Colloquia Series 2004-2005
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Free and Open to All!
Thursday, April 14, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Pearlman Lounge
Pearlman Lounge
CANCELLED!
Professor Sharon Hays
Ph.D. University of California, San DiegoProfessor of Sociology
University of Virginia
"Women, Work, and Citizenship: Stories from Welfare Reform"
Author of:
Flat Broke with Children: Women in the Age of Welfare Reform, New York: Oxford University Press, 2003
The Cultural Contradictions of Motherhood, Yale University Press, 1996.
"At the national level Professor Sharon Hays is the incoming Chair of the ASA Section on Sex and Gender, a member of the ASA committee on Committees and the Rose Monograph Editorial Board, and she runs a national electronic network of scholars interested in issues of gender and culture."
"Hays' published work speaks to her long-standing interest in issues of culture, gender, and the family, with a particular emphasis on moral questions related to the cultural tension between competitive individualism and human ties of commitment and obligation. Her most recent book, Flat Broke with Children, (Oxford 2003), is an ethnographic study of the impact of welfare reform on the poor mothers and children. This book received the C.Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems and the Phi Beta Kappa Award from the University of Virginia. It was also named an Outstanding Book for the General Reader by the American Library Association."
Light food and beverages will be served!
Sponsored By:
Brandeis Department of Sociology
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund
The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Thursday, February 10, 2005 at 3:30 pm
Pearlman Lounge
Professor Chris Rhomberg
B.A. Sociology '82, Brandeis UniversityPh.D. University of California, Berkeley
Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University
"No There There: Race, Class, and Political Community in Oakland"
Published in 2004 by the University of California Press. A description from the publisher:
"Challenged by Ku Klux Klan action in the '20s, labor protests culminating in a general strike in the '40s, and the rise of the civil rights and black power struggles of the '60s, Oakland, California, seems to encapsulate in one city the broad and varied sweep of urban social movements in twentieth-century America. Taking Oakland as a case study of urban politics and society in the United States, Chris Rhomberg examines the city's successive episodes of popular insurgency for what they can tell us about critical discontinuities in the American experience of urban political community."
Sponsored By:
Department of Sociology
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund
Thursday, November 4, 2004 3:00-5:00pm
Pearlman Lounge
Professor Peter Bearman
Department of Sociology, Columbia University"Narrative Networks"
Peter Bearman is a very creative and innovative sociologist and was David Cunningham's dissertation advisor (when both were at UNC).
"In this talk, I show how one can analyze life-stories to solve classical problems in sociology and history. The first problem concerns motivation for action. I analyze life-stories of Nazi's (written when joining the NSDAP was non-normative, before 1930) to understand the process by which people became a Nazi. The second problem concerns how one knows when cases in historical context begin and end. How do we know, for example, when the French Revolution began, or whether the battle of Wounded Knee is over. I analyze life-stories of Chinese villagers to demonstrate how one can use network analyses of narratives to case historical events. Finally, I consider how one would know, or could know, if the events of 9/11 were important or not. Data for this project arise from life-story interviews conducted in NYC with survivors, witnesses, rescue workers, and ordinary citizens in the immediate aftermath of 9/11 and 18 months later."
We look forward to seeing you there.
Sponsored By:
Department of Sociology
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund