Archives
Below are the PCS schedules and linked files from previous semesters. The training seminar takes place every semester, but records of the schedule were only kept sporadically. Semester schedules not shown here exist in collective memory only.
Fall 2012
| Sep 4 | organizational | |
| Sep 11 | Madeleine Pape "Regional Development Politics in a Coal Community". link to abstract and short background information |
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| Sep 18 | Nikki Butkovich Kraus. "Admitting Diversity: Migrant Laborers and the Political Economy of Russian Cities" Abstract |
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| Sep 25 | Sylvia Walby, "Gender, neoliberalism and the crisis in the UK and EU" | |
| Oct 2 | Kate Anderson "Farmer Union Influence in Water Quality" | |
| Oct 9 | (political sociology prelim faculty meet). We suggest an alternate event: Dr. Clare Bielby, Lecturer University of Hull, UK "(M"othering the Nation: The Violent Woman in the West German Press of the 1960s and 1970s". Gender and Women Studies seminar, Sterling Hall #3409 | |
| Oct 16 | (Lim talk rescheduled.) | |
| Oct 23 | Daniel Blocq. "Determinants of the Preparedness of Dutch Soldiers to Sacrifice Life During Military Operations." | |
| Oct 30 | Chaeyoon Lim, "The Lonely Crowd: How local religious contexts shape the social ties and civic engagement of the non-religious |
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| Nov 6 | Sarah Stefanos |
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| Nov 13 | Amanda Mcmillan "Ghosts of farming past and future: Narrative and the graying of agriculture" Abstract | |
| Nov 20 | Barry Eidlin "Repression and Rebirth: Red Scares and the New Left in the U.S. and Canada, 1946-1972. (link takes you to a copy of the paper) Barry Eidlin's web page: http://www.barryeidlin.org/home |
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| Nov 27 | Loka Ashwood. | |
| Dec 4 | Rahul Mahajan | |
| Dec 11 | Ayca Zayim | |
Spring 2012
| Jan 24 | Joint session with CDE Mike Massoglia | |
| Jan 31 | Aliza Luft "Does Racism Explain Genocide Perpetrators' Motives? The Significance of Racism for Genocide in Rwanda" | |
| Feb 7 | Yifei Li "Growth Machine and Local Environmental Politics: Case Study of Plastic Bag Ordinance in Marin County, California" | |
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| Feb 21 | Political sociology prelim meeting | |
| Feb 28 | Fiona Greenland "The Parthenon Marbles as Icons of Nationalism in 19th century Britain" | |
| Mar 6 | Ivan Ermakoff | |
| Mar 13 | Alex Hanna | |
| Mar 20 | Zach Baumgart "Friends or foes: an analytical framework for understanding conceptual dynamics between police and protesters." |
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| Mar 27 | Megan Shoji. Ethical Issues in Field Research-- Professional Development Workshop |
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| Spring Break | ||
| Apr 10 | Matt Kearney | |
| Apr 17 | Ramya Rajagopalan | |
| Apr 24 | Sida Liu "Migration and Stratification: The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers" (Sida Liu, Lily Liang, and Ethan Michelson) | |
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| May 8 | Ramya Rajagopalan | |
Fall 2011
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Presenter and Title |
| Sep 13 | Pamela Oliver "The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration" |
| Sep 20 | Bob Freeland "Managerial Control is Alienating and Often Inefficient, So Why Do Firms Dominate the Capitalist Economy and Sometimes Even Perform Well?" |
| Sep 27 | professional development session: writing proposals for fellowship competitions |
| Oct 4 | Rahul Mahajan |
| Oct 11 | Chaeyoon Lim |
| Oct 18 | Laura Heideman |
| Oct 25 | Nicole Kraus "Connecting Nationalism and Prejudice Through Xenophobia: A Dissertation Proposal in the Making " |
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| Nov 8 | Joseph Harris |
| Nov 10 | SPECIAL SESSION ON THURSDAY. Fabio Rojas "Hybrid Activism: Social Movement Mobilization in a Multi-Movement Environment" |
| Nov 15 | Matt Nichter "A new look at the civil rights movement of the 1940s and beyond" |
| Nov 22 | Matt Kearney "Narrative Causal Analysis of the Wisconsin Uprising" |
| Nov 29 | canceled in favor of the sociology department colloquium |
| Dec 6 | canceled in favor of a sociology recruitment event |
| Dec 13 | Geoff Bakken |
Spring 2011
Jan. 18 |
Organizational meeting |
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Jan. 25 |
Chaeyoon Lim |
"Volunteering and Religiosity in Context: Disentangling the Contextual Effects of Religion on Voluntary Behavior" |
Feb. 1 |
Min Hein |
"Durability of Dictatorship: Brain Drain, Taxation and Revolution" |
Feb. 8 |
Aliza Luft |
postponed |
Feb. 15 |
Discussion: Preparing for the political sociology prelim exam (postponed to Mar. 8) |
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Feb. 22 |
Discussion: Analysis of the governor's budget bill and its implications for our university and state |
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Mar. 1 |
Discussion: Analysis, explanation, and interpretation of the recent and ongoing events surrounding the governor's budget repair bill |
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Mar. 8 |
Discussion: Preparing for the political sociology prelim exam |
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Mar. 15 |
SPRING RECESS (no meeting) |
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Mar. 22 |
Discussion: Long-term preparation for the academic job market |
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Mar. 29 |
Anne Kane |
"Constructing Irish Nationalist Identity: Ritual and Discourse during the Land War, 1879-1882" (cancelled) |
Apr. 5 |
Celeste Benson, "Testing Esping-Andersen's Welfare State Theory across US States: A Gender and Family Approach" |
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Apr. 12 |
Zach Baumgart |
"Immigration Policy Discourse Among Unions: Variance and Decline" |
Apr. 19 |
Alex Hanna |
"Mapping the Political Twitterverse: Candidates and Their Followers in the Midterms" |
Apr. 26 |
Rahul Mahajan and Jason Turowetz |
TBA |
May 3 |
Daniel Blocq |
TBA |
Fall 2010
Date |
Presenter |
Title |
Sep. 7 |
Carly Schall |
"Making the 'People's Home': Post-War Sweden and the Problem of Membership, 1945-1951" (practice job talk) |
Sep. 14 |
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Organizational Meeting |
Sep. 21 |
Erik Wright |
Discussion of plans for the 2012 ASA meeting with the ASA president-elect (ends early at 1:30, so please arrive at 12:30 sharp!) |
Sep. 28 |
Ayca Zayim |
"High Hopes and Bleak Fortunes: Global City Making in Istanbul and its Divergent Outcomes among the Urban Poor" |
Oct. 5 |
Sida Liu |
"Politics in Everyday Work: Motivations and Coping Strategies of Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers" |
Oct. 12 |
Brett Burkhardt |
"Private Prisons and Public Discourse: The Emergence and Legitimation of Modern Prison Privatization in the United States" (practice job talk) |
Oct. 20 (Wed) |
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (Duke University) |
"Down the Rabbit Hole: The Obama 'Miracle' and Race Matters in Contemporary Amerika" (departmental colloquium sponsored by PCS—note change of date, time, and location: Wednesday, Oct. 20, at 12:15 p.m. in 8417 Sewell Social Sciences) |
Oct. 26 |
Min Hein |
"An Exchange Theory of State Formation" |
Nov. 2 |
Joao Peschanski |
"Papa Doc's Feint: The Misled Opposition and the Consolidation of Duvalier's Rule in Haiti" |
Nov. 9 |
Adam Slez |
Market-Building and the Ecology of Political Contention in the American West, 1890-1896 |
Nov. 16 |
Raewyn Connell (University of Sydney) |
Roses from the South: Rethinking Gender Analysis in World Perspective |
Nov. 23 |
Sébastien Mosbah-Natanson (Université du Québec à Montréal) |
"The Birth of French Sociology" (co-sponsored with generous support from the Center for German & European Studies) |
Nov. 30 |
Daniel Blocq |
"Defection from Insurgencies" |
Dec. 7 |
Geoff Bakken |
"Taming the Tea Party: A Dissertation Proposal" |
Dec. 14 |
Marko Grdesic |
"Informational Filtering, Protest Waves and Time Series Analysis: The Case of Yugoslavia in the Late 1980s" |
Dec. 21 |
Pamela Oliver |
Submitting to the Annual ASA Meeting Notes | Data Analysis | Audio |
Spring 2010
| Date | Presenter | Title/Topic |
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| Jan. 19, 2010 | None | Organizational meeting |
| Jan. 26, 2010 | Jerome Braun | The Rise of the Nazis as an Example of Sadistic Carnival |
| Feb. 2, 2010 | Matt Kearney | Standing Against Cancer: A Model of Medical Care Delivery for Low-Income Populations |
| Feb. 9, 2010 | Debbie Becher | The Political and Moral Classification of Property Relations: The Case of Eminent Domain |
| Feb. 16, 2010 | Laura Heideman | Making Society "Civil": Postwar Peacebuilding in Croatia |
| Feb. 23, 2010 | Richard Aviles | Racial Threat Reconsidered: Race, Region, and Home Ownership in U.S. Presidential Politics, 1968-1972 |
| Mar. 2, 2010 | Chaeyoon Lim | Secular and Liminal: Decomposing Religious Nones |
| Mar. 9, 2010 | None | Meeting Cancelled |
| Mar. 16, 2010 | Anna Paretskaya | The Politics of Smallest Things: How the 'Lazy, Cowardly, and Selfish' Changed the Soviet Union |
| Mar. 23, 2010 | Min Hein | The Sociology of Aletheia: Two Examples of Doxic Revolutions |
| Apr. 6, 2010 | Taylan Acar | The Phenomenon of Subcontracted Work in Turkish Health Care Sector: A State Ethnography |
| Apr. 13, 2010 | Joseph Harris | Outgrowing Neoliberalism? Charting the Movement toward Universal Healthcare in NICs with Discussion of Thailand |
| Apr. 20, 2010 | Jay Burlingham | On Studying Policy Justifications in the United States Congress |
| Apr. 27, 2010 | Zach Baumgart | The Role of Mexican and Central American Immigration in Structuring Organizing Strategies in the AFL-CIO and CtW (abstract) |
| May 4, 2010 | Brett Burkhardt | Prison Privatization and Public Discourse |
Fall 2009
| Date | Presenter | Title/Topic |
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| Sep. 8, 2009 | None | Organizational meeting |
| Sep. 15, 2009 | Pamela Oliver | Political Factors in Racial Incarceration Patterns |
| Sep. 22, 2009 | Chad Goldberg | Durkheim and Anti-Semitism |
| Sep. 29, 2009 | Alex Hanna | Facebook and the April 6 Movement in Egypt |
| Oct. 6, 2009 | Rashawn Ray, Indiana University | The Class Identifications of Young Adults in the U.S., 1974-2008: The Significance of Race and Cohort |
| Oct. 13, 2009 | Matt Kearney | "The Societal Ideal and Religous Authority in the Layene Brotherhood" |
| Oct. 20, 2009 | Peter Hart-Brinson | Social Generational Differences and Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage |
| Oct. 27, 2009 | Xiaoli Tian, University of Chicago | Rumor and Secret Space: Anti-missionary Cases in 19th Century China |
| Nov. 3, 2009 | Kate McCoy | Private Armies and Public Accountability: Military Corporations in U.S. Foreign Policy |
| Nov. 10, 2009 | Celeste Benson | Can Crossnational Theories of Nonmarital Childbearing Explain Nonmarital Childbearing Patterns Observed Across U.S. States? |
| Nov. 17, 2009 | Adam Slez | Local Patterns of Mass Political Action in the American West, 1890-1896 |
| Nov. 24, 2009 | Elizabeth Wrigley-Field | How do Racial and Economic Inequality Over the Lifecourse Alter Death Rates Near the End of Life? |
| Dec. 1, 2009 | None | Grad students meet with Alice Goffman, candidate for assistant professor position |
| Dec. 8, 2009 | None | Discussion about presenting at ASA and other conferences |
| Dec. 15, 2009 | Richard Aviles | Racial Threat Reconsidered: Race and Home Ownership in U.S. Presidential Politics, 1968-1972 |
Spring 2008
| Date | Presenter | Title/Topic |
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| Jan. 22, 2008 | None | Organizational Meeting |
| Jan. 29, 2008 | None | cancelled |
| Feb. 5, 2008 | Peter Brinson | Why do People Support Civil Unions but Not Same-Sex Marriage? |
| Feb. 12, 2008 | Julie Whitaker | Seeking Compassionate Women: Health Care Managers' Images of Low-Wage Care Workers in the Context of a Labor Crisis (Practice Job Talk) |
| Feb. 19, 2008 | Andrea Voyer | Disseminating Diversity: Diversity Trainers, Intercultural Obstacles, and Multicultural Dreams |
| Feb. 26, 2008 | Hui-Jung Kim | Marriage Migration and Changing Gender-Nation Relations in South Korea |
| March 3, 2008 | Rahul Mahajan | TBA |
| March 11, 2008 | Adam Slez | Local Political Processes and the Consolidation of Republican Power in the United States, 1890-1896 |
| March 25, 2008 | Matt Dimick | The Diversity of Labor Union Organization in the US and Western Europe |
| April 1, 2008 | Nicole Kaufman | The Role of the Courts in the Mobilization of the Environmental Justice Movement |
| April 8, 2008 | None | informal professionalization discussion |
| April 15, 2008 | Joan Fujimura | The Politics of Making Difference: Are Geneticists Reproducing Race Categories or Something Else? |
| April 22, 2008 | Celeste Benson | TBA |
| April 29, 2008 | John Zinda | A Set of Safety-Nets: Return Migrants and Home Communities in China |
| May 5, 2008 | TBA | TBA |