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Departmental Seminar

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Throughout the academic year, the Sociology Department hosts a seminar series featuring research work by our faculty, our advanced Ph.D. students, and by other prominent scholars in the field. This page contains the seminars held in the academic year 2012-2013. If you are interested in attending a seminar, please email sociology@bc.edu in advance.

The Sociology Seminar Series is supported by a generous grant from Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

Tuesday, January 22

Kimberley Hoang, Rice University
Technologies of Embodiment: Constructing Pan-Asian Modernity and Third World Exoticism in Vietnam’s Contemporary Sex Industry
12-1:30
McGuinn 334

Tuesday, February 5

Lisa Stevens
Immigrant youth, borders, and the politics of inclusion
12-1:30
McGuinn 334

Tuesday, February 19

Max Boykoff
Who speaks for climate? Making sense of media reporting on climate change
12-1:30
McGuinn 334

Tuesday, March 12

Michael Messner
Allies: Men Working to Stop Gender-Based Violence
12-1:30
McGuinn 521

Thursday, March 14

Avery Gordon
work: a view from the utopian margins
12-1:30

Tuesday, March 26

Thomas Medvetz
The Crystallization of the Space of Think Tanks: Technocrats and Activist-Experts in the American Field of Expertise
12-1:30
McGuinn 521

Tuesday, April 9

Smitha Radhakrishnan
Entrepreneurial or “Low Profile”? Competing Constructions of Womanhood India’s Urban Microfinance Industry
12-1:30
10 Stone Ave.

Tuesday, April 23

Patricia Clough
Title TBA
12-1:30
McGuinn 521

Friday, May 3

Joya Misra
Refereed Journal Article Publishing Workshop
12-2:00
Location TBA

  

Previous Seminars

To read abstracts and see posters for earlier departmental seminars, see our Seminar Archives page.