Colloquia
Sociology Department Colloquium Series
Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
MONDAYS, 2:00 - 3:30 PM
[unless otherwise noted]
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Climate Change and the Future of Cities
What can sociology contribute to the study of climate change? What can it add to the roiling debates about how to mitigate, adapt, and transform the places we settle in the face of an existential threat to the future of our species, and many others as well? In this talk, Eric Klinenberg draws on his own research as well as his experience serving as Research Director of the federal government’s Rebuild By Design competition for rebuilding after Hurricane Sandy. He'll examine a number of urgent questions: How can cities can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create more sustainable forms of collective life? How can they protect vulnerable people and places from the outbursts of extreme weather that are becoming ever more likely to arrive? And can they adapt to global warming without making the world even more unequal?
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Wounded City: Violent Turf Wars in a Chicago Barrio
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Enculturation Trajectories: Language, Cultural Adaptation, and Individual Outcomes in Organizations
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Magazines and the Making of America: Modernization, Community, and Print Culture, 1741-1860
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Blumer Room - 402 Social Sciences Building
Robert Reich
September 26, 2-3:30pm, 8th Floor Conference Room.
The Malicious Fallacy of the Free Market
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Tax Evasion and Inequality
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
BERKELEY SOCIOLOGY FORUM
Wednesday, September 7, 5-7.30p.m., 402 Barrows Hall
STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: ANGER AND MOURNING ON THE AMERICAN RIGHT
ARLIE HOCHSCHILD, Emerita Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, will present her forthcoming book, Strangers in Their Own Land (New Press, 2016) with responses from Cihan Tuğal, Raka Ray andPaul Pierson
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Monday, April 25, 2-3:30pm in 402 Barrows Hall
How Things Fall Apart: Race, gender and suspicion in police-civilian encounters
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Blumer Room - 402 Barrows Hall
Labor as Capital: Slavery, Calculation and American Capitalism
In the simplifying language of economics there are three inputs of production: land, labor, and capital. Slaves confounded the last of these categories, at once labor and capital, and antebellum American planters used accounting to balance the tradeoffs between them. This talk will examine three settings where planters sought to value, price, and categorize the enslaved: inventories, price lists, and the rating of men as fractions of a “hand.” All of these sites of valuation reflect both the commodification of bondspeople and its limits, raising questions about the relationship between slavery and American capitalism.