This Week at The Department of Sociology
Beginning December 3, 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, DECEMBER 3
Inequality and Social Policy Seminar
Taubman Dining Room (5th floor Taubman) Kennedy School of Government
12:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Lunch is provided!
Jim Flynn, Department of Political Studies, University of Otago (NZ) "Intelligence, Education, and Society"
Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
601 William James Hall
4:00- 6:00
p.m.
No workshop is scheduled for December 3.
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 4
WIP/WOM Series
The Work in Progress/Work, Organizations, and Markets Series
This week's location: Baker 101
12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
Lunch is provided!
PhD students are more than welcome.
Presenter: David Maber
Sociology Colloquium Series
3:00 - 4:30 p.m. 601 William James Hall
Nicole Marwell, Columbia University "Bargaining for Brooklyn: Community Organizations in the Entrepreneurial City"
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop
WJH 455
12:30-2:00 p.m. Light Lunch Provided
Presenter: Kara Cebulko, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Indiana University
Discussant: Helen B. Marrow, Lecturer on Social Studies, Harvard
"Documented, Undocumented and 'Somewhere-in-Between': Documentation Status and its Impacts on 1.5 and Second-Generation Brazilian Immigrants"
Applied Statistics Workshop
CGIS North 354
12 - 1:30 p.m.
Sendhil Mullainathan,
Department of Economics, Harvard
"Legislating Choice or Confusion: The Case of Medicare"
MIT - Harvard
Economic Sociology Seminar
Sloan Bldg., E-52-598, MIT
3:30 - 5:00 p.m.
Ray Reagans, Carnegie Mellon University
"In-Group Identification versus Out-Group Opportunity: Theoretical Trade-Off or Trade Tool?"
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