Department of Sociology Colloquium Series
Unless otherwise noted, all presentations are held at 2:30pm in Room 213 in SLC. For more information, contact Jody Clay-Warner.
Spring 2008
Friday, January 18: Lisa S. Rashotte and Murray Webster, Jr.
(University of North Carolina - Charlotte)
How Behavior Creates Expectations for Quality of Performance
Friday, February 1: Rita K. Noonan
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
CDC’s ‘Choose Respect’ Initiative to Prevent Teen Dating Violence: Formative Research, Implementation, and Evaluation
Friday, February 15: Jennifer Glass (University of Iowa)
Workplace Flexibility and Wage Growth: Are the Penalties Equal for All Workers?
Friday, March 21: Patricia Richards (University of Georgia)
From Indian to Terrorist: Racism, Nationalism, and Conflicts over Indigenous Rights in Southern Chile
Friday, April 4: Ronald L. Breiger (University of Arizona)
The Spinozan Problem of Order
Friday, April 16: Barbara J. Risman (University of Illinois - Chicago)
Kids Equality Talk: Rhetoric in a Colorblind, Post-feminist but Gender Essentialist Era. (Location TBA)
Fall 2007
Friday, September 7: Joyce Bell
(University of Georgia)
Diversity in Everyday Discourse: The Cultural Ambiguities and Consequences of Happy Talk
Friday, September 21: Tim Brezina
(Georgia State)
What Went Wrong in New Orleans: Notes on Hurricane Katrina and the Incomplete Evacuation of a Flood-Prone City
Friday, October 5: David Smilde(University of Georgia)
Religion and Political Conflict in Venezuela under Chavez
Friday, October 19: Meredith Huey (University of Georgia)
Prison Suicide: A Test of the Deprivation and Importation Hypotheses
Friday, November 2: Abigail Richardson (University of Georgia)
Who I Am/Who I Will Be: Identity, Aging, and Bodywork
Friday, November 16: Michael Ramierz (University of Georgia)
Transitions and Trajectories: Musical Performance, Gender, and Identity Development among Musicians
Spring 2007
Wednesday, February 7: Joe Hermanowicz
(University of Georgia)
Following Scientists in Their Careers
Wednesday, February 21: Rebecca Callahan
(University of Georgia)
Language Use and College Going: Post-Secondary
Choice among Latino Linguistic Minority Males
Friday, March 2: Kirsten Dellinger (University
of Mississippi) [SLC 348 at 3:30pm]*
Gender and Catfish in the Global South:
Transnational Tendencies in a Regional Industry
*Co-sponsored by the Feminisms,
Nationalisms, Transnationalisms Workshop (Institute
for Women's Studies), with funding
from the Wilson Center
for Humanities and Arts
Friday, March 23: Vincent Roscigno [Baldwin
114A at 1:25PM]
Graduate Seminar on Publishing in the American
Sociological Review
Friday, March
23:
Vincent Roscigno (Ohio State University)
[SLC 348 at 3:30pm]
Capturing Social Closure: The Case
of Race/Sex Discrimination in Employment
Wednesday, April 18: Erwan
Dianteill (Maître de conférence,
Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
French
Sociology and Ethnology today: Between scientific
tradition and innovation (This lecture will
be based on a selected bibliography of 100 books
that Dianteill
wrote for the French ministry of Foreign Affairs.
It was published as a
booklet is available as a PDF
document.)
Spring 2006
Wednesday, February 1: Elizabeth Cherry (University of Georgia)
Veganism as a Cultural Movement: A Relational Approach
[Presentation 3 of 6 in a special series on "Social Networks"]
Wednesday, February 15 Linda Renzulli (University of Georgia) and Howard Aldrich (University of North Carolina)
Who Can You Turn To? Tie Activation within Core Business Discussion Networks
[Presentation 4 of 6 in a special series on "Social Networks"]
Wednesday, March 1: Scott Thomas and Shelia Slaughter (University of Georgia)
Creating New Fields: An Exploration of University-Corporate Board Interlocks
[Presentation 5 of 6 in a special series on "Social Networks"]
Wednesday, March 22: Mark Cooney and Callie Burt (University of Georgia)
When Deviance is Conventional: Predicting the Quantity of Homicide Law
Friday, March 31: Scott Feld (Purdue University)
Chains of Influence on the Vertical Organization Perdue University of Directed Ties: Illustrated by Placements among US PhD Granting Sociology Departments
[Presentation 6 of 6 in a special series on "Social Networks"]
Friday, April 14: Barry Markovsky (University of South Carolina)
Shaky Evidence for a Sociological Theory
Fall 2005
Wednesday, October 5: Dean Rojek (University of Georgia)
Homicide: A Sociological Inquiry
Wednesday, October 12: David Smilde (University of Georgia)
A Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Conversion to Venezuelan Evangelicalism: How Networks Matter
[Presentation 1 of 6 in a special series on "Social Networks"]
Wednesday, October 19: Elizabeth Jelin (Universidad de Buenos Aires)*
The Place of Memories in Historical Process: Contemporary Experiences in South America
* Room 148, Student Learning Center at 4:00pm. Reception to follow.
[Sociologist Elizabeth Jelin is Senior Researcher at the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Técnicas of the University of Buenos Aires. She has published extensively on the sociology of the family, social movements, and human rights. She was the Academic Director of the Program on "Collective Memories of Repression: Comparative Perspectives on Democratization Processes in Latin America's Southern Cone" sponsored by the Social Science Research Council 1998-2002. Her visit is co-sponsored by the Center for Humanities and Arts, Department of Romance Languages, and the Department of Sociology]
Wednesday, November 9: Dawn Robinson (University of Georgia)
Social Networks and Social Identities
[Presentation 2 of 6 in a special series on "Social Networks"]
Wednesday, November 16: E.M. Beck (University of Georgia)
Grade Inflation at the University of Georgia
Wednesday, November: Tanja Link (University of Georgia)
It's 4:20 Somewhere: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Adolescent Substance Use
Spring 2005
Wednesday, January 26: Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Texas A&M)*
Racism without Racists: “Killing Me Softly” with Colorblindness
*Room 250, Student Learning Center
[Presentation 1 of 5 in a special series on "Race and Social Processes"]
Wednesday, February 16: James Coverdill and William Finlay (University of Georgia)
Challenges to Professional Socialization: The Case of Surgical Residents and Duty-Hour Restrictions
Wednesday, March 3: Lorraine Evans (University of Georgia)
Teacher Stratification: Traditional and Alternative Certification and the Path to the Classroom
Wednesday, March 23: Reuben May (University of Georgia)
“Oh Yes They Can”: Young African American Male Athletes' Localized Perceptions of Athletic Ability
[Presentation 2 of 5 in a special series on "Race and Social Processes"]
Wednesday, March 30: Stephanie McClure (University of Georgia)
Voluntary Associations and the African American College Student Experience
[Presentation 3 of 5 in a special series on "Race and Social Processes"]
Friday, April 15: Alford Young (University of Michigan)
A Sociology of Knowledge Lens on Young Black
Men and Upward Mobility
[Presentation 4 of 5 in a special series on "Race and Social Processes"]
Wednesday, April 20: Leigh Willis (University of Georgia)
Race, Health Culture, and Health Disparities
[Presentation 5 of 5 in a special series on "Race and Social Processes"]
Fall 2004
Wednesday. November 3: Ronald Simons (University of Georgia)
Testing Models that Combine Community and Family Factors to Explain Delinquency Among African American Youth.
Wednesday November 17: Romney Norwood (Georgia State University)
What Does the Typical American Know About Black Popular Culture?
Spring 2004
Wednesday, February 4: Cassandra Johnson (U.S. Forest Service, Athens Regional Office)
Afro-German Personal and Social Identity
Wednesday, February 25: Stephanie Bohon and Jorge Atiles (University of Georgia)
You Can't Get There from Here: Transportation Barriers and Immigrant Adjustment in Georgia
[Presentation 1 of 3 in a special series on "Latinos in the South"]
Wednesday, March 3: Heather Macpherson (University
of Georgia)*
Educating Latino Immigrant Children in Georgia
*Room 350, Student Learning Center
[Presentation 2 of 3 in a special series on "Latinos in the South"]
Wednesday, March 24: Emilio Parrado (Duke University)*
Use of Commercial Sex Workers among Latino Immigrants to the Southeastern United States: Implications for the Diffusion of HIV
*Room 350, Student Learning Center
[Presentation 3 of 3 in a special series on "Latinos in the South"]
Wednesday, April 7: Jeff Wenger (University of Georgia)
Older Workers and Transitional Employment: The Role of Non-Standard Work Arrangements
