Spring 2016 Schedule

Culture and Social Analysis Workshop (Sociology 304)

Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Mondays 3:00-5:00pm, William James Hall 601 (except where marked **)

SPRING 2016 SCHEDULE

Please note variable scheduling due to co-sponsored events. See correct details for each session below.

Course Website: http://cultureworkshop.sociology.fas.harvard.edu/
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February 1 (Mon) - 4:00-6:00pm - WJH 1550**

Wendy Griswold, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University (Co-sponsored with the Transnational Studies Initiative)

Give the People What They [Ought to] Want: The Federal Writers’ Project, provincial diversity, and global uniformity in American literature

February 22 (Mon) - 3:00-5:00pm - WJH 1550**

A Conversation with Omar Lizardo, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame, co-editor of American Sociological Review

Graduate student session on professional development and publishing

February 23 (Tue) - 3:00-5:00pm - WJH 1550**

Omar Lizardo, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame (Co-sponsored with the Department of Sociology Colloquium)

Cultural Objects as Prisms: Perceived Audience Composition of Musical Genres as a Resource

March 9 (Wed) - 4:00-5:30pm - WJH 1550**

Walter W. Powell, Department of Education and (by courtesy) Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, Communication, and Public Policy, Stanford University (Co- sponsored with the Harvard-MIT Economic Sociology Seminar)

Lump, Split, or Elevate? How a Classification Created a Château Tradition in 19th Century Bordeaux, France

March 21 (Mon) - 3:00-5:00pm

Kristina Bakkær Simonsen, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University

Dual Identity: Contact as a Way to Enable the Identification of Immigrants with their Ethnic Group and the Host Nation

and

Julien Wacquez, Department of Sociology, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales

Elements for a Sociology of Credibility: How to Use Knowledge in Science Fiction Stories?

March 28 (Mon) - 3:00-5:00pm

Mabel Berezin, Department of Sociology, Cornell University

A New Culture of Risk? Fear and Resistance to Childhood Vaccination

April 18 (Mon) - 3:00-5:00pm

Nina Gheihman, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Equivocal Elitism: Impression Management Among the New Elite

and

Christy Ley, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Career Scripts: Business and Science Dynamics in a Biotechnology and Pharmaceutical Supercluster