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Events - Colloquium Series 2007-2008

All talks will be held in Lucy Stone Hall, A256 unless otherwise noted.

Organizers: Ethel Brooks and Lee Clarke

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Wednesday, April 9. 11:30-1 pm. A232. Edward Hackett, Arizona State University. "The Snowbird Charrette: An Experimental Study of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the Design of Environmental Research." Edward J. Hackett (Ph.D., Cornell, 1979; B.A., Colgate, 1973) is a professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University, with appointments in the Consortium for Science Policy and Outcomes, the School of Sustainability, and the School of Life Sciences.  From 2006 to present he has been on loan to the National Science Foundation, where he directs the Division of Social and Economic Sciences. 

Wednesday, April 23. 11:30-1 pm. Tricia Wachtendorf, Univ. of Deleware. "Improvising Disaster: The Waterborne Evacuation of Lower Manhattan."
Location: A256 Seminar Room

Wednesday, April 30. 11:30-1 pm. Yinon Cohen, Columbia University. "The demographic success of Zionism: immigration waves, ethnic composition, and immigrants' skills."
Location: A256 Seminar Room

 


 

Past Events 2007-2008

Wednesday, March 12. 11:30-1 pm. Irina Carlotta (Lotti) Silber, CUNY. "Salvadoran Revolutionaries on the Postwar Highway: From Community Rebuilders to Reluctant Migrants."
Location: A256 Seminar Room

Wednesday, March 5. 11:30-1 pm. Nadia Abu El-Haj, Barnard College.
Location: A256 Seminar Room

Tuesday, February 12. 12-2 pm. Katherine Newman, Princeton. "Fine Lines at the Bottom: The Near Poor, The Working Poor, and the Poorest of the Poor."
Location: Rm. 106, Janice H. Levin Bldg.  94 Rockafeller Road, LC
*SOCIOLOGY IS CO-SPONSORING with School of Management and Labor Relations

Wednesday, Oct 24, 11:30 am. Jennifer C. Lena. "Social Context and Compositional Elements: Rap Music as a Pilot Case."

Jennifer C. Lena is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University and a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Arts and Cultural Policy Studies at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. She is currently working on a study of music genre formation in collaboration with Richard A. Peterson (Vanderbilt); a project on festivals with Jonathan R. Wynn (Smith); a study of the Creative Campus with Mark Pachucki (Harvard) and Steven J. Tepper (Vanderbilt); and continues to publish articles on the racial, organizational, and network features of rap music. Her recent publications include articles in Poetics and Social Forces and her forthcoming publications include a book chapter on immigrant artists and an article on rap music videos in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.

Wednesday, Oct 17. 11:00 am. Carolina Bank Muñoz, “Transnational Tortillas: Shop Floor Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Border.”

Carolina Bank Munöz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Brooklyn College. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California, Riverside in 2004. Prior to her appointment at Brooklyn College, she was a Project Director at the Center for Labor Research and Education at UCLA. Her research and teaching interests include, the sociology labor and work, immigration, globalization, and race, class, and gender. She is currently finishing a book comparing coercive labor practices in a Mexican transnational tortilla corporation on both sides of the U.S.- Mexico border.

 

   
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