UCLA Department of sociology
Colloquia Calendar
Calendar of Events: 2009-2010
FALL QUARTER 2009
NOVEMBER
4 Steve McKay (UC
"Teacher, Sailor,
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
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 (
Book Talk - "Why is There No Labor Party in the
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
12:00-1:30 pm / 279 Haines Hall
Sponsored by the Migration Study Group
DECEMBER
3 Margaret Somers (
"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
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
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
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
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
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
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