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Speaker Series

For potential visiting speakers and for organizing co-sponsorship of lectures please contact Jennifer Lundquist at lundquist@soc.umass.edu.

 

SADRI Research in Progress (RIP) Seminar Series:

  • April 29, 2008.   Agustin Lao-Montes: "Contending Projects of Black Solidarity: Mapping Racial Politics in the Americas"
  • May 6, 2008.  Matt McKeever, assistant professor of sociology, Mt. Holyoke College: "Intergenerational Mobility in Apartheid South Africa"

    All events are held at 4:00 p.m. in the Rossi Conference Room, W32 Machmer Hall unless otherwise noted.

Something Every Tuesday (SET) Series:

Graduate student colloquia, spring 2008 TBA

  • April 15.  Anna Branch: "Doing What's Important, Managing Your Time"
  • April 22.  Laura Heston: "Where Are All the Good Wives? A Content Analysis of 'Mail-Order Bride' Websites"