News and Events

Events: Fall 2009

Center for the Study of Religion and Society
Interdisciplinary Workshops on American Religion (IWAR).
Date: Friday, September 17, 2009
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: 119 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Speaker: Bob Nauman
Title: "One Nation Under God: Designing American Identity During The Cold War Era"

Sociology Lecture
Date: Friday, September 25
Time: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Location: 319 Mowbray Hall
Speaker: Kathleen Swartzman
Title: "Responding to NAFTA: Voice or Exit?  The Example of Poultry"

Sociology Picnic
Date: Sunday, September 27
Time: 12:00 noon
Location: Madeline Bertrand Park
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Graduate Student: Lunch Talk
Date: Friday, October 2, 2009
Time: 11:30am - 12:45 pm
Location: G20 - Flanner Hall
Speaker: Rory McVeigh
Title: Open Forum

Henkel Visiting Scholar Series
Social Networks
Date: Thursday, October 8, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: McKenna Hall 210-214
Speaker: Katherine Faust, University of California at Irvine
Katherine Faust is the co-author of a major textbook on social network analysis, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications.  Her recent paper "Very local structure in social networks" is a path-breaking mathematical analysis of triadic configurations.
Title: "What is Social About Social Networks."

Colloquium: Composition Matters: Racial Differences in Access to and Returns from Advanced Math Course Taking
Date: Friday, October 9
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: 319 Mowbray Hall
Speaker: Elizabeth Covay

Mid-Term Break
October 19-23, 2009

Henkel Visiting Scholar Series
Social Networks
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009
Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Location: McKenna Hall 100-104
Speaker: James Moody, Duke University
Jim Moody's research focuses on social networks in multiple contexts such as friendships among adolescents, the correspondence between social networks and neighborhood, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases, and social relations on the Internet.  Moody is very interested in extending network techniques to large-scale social networks (1000s of nodes), which includes developing efficient methods for sampling networks, and identifying how social networks change over time.

Title: " More Than a Pretty Picture: Visual Thinking in Network Science.”

Center for the Study of Religion and Society
Interdisciplinary Workshops on American Religion (IWAR).
Date: Friday, October 30, 2009
Time: 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Location: 319 Hammes/Mowbray
Speaker: Donna Freitas
Title: "Getting to the Bottom of Hookup Culture: Investigations into Sex and the Soul on America's College Campuses"

Advising Night Pizza Party
Date: Wednesday, November 4
Time: 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Location: 824 Flanner Hall

Graduate Student: Lunch Talk
Date: Friday, November 6, 2009
Time: 11:30am - 12:45 pm
Location: TBA
Speaker: William Carbonaro
Title: Preparing for Area Exams

Sociology Lecture
Date: Friday, November 13
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: TBA
Speaker: David Jacobs
Title: TBA

Spring 2010 Registration Begins
Friday, November 16, 2009

Center for the Study of Religion and Society
Interdisciplinary Workshops on American Religion (IWAR).
Date: Friday, November 20, 2009
Time: 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Location: 319 Hammes/Mowbray
Speaker: Keith Meador
Title: TBA

Thanksgiving Break
November 26-27, 2009

Colloquium:
Date: Friday, December 4, 2009
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location: 319 Mowbray Hall
Speaker: Melissa Pirkey

Last Class Day
December 10, 2009

Sociology Departmental Christmas Party
December 11, 2009

Reading Days
December 11-13, 2009

Finals Week
December 14-18, 2009

Christmas Break
December 24, 2009 – January 4, 2010
(Administrative Offices Closed – reopen on January 4, 2010)

 

Events: Spring 2010

Henkel Visiting Scholar Series
Social Networks
Date: Thursday, January 28, 2010
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Speaker: Stephen P. Borgatti:  Chellgren Endowed Chair and Professor, Dept of Management, Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky

Henkel Visiting Scholar Series
Social Networks
Date: Thursday, February 11, 2010
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Speaker: Brian Uzzi - Richard L. Thomas Distinguished chair in Leadership at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Center for the Study of Religion and Society
Interdisciplinary Workshops on American Religion (IWAR).
Date: Friday, February 26, 2010
Time: 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Location: TBA
Speaker: Geoffrey Layman

Henkel Visiting Scholar Series
Social Networks
Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Speaker: Delia S. Baldassarri: Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Henkel Visiting Scholar Series
Social Networks
Date: Thursday, March 25, 2010
Time: TBA
Location: TBA
Speaker: Douglas R. White: Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

Center for the Study of Religion and Society
Interdisciplinary Workshops on American Religion (IWAR).
Date: Friday, March 26, 2010
Time: 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Location: TBA
Speaker: Allen Hertze

Center for the Study of Religion and Society
Interdisciplinary Workshops on American Religion (IWAR).
Date: Friday, April 23, 2010
Time: 11:45 am - 1:00 pm
Location: TBA
Speaker: Wendy Cadge
"Paging God:  Religion in the Halls of Medicine".