Past Workshops
Spring 2023
Jan. 24: Laura Adler (Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior at the Yale School of Management) The Paradox of Individual Equity: How Employers Explain the Fairness of Unequal Pay
Jan. 31: Nick Wilson (Associate Professor of Sociology, Stony Brook University) Canons, Colleges, and Consecration: Structures of Coherence in a Fragmented Discipline
Feb. 7: Sopia Lindmar (Sociology, Yale) Resisting Rearticulation: A Critical Race Approach to Educational Backlash during COVID-19
Feb. 14: Tad Skotnicki (Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Greensboro) Beyond the Autonomy of Culture
Feb. 21: Jan Fuhse (Interim Professor of Sociology, the University of Bremen) Social Networks of Meaning and Communication
Feb. 28: Ruth Braunstein (Associate Professor, Sociology, U-Conn)
Mar. 7: Matty Lichtenstein (Postdoctoral Fellow in International and Public Affairs, Brown University)
Break
Mar. 28: Jeff Sachs (Sociology, Yale) Status, Embeddedness, and Group Affiliation: How Peer Communities Shape the Television Production Industry, 1948-2010.
Apr. 4: Chloe Sariego (Sociology, Yale) Legal Approaches to Transgender Reproductive Rights in the United States
Apr. 11: Phil Gorski (Sociology, Yale) The Fragmentation of the Sacred: An Alternative Narrative of Western Modernity
Apr. 18: Rene Almeling (Professor of Sociology, Yale) The Politics of “Male” Reproductive Health
Apr. 25: Lauren Rivera (Professor of Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University) NB: Different time and location: 11:35-12:50, 4210 Isaacson, Yale School of Management
May 2: Sandra Okonofua (Sociology, Yale) Where the Money Resides: School District Financial Decision-Making in the Wake of Federal COVID Relie
Fall 2024
Sept. 5: Gurminder Bhambra (Professor of Postcolonial and Decolonial Studies, Department of International Relations in the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex) Varieties of Empire, Varieties of Colonialism **this lecture will take place via Zoom**
Sept. 12: Julia Adams (Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology, Yale University) Wikipedia, Wissenschaft, and Mechanisms of Social Exclusion/Inclusion
Sept. 19: Alka Menon (Assistant Professor, Sociology, Yale University) Book Panel on Refashioning Race: How Global Cosmetic Surgery Crafts New Beauty (UC Press 2023)
Commentators: Anthony Hatch (Professor of Science in Society, Wesleyan University), Ann Morning (James Weldon Johnson Professor of Sociology, NYU), and Joanna Radin (Associate Professor of History and History of Medicine, Yale University)
Sept. 26: Caitlin Anderson (Presidential Visiting Fellow, Sociology, Yale University) “This is Ecuador”: Authority and Alterity on Day One and Beyond
Oct. 3: Thomas Lyttleton (Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Organization Copenhagen Business School) Sociability, Gender, and Work
**2022 Marvin B. Sussman Award Lecture**
Oct. 10: Ben Kaplow (Yale Sociology) Dynamic Durability: Colonial and Post-Colonial Politics in Morocco
Oct. 17: Fall Recess
Oct. 24: Ángel Escamilla García (Assistant Professor, Yale Sociology) Externalizing Categories: How the U.S. and Mexico’s Classifications of Migrants Shape Central American Youths’ Experiences while in Transit Through Mexico
Oct. 31: Carla Baute (Ph.D. Student, University of Campinas, Brazil and Visiting Scholar, Yale University) ‘Raymond Williams, The Marxist’: How Labels Shaped the Circulation of his Ideas in Argentina and Brazil
Nov. 7: Job Talk, Junior Search
Nov. 14: Job Talk, Junior Search
Nov. 21: THANKSGIVING BREAK
Nov. 28: Nicolas Rudas (Yale Sociology) The Social Meanings of Violence: Destruction, Expression, and Drama
Dec. 5: Jason W. Moore (Professor, World Ecology Research Group and Sociology, Binghamton University) Climate Crises, Class Struggles & Capitalist Conjunctures: From the Great Frontier to the Great Implosion, 1257-2023