2008-2009
The monthly calendars below display departmental information in combination with pertinent university information (registration deadlines and office holidays, for instance). Links to other calendars are provided at the bottom of this page.
Note that things like academic deadlines, holidays, and various fellowship deadlines are included on this calendar; to search for one of them, type F+Ctrl, type the term you're looking for (for instance "fellowship" or "holiday"), and hit enter.
- June 2008
- July 2008
- August 2008
- September 2008
- October 2008
- November 2008
- December 2008
- January 2009
- February 2009
- March 2009
- April 2009
- May 2009
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| 1 Labor Day No classes Office closed |
2 Classes Begin Reception for 1st year grads 4:30-6:30 |
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9 Mass of the Holy Spirit - No classes from 12:00 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. |
10 Last date for undergraduate students to drop/add or to declare a course pass/fail online Last date for graduate students to drop/add online |
11 Dept-wide grad orientation 12-1:30, McElroy conference room Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel, Jared Del Rosso with Nathaniel Raymond and Farnoosh Hashemian, 1:30-2:45 McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge |
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15 Fellowships: Draft applications due to BC Coordinators Undergraduate NSEP/Boren deadline for Fall |
16 Departmental Seminar: Charlie Derber “The Making of a Public Sociologist: Invitation to a Conversation” 12-1:15, McGuinn 415 |
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18 BC Farmer's Market |
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| 21 Opening Party 1-3, Prof. Magubane's House |
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23 Department Meeting 12-1:15, McGuinn 415 |
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26 Parents' Weekend BC Bake Sale for Haiti Hurricane Relief, 11AM – 3 PM on the dustbowl |
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30 Rosh Hashanna Grad Studies Meeting, Noon McGuinn 415 Teaching Seminar Luncheon O'Neill Library 2nd Floor 12-1 Questions, Concerns, & Comments: Teaching Success in the First Semester |
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| 1 Last date for undergraduates only to drop courses or to declare a course pass/fail in Associate Deans' Offices Fellowships: Graduate Churchill deadline Fulbright deadline Marshall deadline Mitchell deadline Rhodes deadline Scoville deadline for Spring Undergraduate Truman deadline |
2 BC Farmer's Market |
3 Christians in a Warmaking State: Fighting for Peace in Vietnam and Iraq McGuinn Hall, Rm. 121 4 pm |
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7 Departmental Seminar: Amy Finnegan and Public Sociology Group “Displacing Activism? The Impact of International Service Trips on Understandings of Social Change” 12-1:30, McGuinn 415 |
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13 Columbus Day No classes Office closed |
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15 Teaching Seminar Luncheon O'Neill Library 2nd Floor 12-1 Class Discussions: What Works When You're Trying to Get Students to Talk? |
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17 Undergraduate Studies Committee Meeting, Noon, McGuinn 415 |
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20 Diane Watts-Roy dissertation defense: Technology to Delay Aging & Extend Life 3 pm Carney 106 |
21 Department Meeting 12-1:15, McGuinn 415 |
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23 The Lolita Effect 7 PM, Higgins 300 |
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28 Departmental Seminar: Leslie Salzinger “Gender is Good to Think With: Reading Political Economy through a Feminist Glass.” 12-1:30, McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge |
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30 Grad Studies Meeting, Noon McGuinn 415 Teaching Seminar Luncheon O'Neill Library 2nd Floor 12-1 Giving Effective Lectures Professors and Pastries: Studying, Working, and Living Abroad 3:30-:500 Gasson 100 |
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| 1 Fellowships: Graduate NSF deadline Ford Doctoral deadline Hertz deadline Soros deadline Undergraduate Freeman-Asia for Spring | ||||||
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3 Alex Bierman Job Talk: 12-1:30 McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge Marital Status as Contingency for the Effects of Neighborhood Disorder Among Adults |
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6 Sara Moorman Job Talk 12-1:30 “The Multiple Faces of Autonomy in Older Adults' Medical Decision-Making” McGuinn 415 Professors and Pastries: Living Ethically and Contributing Socially 3:30-5:00, Gasson 100 |
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10 Lindsey Baker Job talk: 12-1:30 McGuinn 3rd floor lounge “Drift and Return? A Multi-method Study of Divergent Religiosity Across Generations” |
11 Departmental Seminar: Julian Go “Global Fields and Imperial Forms: the British and American Empires in Comparative perspective” 12-1:30, Presentation Room in Waul House |
12 Teaching Seminar Luncheon O'Neill Library 2nd Floor 12-1 Grading Fairly |
13 Graduate/CASU registration period for spring 2009 begins |
14 Undergraduate registration period for spring 2009 begins Class of 2009 starts registration |
15 Fellowships: Graduate Javits deadline |
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21 Undergraduate Studies Committee Meeting, Noon, McGuinn 415 |
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24 Last date for all students who plan to graduate in December 2008 to confirm online |
25 Department Meeting 12-1:15, McGuinn 415 |
26 Thanksgiving break No classes |
27 Thanksgiving day No classes Office closed |
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| 1 Class of 2012 starts registration Fellowships: Graduate Carnegie Fellows deadline Undergraduate Beinecke deadline Last date for official withdrawal from a course or from the University |
2 Departmental Seminar: Postponed - Date TBA Cathy Reissman “Narrative Analysis and Bob Dylan: What's the Connection?” Job Talk: Thomas Ponniah, 12:00-1:30 "Building Global Justice: The World Social Forum" McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge |
3 Professors and Pastries: The Fine and Performing Arts 3:30-5:00, Burns Library |
4 Job Talk: Dr. Starr 12:00-1:30 “Out of Order: The Social Control of Globalized Dissent” McGuinn 415 BC Fair Trade Holiday Sale 9am-6pm Gasson 100 |
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8 Job Talk: Nicole Newendorp 1:00-2:30 "Negotiating "Recognition": Family Reunion Migration and Discourses of Moral Belonging in Hong Kong" McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge |
9 Study day—No classes for undergraduate day students only |
10 Study day—No classes for undergraduate day students only Job Talk: Brian Gareau 11:30-1:00 “Dangerous Holes in Global Environmental Governance: The Roles of Neoliberal Discourse, Science, and California Agriculture in the Montreal Protocol” McGuinn 415 |
11 Term Examinations—Posted grades available online |
12 Exams Job Talk: Sarah Willen 11:30-1:00 ‘Do "Illegal" Migrants have a "Right to Health"? Engaging Ethical Theory as Social Practice at a Tel Aviv Open Clinic’ McGuinn 223 |
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16 Exams Hiring Meeting 12:00-1:30 McGuinn 415 |
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| 1 Fellowships: Graduate NSEP / Boren deadline for Fall Undergraduate Goldwater deadline Office Closed |
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15 Fellowships: Graduate Scoville deadline for Fall Undergraduate ASG nominations invited |
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19 Martin Luther King Day No classes Office closed |
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23 Last date for graduate students to drop/add online Last date for undergraduate students to drop/add or to declare a course pass/fail online Last date for all students who plan to graduate in May 2009 to confirm online |
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27 Departmental Seminar: Charlotte Ryan "The Invisible Elbow and the Invisible Cold Shoulder: Reviewing public sociology from a fractal, movement-building lens" 12-1:30pm, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge |
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| 1 Fellowships: Graduate Madison deadline Undergraduate Pickering deadline |
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10 Undergraduate Meeting, 12-1:30, McGuinn 415 |
11 Teaching Portfolios and Statements of Teaching Philosophy, Connors Family Learning Center in O'Neill Library 2nd Floor, 12-1pm Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Committee's Scholarship Awards Dinner, Welch Dining Hall in Lyons, 5:30pm |
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| 15 Fellowships: Undergraduate ASG nominations due |
16 Last date for undergraduates only to drop a course or to declare a course pass/fail in Associate Deans' Offices |
17 Department Meeting, 12-1:30, McGuinn 415 "A Career in International Health" 7:30pm, Higgins |
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20 Grad Students: Application for dissertation fellowship due to 426 |
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23 Grad Recruitment Event, 12-5:30 |
24 Departmental Seminar: Gay Seidman "Citizens, Markets, and Transnational Activism: Monitoring Sweatshops in South Africa, India, and Guatemala" 12-1:30pm, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge Grad Recruitment Event, 9-12 and 2:30-4 |
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| 1 Beckman deadline Udall deadline Freeman-Asia for Fall |
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10 ASG applications due Departmental Seminar: Karen Hansen 'We Stole the Land:' Immigrant Landtaking on a Dakota Sioux Reservation, 1900-1930 12-1:30pm, McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge |
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12 Undergraduate Meeting, 12-1:30, McGuinn 415 |
13 Faculty: Undergraduate Research Fellowship grant applications for summer due to chair |
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| 15 Scholar of the College: Nomination for Scholar's status and Approval of Second Reviewer Deadline |
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17 Department Meeting, 12-1:30, McGuinn 415 |
18 "Global Evangelism and Democracy", Timothy Shah, 4:30-6, Higgins 300 |
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20 Grad Students: Application for Alper fellowship due to 426 Application for teaching excellence award due to 426 |
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24 Departmental Seminar: Jeffrey Rubin, History, Boston University 12-1:30pm, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge |
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26 Graduate Studies Meeting, 12-1:30, McGuinn 415 |
27 Faculty: REG applications for summer-fall due to chair |
28 Awarding of the Romero Scholarship Yawkey Athletics Center, Murray Room, 7:00 pm |
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30 Joelle Sano dissertation defense - 12:30pm, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge |
31 Graduate/CASU registration for summer and fall 2009 begins Democratic Pedagogy - teaching seminar 12-1pm at Conners |
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| 1 Undergraduate registration for fall 2009 begins Last date for master's and doctoral candidates to turn in signed and approved copies of theses and dissertations for May 2009 graduation Fellowships: Undergradaute Freeman Asia for Summer Due |
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7 Departmental Seminar: Millie Thayer, Sociology, U Mass Amherst 12-1:30pm, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge |
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9 Easter break No classes Grad Students: Grad Research Expense Grant (GREG) applications due Grad Students: Summer Research Fellowship applications due to 426 |
10 Easter break No classes Office closed |
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13 Easter break-No classes (except for classes beginning 4 pm and later) |
14 Undergraduate Meeting, 12-1:30, McGuinn 415 Graduate Studies Meeting, 12-1:30, McGuinn 3rd floor lounge |
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16 Scholar of the College: Deadline for submission of final version of project and two evaluation letters to Dean to be considered for McCarthy Prize Teaching seminar on learning styles at Connors Center 12-1 pm |
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20 Patriot's Day No classes Office closed |
21 Last date for official withdrawal from a course or from the University |
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24 Grad students: Deadline for Individual Research and Conference Grants Application |
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27 DVSS Public Lecture Emily Martin Anthropology, NYU 3:00-5:00pm, Cushing 001 Teaching Excellence Awards ceremony - 4 pm in Gasson 100 One lane of Comm Ave will be closed for construction from 7am to 4pm |
28 DVSS Seminar Emily Martin, Anthropology, NYU 12-2:30pm, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge One lane of Comm Ave will be closed for construction from 7am to 4pm |
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| 1 Last date for all students who plan to graduate in August 2009 to confirm online Study days—No classes for undergraduate day students only Fellowships: Undergraduate Galbraith deadline Teaching Workshop for new Teaching Fellows 9am-2pm Faculty Day 1-4pm |
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4 Study Day Scholar of the College: Final deadline for submission without McCarthy consideration |
5 Term Examinations—Posted grades available online |
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