Colloquia Series 2008-2009
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
PROF. BARRIE THORNE, Ph.D '71
"Connecting the Personal and the Sociological: Reflections on the '7-UP' Documentary Film Series"
2-3:30 pm
International Lounge in Usdan
Colloquium - The Department of Sociology presents Professor Barrie Thorne, Brandeis Sociology Ph.D '71, Professor of Sociology and Women's Studeies, UC - Berkeley. Professor Thorne is an eminent alum and a first rate ethnographer of children who recently finished fieldwork on "California Childhoods," funded by the MacArthur Foundation.
BIO: Barrie Thorne joined the UC Berkeley faculty in 1995 as a Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies. She previously taught at Michigan State University and the University of Southern California. Her work focuses on the sociology of gender; feminist theory; the sociology of age relations, childhood, and families; and ethnographic methods. She is the U.S. Editor of Childhood: A Global Journal of Child Research and the outgoing Chair of the American Sociological Association Section on the Sociology of Children and Youth. In 2002 she received the A.S.A. Jessie Bernard Award in recognition of scholarly work that has enlarged the horizons of sociology to encompass the role of women in society. She has also received awards for teaching and mentoring. From 1980-2002 Barrie Thorne co-directed the Berkeley Center for Working Families, helping to build a feminist intellectual community focused on the themes of "cultures of care" and the changing contours of family life in the context of global economic restructuring. She is the author of Gender Play: Girls and Boys in School (Rutgers, 1993) and co-editor of Feminist Sociology: Life Histories of a Movement (Rutgers, 1997), Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions (Northeastern University Press, 1992); Language, Gender and Society (Newbury House, 1983), and Language and Sex: Difference and Dominance (Newbury House, 1975). Barrie Thorne is currently writing a book, tentatively titled Growing Up in Oakland, based on three years of collaborative fieldwork and interviewing in a mixed-income, ethnically diverse area of the city.
Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology and the Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund, The Program in Social Justice & Social Policy, The Program in Women's and Gender Studies, The Department of Anthropology, The Department of Psychology, The Concentration in Aging at the Heller School, The Film Studies Program, and the Education Program
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
"Futures of the Left in an Age of Globalization"
One day conference. Click for the schedule of events.
Zinner Forum, Heller school
"Left" political parties have been the major pole of opposition in capitalist market societies and the bearers of progressive change since the industrial revolution. They have insisted that governments assume responsibilities for correcting inequality, insecurity, market failures and externalities, and skewed opportunity structures. They have been fundamental in making democracy a mass phenomenon. They have promoted the expansion of rights from civil into political and social realms. They have provided people with visions of alternative social orders.
The collapse of actually existing socialism in the end of the Cold War made market societies the only game on the planet and discredited historical Left transformational utopias once and for all. Globalization has already made permeable many of the borders behind which Lefts felt able to pursue their programs. One consequence of all these changes is that socialist dreams, along with the word socialism itself, have disappeared.
It is deeply significant that in the media and professional political analysis what up until recently was called "the Left" is now widely labeled the "Center-Left." The political space and options of the political parties of the Left and Center Left that seek to govern have been narrowed and they have large new problems of connection with voters and constituents.Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by the Departments of Politics and Sociology, the Center for German and European Studies, and the Office of the Provost
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Affecting the Political: An Assessment of the 'Emotional Turn' in the Study of Social Movements"
3-4:30 pm
Pearlman Lounge
Deborah Gould is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. Her areas of interest include contentious politics, political emotion, queer studies, and social and political theory. Her book Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP's Fight Against AIDS is forthcoming from the University of Chicago Press (September 2009). Free and open to the Brandeis community!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology, Social Justice and Social Policy, and the Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Colloquia on Transnational Families
2-4:30 pm
Pearlman Lounge
Speakers: Peggy Levitt, Sarah Lamb, Allison Taylor and Mrinalini Tankha
In seeking new perspectives and directions for global scholarship on transnational families, we hold the transnational family colloquia on October 30th and November 13th to promote dialogue between intellectual communities at Brandeis. Particularly, by comparing different cases of transnational families, this colloquia will focus on how local racial and ethnic hierarchies in various sending and receiving countries shape the experiences and formation of transnational families in different ways. We invite prominent scholars who have conducted research on family, migration and/or globalization to share their experience, findings, and research innovations regarding transnational families with the Brandeis community. Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology, The Department of Anthropology, and the Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Colloquia on Transnational Families
2-4:30 pm
Pearlman Lounge
Speakers: Hung Thai and Nazli Kibria
In seeking new perspectives and directions for global scholarship on transnational families, we hold the transnational family colloquia on October 30th and November 13th to promote dialogue between intellectual communities at Brandeis. Particularly, by comparing different cases of transnational families, this colloquia will focus on how local racial and ethnic hierarchies in various sending and receiving countries shape the experiences and formation of transnational families in different ways. We invite prominent scholars who have conducted research on family, migration and/or globalization to share their experience, findings, and research innovations regarding transnational families with the Brandeis community. Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology, The Department of Anthropology, and the Martin Weiner Distinguished Lecturers Fund
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Thursday, October 23, 2008
"The Institutional Roots of Vigilantism: Explaining the Rise of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan"
1-2 pm
Pearlman 202
Speaker: Prof. David Cunningham
Associate Professor of Sociology, Director of Graduate Studies The Purple Bag series gives Sociology professors and jointly-appointed professors the opportunity to share their current interesting work with you. Feel free to bring your lunch while you learn more about our department members.
Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
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Thursday, October 16, 2008
"The Mothering Tug-of-War: Balancing Independence and Connection in an Age of Insecurity."
2-3:30 pm
Pearlman Lounge
Speaker: Ana Villalobos
Ana Villalobos will receive her Ph.D. this May from the University of California, Berkeley. Like her mentor, Arlie Hochschild, Villalobos research elucidates links between large-scale social forces and personal experience. Her dissertation is a three-year longitudinal study of a cohort of new mothers, which examines how risk society concerns (e.g. job insecurity, divorce anxiety, fear of child abduction, fear of terrorism) influence mothering ideologies and practices. Her colloquium talk will examine whether perceptions of societal insecurity and risk cause mothers to prioritize connection with their children or to prioritize their own and their children s independence. Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
"Contesting Time: Contract Professionals and the Implicit Critique of the Standard Job"
1-2 pm
Speaker: Prof. Debra Osnowitz
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Clark University Free and open to members of campus!
Sponsored by: The Department of Sociology