- Fall 2009 Colloquia

- New York Immigration Series

- Politics and Protest

- Sociology of Religion Talks

Friday, 20 November 2009

First Annual Graduate Student Conference

"Sociological Reimagination: Crisis and Critique Today"

Fall 2009 Colloquia

All events are from 3pm-6pm in the Sociology Lounge/ Rm 6112.

Sept. 25

Judith Stacey, NYU (cosponsored with Women's Studies)

"The Unhappily Arranged Marriage of Polygamy and Same-Sex Unions: Lessons from South Africa”

Oct. 23

Richard Abel, UCLA Law School

“Lawyers in the Dock: How Attorneys Betray Trust.”

Richard Abel teaches Torts, Legal Profession, and Law and Social Change. Over the years, he has been president of the Law and Society Association, editor of African Law Studies and of the Law & Society Review, and member of the editorial boards of other journals in the law and society field in the United States, Europe, and Australia.” Professor Abel's most recent books are English Lawyers between Market and State: The Politics of Professionalism (2003), Speaking Respect, Respecting Speech (1998); Lawyers: A Critical Reader (1997).

Nov. 13

Mark Jacobs, George Mason University

"Un-Scandal Mongering: Media Sensationalism and the Control of Public Outrage over Financial Collapse."

Mark Jacobs is Professor of Sociology at George Mason University, where he is teaching since 1984. . Mark developed a theory of the "no-fault society" in Screwing the System and Making It Work: Juvenile Justice in the No-Fault Society (Univ. of Chicago Press, 1990; reissued in paperback 1993, with excerpts appearing in anthologies about juvenile justice). The pivotal chapter of that book employed a (then) innovative method for the social sciences, exploring what the tragic form of probation officers' narratives reveals about the disorganization of juvenile justice. His current project extends the theory of the no-fault society to the study of public scandal.

Dec. 4

Deidre Royster, NYU

“If We’re Going to Study Culture, Let’s get it Right: The Problem with How WJ Wilson, Orlando Patterson & Bill Cosby (and Crew) Imagine the Black Inner City Poor”

Deidre Royster earned her M.A. and Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins University (1991, 1996). Previously, she taught at UMass-Amherst (1996-2001), where she was an award-winning teacher, and most recently at the College of William and Mary, where she chaired the Department of Sociology (2003-06) and directed the Center for the Study of Inequality (2004-08) and the Black Studies Program (2007-08).