Colloquia Series 2007-2008
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Click here to see the colloquia poster2-3:30 pm
Speaker: Professor Judith Taylor
PhD, University of California at Santa Barbara
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
Can corporations do the work of social movements? Have scholars of movements over-estimated the significance of the grassroots in the creation of social change? In this talk, she will compare two campaigns that each contend with hegemonic beauty standards, one orchestrated by Pretty, Porky and Pissed Off, a grassroots group in Toronto's performance art scene, the other produced by Dove, a subsidiary of Unilever, a multinational corporation. Analysis of the scale of their endeavors, their cultural contexts, ideologies, tactics, intended audiences, and goals enables Prof. Tayor to improve our understanding of what we exactly mean by social change, and to speak to contemporary conundrums in the practice of feminism and the implications of corporate cooptation of feminist ideas.
Bio: Judith Taylor is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Toronto. Her research and writing on social movements includes focus on tactics and strategies, grassroots organizing, femocrats and other institutional activists, identity and the politics of coalition, corporate cooptation of feminist ideologies, and memoir. She currently holds a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) grant to study the national leadership crisis in the contemporary Canadian women's movement.
Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Blessings, Strength and Guidance: Prayer Frames in a Hospital Prayer Book
1-2 pm
Speaker: Prof. Wendy Cadge
Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
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Monday, March 31, 2008
4-6 pm
Speaker: Prof. Marsha Saxton
Disability Studies Professor at the University of California, Berkeley and Public Policy Researcher at the World Institute on Disability in Oakland, CA.
The 22-minute film "Access to Medical Care: Adults with Physical Disabilities," produced and distributed by the World Institute on Disability, will also be shown.Brandeis Professor of Sociology Irving Kenneth Zola (1935-1994), in his capacities as medical sociologist and disability rights activist, was committed to the relationship between patients and doctors, and the interaction between the medical system and disability rights issues.
Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Irving K. Zola Memorial Fund
The Department of Sociology
Refreshments will be served. (The Zinner Forum is HP accessible.)
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Thursday, March 6, 2008
Cancelled!
"Embedded in the Tax Code: The Ongoing Contest Over Contract Employment"
1-2 pm
Speaker: Debi Osnowitz
Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University
(PhD '05)Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Notes from a Failed Feminist: The Ontology and Epistemology of Sexual Difference
2:30-4 pm
Speaker: Prof. Myra Hird
Professor and Queen's National Scholar, Sociology Department Queen's University and author of the books Questioning Sociology: A Canadian Perspective and Psychosomatic: Feminism and the Neurological Body Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
The 'Small World' Revisited - Developments in Social Network Theory
1-2 pm
Speaker: Prof.Charles Kadushin
Professor Emeritus Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY; Distinguished Scholar,
Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Professor, Department of Sociology, Brandeis University.
He has also taught at Columbia University in the Sociology and Social Psychology Departments and at Yale University in the School of Management and in Graduate Sociology.Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
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Thursday, November 29, 2007
After Medicalization: Missing Chapters and New Projects
12-1 pm
Speaker: Prof. Peter Conrad
Harry Coplan Professor of Social Sciences Department of Sociology and Chair, Health: Science, Society and Policy Program Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
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Thursday, November 19, 2007
"The Home as Hospital: Families Manage High-Tech Home Care"
12-1 pm
Speaker: Prof. Cameron Macdonald
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department and Scholar, Institute for Clinical & Translational Research School of Medicine and Public Health University of Wisconsin, Madison Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
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Thursday, November 15, 2007
"Guys are just homophobic:" Heterosexuality and Homophobia in High School
3:30 pm - Followed by reception from 5 to 6.
Speaker: Prof. C.J. Pascoe
Author of the recently published book "Dude, You're a Fag: Adolescent Masculinity and the Fag Discourse," Postdoctoral Scholar with the Digital Youth Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change University of California, Berkeley (B.A. alum '96) Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
The Dean of Arts and Sciences
The Women's and Gender Studies Department
The Interdepartmental Programs in Education
The International Center for Ethics
Justice and Public Life
The Cultural Production Program
The Department of Anthropology
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
"Elites in the European Union and What They Think about the Crisis of the E.U."
1-2 pm
Speaker: Prof. George Ross
Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought and Director, Center for German and European Studies Free and open to members of campus!
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Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Interviewing the Dead: Suicide and the Social Autopsy
2 - 3:30 pm
Speaker: Matt Wray
Author of the books "The Making and Unmaking of Whiteness" and "White Trash" Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health and Society Scholar Harvard School of Public Health
Abstract
This talk focuses on the limitations of the psychological autopsy as a method for illuminating risk factors and guiding suicide prevention efforts. The psychological autopsy, developed in the 1930s and formalized in the 1960s, is a methodology unique to the study of suicide and involves clinical and diagnostic interviews with loved ones and family members of completed suicides, aimed at constructing a postmortem profile. An alternative method of investigation--the social autopsy--is examined, with an emphasis on the multiple methods required. The talk is supported with data from an ongoing social autopsy of suicides in Las Vegas, the city with the highest suicide rate in the US.
Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
The Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund