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Frontiers in Sociology Colloquium Series, 2024-2025

The Frontiers in Sociology Colloquium Series is an opportunity to bring the department together to hear and discuss cutting edge work by a leader in our discipline, regardless of substantive focus.

All meetings are scheduled for 12:30-2pm in Knox Hall 509

September 17, 2024
Mara Loveman (University of California, Berkeley)
"Enslaved mothers, free wombs, and the making of unequal personhood in Brazil"

September 24, 2024
Xi Song (University of Pennsylvania)
"Occupational Restructuring and Worker Mobility in the United States"

October 10, 2024
Deirdre Bloome (Harvard University)
"Family Tree Branches and Southern Roots: Contemporary Racial Differences in Marriage in the United States, in Intergenerational and Contextual Perspective"

January 28, 2025
Claire Laurier Decoteau (University of Illinois, Chicago)
"The Entangled Emergencies of COVID-19"

February 18, 2025
Nitsan Chorev (Brown University)
"Trojan Horses and Parasitic Fish: The Political Economy of the Surveillance-for-Hire Industry in Israel"

 

The Frontiers in Sociology Colloquium is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy—ISERP.