Colloquia

The Department of Sociology hosts weekly colloquia, in which speakers from a variety of distinguished institutions from the United States and other countries address a wide range of compelling topics. The colloquium occurs every Thursday, at 12:30 p.m., in Parkes Hall room 222, on the Evanston Campus. Parkes Hall is located across Chicago Ave from the Sociology Department, adjacent to Alice Millar Chapel.

For more information, please contact the department:
Phone: 847-491-5415
E-mail: sociol@northwestern.edu.

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Faculty Coordinators: Nicola Beisel, Charles Camic
Staff Coordinator: Maria Langone

 

Winter Quarter 2012 Colloquium Schedule
Date Speaker
January 12

William Darity

Department of Economics, Duke University

"Why Stratification Economics?"

January 19

Alice Goffman

Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"On the Run: An American Ghetto in the Era of Surveillance and Imprisonment"

January 26

Alondra Nelson

Department of Sociology, Columbia University

"Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight Against Medical Discrimination"

 

Co-sponsored: Science in Human Culture Program with generous support from the Klopsteg fund

February 2

Ko Kuwabara

Columbia Business School, Columbia University

"Beauty, Money, and Trust: Physical Attractiveness Biases in an Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Market"

February 9

Claire Decoteau

Department of Sociology, Univesity of Illinois at Chicago

"Hybrid Habitus: The Politics and Practices of Healing in Post-Apartheid South Africa"

February 16

Celeste Watkins-Hayes

Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

"Betwixt and Between: Institutional Ties and Middle Class Women Living with HIV/AIDS"

 

February 23

Nicola Beisel

Department of Sociology, Northwestern University 

"Discrimination or Genocide?  Black Sexual Politics and the 1972 Michigan Abortion Referendum"

 

Sociology Robert F. Winch Awards for 2011

Outstanding Graduate Student Lecturer: Marina Zaloznaya

Outstanding Graduate Student Teaching Assistants: Fiona Chin and Christopher Carroll

Outstanding Graduate Student Second-Year Paper: Jaimie Morse

Outstanding Graduate Student Paper Published or Presented: Robert Vargas

Upcoming Events

Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 201212:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 20123:30 PM - 5:30 PM

January 23, 2012