This Week at The Department of Sociology
If you have questions about this week's events, you may reach
us by calling (617) 495-3812.
MONDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2009
Harvard Inequality and Social Policy Seminar
CGIS South-020 (Belfer Case Study Room), Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge St.
12:00-1:45 p.m.
Richard Thompson Ford (Stanford Law School)
“Rights Gone Wrong: How Legal Entitlements Undermine Social Justice and Social Harmony”
Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
WJH 601
4-6 p.m.
Mark Pachucki (Department of Sociology, Harvard University)
“Limits of Biological Need: When Does Social Influence Matter in Food Preference?”
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 2009
Seminar on Economic Sociology
MIT, Sloan Building, E52-598
3:30-5:00 p.m.
Soohan Kim, Harvard University
"Hard to Get, Easy to Lose: The Effects of Women and Minorities in Management on Establishment Closings, 1984-2002"
Applied Statistics Workshop
12pm
K354 CGIS Knafel Building (1737 Cambridge Street)
Jamie Robins (Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health)
“Estimation of Optimal Treatment Strategies from Observational Data with Dynamic Marginal Structural Models”
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2009
Harvard Migration and Immigration Incorporation Workshop
WJH 601
2:00-3:30 p.m.
Abigail Fisher Williamson (PhD Candidate in Public Policy, Harvard University) and Porsha Cropper (PhD Candidate in Government and Social Policy, Harvard University)
“Ethnic Concentration, Co-Ethnic Participation: Mexican-American Civic Participation and Destination Context”
Work, Organizations and Markets Seminar
Wyss Conference Room, HBS
3:30-5pm
Sameer Srivastava
Urban and Social Processes Workshop
WJH 601
4:30-6pm
Robert J. Sampson, Harvard Sociology Department
Work in Progress: Social Altriusm and the "Good Community"
Undergraduate Reception for Sociology Concentrators and Potential Concentrators
WJH 6th floor reception area
4-6pm
Refreshments will be served!
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2009
Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
WJH 601
2-4 p.m.
Rogers Brubaker (Department of Sociology, UCLA)
“Beyond ‘Beyond Identity’: A Conversation with Rogers Brubaker”
Updated: October 2, 2009