Colloquium and Events

Please save the dates of our upcoming departmental colloquia and events.

Events

Thursday, January 9 at 6:30pm: Sociology New Year’s Party at Seven Ten. There will be bowling, food, and drink!

Tuesday, March 25 from 11:00am to 4:00pm: Third Year Dissertation Proposal Mini-Conference in the SSRB Tea Room

Colloquium

We're pleased to welcome the following scholars to share their work at our department colloquium. All talks will take place in Albion Small (SSRB 305) on Wednesdays from 12:30pm to 1:50pm CT unless otherwise noted. Additional colloquia and talk titles will be added in the following weeks.

Winter 2025

January 22: Stephen Vaisey (Duke University), "Advancing Theories and Methods for Understanding Cultural Change"

February 5: Ariela Schachter (Washington University), "Moving Stories: Designing a Tool to Promote Immigrant Inclusion"

February 19: Minwoo Jung (Loyola University), "Queer Entanglements in Geopolitics"

February 26: Ethan Raker (University of British Columbia), "Heat, Environmental Adaptations, and Racial Disparities in Mortality, 1968-1979"

March 6: Etienne Ollion (l'Ecole polytechnique), "Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?"

Fall 2024

October 2: Mary Racelis (Ateneo de Manila University) with Marco Garrido (University of Chicago), "The Postcolonial Reconstruction of the Chicago School in the Philippines"

October 16: Yige Dong (SUNY Buffalo), "Collective Care and Its Discontents: The Politics of Social Reproduction in Socialist China"

November 6: Mathijs De Vaan (Berkeley Haas), "Mental Health and Labor Market Outcomes"

November 20: Zophia Edwards (Johns Hopkins University), "Liberation Unionism: A Black Radical Labor Tradition and Its Impact on Development in Trinidad and Tobago"