Unless otherwise noted, all meetings are 12pm-1:30pm in 3470 Sewell.
| Date | Topic |
| Sept 9 | Organizational Meeting |
| Sept 16 | Discussion: Race Theory and the Measure of Race
Facilitator: David Rangel |
| Sept 23 | No meeting, please attend the Anderson’s talk on Wednesday |
| Sept 25 (Wed) | Elijah Anderson, Yale University
“Trayvon Martin and the New American Color Line” [cohosted with SPAM, also Department Colloquium, 8417 Sewell; 12:15-2pm] |
| Sept 30 | Bowen Paulle, University of Amsterdam
“Toxic Schools” |
| Oct 7 | Megan Shoji
“Nice to Meet You? The Development of Supportive Parent-School Relationships in Low-Income Latino Communities” |
| Oct 10 (Thurs) | Jessie Daniels, CUNY-Hunter
“Our version of consciousness-raising groups”: Gender, Race and the Political Economy of Feminist Online Activism [Femsem, 12:30-2pm; 2435 Sewell] |
| Oct 14 | Joseph Ewoodzie
“Getting Something to Eat: Foodways Among the Poor and Homeless in Jackson, MS” |
| Oct 18 (Fri) | Breakfast with Bandana Puraystha, University of Connecticut
[Sponsored by Femsem] |
| Oct 21 | Alyn McCarty
“Do Family Engagement Programs Reproduce Unequal Access to Social Capital in Low Income, Ethnic Minority Schools?” |
| Oct 28 | Johanna Quinn |
| Nov 4 | Gloria Ladson Billings, Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UW |
| Nov 11 | Discussion: Fostering the Critical Use of Measures of Race in Wisconsin Sociology |
| Nov 18 | Tatiana Alfonso Sierra |
| Nov 25 | Gina Spitz
“Neighbors or Strangers? Life in a Racially Integrated Neighborhood” |
| Dec 2 | TBA |
| Dec 5 (Thurs) | Tressie McMillan Cottom, UC-Davis Center for Poverty
“Organized for Profit or the Public Good? Lessons from the Expansion of the For-Profit College Sector for the U.S. Higher Education Landscape” [Femsem, 12:30-2pm; 2435 Sewell] |
| Dec 9 | Megan Shoji & David Rangel
“Unequal Childhoods? Complex Logics of Childrearing in Latino Families” |