Spring Colloquium, 2006
Thursdays, 4:00–5:30 p.m., Williams Hall, Room 107, 80 Sachem Street
January 12
Gay Seidman
(University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“Markets, Consumers and Transnational Labor Activism: ‘Soft’ Regulation in South Africa, India and Guatemala”
January 19
Eric Klinenberg
(New York University)
“The New Newsroom: Market Pressure and Media Production in Three Metropolitan Papers”
January 26
Kenneth Thompson
(The Open University, UK)
“Cultural Studies and Education in Contemporary Societies”
February 2
Frank Dobbin
(Harvard University)
“Does Diversity Management Increase Managerial Diversity?”
February 9
Ivan Ermakoff
(University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“Enacting State Persecution: The Police and Anti-Semitic Policy in France, 1940–1944”
February 16
Lynette Spillman
(University of Notre Dame)
“What Do Business Associations Do?”
February 23
Gueorgui Derluguian
(Northwestern University)
“Homo Academicus Sovieticus (Caucasiensis): Why the Soviet-era Dissertation Topics Previsaged Politics”
March 2
Robert Andersen
(McMaster University)
“Trends in Civic Association Activity in Four Democracies: The Special Case of Women in the United States”
March 23
Neil Gross
(Harvard University)
“Intellectual Movements in the Humanities: Toward a Sociological Explanation”
March 30
Myra Marx Ferree
(University of Wisconsin – Madison)
“Framing Equality: The Politics of Race, Class and Gender in the US, Germany and the EU”
April 6
Ann Mische
(Rutgers University)
“Partisan Publics: Multiple Networks and Communicative Styles in Brazilian Youth Politics”
April 13
Riaz Hassan
(Flinders University, Australia)
“Jihad and Conflict Resoultion in Muslim Countries”
April 20
Maria Rovisco
(University of Lisbon)
“Imagining Portugal in the ‘New’ Europe”