Colloquium Series / New Pathways for the Social Sciences

Spring 2012
All events, 12:00 p.m., 509 Knox.  Buffet lunch provided. Please join us!
 
Wednesday, February 15
Ashley Mears (Boston University)
“Pricing Looks: The Gendered Production of Value in an Aesthetic Economy”

Wednesday, March 21
Jen’nan Read (Duke University)
“Healthy Migrants or Just Healthy Men? Gender and Health Among Middle Eastern Immigrants”

Wednesday, April 25
Shelley Correll (Stanford University)
“Law, Norms, and The Motherhood/Caretaker Penalty”
 
Fall 2011
Wednesday, September 14
Andreas Wimmer (UCLA)
"Waves of War: Nation-State Formation and Ethnic Politics Across the World, 1816-2005" 
 
Wednesday, October 12
Fred Wherry (University of Michigan)
"Symbolic Capital and the Transformation of the Philadelphia Barrio"
 
Wednesday, November 9
Andrew Papachristos (UMass, Amherst)
"Unraveling Violence Epidemics: Social Networks and Homicide Victimization"
 
Tuesday, November 15
Mark Pachucki (UC San Francisco)
"Food as Culture: Evaluating Taste Preferences Using Social Networks"
 
Wednesday, November 16
Cristobal Young (Stanford University)
Postponed
 
Thursday, November 17
Adam Reich (UC Berkeley)
"Moral Economies in the Commodification of Hospital Care"
 
Monday, November 21
Jean-Baptiste Michel (Harvard University)
"Culturomics: Quantitative Analysis of Human Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books"
 
Wednesday, November 30
Jason Beckfield (Harvard University)
"A Comparative Sociology of Health Inequalities"