#  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*