Politics, Culture and Society Training Seminar

Politics, Culture and Society (familiarly known as PCS) is a weekly training seminar of graduate students and faculty who are interested in research in a broad range of sociological areas including but not limited to political sociology and cultural sociology and using a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and both quantitative and qualitative methods. Most sessions are devoted to relatively informal faculty or student presentations of work in progress followed by lively discussion. Visitors and newcomers are welcome. PCS also sponsors a working paper series. PCS meets Tuesdays 12:30-2 in Room 8108 Sewell Social Science Building. Papers are circulated through the PCS email list.

If you want to be on the email list, contact Pamela Oliver or use the ListStar interface to add yourself to the PCS list. The name of the list you want is just "PCS". You need an SSC account to access ListStar. If you do not have an SSC account or do not know how to use ListStar, you may send email to oliver@ssc.wisc.edu or freeland@ssc.wisc.edu or cgoldber@ssc.wisc.edu, the authorized list administrators.

Date	Presenter	Title/Topic
2009.09.08		Organizational meeting
2009.09.15	Pamela Oliver	Political Factors in Racial Incarceration Patterns. (paper emailed to PCS list members.)
2009.09.22	Chad Goldberg	Durkheim and Anti-Semitism
2009.09.29	Alex Hanna	Facebook and the April 6 Movement in Egypt.
2009.10.06	Rashawn Ray, Indiana University	"The Class Identifications of Young Adults in the U.S., 1974-2008: The Significance of Race and Cohort."
2009.10.13	Matt Kearney	"The Societal ideal and Religous Authority in the Layene Brotherhood"
2009.10.20	Peter Hart-Brinson	Social Generational Differences and Attitudes about Same-Sex Marriage.
2009.10.27	Xiaoli Tian, University of Chicago	Rumor and Secret Space: Anti-missionary cases in 19th-century China. (contact Pamela Oliver for the link to the paper)
2009.11.03	Kate McCoy	"Private Armies and Public Accountability: Military Corporations in U.S. Foreign Policy"
2009.11.10	Celeste Benson	"Can Crossnational Theories of Nonmarital Childbearing Explain Nonmarital Childbearing Patterns Across Observed Across U.S. States?" (paper distributed to PCS via email)
2009.11.17	Adam Slez	"Local Patterns of Mass Political Action in the American West, 1890-1896"
2009.11.24	Elizabeth Wrigley-Field	How do racial and economic inequality over the lifecourse alter death rates near the end of life?
2009.12.01		Grad students meet with Alice Goffman, candidate for assistant professor position
2009.12.08	Elizabeth Holzer
2009.12.15	Richard Aviles	Racial Threat Reconsidered: Race and Home Ownership in U.S. Presidential Politics, 1968-1972

Date	Presenter	Title/Topic
2008.01.22	--	Organizational Meeting
2008.01.29	--	(cancelled for simultaneous department event)
2008.02.05	Peter Brinson	Why do People Support Civil Unions but Not Same-Sex Marriage?
2008.02.12	Julie Whitaker	SEEKING COMPASSIONATE WOMEN: Health Care Managers' Images of Low-Wage Care Workers in the Context of a Labor Crisis (Practice Job Talk)
2008.02.19	Andrea Voyer	Disseminating Diversity: Diversity Trainers, Multicultural Dreams and Intercultural Realities
2008.02.26	Hui-Jung Kim	Marriage Migration and Changing Gender-Nation Relations in South Korea
2008.03.04	Rahul Mahajan	TBA
2008.03.11	Adam Slez	Local Political Processes and the Consolidation of Republican Power in the United States, 1890-1896
2008.03.25	Matt Dimick	The Diversity of Labor Union Organization in the US and Western Europe
2008.04.01	Nicole Kaufman	The Role of the Courts in the Mobilization of the Environmental Justice Movement
2008.04.08	- -	informal professionalization discussion
2008.04.15	Joan Fujimura	The politics of making difference: Are geneticists reproducing race categories or something else?
2008.04.22	Celeste Benson	TBA
2008.04.29	John Zinda	A Set of Safety-Nets: Return Migrants and Home Communities in China
2008.05.06	TBA	TBA

Questions or Comments? Email Oliver -at- ssc -dot- wisc -dot- edu. Last updated November 24, 2009 © University of Wisconsin.