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 2011-2012. 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.

All seminars are held from noon to 1:30 p.m.

September 13

Gustavo Morello, SJ
“Political Violence in Argentina in the 1970s.”
ILA Conference Room at 10 Stone Ave

September 29

Margaret Morganroth Gullette
"Ageism: the New Ageism in America"
ILA Conference Room at 10 Stone Ave

October 13

Jared Del Rosso
Boston College
"Torture and the Liberal Ideology of Cruelty: Culture and Knowledge in American Political Discourse of Waterboarding"
ILA Conference Room at 10 Stone Ave

October 25

Lisa Dodson and Beth Babcock
Boston College
"Disrupting the Poverty Cycle: A conversation about a university and NGO collaboration"
521 McGuinn

November 8

Gretchen Sisson
"Finding a Way to Offer Something More: Reframing Teen Pregnancy Prevention"
ILA Conference Room at 10 Stone Ave

November 29

Miliann Kang
"Manicuring Intersectionalities: Theorizing Multiple Inequalities in Asian-owned Nail Salons"
ILA conference Room at 10 Stone Ave

January 24

Anthony Farley
"Prison Abolition"
McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge

February 7

Sharlene Hesse-Biber
"Waiting for Cancer to Come: Genetic Testing and Women's Medical Decision Making"
McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge

February 21

Danielle Egan
Title TBA
McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge

March 13

Sara Damaske
Title TBA
McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge

March 27

Josée Johnston
Title TBA
McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge

April 10

Rebecca Tiger
“On the Sociology of Addictions”
McGuinn 3rd Floor lounge

April 24

Graduate Student Publishing Workshop
Speakers to be announced.
McGuinn 5th floor lounge

May 1

Rachel Sherman
Title TBA
McGuinn 5th floor lounge