Sociology Department

2006-2007 Calendar

2006-2007

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.

June 2006

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
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4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
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July 2006

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
            1
2 3
4th of July Holiday
Office Closed
4
4th of July Holiday
Office Closed
5 6 7 8
9 10 11 12 13 14 15
16 17 18 19 20 21 22
23 24 25 26 27 28 29
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August 2006

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
    1 2 3 4 5
6 7 8 9 10 11
Last day for all students who plan to graduate in August 2006 to confirm online.
12
13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26
27 28 29 30 31    

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September 2006

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
          1
Meeting with new grad students at 1:15 in the 5th floor lounge of McGuinn.
2
3 4
Labor Day, No Classes
Office Closed
5
Classes begin
6
URF applications due to Chair
7
Department Welcome Luncheon
Noon, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge
8 9
10 11 12 13
1) 5 pm Frances Fox Piven will present Challenging Authority: How Ordinary People Change America.
2) 4 pm GSAS New Student Welcome reception.
3) Last day to drop/add online
4) URF applications due to Dean
14
Piven seminar (closed)
15 16
17 18 19
Department Meeting
20
David Karp discusses Is It Me Or My Meds? at 7:30 pm in Devlin 101 as part of the Writers Among Us series.
21 22
1) Department Seminar: David Karp will present "Is it Me or My Meds: Living With Anti-Depressants"
Noon, McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge
2) Faculty deadline to submit TAME (Teaching, Advising and Mentoring Expense Grant) applications to Chair
23
24

Beginning of Year Welcome Party
3-6 pm
25 26
Department Seminar: Sarah Babb presents “The Banks and the Beltway: Three Decades of Washington Politics and Multilateral Development Institutions”
Noon, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge
27 28 29
1) Sabbatical applications due to Chair
2) REG (Research Expense Grant) applications due to Chair
3) Parents' Weekend
30
Parents' Weekend

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October 2006

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1
Parents' Weekend
2
Last day to drop course (undergrads only) in Associate Deans' offices
3
Wine and cheese to welcome part time and visiting faculty
4 pm 3rd floor lounge
4 5 6
Technology outages this weekend
7
8 9
Columbus Day, No Classes
Office Closed
10
Department Seminar: John Williamson presents “Recent Social Security Reforms in China”
Noon, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge
11 12
Football game tonight. Admin offices close at 3 p.m. Parking/driving will be difficult. No faculty will be permitted on campus after 3 pm without a special football parking permit.
13 14
15 16 17
12-1:00 Higgens 345. Discussion of grad student/advisor relationship; faculty, staff, post-docs, grad students, and undergrads involved in research are welcome.
18 19
1) Deadline to RSVP (to rcrprog@bc.edu for grad student workshop on oral presentations 10/25
2) Professors and Pastries at Gasson 100 3:30-5: Living Ethically and Contributing Socially
20
Technology outages this weekend
21
22 23 24
Department Seminar: Jackie Orr presents “Daddy Does Cybernetics: Diary of a Mental Patient”
Noon, McGuinn third floor lounge
25
1) Professors and Pastries at 3:30-5:00 at Gasson 100: Studying, Working, and Living Abroad
2) Workshop for grad students on oral presentations, 6-8:30 pm at Murray Room at Yawkey Center. (RSVP required.)
26
Undergrad Studies meets from 12-1:15 in McGuinn 415
27 28
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November 2006

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
      1 2
Grad Studies Meeting 12-1:15 in McGuinn 415
3 4
5 6 7
Lecture Committee Meeting 12-1:15
8 9
1) Faculty and Staff Health Fair 10-3 Yawkey Center 4th floor
2) Graduate registration begins
10
1) Faculty applications for RIG (Research Incentive Grant) due to Chair
2) Undergrad registration begins
11
Home game with Duke at 7 pm
12 13 14
Department Meeting
15 16
A&S faculty meeting with Bert Garza 4:30-6 in McGuinn 121
17
A&S faculty meeting with Bert Garza 3-4:30 in McGuinn 121
18
Home game with Maryland, time TBA
19 20 21
Department Seminar: Juliet Schor presents “The Social Death of Stuff: Accumulation and Discard in the Global Economy”
Noon, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge
22
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
23
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
Office Closed
24
Thanksgiving Break
No Classes
Office Closed
25
26 27
Last day for withdrawal from a course or the university
28
1) Staff GSAS meeting 10-12
2) Workshop on use of technology in teaching 12-1:20 (McGuinn 415)
(Both department meeting and grad studies meeting have been cancelled)
29 30    

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December 2006

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
          1
Last date for students who graduate in December 06 to confirm online.
MA and PhD candidates turn in signed and approved copies of these and dissertations for Dec 06 graduation
2
3 4 5
Department Seminar:
Ted Gaiser and Jared Del Rosso present “ethnography@penisanity.com: Qualitative Methods Online"
Noon, McGuinn 3rd Floor Lounge
6 7 8 9
Study Day
10
Study Day
11
Study Day
12
Final Exams
13
Final Exams
14
Final Exams
15
Final Exams
Department Holiday Party, 2pm
McGuinn 5th Floor Lounge
16
Final Exams
17
Final Exams
18
Final Exams
19
Final Exams
20 21 22 23
24 25
Christmas Break
Office Closed
26
Christmas Break
Office Closed
27
Christmas Break
Office Closed
28
Christmas Break
Office Closed
29
Christmas Break
Office Closed
30
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January 2007

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
  1
New Year's Day
Office Closed
2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12 13
14 15
Martin Luther King, Jr. B-Day
Office Closed
16
Classes begin

Drop/Add Period Begins

Departmental meeting 12-1:15

17 18 19 20
21 22 23
Department Seminar
Stephen Pfohl presents Feedback, Fear, and Fascination: Cybernetic Social Control and Global Capitalist Power.
24
Drop/Add Period Ends

Last day for students graduating in May to confirm online

25 26 27
28 29 30
Undergrad Studies Meeting 12 noon, 415 McGuinn
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February 2007

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
        1
Public Sociology meeting 12:00 Higgins 263
2
Faculty deadline for submitting TAM (Teaching, Advising, and Mentoring) grant application
3
4 5 6
Department Seminar
Darcy Leach presents The Way is the Goal: Ideology and Practice in the German Autonomous Movement.
7 8 9 10
11 12 13
Departmental Meeting 12-1:15
14 15 16 17
18 19 20
Department Seminar
Nazli Kibria presents Migration and Muslim Identities in the Bangladesh Diaspora.
21 22
Advisory Committee Meeting, noon-1:15, McGuinn 415
23 24
25 26 27 28      

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March 2007

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
        1
Grad Studies meeting 12 noon McGuinn 415
2 3
4 5
Spring Break
6
Spring Break
7
Spring Break
8
Spring Break
9
Spring Break
10
11 12 13
Department Seminar
David Swartz presents The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.
14 15
Last date for undergrads to drop a 6th course in their Associate Dean's office
16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27
Department Seminar
Zine Magubane presents Movies, Madonna, and Malawi: Africa and the New Cult of Celebrity".
28 29
Dept Meeting 12-1:15

NAWCHE Speaker Series: Marya Hornbacher 7 pm, Higgins 300
30 REG (Research Expense Grant) applications due to Chair 31

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April 2007

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1 2
MA & PH.D students turn in signed & approved copies of theses and dissertations for May 07 graduation
3 4 5
Holy Thursday
No Classes
6
Good Friday
No Classes
Office Closed
7
8 9
Easter Monday
No Classes
10
Department Seminar
Charles Morris presents Hard Evidence: The Vexations of Lincoln's Queer Corpus.
11
Graduate Registration begins
12
Grad Studies meeting 12 noon McGuinn 415

Undergrad Registration begins
13 14
15 16
Patriot's Day
No Classes
Office Closed
17
Department Meeting 12-1:15
18 19 20 21
22 23
Post-tenure seminar led by Paul Gray:
Doing Well and Good
The Logic of Capitalism Revisited

4-5:30 3rd floor McGuinn
24
Last day for official withdrawal from a course or the university
Department Seminar
Shawn McGuffey presents African-Americans and Racial Appraisals: Gender, Sexuality, and Intra-racial Rape.
25 26 27 28
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May 2007

Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
    1
Grad Studies meeting (if needed) 12 noon McGuinn 415
2 3 4
Study Day
5
Study Day
6
Study Day
7
Study Day
8
Final Exams
9
Final Exams
10
Final Exams
11
Final Exams
12
Final Exams
13
Final Exams
14
Final Exams
15
Final Exams
16 17 18 19
20 21
Commencement
22 23 24 25 26
27 28
Memorial Day
Office Closed
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