This Week at The Department of Sociology
Beginning October 1, 2007
The following events are sponsored by the Department of Sociology at
Harvard University. Unless otherwise noted,
all events take place at William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge. If you have questions, you may reach
us by calling (617) 495-3812. For more information about the
Department of Sociology, please contact us or visit
our home page http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/sociology/
MONDAY, October 1
Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series
Malcolm Wiener Center
12:00 - 1:45 (Presentation begins at 12:20 pm)
"Expanding Credit Access: Using Randomized Supply Decisions to Estimate the Impacts" presented by DEAN KARLAN , Institute for Social & Policy Studies, Yale University
Location:
Bell Hall (5th FL, Belfer Building), Kennedy School of Govt
Complexity and Social Networks
12:00 - 1:30
Fainsod Room, 3rd Floor Littauer Building
Marshall Van Alstyne, Boston University, School of Management
The Culture and Social
Analysis Workshop
WJH 601
4:00 - 6:00
Light refreshments will be served. All are welcome!
Presenter: Lauren Rivera, "Spoiled" National Identity: Tourism, War, and Memory in Croatia" Discussion Leader: Laura Adams
Presenter: Damon Centola, "Homophily, Cultural Drift and the Co-Evolution of Cultural Groups" Discussion Leader: Mark Pachucki
TUESDAY, October 2
WIP/WOM Series
The Work in Progress/Work, Organizations, and Markets Series
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch is provided!
PhD students are more than welcome.
This weeks presenter: Feng Zhui
This weeks location: Cumnock 230
WEDNESDAY, October 3
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop
12:30-2pm
WJH 455
Light Lunch Provided
Van C. Tran will present "Understanding Latino Diversity: Panethnic Identity Formation among Latinos"
Applied Statistics Workshop
CGIS North 354
12 - 1:30
Thomas Cook, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University will present "When the causal estimates from randomized experiments and non-experiments coincide: Empirical findings from the within-study comparison literature."
MIT - Harvard
Economic Sociology Seminar
WJH 1550
3:30 - 5:00
Eunmi Mun, Harvard University "Sex Segregation and Social Closure: Evidence from Japan"
FRIDAY, October 5
Race, Identity, and Inequality
Graduate Student Workshop
Faculty Directors: Profs. Orlando Patterson and Claudine Gay
12 noon
Lunch will be provided
Speaker: Tommie Shelby
SATURDAY, October 6
Professors and Their Politics - A Symposium
Free and open to the public. No registration required.
9am - 4pm
WJH 105
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