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Department of Sociology
UW- Madison

 

Fall 2013 Schedule

 

Femsem meets Thursdays from 12:30 - 2:00p in 2435 Sewell Social Sciences (unless otherwise noted)

Date

Speaker

Topic

Room/location

9/5

Katie Zaman

Organizing Session - All Welcome!

2435 Social Science

9/12

Group discussion

Discussion of the Harvard Business School Case Study on Gender Equity, as well as the sociological debate on gender categories in the ASA.

2435 Social Sciences

9/19

Katie Zaman

Dissertation Proposal: Intersectionality, Women's Work, and Domestic Violence in the Slums of Dhaka, Bangladesh.

2435 Social Sciences

9/26

Lily Liang

Thirty-Six Women Under One Roof: Isolation, Social Organization, and Tenant Respectability

2435 Social Sciences

10/3

 

 

 

10/10

Jessie Daniels, Professor of Sociology at CUNY, Hunter College

'Our version of consciousness-raising groups': Gender, Race and the Political Economy of Feminist Online Activism. [Bio and Abstract]

2435 Social Science

10/10

Reception with Jessie Daniels

Quasi-pot luck at Myra's home (17 Sauk Creek Circle).
Contact Katie (zaman@wisc.edu) if you can offer a ride, or if you need one. Please bring a dish to pass, Myra will provide vegetarian and non-vegetarian chilli. 6:00 pm

 

10/17

 

 

2435 Social Sciences

10/18

Breakfast withBandana Puraystha, Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut

Time and Location TBD

 

10/24

Yangsun Hong, Doctoral Student, School of Mass Communication and Journalism

Application of Feminist Intersection Approach to Heatlh Behavior Change Models: Interdisciplinary Theoretical Integration

2435 Social Science

10/31

 

 

2435 Social Science

11/7

Yun K. Cho, Doctoral Student in Sociology

Master's Thesis in Progress: Women in STEM

2435 Social Science

11/11

Tuesday, Race and Ethnicity Brownbag

Discussion: Fostering the Critical Use of Measures of Race in Wisconsin Sociology

TBA

11/14

Hannah Miller, Doctoral Student in Sociology

TBA

2435 Social Science

11/19

Hae Yeon Choo, UW-Soc Alum and Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto

Note, this is on a Tuesday instead of Thursday to coincide with the Politics, Culture, and Society brownbag.

8108 Social Science

11/21

No meeting - meet Tuesday instead

   

11/28

Thanksgiving, no meeting this week

 

 

12/5

Tressie McMillan Cottom, Doctoral Student in Sociology at Emory, and visiting fellow at the UC-Davis Center for Poverty [Bio]

Organized for Profit or the Public Good? Lessons from the Expansion of the For-Profit College Sector for the U.S. Higher Education Landscape [Abstract]

2435 Social Sciences

12/5

Reception with Tressie McMillan-Cottom

Quasi-pot luck at Myra's home (17 Sauk Creek Circle).
Contact Katie (zaman@wisc.edu) if you can offer a ride, or if you need one. Please bring a dish to pass, Myra will provide vegetarian and non-vegetarian chilli. 6:00 pm

 

 

 

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Last update: September 7, 2010

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