Keywords

Enter a program, idea, office, or department into the field above and click go
 

Colloquia Series 2006-2007


Colloquia 2005-2006   ||   Colloquia 2004-2005   ||   Colloquia 2003-2004   ||   Colloquia 2002-2003

Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 3:00 pm
Zinner Forum at the Schneider Building

Garnering Resources to Buy a Home: Race, Wealth

Transfers, and the Transmission of Advantage

Elliot Weininger, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology at SUNY Brockport University.

Annette Lareau, Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Sociology at University of Maryland.

Free and open to members of campus!

Sponsored By:
The Department of Sociology
The Institute on Assets and Social Policy at
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management



Thursday, November 9, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Pearlman Lounge

Leaving Home: Existing Orthodox Judaism

In Israel and the United States

Lynn Davidman, Ph.D.

Professor of American Studies, Jewish Studies and Gender at Brown University.
(Brandeis Sociology Ph.D. '86)
Author of "Tradition in a Rootless World: Women Turn to Orthodox Judaism and
Motherless. " Co-editor with Shelly Tenenbaum (another Brandeis alumn!) of "Feminist Perspectives on Jewish Studies."

Free and open to members of campus!

Sponsored By:
The Department of Sociology
The Department of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund



Thursday, October 5, 2006 at 2:00 pm
Pearlman Lounge

Street Science: Community Involvement in

Environmental Health Decision Making

Jason Corburn

Assistant Professor in the Urban Planning Program of the Graduate School of Architecture,
Planning and Preservation, and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Prof. Corburn teaches courses in "environmental policy and planning,"
"environmental justice," and "expertise and power in science, technology and sustainable development."

Free and open to members of campus!

Sponsored By:
The Department of Sociology
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund



Thursday, September 21, 2006 at 3:00 pm
Pearlman Lounge

Welfare Delivery in the Age of Privatization

Janice Johnson Dias, Ph.D. (Brandeis B.A. '94)

Post Doctoral Research Fellow Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
National Poverty Center Research and Training Program on Poverty and Public Policy University of Michigan

Free and open to members of campus!

Sponsored By:
The Department of Sociology
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund