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Colloquia Calendar
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