This Week at The Department of Sociology
Beginning October 15, 2007
The following events are sponsored by the Department of Sociology at
Harvard University. Unless otherwise noted,
all events take place at William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street,
Cambridge. If you have questions, you may reach
us by calling (617) 495-3812. For more information about the
Department of Sociology, please contact us or visit
our home page http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/sociology/
MONDAY, October 15
Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series
Malcolm Wiener Center
12:00 - 1:45 (Presentation begins at 12:20 pm)
DAVID RUEDA , Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford University,
"The Political Consequences of Inequality"
Location:
Taubman Dining Room (5th FL, Taubman Building), Kennedy School of Govt.
TUESDAY, October 16
WIP/WOM Series
The Work in Progress/Work, Organizations, and Markets Series
12:00 - 1:30
Lunch is provided!
PhD students are more than welcome.
This weeks presenter: Renee Richardson
This weeks location: Cumnock 230
WEDNESDAY, October 17
Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop
12:30-2pm
WJH 455
Light Lunch Provided
Augusto Ferraiuolo (Visiting Researcher in Anthropology, Boston University ) will present "Ephemeral Identities: Negotiating Ethnic Identities in Boston's North End"
Applied Statistics Workshop
CGIS North 354
12 - 1:30
Damon Centola, RWJF Scholar in Health Policy Research
Harvard University
"Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory and Experiments"
MIT - Harvard
Economic Sociology Seminar
MIT Location, Sloan Building E52-598
3:30 - 5:00
Rodrigo Canales, MIT
From Ideals to Institutions: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Change in Mexican Small Business
FRIDAY, October 19
Race, Identity, and Inequality
Graduate Student Workshop
Faculty Directors: Profs. Orlando Patterson and Claudine Gay
12 noon
Lunch will be provided
Zoua Vang
"Continuities and Transformations of Irishness: Social Identity, Intergroup Relations and Social Exclusion in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland"
Discussant: Michele Lamont
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