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SADRI

Social and Demographic Research Institute

Speaker Series

The Committee for Intellectual Activities will present talks by department faculty as well as guest lecturers during academic year 2009-10. These events are co-sponsored by SADRI and the Department of Sociology and will be held in the Rossi Conference Room, W32 Machmer Hall.

  • October 19: Rebecca Emigh, Department of Sociology, UCLA. "The Underdevelopment of Capitalism: Sectors and Markets in Fifteenth-Century Tuscany.” 11:30 a.m.
  • October 20: Colin Jerolmack, Department of Sociology, CUNY and RWJ Fellow, Harvard University. “The Socio-ecological World of New York's Rooftop Pigeon Flyers.” 12:30 p.m.
  • October 27: Dustin Avent-Holt. "The Political Dynamics of Market Organization: The Case of U.S. Airline Deregulation." 12:35 p.m.
  • November 3: Don Tomaskovic-Devey. "U.S. Workplace Desegregation since the Civil Rights Act of 1964: Politics, Uncertainty, and Institutions." 12:35 p.m.
  • November 13: Kiran Asher, Department of International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University. "Rethinking Social Movements and Development: Some Postcolonial Reflections, or What happens When an Indian Works on Black Social Movements in Colombia." 12:00 p.m.
  • November 17: Tim Black, Director, Center for Social Research, University of Hartford. Title TBA. 12:35 p.m.

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    Joya Misra leads the Public Policy Grants Workshop in conjunction with the Center for Public Policy and Administration. Guest lecturers will include:
  • September 16: Kathy Davis, Utrecht University, Netherlands: "Myths and Realities: Writing the History of Our Bodies, Ourselves." 4 p.m., 803 Campus Center. 
  • October 6: Claudia Mitchell, McGill University, Montreal: "What Difference Does This Make?: Visual Methodologies and Working with Youth in the Age of AIDS."  4 p.m., 803 Campus Center. 

Photo: Sandy Hunsicker