Document Actions
Spring Quarter 2009
SPRING QUARTER 2009
- APRIL
1 Adriana Lleras-Muney (UCLA) **CANCELLED**
"TBA"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
1 Matthew Kahn (UCLA)
"Cities and Climate Change"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affiairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
2 Jorge Durand (Universidad de Guadalajara)
"A bilingual seminar: Patrones y procesos migratorios en América Latina"
9:30-12:00/ 279 Haines Hall
Sponsored by the Migration Study Group, The Center for Mexican Studies and the International Institute
3 Authors meet critics session with Patricia Arias and Jorge Durand (Universidad de Guadalajara)
"Mexicanos en Chicago, Diario de Campo de Robert Redfield. 1924-25"
12:00-1:30/ 279 Haines Hall
Sponsored by the Migration Study Group, The Center for Mexican Studies and the International Institute
8 Charles Manski (Northwestern)
"Diversified Treatment under Ambiguity"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
15 Stewart Tolnay (University of Washington)
"Was Anyone Safe? Individual and Household Characteristics of Lynch
Victims in the American South, 1882-1930"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Co-sponsored by the California Center for Population Research and the VonGremp
Workshop in Economic and Entrepreneurial History
17 Angela C. Stuesse (UCLA, IRLE)
"Globalization 'Southern Style': Low-Wage Labor, Race, and Migration in the Nuevo South."
12:00-1:30/ 279 Haines Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Migration Study Group, the Center for Mexican Studies and the International Institute
20 Andrew Cherlin (John Hopkins University – Department of Sociology)
"The Marriage-Go-Round: Causes and Consequences of Multiple Partnerships"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Co-sponsored by the Dept. of Sociology Family Working Group, The UCLA Interdisciplinary
Relationship Science Program and The California Center for Population Research
22 Sarah Thornton
"Art and Ethnography: Seven Days in the Art World"
Introduced by Dr. Adrian Favell, UCLA
11:00-12:30/ 279 Haines
Sponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology
23 Osagie K. Obasogie (UC Hastings College of the Law)
"'Race' Ipsa Loquitur: How Blind People Understand Race and Its Implications for Equal Protection"
12:00-1:30/ 279 Haines
Sponsored by the Race and Ethnicity Working Group
23 Philip Gorski (Yale University)
"A Neo-Weberian Theory of Civil Religion"
5:00-6:30/ 279 Haines
Sponsored by The Comparative Social Analysis Seminar (Sociology 237)
29 Paul Thompson (University of Strathclyde, Scotland)
“Transforming the Workplace: New Approaches to Labor Process Theory”
12:30-2:00/ Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment Colloquium, the Anderson
School Human Resources and Organizational Behavior Area and the Department of Sociology
MAY
1 Jane R. Rubin-Kurtzman (UCLA, CCPR) **POSTPONED TO MAY 15th**
"Migration, Work and Health in Times of Economic Crisis: preliminary findings of a study of migrant women in
Hermosillo and Los Angeles."
12:00-1:30/ 279 Haines Hall
Sponsored by the Migration Working Group
6 May Wang (UCLA)
"Child Obesity: When Neighborhoods Matter"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
7 Peter Evans (UC Berkeley)
Department of Political Science
15 Adriana Cortes (Fundacion Comunitaria del Bajio); Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (FIOB);
Efrain Jimenez (Federacion de Clubes Zacatecanos)
NGO and Immigrant Organizations Binational Panel on Alternatives to Emigration
12:00-1:30/ 279 Haines Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Migration Study Group, the Center for Mexican Studies and the International Institute
20 David Takeuchi (Univ. of Washington)
"The Epidemiology of Discrimination: Findings from the National Latino and Asian American Study"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
20 Andrew Cherlin (John Hopkins University - Department of Sociology )
Sponsored by the Sociology of Family Working Group
"Migration, Work and Health in Times of Economic Crisis: preliminary findings of a study of migrant women in
Hermosillo and Los Angeles."
12:00-1:30/ 279 Haines Hall
Sponsored by the Migration Working Group
6 May Wang (UCLA)
"Child Obesity: When Neighborhoods Matter"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
7 Peter Evans (UC Berkeley)
"Is it labor's turn to globalize?"
12:30-2:00/ Faculty Center, Sierra Room
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE) and
Department of Political Science
15 Adriana Cortes (Fundacion Comunitaria del Bajio); Gaspar Rivera-Salgado (FIOB);
Efrain Jimenez (Federacion de Clubes Zacatecanos)
NGO and Immigrant Organizations Binational Panel on Alternatives to Emigration
12:00-1:30/ 279 Haines Hall
Co-Sponsored by the Migration Study Group, the Center for Mexican Studies and the International Institute
20 David Takeuchi (Univ. of Washington)
"The Epidemiology of Discrimination: Findings from the National Latino and Asian American Study"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
20 Andrew Cherlin (John Hopkins University - Department of Sociology )
"TBA"
12:00-1:30 / 279 Haines Hall
20 Patricia Fernandez-Kelly (Princeton)
"Gender roles and economic change in the United States and Mexico 1900-2000"
4:00-6:00/ Faculty Center, Sierra Room
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment (IRLE)
the Center for International Business Education and Research, the Center for the Study of Women and the Cesar E. Chavez
Department of Chicana & Chicano Studies
27 Catherine Cubbin (Univ. of Texas-Austin)
"Developing Feasible Measures of Wealth for Health Research"
12:00-1:30/ 4240 Public Affairs Bldg.
Sponsored by the California Center for Population Research
29 All Day Workshop on the Migration Industry
Papers by David Kyle (UC Davis); Ivan Light (UCLA); David Spener (Trinity University); Alisa Garni (Kansas State University);
David Griffith (Eastern Carolina University); Kristel Acacio (UC Berkeley); Kenneth Guest (Baruch College-CUNY);
Efrén Sandoval, UANL (Mexico); Anthony Ocampo (UCLA); Rocio Rosales (UCLA); Ruben Hernández-León (UCLA)
Discussants: Abel Valenzuela, Chicano Studies and Urban Planning, UCLA; Roger Waldinger, Sociology, UCLA.
(10383 Bunche Hall)
Sponsored by the Migration Study Group