Purple Bag Colloquia

The Purple Bag Colloquia series seeks to give faculty, associates, advanced graduate students and recent PhD students an opportunity to discuss work-in-progress.
Graduate Workshops
January 24, 3:30-5
Sara Shostak
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April 4, 3:30-5
Catherine Tan
Location: tba
April 18, 3:30-5
Allison Stagg & Kim Lucas
Location: tba
2012-2013 Colloquia Series
Events are free and open to members of campus, and sponsored by the Department of Sociology (co-sponsors are noted).
Upcoming Talks |
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Spring 2013 |
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Thursday March 14 |
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Recent Talks
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Thursday, February 28 Location: Pearlman Lounge Title: Pride of Place: Queer Female Identities and Communities in Four Small U.S. Cities Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University Co-sponsored with the Interdepartmental Program in Women's and Gender Studiies |
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| Thursday November 29 Title: Sexual Health as Buzzword: Competing Stakes and Proliferating Agendas Location: Pearlman Lounge Steve Epstein, John C. Shaffer Professor in the Humanities, Northwestern University Co-author of Three shots at Prevention: The HPV vaccine and the Politics of Medicine's Simple Solutions Co-sponsored with the Interdepartmental Program in Women's and Gender Studies |
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| Thursday October 11 3:30-5:00 pm Title: Not Under My Roof: Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex Location: Pearlman Lounge Amy Schalet, University of Massachusetts-Amherst |
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| Thursday October 25 3:30-5:oo pm Title: So You Think You Can Dance? Lessons on Distorted Public Valuation from the US Private Equity Bubble Location: Pearlman Lounge Catherine Turco MIT |
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