UCSB
Sociology Department
Colloquium Calendar: 2007-2008
November 28, 2007 Maud Edwards – University of Stockholm
"What's a bath towel got to do with peace-keeping?
Announcement - Maud Edwards colloquium
January 23, 2008
Tom Scheff – UCSB
"On the Meaning of Alienation"
Announcement - Tom Scheff colloquium
February 27, 2008
Michael Burawoy – UC Berkeley
"Another Sociology Is Necessary"
Announcement - Michael Burawoy colloquium
March 5, 2008
Nella van Dyke – Washington State University
CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS; WATCH FOR RESCHEDULED DATE...
March 7, 2008
Frances Fox Piven – CUNY Graduate Center
"Thinking About Politics and Sociology in the 21st Century"
Announcement - Frances Fox Piven colloquium
March 12, 2008
Steve Epstein - UC San Diego
"Inclusion and Difference: Gender, Race, and the New Biopolitics of Medical Research"
Announcement - Steve Epstein colloquium
April 9, 2008
Sarah Maddison - University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia)
"Feminist Perspectives on Social Movement Research"
Announcement - Sarah Maddison colloquium
April 30, 2008
Doug Maynard – University of Wisconsin
"The Problem of Nonresponse in the Survey Interview: Conversation Analyses of 'Requesting' and Related Social Actions in the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study"
Announcement - Doug Maynard colloquium
May 14, 2008
Catrin Lundstrom - Uppsala University, Sweden
"White Migration, Racial Imaginaries, and the Case of First-Generation Swedish Women in the United States"
Announcement – Catrin Lundstrom colloquium
May 21, 2008
Ramona Hernández – City University of New York
"Dominicans in the US: Migrating to the Promised Land"
Announcement – Ramona Hernández colloquium
May 28, 2008 - Craig Watkins – University of Texas, Austin
"Hip Hop Matters: Politics, Pop Culture and the Struggle for the Soul of a Movement"
Announcement - Craig Watkins colloquium
June 4, 2008 – Moses Boudourides - University of Patras, Greece
"Novel Characteristics of the Global Justice Movement at the Fourth European Social Forum: A (Latent) Network Analysis Approach"
Announcement - Moses Boudourides colloquium
All colloquia take place in the Sociology conference room
Ellison Hall 2824, at 12noon.