DEPARTMENT COLLOQUIA AND BROWN BAG SERIES

Department Colloquia (2008 - 2009)

Ion Bogdan Vasi: "Environmentalism and Social Movements" March 9, 2009

Matthias Koenig: "Out of the Backyards, into the Courts - Muslim Claims-making and the law in Western Europe" April 1, 2009

Ann Mische: "Social Movements and Ethnography" April 17, 2009

Delia Baldassarri: "Civic Society & Political Polarization" April 20, 2009

Filiz Garip: "Immigration & Social Movements" May 6, 2009

Department Colloquia (2007 - 2008)

Damon Centola: "Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory and Experiments" November 15, 2007

Judith Blau: "Seeding a Human Rights City" February 20, 2008

Lee Clarke: "Worst Case Thinking About Environmental Disaster" March 5, 2008 (sponsored by CIDER)

Christian Davenport: "State Repression and the Tyrannical Peace" March 10, 2008 Winnifred Brown-Glaude: "Spreading Like a Dis/ease?: Bodies, Public Space and Women’s Informal Work in Jamaica" April 2, 2008

Erich Goode: "The Death of Just About Everything, Including Moral Panics" April 23, 2008

Michael Schwartz: "War Without End: The Iraq War in Context" May 7, 2008

Department Colloquia (2006 - 2007)

Jeffrey Goldfarb: "The Politics of Small Things" October 25, 2006

Arnout van de Rijt: "Immigrant Assimilation: Rapid and Reversible" November 20, 2006

Joanna Dreby: "Family Stretch: Intergenerational Relationships in Mexican Transnational Families" November 27, 2006

Department Colloquia (2006 - 2007)

Joshua Guetzkow: "Bars vs. Butter? The Prison-Welfare Tradeoff in the U.S. 1970 - 1996" December 4, 2006

Alexandra Kalev: "Cracking the Glass Cage? Job Segregation, the Restructuring of Work and Managerial Diversity" December 6, 2006

Margarita Mooney: "Beyond the Sea and the Mountain: Religion and the Adaptation of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris" December 11, 2006

Wendy Wolford: "Every Monkey has its Own Head: Social Mobilizatin and Rural Sugarcane Workers in Northeastern Brazil" March 7, 2007

Eric Klinenberg: "Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media" April 26, 2007

Department Colloquia (2005 - 2006)

Cynthia Cranford: "Projects of Solidarity at the Workplace: Latina/o Immigrant Janitors in Los Angeles: November 3, 2005

Jennifer Bickham-Mendez: "From the Revolution to the Maquiladoras: Gender, Labor and Globalization in Nicaragua" December 7, 2005

Saburo Horikawa: "It Wasn't a Matter of Length: Historic Preservation Movements in Japan" January 31, 2006

Maggie Gray: "Power and Labor Control in the Agricultural Workplace" February 8, 2006

Diane Vaughan: "Distinction, Class, and the Construction of Occupational Boundaries: The Case of Air Traffic Control" April 27, 2006

2006 Graduate Student Ethnography Conference

March 30 - 31, 2006
Conference Schedule

Department Colloquia (2004 - 2005)

Eric Anderson: "Reconstructing Heterosexual Masculinity" October 27, 2004

Georgi Derluguian: "Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus: Building a World-System Biography" November 3, 2004

Julia Adams: "Post-structuralist Foundations of Social Theory, or the Unknown James Coleman" February 23, 2005

Francesca Polletta: "Is Telling Stories Good for Democracy?" April 6, 2005

Dimitri Constas: "Democracy and Human Rights in a Europe of 43 States" April 7, 2005

Distinguished Alumni Colloquium"The Dynamics of Protest Diffusion: The 1960 Sit-Ins in the American South"

Kenneth Andrews, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
April 28, 2005

Department Colloquia (2003 - 2004)

Said Arjomand (Sociology), Caroline Arruda (Philosophy), Eduardo Mendieta (Philosophy) and Dick Howard (Philosophy) presented a joint colloquium between the Sociology and Philosophy Departments at Stony Brook University - a discussion of Dick Howard's book, "The Scepter of Democracy" on October 14, 2003

Said Arjomand (Sociology), presenter, and Joel Rosenthal (History), discussant, "Islam and thePath to Modernity: Toward a Historical Sociology of the IslamicateCivilization" - a joint colloquium between the Sociology and History Department atStony Brook University on October 23, 2003

Kian Tajbakhsh: "Governing theIslamic Republic of Iran at the Grassroots: the Fate of Local Democracy under Khatami"November 5, 2003.

Karl Ulrich Mayer: "New Ways ofLife or Old Rigidities? Structural Changes in Germany 1960 - 2000 and theirPolitical Impacts" December 3, 2003.

Muhammad Zakaria Zakar: "Socialand Political Functions of the Madrassas in Pakistan" February 11, 2004

Roland Robertson: "The New Global Historyand Transdisciplinarity" February 18, 2004

Raymond Maitta: "When Method MeetsTechnology: Qualitative Analysis and Qualitative Software" February 25, 2004

Yacov Peled: "A Roadmap to Where?" April 21, 2004

Stephen Cole (Sociology), Mark Schneider (Political Science), Barbara Heyns (New York University), and James Staros (Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences - Stony Brook University)discussed Stephen Cole's book, "Increasing Faculty Diversity: The Occupational Choices of High Achieving Minority Students" May 7, 2004

Department Colloquia (2002 - 2003)

Andrew Martin: "Putting the Organization back in Organizing: The Role of the Union Structure in NLRB Certification Elections" October 23, 2002.

Caitlin Zaloom: "Ambiguous Numbers: Trading Technologies and Interpretation in Global Financial Markets" November 12, 2002.

Eileen Otis: "Serving the People: Processes of Feminization in China's Emergent Service Industry" November 14, 2002.

David Kyle: "Seeing the State like a Migrant: Explaining Illegal Practices within Migrant Exporting Schemes" November 19, 2002.

Nathalia Rogers: "Do Russian Capitalists Want Democracy" February 12, 2003.

Hanna Herzog: "Negotiated Citizenship: Palestinian Women in Israel" February 26, 2003.

Axel Van Den Berg: "The Sound of One Hand Clapping: Public Choice, Markets and Politics" April 14, 2003.

Johanna Simeant: "Humanitarian Work: An Analysis of Activist Medical Organizations in Global Context" April 23, 2003.

Danny Kaplan: "Brothers and Others in Arms: Sexuality in the Israeli Army" April 30, 2003.

Department Colloquia (2001 - 2002)

Dietrich Rueschmeyer: "Globalization and the Futureof Welfare States" November 28, 2001.

Rick Fantasia: "The Magic of Americanism: The Symbolic Economy of U.S. MassCulture in France" December 6,2001.

Yukio Kawano: "Inequality and Ethnicity: Self-Selection of U.S. Immigrants on Skills" January 29, 2002.

Kiyoteru Tsutsui: "Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Ethnic Social Movements in the Contemporary World" January 31, 2002.

R. Karl Rethemeyer: "Centralization or Democratization?An Interorganizational Theory of the Internet's Impact on State-LevelPolicy Networks" February 5, 2002.

Mathieu DeFlem: "Social Control and World Society:Global Police Culture, National Sovereignty, and the Expansion of InternationalSociety" February 12, 2002.

Distinguished Alumni Colloquium - Carolyn Ellis: "Between Experience and Story: Merging the Personal and Academicin Autoethnography"

Carolyn Ellis, University of South Florida
Doyle McCarthy, Fordham University
Naomi Rosenthal, SUNY-Old Westbury, Visiting Professor - Stony Brook University
April 9, 2002

Leslie Sklair, London School of Economics: "CapitalistGlobalization and its Alternatives" April 25, 2002.

Global Brown Bag Series (2005 - 2006)

Said Arjomand, "Globalization and the Future of Macro/Comparative Sociology" October 12, 2005

Javier Auyero, "In the Midst of Garbage and Poison. Towards an Ethnography of Environmental Suffering" November 2, 2005

Global Brown Bag Series (2004 - 2005)

Michael Zweig (Dept. of Economics), "The Formation of U.S. Labor Against the War" October 13, 2004

Michael Schwartz, "Guerilla War and Terrorism in Iraq" February 3, 2005

Gene Lebowicz: "The Movement that Deconstructed the McDonald's: José Bovéand the Peasants of Larzak" February 17, 2005

Georges Fouron: "Citizenship in the Age of Globalization and Transnational Migration"March 9, 2005

Hwa-Ji Shin: "Trajectories of Nation: Remaking Citizenship, Immigration and NationalSelf-Image in Japan" March 31, 2005

Global Brown Bag Series (2003 - 2004)

Ian Roxborough: "Empire: What's in a Name?" September 17, 2003

Javier Auyero and Timothy Moran: "The Gray Zone: Violent Entrepreneurs and IMFRiots." October 1, 2003

Daniel Levy: "Cosmopolitan Sovereignty: The Juridification of Politics." October 29, 2003

Jackie Smith: "Contested Globalizations: Transnational Social Movementsin a Global Political Economy." November 12, 2003

Ian Roxborough: "The Opening Moves in World War III and World War IV."February 4, 2004

Jackie Smith and Michael Schwartz: "Forum on the Iraq War." March 3, 2004

Michael Kimmel: "Globalization and its Mal(e) Contents: The Gendered Moral &Political Economy of the Extreme Right." March 24, 2004

Kiyoteru Tsutsui: "The Evolution of the International Human Rights Regimesince 1945." April 14, 2004

Diane Barthel-Bouchier: "World Heritage: The Banality of Good vs. the Cunningof Evil." May 5, 2004

Global Brown Bag Series (2002 - 2003)

Dr. Anna Gavanas: "Contemporary Fatherhood Politics."September 25, 2002.

James Jasper: "The Emotional Landscapes of Globalization."October 9, 2002.

Said Arjomand, Diane Barthel, and Michael Kimmel: "Sociologists asPublic Intellectuals." February 19, 2003.

Cathy Marrone, Michael Schwartz, and Tyson Smith: "Teaching Large Undergraduate Classes." March 12, 2003.

Fletcher Winston: "The Selection of Moderate and Radical Protest Methods: Exploring the Influenct of Tactical Norms." March 25, 2003.

Global Brown Bag Series (2001 - 2002)

Jackie Smith: "Globalization and Social Movements:Exploring Connections Between Global Integration and Political Mobilization."October 4, 2001.

Ian Roxborough: "Globalization as Ideology and as Reality."October 9, 2001.

Martin Albrow: "Global Studies Before and After Globalization. "October 23, 2001.

Ariel Colonomos: "Global Repentance in an Interdependent World:The Holocaust Era Assets, a New Case for Global Justice?" November 8, 2001.

Yinon Cohen: "From Haven to Heaven: Changing Patterns ofImmigration to Israel." March 5, 2002.

Dawn Wiest: "Cultural Exceptionalism or State-structuralConstraint: Understanding the Uneven Geography of Transnational Social MovementParticipation." April 11, 2002.

Tyson Smith: "The Construction of Masculinity in JimBeam's, 'Real Friends, Real Bourbon' Global Advertising Campaign." May 2, 2002.