Past Colloquia

by Melissa Henson Wolcott — last modified 2009-08-24 11:23

September

September 3, 2008, 12pm - Roundup of selected UNC presentations from ASA's Summer 2008 meetings
September 10, 2008, 12pm - Kim Manturuk, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Evaluating Causality in the Relationship between Homeownership and Social Capital"
September 17, 2008, 12pm - Kyle Longest, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Identity in Action: Adolescent Religious Identity in the Transition to Adulthood"
September 22, 2008, 12 pm - Michael Lounsbury, University of Alberta, CEI Speaker Series, "Constraining and Enabling Nanotechnology Innovation: The Interplay of Logics and Categories"
September 25, 2008, 12 pm - Ruben Rumbaut, University of California, Irvine, "Paradise Shift: Mobility and Inequality in Southern California"
September 26, 2008, 12pm - Linda Molm, University of Arizona, "Forms of Exchange and Integrative Bonds" (time and date subject to change)

October

October 1, 2008, 12pm - Mairead Moloney, UNC-Chapel Hill
October 8, 2008, 12pm - Barbara Entwisle, UNC-Chapel Hill, "The National Children's Study in North Carolina: A Sociologist's Perspective," *This event will be held in 151 Hamilton Hall
October 24, 2008, 12pm - Tim Bartley, Indiana University, CEI Speaker Series, "Structuring Transnational Fields of Governance: Networks, Legitimation, and the Evolution of Ethical Sourcing"
October 29, 2008, 12pm - Hedwig Lee, UNC-Chapel Hill

November

November 5, 2008, 12pm - Amy Lucas and Jessica Hardie, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Economic Factors and Relationship Quality among Young Couples: A Comparison of Cohabitation and Marriage"
November 12, 2008, 12pm - Matt Ezzell, UNC-Chapel Hill, "'I'm in Control': Claiming Masculinity in a Therapeutic Community"

November 20, 2008, 12pm - David Hsu, University of Pennsylvania, CEI Speaker Series, "Entrepreneur-venture Capitalist Matching: Resource Versus Homophily Effects"

December

December 3, 2008, 12pm - Peter Conrad, Brandeis University (Social Forces Visiting Scholar)

January

January 15, 2009, 12pm - Brayden King, Northwestern University, CEI Speaker Series, "Institutional Sources of Differentiation: The Emergence of Identities in Arizona's Charter Schools"
January 28, 2009, 12pm - Mark Chaves, Duke University, "Continuity and Change in American Religion"

February

February 4, 2009, 12pm - Lindsey King, UNC-Chapel Hill, "Job Insecurity in the Context of Welfare State Structure"
February 12, 2009, 12pm - Mike McQuarrie, University of California - Davis, CEI Speaker Series, "Institutional Entrepreneurs and the Reconstruction of Urban Governance"
February 25, 2009, 12pm - Michele Lamont, Harvard University
February 27, 2009, 12pm - Peter Bearman, Columbia University, "Understanding the Increasing Prevalence of Autism"

March

March 5, 2009, 12pm - Rachel Sherman, New School for Social Research, CEI Speaker Series, "'Time is Our Commodity': Gender & the Struggle for Legitimacy in the Emerging Personal Concierge and Errand Industry"
March 18, 2009, 12pm - John C. Scott, UNC-Chapel Hill, "All Politics Is (Not) Local: The Structure of Lobbying in North Carolina"
March 25, 2009, 12pm - JD Daw and Jessica Hardie, UNC-Chapel Hill, "You Can't Always Get What You Want: Inequality in Subjective Labor Market Success at Mid-Life"

April

April 1, 2009, 12pm - Karolyn Tyson, UNC-Chapel Hill, "On Becoming a Cultural Object: Race and Academic Achievement after /Brown/"
April 8, 2009, 12pm - Judith Blau, UNC-Chapel Hill, panel discussion on "Experiential Learning and Grading"
April 15, 2009 12pm - Rick Fantasia, Smith College, "Cooking the Books of the Symbolic Economy: French Gastronomy in the Age of Neo-Liberalism" (Social Forces Visiting Scholar)