Past Events

  • 2014 Nov 17

    Workshop Meeting: Alison Gerber and Betsy Leondar Wright

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall 601

    Alison Gerber, Department of Sociology, Yale University

    “Tradition, Rationalization, and Worth: A Theory of Decommensuration”

    Betsy Leondar Wright, Program Director, Class Action

    “Diversity Ironies: How Professional-Led Anti-Racism Efforts May Marginalize the Marginalized”

  • 2014 Nov 10

    Workshop Meeting: Natasha Warikoo

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall 601

    Natasha Warikoo, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University

    What Merit Means: Admissions, Diversity, and Inequality at Elite Universities in the United States and Britain

  • 2014 Nov 03

    Workshop Meeting: Jasmin Sandelson and Asad Asad

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall 601

    Jasmin Sandelson, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    " Technologies of Trauma: Disadvantaged Teens and Mediated Crisis Management"

    Asad Asad. Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    “How Culture Matters in Health Interventions”

  • 2014 Oct 20

    Workshop Meeting: Terrence McDonnell

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall 601

    Terrence McDonnell, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame

    “Cultural Entropy”

  • 2014 Oct 16

    Workshop Meeting: Ashley Mears

    12:00pm to 2:00pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall 601

    Ashley Mears, Department of Sociology, Boston University

    “Girls in the Consolidation of Class among Elites:  A Return to Ownership in the Forms of Capital” 

  • 2014 Oct 06

    Workshop Meeting: Alvaro Santana-Acuña

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall 601

    Alvaro Santana-Acuña, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    Job Talk: "Nation Building as Bodywork: The Standardization of Land Surveyors' Work and the Rise of France as a Nation"

  • 2014 Sep 22

    Workshop Meeting: Phoenix Wang and Anthony Jack

    4:00pm to 6:00pm

    Location: 

    William James Hall 601

    Phoenix Wang, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    “Between Everyday Life and Bureaucracy--The Human Cost of Categorization”

     Anthony Jack, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

    (No) Harm in Asking: Culture, Class, and Undergraduates’ Help Seeking Strategies”

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