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, September 21
Culture and Social Analysis Workshop
4-6pm
WJH 601
Responses to Discrimination by Members of Stigmatized Groups: A Comparison of Blacks in New York, negros in Rio de Janiero and Ethiopian Jews, Mizrahis and Muslim Citizens of Israel in Tel Aviv
Crystal Fleming, Department of Sociology and Weatherhead Center, Harvard University
Hanna Herzog, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Tel Aviv University
Michele Lamont, Departments of Sociology and African and African American Studies, Harvard
Nissim Miszrahi, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Tel Aviv University
Elisa Reis, Department of Sociology, Federal University, Rio de Janiero
Graziella Silva, Department of Sociology and Inequality Program, Harvard University
Jessica Welburn, Department of Sociology and Inequality Program, Harvard University
Discussant: Orlando Patterson, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Inequality and Social Policy Seminar
12-1:45
CGIS South-020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
Valerie A. Ramey, Economics, University of California, San Diego
"The Rug Rat Race"
WEDNESDAY, September 23
Harvard/MIT Economic Sociology Seminar
3:30-5pm
Sloan Building E52-598
Mukti Khaire, Harvard Business School
"Changing Landscapes: The Construction of Meaning and Value in A New Market Category -- Modern Indian Art"
Research Workshop in Applied Statistics
12pm
K354 CGIS Knafel Building (1737 Cambridge Street)
Light lunch will be served.
Marshall Van Alstyne, Department of Management Information Systems, Boston University
"Network Structure and Information Advantage: The Diversity-Bandwidth Tradeoff"
THURSDAY, September 24
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop
12-1:30
WJH 601
Lunch will be served!
Presenter: Abigail Fisher Williamson, Public Policy, Harvard University
Discussant: Porsha Cropper, 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
Matt Baggetta, Sociology, Harvard University
Updated: September 18, 2009