Schedule

Fall 2024

September

3 Anne Taylor (Sociology Department, Yale University) “Performing Religion: Charisma, Enchantment, and the Sacred in the Post-SecularAge”

10 Yuan Hsiao (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University) “Who dorepressors target in social networks? A structural network analysis of the forced migration of indigenous tribes in colonial Taiwan, 1931-1944”

17 Daphne Fietz (Sociology Department, Yale University) “The Order of Resistance: Engaging the Climate Crisis”

24 Steven Koh (Sociology Department, Yale University) “The US Supreme Court: Binaries and the American Civil Sphere”

October

1 Ben Kaplow (Sociology Department, Yale University) “Imperial Echoes: The Reproduction of Colonial Land Policy in Independent Morocco”

8 Jessica Calarco (Professor of Sociology, University of Wisconsin) “Between Heaven and High Achievement: Meritocratic Individualism and Intensive Parenting in Evangelical and Secular Families”

15 Elisabeth Anderson (Associate Professor of Sociology Division of Social Sciences New York University Abu Dhabi) “’Soft’ Regulatory Capture and Institutional Change: Factory Inspection in Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, 1879-1912”

22 Amín Pérez (Professeur de Sociologie – Université du Québec à Montréal) “Bourdieu and Sayad Against Empire. Forging Sociology in Anticolonial Struggle”

29 No CRW talk

November

5 Lotta Mayer and Markus Lang (Max-Weber-Institute for Sociology, Heidelberg University) “Understanding and Explaining Far-Right Murders in Germany: Considerations on Theory, Method, and Cases”

12 Sergio Infante (History Department, Yale University) “The Cinderella of Underdevelopment, or How the Informal Sector Changed Development Economics”

19 Qixuan Yang (Political Science Department, Yale University) “The Origins of Representative Institutions in China”

December

3 No CRW Talk