UCLA Department of sociology

Colloquia Calendar

Calendar of Events: 2009-2010           

FALL QUARTER 2009

NOVEMBER

4         Steve McKay (UC Santa Cruz)

                   "Teacher, Sailor, Call Center Operator: Race and the Making of Filipino Labor Niches in Emerging Global Markets"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and the Department of Sociology

4         Ruth Milkman (UCLA) & Veronica Terriquez (USC)

                   "Women and the L.A. Immigrant Rights Movement"

                   4:00 pm / 314 Royce Hall

                   Sponsored by the Center for the Study o f Women

6         Ingrid V. Eagly (UCLA)

                   "Prosecuting Immigration"

                   12:00-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group

 

9          Joy Pixely (UC Irvine)

                    "Career Prioritizing in Dual-Earner Couples"

                    11:30 am - 1:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                    Sponsored by the Family Working Group

12         Robin Archer (London School of Economics)

                   Book Talk - "Why is There No Labor Party in the United States?"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and the Department of Sociology

13         John Evans (UCSD)

                   "An Empirical Test of the Religion and Science Conflict Narratives"

                   12:00-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Religion Working Group

 

19        Iddo Tavory (UCLA)

                    "Layers of Distinction: The Organization of Differences in the Orthodox Neighborhood"

                    5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                    Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar

20        Min Zhou (UCLA)

                   Authors Meet Critics Session on Min Zhou's Contemporary Chinese America: Immigration, Ethnicity, and Community Transformation

                   12:00-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Migration Study Group

 

DECEMBER

3         Margaret Somers (Michigan)

                   "Free-Market Utopianism: From Market Fundementalism to Karl Polanyi's Reality of Society"

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar            

                                                                                                                                                                                     

WINTER QUARTER 2010

 

JANUARY

7         Nina Bandelj (UC Irvine)

                  TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar 

  

13        Barry Eidlin (UC Berkeley)

                  "Class Conflict, Policy Development, and the State: Explaining the Postwar Divergence of U.S. and Canadian Labor Unions"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / Location: TBA

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment and the Department of Sociology

 

21         Marian Fourcade (UC Berkeley)

                   "Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of 'Nature' in France and America"

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

25        Pamela Stone (CUNY)

                   TBA

                   11:30 am-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Gender Working Group & the Family Working Group

 

FEBRUARY

4         C. K. Lee (UCLA)

                   "The Labor Question of Chinese Capitalism in Africa" 

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

18         Kyle Arnone (UCLA)

                   "In Solidarity? Re-examining the Determinants of Failure: The 1196 Port Truckers' Campaign" 

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

 

MARCH

4         Michael Mann (UCLA)

                   "The Rise and Fall of Neo-Liberalism" 

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

13        Karen Brodkin (UCLA)

                   "Power Politics: Environmental Activism in South Los Angeles"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment

 

SPRING QUARTER 2010

APRIL

1        Elena Shih (UCLA)

TBA

5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar   

14        Kelly Lytle-Hernandez (UCLA)

                   "Migra! A History of U.S. Border Patrol"

                   12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Institute for Research on Labor & Employment

15        Fred Block (UC Davis)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar

 

 28           Andrew Walder (Stanford)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar 

 

  May

 

12            Scott Cummings (UCLA)

"Mobilizing Law for Low-Wage Workers: Evidence from Los Angeles"
12:30-2:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall 

              Sponsored by the Institute for Labor & Employment

 

13        Philip McMichael (Stanford)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar

 

27        Julia Tomassetti (UCLA)

                   TBA

                   5:00 pm / 279 Haines Hall

                   Sponsored by the Comparative Analysis Seminar