movement Wrestling: American Labor’s Evolving Struggle over Immigration, 1870-present”

             12:00-1:30 / Haines 279

             Sponsored by the Migration Study Group

 

25        “All Day Workshop On Central American Migration”

               http://www.soc.ucla.edu/groups/migration/CAM_workshop.htm

             Sponsored by the Migration Study Group and International Institute       

 

28        Timothy Biblarz (USC)

             “How Does the Gender of Parents Matter?”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Family Working Group

 

28        Hannah Landecker (Rice University)

             “From Dish to Diet: Cells, People and Environments in Epigenetic Models of Chronic Disease”

             2:00-4:00 / 279 Haines

 

30        Linda Gage (CA Dept. of Finance)

             "The American Community Survey: Replacement for the

              Decennial Census Long-Form or Multiple ACS Estimates: Pick a Number, Any Number!"

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR

 

30        Michael Burawoy

             “The Struggle for Public Sociology:  A Bourdieusian Approach”

             5:00-6:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology Irene Flecknoe

             Ross Lecture Series and the Public Sociologists Working Group

 

31        Iddo Tavory (UCLA)

             “Seeing Religiosity:  Distinction and Community Formation

             in a Hassidic Neighborhood in Los Angeles”

             12:00 / 306 Royce Hall

 

31        James Mahoney (Northwestern)

             “The Logic of Historical Explanation”

             5:00-6:30 / Haines 279

              Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

FEBRUARY

 1           Andrew Lakoff (UCSD)

             “Mental Illness and the Global Trade in DNA”

             12:00-1:30 / Haines 279

 

6           Kenneth Bollen (Univ. of North Carolina)

             “Fixed and Random Effects Models Using Panel Data and

             Structural Equation Models”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR

 

8           Daniel Tichenor (Rutgers)

             “A Movement Wrestling: American Labor’s Evolving Struggle over Immigration”

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Migration Study Group / International Institute / Center for

             Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

 

13        Joan Fujimura (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

           “Race, Genetics, Disease: Are the New Genomics Challenging or Reifying Social Categories?”

             3:00- 4:30 / Haines 279

 

14        Sherry Ortner (UCLA)

             “Failure to Protect: Pedophiles and Parents in Recent Independent Cinema”

             5:00-6:30 / Haines 279

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

19       Noah Grand (UCLA)

            "To Quote or Not to Quote: Assessments of Legitimacy in Presidential Interaction with

              Journalists"

             12:00-1:30 / Haines 279

             Sponsored by the Culture Working Group

 

20        Shannon Cavanagh (University of Texas at Austin)

             “Family Instability, Selection, and Child Well-Being in Middle Childhood”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by the Family Working Group / California Center for Population Research

 

21        Stephanie Coontz (Evergreen State College)

             “Taking Our Work Public”

             9:00-12:00 / Faculty Center Downstairs Lounge

             Sponsored by the Public Sociologists Working Group

 

21        Susan Stockdale (UCLA)

             "Can Structural Features of Neighborhoods Buffer the Effects of Stress on Mental Health and

            Substance Disorders? A Test  

            of  the Stress- Buffering Hypothesis"

            2:00-4:00 / 279 Haines

 

22        Peter Bearman (Columbia University)

             “The structure of large-scale collective violence: Continuity and change in Northern Ireland,

            1969-2001”

             12:00-2:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Ross Lecture Series

  

22        Max Neiman (Public Policy Institute of California)

             “Spilling Over: The Migration of Concern for Immigration to Other

             Policy Preferences”

             12:00-1:30 / 10383 Bunche Hall

             Sponsored by the Migration Study Group

 

22        Yen Le Espiritu (UCSD)

             “Emotions, Sex, and Money: The Lives of Filipino Children of Immigrants”

             2:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Race & Ethnicity Working Group / Gender Working Group

 

25        Judith A. Seltzer (UCLA) **POSTPONED** 

             “Providing for Older Mothers: Is It a Family Affair?”

              Sponsored by the Family Working Group

 

25        "Colloquium: Immigration Policy: Who Benefits?"

              2:00-5:30 / 6275 Bunche

              Sponsored by the Center for Social Theory and Comparative History / CAPPP

 

26        Patti Donze (UCLA)

            "Hot or Not: Constructions and Ascriptions of 'Sexyness' of Popular Music Artists by Industry  

             Professionals"

             12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Culture Working Group

 

28        Dan Posner (UCLA)

             “Political Sources of Ethnic Identification in Africa”

             5:00-6:30 / Haines 279

             Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Soc 237)

 

29      Victor M. Rios (UCSB)

           "Punished: The Criminalization of Inner City Boys"

           2:00 / 279 Haines

            Sponsored by the Ethnography Working Group

 

 MARCH

 5           Sara Curran (Univ. of Washington)

             “Migration, Migrant Social Capital & the Asian Financial Crisis in Thailand”

             12:00-1:30 / 9383 Bunche

             Sponsored by CCPR/ Migration Study Group

 

6           Sara Curran (University of Washington)

             “Graduate Student Workshop on Mixed Methods”

             11:30-1:30 / 279 Haines

             Sponsored by the Family Working Group / Gender Working Group / Migration Working Group

 

13        Takashi Machimura

             " Migrants' Los Angeles Revisited: Studying Ethnic LA through its Immigrant

             Media"

             5:00-7:00 / 279 Haines