Workshops and Events
Selected workshops in which sociology students participate are listed below. Students in sociology are invited to participate in a program of Graduate Workshops in the Humanities and the Social Sciences, a series of interdepartmental discussion groups that bring faculty and advanced graduate students together to discuss their current work. Information about these many of these workshops is available at http://cas.uchicago.edu, as well as the Department's descriptive list of selected workshops.
Monday, April 4
SOCIAL THEORY AND EVIDENCE WORKSHOP
Graduate Student Professionalization Seminar
James Evans, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Creative Confidence in Building a Portfolio of Projects”
12:00—1:00 pm, Social Sciences, Room 401
COMPUTATION INSTITUTE- COMPUTATIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS
Mark Newman, Paul Dirac Collegiate Professor of Physics, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan
"Finding Structure in Social and Biological Networks"
3:00—4:30 pm, Searle 240A, (5735 S. Ellis Ave)
Tuesday, April 5
HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP
Charlotte Walker, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer, Human Rights Program
“Rural Resistance, European Law, and Human Rights Discourse in the ‘Great Struggle Against the Head Chief’ in French Cameroon, 1925-1935.”
Discussant: Ralph Austen, Professor Emeritus of African History
12:00—1:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)
Wednesday, April 6
WORKSHOP ON CITY, SOCIETY, AND SPACE
Harvey Molotch, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and Sociology, New York University
“Default to Decency: Subways, Airports, and Other Sites of Ambiguous Danger”
12:00—1:15 pm, Stuart 101
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Bruce Kogat, Columbia University
“The Small Worlds of Governance”
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Thursday, April 7
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Monica Peek, Assistant Professor of Medicine, and Marshall Chin, Professor of Medicine, Department of General Internal Medicine, Pritzer School of Medicine
"Improving Diabetes Care and Outcomes on the South Side of Chicago”
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
Monday, April 11
SOCIAL THEORY AND EVIDENCE WORKSHOP
Walter Powell, Professor of Education and Sociology, Co-Director of the Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University
“Chance, Nécessité, et Naïveté: Ingredients to Create a New Organizational Form”
12:00—1:00 pm, Social Sciences, Room 401
Wednesday, April 13
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Thursday, April 14
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Angela Debello, Associate Director of Public Health, NORC, University of Chicago
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
Monday, April 18
SOCIAL THEORY AND EVIDENCE WORKSHOP
Tianna Paschel, Sociology PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago (as of July 2011)
“Beyond Black Radicals and 'Sellouts': How Black Social Movements Navigate Institutionalized Politics in Colombia and Brazil”
12:00—1:00 pm, Social Sciences, Room 401
Wednesday, April 20
WORKSHOP ON CITY, SOCIETY, AND SPACE
Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography, University of Manchester
“CITY or POLIS? Antinomies of the Post-Political and Post-Democratic City”
3:00—4:15 pm, Cobb 107
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Bruce Carruthers, Northwestern University
"Calculability and Trust: Credit Rating in Nineteenth-Century America"
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Thursday, April 21
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Claudia Olivetti, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Boston University
"Maternal Health and the Baby Boom”
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
Tuesday, April 26
GENDER AND SEXUALITIES WORKSHOP
Melissa Hardesty, PhD student, School of Social Service Administration
"Nuclear Fusion: Family-making in an Agency-based Adoption Program"
4:30—6:00 pm, Center for Gender Studies, 1st floor (5733 S. University Ave.)
Wednesday, April 27
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Christopher Yenkey, Cornell University
"Building Markets from Ethnically Fractionalized Networks:
Recruiting New Investors into Kenya’s Nairobi Stock Exchange"
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Thursday, April 28
HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP/SOCIAL HISTORY WORKSHOP
Elizabeth Dale
“Pushing the Boundaries of the Public Sphere: The Su Bao Case and Transnational Consitutional Order in China, 1894-1904.”
Discussant: James Hevia, Professor of International History and Director of the International Studies Program in the College
12:00—1:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)
Monday, May 2
SOCIAL THEORY AND EVIDENCE WORKSHOP
Erica Coslor, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Organizational and Epistemic Change: The Growth of the Art Investment Industry”
12:00—1:00 pm, Social Sciences, Room 401
Wednesday, May 4
WORKSHOP ON CITY, SOCIETY, AND SPACE
Rick Moore, PhD student, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Urban Religious Coalitions Re-examined: The Council of Hyde Park Churches 1911-1930″
3:00—4:15 pm, Cobb 107
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Paul Leonardi, Northwestern University
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Thursday, May 5
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Ted Fishman, Author of Shock of Gray and China Inc.
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
REPRODUCTION OF RACE AND RACIAL IDEOLOGIES WORKSHOP
Nicole Martorano Van Cleve, Asst. Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, Courtesy Appointment in the Dept of Sociology and the School of Law, Temple University
"The Racialization of Criminal Justice: the Attachment of Racial Meanings to the Administration of Justice"
4:15—5:30 pm, The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (57.3 S. University Ave.)
THE LURCY LECTURE
Unni Wikan, Visiting Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development, Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway
"Freedom and Its Discontents: Varieties of Muslim Experience in Europe and the Middle East"
4:30 pm, Stuart Hall, Rm 105
THE WORLD BEYOND THE HEADLINES
Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics
"Creating Headlines: The Human Development Approach"
6:30—8:00 pm, International House (1414 E. 59th St.)
To register: http://cis.uchicago.edu/wbh
Monday, May 9
SOCIAL THEORY AND EVIDENCE WORKSHOP
Muh-Chung Lin, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“You Are My World — The Social Embeddedness of Remarriage”
12:00—1:00 pm, Social Sciences, Room 401
COMPUTATION INSTITUTE- COMPUTATIONAL KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS
Gary King, Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor, Director, Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University
"Computer-Assisted Clustering and Conceptualization from Unstructured Text"
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, Searle 240A (5735 S. Ellis Avenue)
Tuesday, May 10
HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP
Jaira Harrington, PhD student, Department of Political Science
“Domestic Work, Legal-Social Policy and Political Subjectivity in the Brazilian Context”
Discussant: Tania Islas Weinstein, PhD Student, Department of Political Science
12:00—1:30 pm, John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)
Wednesday, May 11
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Kate Stovel, University of Washington
"Stabilizing Brokerage"
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Thursday, May 12
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Alicia Menendez, Associate Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
Monday, May 16
SOCIAL THEORY AND EVIDENCE WORKSHOP
Monica Lee, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“Structuring Communicative Action”
12:00—1:00 pm, Social Sciences, Room 401
Tuesday, May 17
HUMAN RIGHTS WORKSHOP
Susie Linfield, Associate Professor of Journalism, New York University
Book Talk: The Cruel Radiance: Photography and Political Violence
Introduction by Charlotte Walker, Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at the Human Rights Program, and Comment by Mark Bradley, Professor of U.S.International History
5:30 pm, Franke Institute for the Humanities
Wednesday, May 18
WORKSHOP ON CITY, SOCIETY, AND SPACE
Naomi Bartz, PhD Candidate, Department of Human Development, University of Chicago
“The New Stigma of Public Housing Residents: Responding to Challenges to Social Image in Mixed Income Developments.”
3:00—4:15 pm, Cobb 107
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Victor Nee, Cornell University
"Capitalism From Below: Markets and Institutional Change in China"
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Thursday, May 19
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Todd Schuble, Lecturer in GIS, Committee on Geographical Studies; GIS Support Specialist, Social Science Computing Services
"Time Is the New Distance: GIS Methods for Measuring Accessibility"
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
REPRODUCTION OF RACE AND RACIAL IDEOLOGIES WORKSHOP
Toussiant Losier, Phd candidate, Dept of History
"Black Power Through the Law: the Afro-American Patrolmen's League and the Politicization of Police Brutality, 1968-1972"
4:15—5:30 pm, The Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture (57.3 S. University Ave.)
Monday, May 23
SOCIAL THEORY AND EVIDENCE WORKSHOP
Paola Castaño, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago
“The Constitution of Victimhood in Colombia: Institutional Practices and Understandings of Violence”
12:00—1:00 pm, Social Sciences, Room 401Thursday, May 26
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Felicia LeClere, Associate Research Scientist, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Population Studies Center, University of Michigan
"The Role of Access to Data in the Scientific Endeavor"
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
Tuesday, May 24
MONEY, MARKETS AND CONSUMPTION
Royal Ghazal, Department of Anthropology
12:00—1:00, Cobb Hall, Room 402
Wednesday, May 25
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Steve Kahl, Chicago Booth School of Business & Chris Bingham, University of North Carolina
"The Process of Schema Emergence: Assimilation, Deconstruction, Unitization, and the Plurality of Analogies"
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
Monday, May 30
DEMOGRAPHY WORKSHOP
Kristin F. Butcher, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Wellesley College
“The Impact of Classroom ‘Mentoring’ on Student Performance in Community College Math Classes”
12:00—1:20, Harris School, Room 140C (1155 East 60th St.)
SOCIAL THEORY WORKSHOP
Eiichi Nojiri, Waseda University (University of Chicago Visiting Scholar, History)
“Negativity and organic composition of capital –A Hegelian reflection on Marx’s labor theory of value”
8:00 pm, Wilder House (5811 S. Kenwood Ave.)
Wednesday, June 1
WORKSHOP ON CITY, SOCIETY, AND SPACE
David Gravesen, PhD Student, PhD student, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen
“Youth and social polarization: An urban sociological study of the life chances of Danish adolescents in 2010”
3:00—4:15 pm, Pick 106
ORGANIZATIONS AND MARKETS WORKSHOP
Jason Owen-Smith, University of Michigan
“Relational Signals and Institutional Expectations: Ego Networks and Market Value Across Five High-Technology Sectors”
3:00—4:30 pm, Harper Center, Seminar Room 3B
