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 Calendar of Events: 2009-2010                                                                                                                                       Spring Quarter 2009

                                                                                                                                                                                                

FALL QUARTER 2009


SEPTEMBER

14        Roger Waldinger (UCLA)

                   "A Limited Engagement: Mexico and 'Its' Diaspora"

                   12:00-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group and the International Institute

25        NGO and Immigrant Organizations Binational Panel on Alternatives to Emigration

                   12:00-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group, the Center for Mexican Studies, and the International Institute

OCTOBER

1         Gail Kligman (UCLA) & Katherine Verdery (CUNY)

                   Peasants Into Party Members: The Restratification and Bureaucratization of Rural Life

                   5:00-6:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar

9        Authors Meet Critics Session on Alumnos Transnacionales Escuelas Mexicanas Frente a la Globalización

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 3340 Moore Hall

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group and the Center for Mexican Studies

13        Violaine Roussel (Université Paris VIII)

                   "Speaking in the Name of the Public: A Sociology of American Celebrities' Claim to Represent in the Context of the War in Iraq "

                    5:00 pm / 6275 Bunche Hall

                    Sponsored by the Comparative Social Analysis Seminar

14        Ivan Light & Elsa von Scheven (UCLA)

                   "Cheap Labor? How the Minimum Wage Affects Mexican Immigrants' Settlement Patterns"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and the Department of Sociology

19        Sarah Meadows (RAND)

                   "Economic Trajectories in Non-Traditional Families with Children"

                   11:30 am-1:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                    Sponsored by the Family Working Group

19        Daniel J.B. Mitchell (UCLA)

                   "Division of Labor: California's Renewed Budget Crisis Splits the Union Movement"

                   4:00-5:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Work, Labor, and Social Movements Working Group and the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment

                   Division of Labor: California's Renewed Budget Crisis Splits the Union Movement & Shades of Gray

23        All Day Workshop on "Labor Markets and Workplace Dynamics in New Destinations of Mexican Immigration"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 10383 Bunche Hall

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, and the Center for Mexican Studies

26        Kate H. Choi (UCLA)

                   "Women's Education, International Migration, and Educational Attainment in the Next Generation"

                   1:00-2:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall
 
 
29        Cihan Tugal (UC Berkeley)
 
                   "Paths of Islamization: Political Society in Turkey, Egypt, and Iran"
 
                   5:00 pm /279 Haines Hall
 
                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar

 


NOVEMBER

4         Steve McKay (UC Santa Cruz)

                   "Teacher, Sailor, Call Center Operator: Race and the Making of Filipino Labor Niches in Emerging Global Markets"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and the Department of Sociology

4         Ruth Milkman (UCLA) & Veronica Terriquez (USC)

                   "Women and the L.A. Immigrant Rights Movement"

                   4:00 pm / 314 Royce Hall

                   Sponsored by the Center for the Study o f Women

6         Ingrid V. Eagly (UCLA)

                   "Prosecuting Immigration"

                   12:00-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group
 
9          Joy Pixely (UC Irvine)
 
                   "Career Prioritizing in Dual-Earner Couples"
 
                   11:30 am - 1:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall
 
                   Sponsored by the Family Working Group

12         Robin Archer (London School of Economics)

                   Book Talk - "Why is There No Labor Party in the United States?"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and the Department of Sociology

13         John Evans (UCSD)

                   "An Empirical Test of the Religion and Science Conflict Narratives"

                   12:00-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Religion Working Group
 
19        Iddo Tavory (UCLA)
 
                   "Sex Work and the Construction of Intimacies: Institutions and Culture in Rural Malawi"
 
                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall
 
                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar

20        Min Zhou (UCLA)

                   Authors Meet Critics Session on Min Zhou's Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation

                   12:00-1:30 pm /  Young Research Library Conference Center

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group

 


DECEMBER

3         Margaret Somers (Michigan)

                   "Free-Market Utopianism: From Market Fundementalism to Karl Polanyi's Reality of Society"

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar            

                                                                                                                                                                                     

WINTER QUARTER 2010


JANUARY

7         Nina Bandelj (UC Irvine)

                  TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar 
  
13        Barry Eidlin (UC Berkeley)

                  "Class Conflict, Policy Development, and the State: Explaining the Postwar Divergence of U.S. and Canadian Labor Unions"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / Location: TBA

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and the Department of Sociology
 
21         Marian Fourcade (UC Berkeley)

                   "Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of 'Nature' in France and America"

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

25        Pamela Stone (CUNY)

                   TBA

                   11:30 am-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Gender Working Group & the Family Working Group

FEBRUARY

4         C. K. Lee (UCLA)

                   "The Labor Question of Chinese Capitalism in Africa" 

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

18         Kyle Arnone (UCLA)

                   "In Solidarity? Re-examining the Determinants of Failure: The 1196 Port Truckers' Campaign" 

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   
 
MARCH

4         Michael Mann (UCLA)

                   "The Rise and Fall of Neo-Liberalism" 

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

13        Karen Brodkin (UCLA)

                   "Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment

 

 
 

          SPRING QUARTER 2010

APRIL
1        Elena Shih (UCLA)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

14        Kelly Lytle-Hernandez (UCLA)

                   "Migra! A History of U.S. Border Patrol"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment

15        Fred Block (UC Davis)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar
 
 28           Andrew Walder (Stanford)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar 
 
 

  May
 
 
 
12        Scott Cummings (UCLA)

                   "Mobilizing Law for Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from Los Angeles"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall 
                   Sponsored by the Institute for Labor & Employment
13        Philip McMichael (Stanford)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar
 
27        Julia Tomassetti (UCLA)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar