Colloquium Series Events

May 4, 2012 Dreaming of Black Los Angeles: A Multidisciplinary Project on Race, Representation, and Community
Darnell Hunt, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
April 20, 2012 CANCELED: When Mommy goes to War: Race, Class and Sexuality in the All-Volunteer Military
France Winddance Twine, UC Santa Barbara
April 13, 2012 A Dream Deferred: Toward the U.S. Racial Future
Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara
March 16, 2012 CANCELED: The Camera Rolls: Using Video Records to Study the Police
Nikki Jones, UC Santa Barbara
March 2, 2012 Ethnicity, Social Capital, and Immigrant Education: Neighborhood-Based Institutions and Embedded Social Relations in Los Angeles’ Chinatown and Koreatown
Min Zhou, UCLA
February 24, 2012 Census Racial Categories and U.S. Media Discourse, 1850-1970
Aliya Saperstein, Stanford University
February 17, 2012 Searching for Work with a Criminal Record
Sandra Smith, UC Berkeley
February 3, 2012 Race-Neutral Public Policies: Why the Policies Failed in San Diego and New York City and Succeeded in Los Angeles
Leland Saito, USC
January 27, 2012 Tales from the Field: Reflections on Four Decades of Ethnographic Ethics, Engagement, and Analysis
Peter and Patti Adler, University of Denver & University of Colorado at Boulder
January 20, 2012 Invisible Families: Gay Identities, Relationships and Motherhood Among Black Women
Mignon Moore, Associate Professor of Sociology, UCLA
November 18, 2011 U.S. Colonialism, Migration and Sexualities: The Filipino American Case
Yen Le Espiritu, Professor of Ethnic Studies, UCSD
May 4, 2011 In Defense of Grand Theory
Jonathan Turner, UC Riverside
April 29, 2011 Economic Effects of the Co-Evolution of Universities and Firms
Lynn Zucker, UCLA
February 16, 2011 Paternal and Maternal Age and their Effects on Adult Offspring Mortality and Morbidity
Ken R. Smith, Professor of Human Development & Family Studies, University of Utah
February 2, 2011 The Rise and Fall of the Subprime Mortgage Market, 1993-2010
Neil Fligstein, UC Berkeley
January 28, 2011 The Economy of Promises: How Credit Ratings Became So Important
Bruce Carruthers, Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University
January 21, 2011 The Emergence of High-Tech Clusters in the Life Sciences
Woody Powell, Professor of Education, Sociology, Organizational Behavior, Management Science and Engineering, and Communication, Stanford University
December 3, 2010 A Theory of Terrorism
Jeff Goodwin, Professor of Sociology