Events

SOCIOLOGY
DEPARTMENT
EVENTS

Fall 2023

EVENT SPEAKER DATE TIME LOCATION
COLLOQUIUM Dr. Brandi Summers
University of California, Berkeley
SEP. 22 1:00-2:30 Woldenberg Art Center Freeman Auditorium RM 205 
COLLOQUIUM Dr. Ilana Horwitz
Tulane University
OCT. 03 TBA TBA
COLLOQUIUM Dr. Christoper Schreck
University of California, Berkeley
NOV. 10 TBA TBA

LOCATIONS AND TIMES TBA


 

FALL 2022

EVENT SPEAKER DATE TIME
COLLOQUIUM Dr. Mariana Craciun 
Tulane University
SEPT 6 1:00-2:30
COLLOQUIUM Dr. Andrea Leverentz
University of Massachusetts Boston
OCT 21 1:00-2:30
COLLOQUIUM Dr. Zakiya Luna
Washington University
NOV 11 1:00-2:30
COLLOQUIUM Dr. Brooke Harrington
Dartmouth College
DEC 1 1:00-2:15

SPRING 2020

EVENT SPEAKER DATE
COLLOQUIUM Celeste Watkins-Hayes
Northwestern
JAN 14
COLLOQUIUM Mario Small
Harvard
JAN 31
WORKSHOP Sarah Babb
Boston College
MAR 6
WORKSHOP Wendy Griswold
Northwestern
MAR 26
COLLOQUIUM Claire Decoteau
UIC
MAR 27
WORKSHOP Miriam Greenberg
UCSD
APR 3
COLLOQUIUM Eric Klinenberg
NYU
APR 16
COLLOQUIUM Caitlin Zaloom
NYU
APR 17

FALL 2019

EVENT SPEAKER DATE TIME
COLLOQUIUM Ruha Benjamin
Princeton University
SEPT 6 1:00–2:30
WORKSHOP Robin Wagner-Pacifici
New School of Social Research
OCT 4 1:00–2:30
WORKSHOP David Gibson
Notre Dame
OCT 25 10:30–12:00
COLLOQUIUM Ann Mische
Notre Dame
NOV 1 1:00–2:30

SPRING 2019

EVENT SPEAKER DATE TIME
COLLOQUIUM Javier Auyero
Universtiy of Texas, Austin
JAN 24 3:30–5:00
WORKSHOP Javier Auyero
Universtiy of Texas, Austin
JAN 25 12:30–2:00
WORKSHOP Angel Parham
Loyola University
JAN 25 3:00–4:30
COLLOQUIUM Kimberly Hoang
University of Chicago
FEB 8 12:00–1:30
WORKSHOP Claudio Benzecry
Northwestern University
FEB 22 3:00–4:30
WORKSHOP Japonica Brown–Saracino
Boston University
MARCH 25 3:00–4:30
COLLOQUIUM Stefan Timmermans
UCLA
APRIL 4–5 TBA
WORKSHOP Owen Whooley
University of New Mexico
APRIL 12 3:00–4:30
COLLOQUIUM Debbie Becher
Barnard College
APRIL 15–16 TBA

Sociology Fall 2018 Culture Workshops

Sociology Fall 2018 Colloquium Series

 

2016-2017

Spring 2017 Tulane Culture Workshop Series

Sociology Colloquium Series Fall 2016

October 28 (Friday) at 3:30 PM - Newcomb Hall 202
Speaker: Kathleen Fitzgerald, Visiting Associate Professor, Tulane University
Title: "Race and Genetic Ancestry Testing: Identifying Slivers of Whiteness"

2014-2015

Lecture

April 9 (Thu) 6:00-7:30pm Cudd Hall
Speaker: Tom Dietz (Professor of Sociology and Environmental Science and Policy, Michigan State University)
Title: "Beyond Sustainability: Human Well-Being and the Environment"

Sociology Colloquium/Brown Bag Series Spring 2015

April 10 (Fri) 3:00-4:30pm Stone Auditorium
Speaker: Tom Dietz
Title: "Research and Education for Advancing Knowledge and Informing Decisions"

March 18 (Wed) 1:00-1:50pm Newcomb Hall 316-A
Speaker: Laura McKinney
Title: "Ecological Losses are Harming Women: A Structural Analysis of Female HIV Prevalence and Life Expectancy in Less Developed Countries."

February 25 (Wed) 1:00-1:50pm Location Newcomb Hall 15
Speaker: Michele Adams and Patrick Rafail
Title: "Men's Rights and the Mobilization of Privileged People's Movements: The Articulation of Grievances in an Online Community."

January 21 (Wed) 1:00-1:50pm Newcomb Hall 316-A
Speaker: Raymond Murphy (Professor Emeritus, University of Ottawa, Canada)
Title: "Catastrophism in Louisiana: Emancipatory or Sclerotic?"

Sociology Colloquium/Brown Bag Series Fall 2014

September 17 (Wed) 1:00-1:50pm Newcomb Hall 25
Speaker: Stephen Ostertag
Title: "Journalism as Deep Culture: An Ontological Framework"

October 15 (Wed) 1:00-1:50pm Room: Newcomb Hall 25
Speaker: David Smilde
Title: "A NeoWeberian Political Sociology of the Venezuela Conflict"

November 12 (Wed) 1:00-1:50pm Room: Newcomb Hall 25
Speaker: Katherine Johnson
Title: "Maternity as a Situated Accomplishment: Conceptualizing Motherhood through Contested Situations"

November 19 (Wed) 2:30-3:30pm Room: Stibbs Room (LBC 203)
Speaker: Dan Barnett, Johns Hopkins University
Title: Examining Public Health Workers' Perceptions of Organizational Expectations Following Disasters

2013-2014

Sociology Colloquium 2013-2014

August 30 (Fri) 3:00-4:00pm LBC 202 (Rechler Room)
Speakers: Clare Cannon and Laura McKinney
"Natural Disasters and the Spatial Distribution of Waste."

Please note: October 18 (Fri) talk has been postponed

January 31 (Fri) 3:00-4:30pm LBC 201 (Race Room)
Speaker: Paul Draus (University of Michigan, Dearborn)
"A Swiftly Shifting City: Landscape and Social Change in Detroit"
(Note: Reception to follow the talk)

March 28 (Fri) 3:00-4:00pm LBC 201 (Race Room)
Speaker: Carl L. Bankston, III
" Immigrant Networks & Social Capital: Overview of a New Book"

Please note: April 25 (Fri) talk has been canceled