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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.
If you would like to recieve an anouncement on upcoming colloquia and events please follow the instructions to join the Sociology LISTSERV.
Faculty Coordinators: Nicola Beisel, Charles Camic
Staff Coordinator: Maria Langone
| Winter Quarter 2012 Colloquium Schedule | |
| Date | Speaker |
| January 12 |
Department of Economics, Duke University "Why Stratification Economics?" |
| January 19 |
Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison "On the Run: An American Ghetto in the Era of Surveillance and Imprisonment" |
| January 26 |
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 |
Columbia Business School, Columbia University "Beauty, Money, and Trust: Physical Attractiveness Biases in an Online Peer-to-Peer Lending Market" |
| February 9 |
Department of Sociology, Univesity of Illinois at Chicago "Hybrid Habitus: The Politics and Practices of Healing in Post-Apartheid South Africa" |
| February 16 |
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University "Betwixt and Between: Institutional Ties and Middle Class Women Living with HIV/AIDS"
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| February 23 |
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University "Discrimination or Genocide? Black Sexual Politics and the 1972 Michigan Abortion Referendum"
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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:
Upcoming Events
Colloquium: Nicola Beisel, PhD - Sociology
February 23, 2012 • 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Culture and Society Workshop: Simone Ispa-Landa, Human Development and Social Policy
February 23, 2012 • 3:30 PM - 5:30 PM
