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Sociology Departmental Colloquium Series

BLUMER ROOM - 402 BARROWS HALL
New day and time:
Mondays, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
[unless otherwise noted]

The Berkeley Sociology Colloquium Series Co-sponsored by Gender and Women's Studies


Colloquium Schedule for Fall 2008

  • September 8
    "Politics and the Global Social Imaginary: Responses to AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa"
    Ann Swidler
    Department of Sociology
    University of California, Berkeley


  • September 15
    "Reflections on a 50-year Sociological Career at Berkeley"
    Neil Smelser
    Department of Sociology
    University of California, Berkeley


  • September 22
    "Socioeconomic Disparities Affect Prefrontal Function in Children"
    Mark Kishiyama
    Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute
    University of California, Berkeley


  • October 6
    "New Immigrant Destinations and the American Color Line"
    Helen Marrow
    Robert Wood Johnson Post-Doctoral Fellow
    School of Public Health
    University of California, Berkeley


  • October 20
    "Paradise Sold: Resource Partitioning, Identity and Strategy in the Organic Farming Industry"
    Jo-Ellen Pozner
    Haas School of Business
    University of California, Berkeley


  • October 27
    "Rationing Opportunity: How Our Obsession with Selection Halted Progress"
    Michael Hout
    Department of Sociology
    University of California, Berkeley


  • November 3
    "Duration not Instant: Qualities of the Social Present"
    Andrew Abbott
    Department of Sociology
    University of Chicago


  • November 17
    TBA
    Michael Mann
    Department of Sociology
    University of California, Los Angeles


  • November 24
    TBA
    Mara Loveman
    Department of Sociology
    University of Wisconsin, Madison


  • December 8
    "The Social Construction of Corruption"
    Mark Granovetter
    Department of Sociology
    Stanford University


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