This Week at The Department of Sociology
Beginning March 31, 2008
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, March 31st
Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
601 William James Hall
4:00- 6:00
p.m.
Elisabeth Armstrong, Sociology, Indiana; Radcliffe Institute
Exclusion: Class, Gender and College Culture (tentative title -- book proposal)
Discussion Leader: Jason Kaufman, Sociology, Harvard University
Inequality and Social Policy Seminar
CGIS S-020
12:00 - 1:45 p.m.
Lunch is provided!
Matthew Slaughter, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
"Superstars and Rising Inequality: What Can We Learn from Tiger Woods?"
TUESDAY, April 1st
WIP/WOM Series
This Week's Location: Baker Library 101
12:00 - 1:30pm
Lunch is provided!
PhD students are more than welcome.
This week's presenter: Jiwook Jung, Sociology
Harvard Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop
12-1:30pm
Light Lunch Provided
Presenter: Melissa J. Siegel (PhD Candidate in Advanced Social Protection Policy, Maastricht Graduate School of Governance; Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government)
Discussant: Suzanna Champman (PhD Candidate in Government, Harvard University)
"Immigrant Integration and Remittance Channel Choice"
WEDNESDAY, April 2nd
Applied Statistics Workshop
CGIS North 354
12 - 1:30 p.m.
Nicholas A. Christakis
Department of Sociology and Harvard Medical School
MIT - Harvard Economic Sociology Seminar
This week's location - MIT, Sloan Building, E52-598
3:30 - 5pm
Paul DiMaggio, Princeton University
Filiz Garip, Harvard University
"How Network Externalities and Relational Homophily Induce Intergroup Inequality; Illustrations from Technology Diffusion and Rural-Urban Migration"
FRIDAY, April 4th
Visiting Day for Newly Accepted Graduate Students
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