Charles Kadushin is Professor Emeritus Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY and Distinguished Scholar, Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and Visiting Research Professor, Sociology, Brandeis University. He has also taught at Columbia University in the Sociology and Social Psychology Departments and at Yale University in the School of Management and in Graduate Sociology.

Charles Kadushin is a leading authority on the design and analysis of survey research. He has extensive experience developing sampling methodology for difficult-to-reach populations and in the use of advanced multivariate statistical techniques. A founder of the social network field, he helped to create some of the first computer tools for the analysis of large sized social networks. He helped to develop state of the art methods for Internet surveys and is currently writing on social network theory.

 

Friday, March 14

Professor Pierre-Michel Menger - “Manufacturing Inequaities: What do we learn from the Study of Artistic Labor Markets.”

Director, EHSS, Paris and Visiting Professor Columbia University

Pierre-Michel Menger is currently senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (Paris) and professor (directeur d’études) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where he teaches sociology of labor and sociology of art and culture. He also holds a position of Permanent Visiting Professor at the University of Quebec (Canada). He Visiting Scholar at the Department of Sociology of Columbia University for spring 08. He is the author or co-author of fourteen books, and has published numerous articles in such journals as Revue française de Sociologie, Sociologie du travail, L’Année Sociologique, Revue Européenne des Sciences Sociales, Annales, Annual Review of Sociology, Poetics. Recent publications in English include « Profiles of the Unfinished : Rodin’s Work and the Varities of Incompleteness » (in Art from Start to Finish, edited by H.S. BECKER, R.R. FAULKNER, B. KIRSCHENBLATT-GIMBLETT, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2006) and « Artistic labor markets : Contingent Work, Excess Supply and Occupational Risk Management », a chapter of the Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture, edited by V. GINSBURGH and D. THROSBY (Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2006).

 

Friday, April 11

Professor Karen Cerulo – Never Saw it Coming

Rutgers University

Karen Cerulo is Associate Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University. Her research interests include symbol systems, identity construction, and media and technology. Professor Cerulo's articles appear in a wide variety of journals, including the American Sociological Review, Social Forces, Sociological Forum, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Focus, Communication Research, Science as Culture, and annuals such as the Annual Review of Sociology and Research in Political Sociology. She is also the author of Identity Designs: The Sights and Sounds of a Nation, a work that won the ASA Culture Section's award for the best book of 1996 (The Rose Book Series of the ASA, Rutgers University Press), and Deciphering Violence: The Cognitive Order of Right and Wrong (Routledge). Professor Cerulo's teaching experience includes the Rutgers University Award for Distinguished Contribution to Undergrad Education.

 

Friday, May 9

Professor Seyla Benhabib

Yale University

Seyla Benhabib is the Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Yale University and Director of its Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics. Professor Benhabib was the President of the Eastern Division of the American Philosophical Association in 2006-07.
She is the author of Critique, Norm and Utopia. A Study of the Normative Foundations of Critical Theory (1986); Situating the Self. Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics (1992; winner of the National Educational Association’s best book of the year award) ; together with Judith Butler, Drucilla Cornell and Nancy Fraser, Feminism as Critique (1994); The Reluctant Modernism of Hannah Arendt (1996; reissued in 2002); The Claims of Culture. Equality and Diversity in the Global Era, (2002) and most recently, The Rights of Others. Aliens, Citizens and Residents (2004), which won the Ralph Bunche award of the American Political Science Association (2005) and the North American Society for Social Philosophy award (2004). Another Cosmopolitanism: Hospitality, Sovereignty and Democratic Iterations, with responses by Jeremy Waldron, Bonnie Honig and Will Kymlicka (2006).

 

2008 New York Immigration Series

All events will take place at the CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue (between 34 and 35 Streets)

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
6:30-8:30 PM
Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge), Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York

"Visual Ethnography of Middle Eastern Immigrant Communities"
Steve Gold, Professor of Sociology, Michigan State University

Pre-Talk Reception in Sociology Lounge, 5:30-6:30Co-sponsored with Middle East and Middle Eastern American Center, The Graduate Center, CUNY

Wednesday, March 19, 2008
4:30-6:00 pm
Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge), Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
Reception to Follow

A panel discussion on
Mexican New York: Transnational Lives of New Immigrants (University of California Press) by Robert C. Smith

Panelists:
Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University
Philip Kasinitz, Professor of Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center
Robert C. Smith, Associate Professor of Immigration Studies and Public Affairs, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center

Moderator: Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center

Thursday, April 10, 2008
4:30-6:00 pm
Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge), Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York
Reception to Follow

Eurostars and Eurocities: Free Movement and Mobility in an Integrating Europe
Adrian Favell, Associate Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Commentator: John Mollenkopf, Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Sociology, CUNY Graduate Center

Monday, April 14, 2008 4:30-6:00
Room 9205, Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, New York

Reception to Follow in Room 6112 (Sociology Lounge)

"We Have Been Alone : Immigrant Cultural Identity and Its Policy Implications"
Vivian Louie, Visiting Scholar, Russell Sage Foundation and Associate Professor, Harvard University Graduate School of Education

Commentator: Kay Deaux, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

 

May 14, 2008 5:00 - 7:00 pm
Proshansky Auditorium and Lobby
CUNY Graduate Center

An event to celebrate the publication of Inheriting the City: The Children of Immigrants Come of Age by Philip Kasinitz, John Mollenkopf, Mary Waters, and Jennifer Holdaway