平特五不中

Seminars

The following list contains seminars delivered by the Sociology Department, as well as other departments and centres at 平特五不中. More information on external seminars (including slides from past presentations) may be available on the following sites: Centre on Population Dynamics; Social Studies of Medicine Seminars; Centre for Research on Children and Families Seminars.

Fall 2024

Date Speaker Seminar Location
November 13, 12:00 - 13:00 Fauzia Husain, Queens University听 Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan鈥檚 Frontline Women Leacock 429
November 24, 12:00 - 13:00 Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University

Why Fromm Now? The decline and revival of a critical sociological theory

Peterson Hall 116
December 4, 12:00 - 13:00 Casey Stockstill, Dartmouth False Starts: The Segregated Lives of Preschoolers Leacock 429

Winter 2023

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
March 10, 13:00 - 14:30 Erik Schneiderhan, University of Toronto "GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding"

TBA

Winter听2022

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
March 25, 10:30 - 12:00 Regina Baker, University of Pennsylvania "Structural Racism, Family Structure, and Black-White Inequality: The Differential Impact of the Legacy of Slavery on Poverty among Single Mother and Married Parent Households"

Remote presentation

February 25, 12:00 - 1:30 Kate Choi, Western University "The COVID-19 Pandemic: An unequal Journey Revealing the Fissures in Canadian Society" Remote presentation

Fall听2021

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
October 22, 3:00 - 4:30 Lisa Kaida, McMaster University "Revisiting Gender Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada, 1991-2016"

Remote presentation
plus room 738 to meet in person, if willing

Winter 2021

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
January 22, 10.30 - 12.00 Robin Gray, UoT.听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听 "Repatriating Indigenous Cultural Heritage: A Case of Ts鈥檓syen Songs"

Remote presentation

February 5, 15.00 -
16.30
Gordon Christie, UBC. 鈥淭hinking about Indigenous Self-determination and Ways Forward.鈥 Remote presentation
March 19, TBA Monica Bell, Yale University. TBA TBA

Fall 2020

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
October 23, 3:00 PM Joane Nagel, University of Kansa 鈥淕ender and Climate Change.鈥 Remote presentation
November 13, 3:00 PM Amin Ghaziani, UBC 鈥淢atters of Culture: From the Metropolis to Measurement and Modes of Inequality.鈥 Remote presentation
December 4, 3:00 PM Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto 鈥溾 Remote presentation

Winter 2020

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
March 20, 1:00 PM - CANCELLED CANCELLED due to COVID-19: Erick Schneiderhan, University of Toronto CANCELLED: "Tentative topic: Crodworthy? Crowdfunding of Education and Health Provision in Canada." Leacock 738
February 21, 1:00 PM Darryl Leroux, St. Mary's University "Tentative topic: Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity." Leacock 738
January, 24, 1:00 PM Jean Beaman, University of California Santa Barbara "Tentative topic: Middle-class minorities, racism, and citizenship in France." Leacock 738

Fall 2019

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location

October 18, 12:30听PM

Rochelle C么t茅, Memorial University of Newfounland "Tentative topic: The False Dichotomy of Identity versus Wealth?" Leacock 738

Winter 2019

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
March 29, 12:30 PM Jaclyn Wong, University of South Carolina "Negotiating Competing Desires: How Young Professionals Make Career and Family Decisions." Leacock 738
February 15,12:30 PM Arvind Karunakaran, Desautels Faculty of Management, 平特五不中 "Navigating Status-Authority Asymmetry between Professions: The Case of 911 Emergency Management" Leacock 738

Winter 2018

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
January 19, 10:30 AM

Clayton Childress,听University of Toronto

"Under the Cover: The Creation, Production, and Reception of a Novel"

Leacock 738
February 23, 2:30PM

Jaime Lluch, University of Puerto Rico

"Visions of Sovereignty and Catalonia/Spain in 2018" Leacock 738
March 23, 2PM

Round Table with Walter Scheidel听and Branko Milanovic

"The past and future of global inequality: The North vs the South"

Wendy Patrick Room,

Wilson Hall

Fall听2017

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
September 22, 2PM

Ingrid Waldron, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University听

"Race, Place, & the Environment: Mapping Spatialities of Violence in Indigenous & Black Communities in Nova Scotia"

Leacock 738
October 13, 2:30PM

Filiz Garip, Cornell University

"Network Effects & Social Inequality: How do Mechanisms Matter" Leacock 738
November 24, 2PM

Jeffrey Denis, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology,听McMaster University听

TBA

Leacock 738

Winter 2017

Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Feb. 15, 11:00-12:30

, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, and Fulbright Scholar, McMaster University Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition

"Mobilizing Morality: Migrant Domestic Workers in Dubai"

TBA
March 10, 11:45-13:15

, Associate Professor of Economics, Columbia University

"Unions and Inequality in Historical Perspective" TBA
March 17, 11:45-13:15 PM

, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology, Providence College

"Crisis Politics: Comparing the decline of 鈥渋nclusive鈥 racial Democracy in the U.S. Secession Crisis and the Election of Donald Trump"

Peterson 116

Winter 2015

January 2015
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Jan. 12, 3:30-5:00 PM Sally E. Merry, NYU, Anthropology and Law.

"How Big is the Trafficking Problem? The Mystery of Quantification鈥 听(sponsored jointly with Anthropology and the Faculty of Law)

Peterson Hall 116
Jan. 21, 12-1 PM Farhan Majid, Institute for Health and Social Policy, 平特五不中

"The Persistent Effects of the Fetal Environment Over the Life Cycle: Evidence From Ramadan Fasting"

Leacock 429
February 2015
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Feb. 4, 12-1 PM , Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health

"The developmental origins of inequalities in common mental disorders"

Leacock 429
Feb. 11, 12-1 PM Neil Andersson, Family Medecine, 平特五不中

"Women make it work: planned behaviour and intermediate outcomes in a cluster RCT of dengue prevention in Mexico"

Leacock 429
Feb. 18, 12-1 PM ,听Center for Complex Network Research,听Northeastern University "Quantifying patterns of scientific excellence" Leacock 429
Feb. 20, 3:30-5 PM , Anthropology, University College London Where have all the nomads gone? Unpicking the diverse statistical invisibilities of African pastoral nomads Leacock 738
Feb. 25, 12-1 PM Thomas Soehl, Sociology, 平特五不中 "Incentives for the Transmission of Cultural Practices: Language and Religion in Migrant Families in France" Leacock 429
March 2015
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
March 11, 12-1 PM , Demography, Univerist茅 de Montr茅al The Data Revolution: Overview and the Perspective of Demographers Leacock 429
March 18, 12-1 PM , Economics, Boston University "The Sad Truth About Happiness Scales" Leacock 429
March 20, 3-4.30 PM , Sociology, University of Toronto Citizen Protectors: The Everyday Politics of Guns in an Age of Decline Leacock 738
March 25, 12-1 PM ,听Department of Policy Analysis and Management & Economics, Cornell University "Incentivizing Nutritious Diets:听 A Field Experiment of Relative Price Changes and How They Are Framed" Leacock 429
April 2015
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Apr. 1, 12-1 PM , School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University TBA Leacock 429

Apr. 8, 12-1 PM

,听Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University

"Conditional Economic Incentives to Reduce HIV Risks: Results from a Randomized Controlled Pilot among Male Sex Workers in Mexico City"

Leacock 429
April 10, 8:30 AM-4.30 PM Department of Sociology presents: Symposium on "Diversity, Inequality, Integration" 平特五不中 Faculty Club听3450 McTavish
April 24, 3:30-5:00 PM , Sociology, University of British Columbia Genetic Options: The Impact of Genetic Ancestry Testing on Ethnic and Racial Identities Leacock 808

Fall 2014

September 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Sept, 17, 12:00-13:00 PM , Economics, Universit茅 de Montr茅al "" Leacock 429
Sept. 24, 12:00-13:00 PM , Institute for Health and Social Policy, 平特五不中 "Exploring the Political Determinants of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa" Leacock 429
October 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Oct. 1, 12:00-13:00 PM , Epidemiology, 平特五不中 "Trends in Racial Inequalities in Life Expectancy among US States: Progress and Pitfalls" Leacock 429
Oct. 3, 2:00-3:30 PM ,听Department of National Security Affairs, School of International Graduate Studies, Naval Postgraduate School "Nationalism versus Islamism: the politics of language in Muslim minority mobilizations" Leacock 738
Oct. 8, 12:00-13:00 PM Raquel Fonseca, Economics, 鲍蚕脌惭 "Does Retirement Make you Happy? A Simultaneous Equations Approach" Leacock 429
Oct. 15, 12:00-13:00 PM , School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University "Migration, Schooling Aspirations, and the Role of Sending Community Context" Leacock 429
Oct. 22, 12:00-13:00 PM Ashley Naimi, Obstetrics and Gynecology, 平特五不中 "Assessing the Impact of Hypothetical Interventions to Reduce Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth" Leacock 429
Oct. 24, 3:30-5:00 PM , INED (France鈥檚 National Demographic Institute) Reunifying versus Living Apart Together Across Borders:听A Comparative Analysis of Sub-Saharan Migration to Europe Leacock 738
Oct. 29, 12:00-13:00 PM , Economics, Brown University "Inequality, Relative Income and Health at Birth" Leacock 429
November 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Nov. 5, 12:00-13:00 PM , Public Policy and Economics, Duke Sanford "Novel Cognitive Skill Measures in a Population-based Survey" Leacock 429
Nov. 12, 12:00-13:00 PM , Economics, Brown University "Hospital Insurance, Utilization and Mortality: Evidence from Medicare's Evolution" Leacock 429
Nov. 19, 12:00-13:00 PM , Public Health, University of California, Irvine "Ambient temperature during pregnancy and cold-related adult mortality in a Swedish cohort, 1915-2002" Leacock 429
December 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Dec. 3, 12:00-13:00 PM , Demography,听University of Cape Town "Exploring the paradox of intimate partner violence and increased contraceptive use in sub-Saharan Africa" Leacock 429
Dec. 8, 3:30-5:00 PM , post-doctoral fellow, Charles University in Prague 鈥淲hat Can a City do for Immigrants? A Canadian-French Comparison鈥 (Co-sponsored by the Departments of Geography and Sociology) Leacock 738

Winter 2014

JANUARY 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Jan. 12, 12:00-13:30 PM , NYU, Anthropology and Law. TBA (sponsored jointly with Anthropology and the Faculty of Law) Leacock 738
Jan. 22, 12:00-13:00 PM , Geographic Information Centre, 平特五不中 "Selective logging and landscape structure patterns in five Conservation Areas in Costa Rica" Leacock 429
Jan. 24, 3:00 PM

,听Sociology, Mississippi State University

鈥淣ormative and political economic barriers to adopting climate change mitigation practices鈥 Leacock 738
Jan. 29, 12:00-13:00 PM Pierre-Carl Michaud Economics,听鲍蚕脌惭 "Career Disruption and Physiological Dysregulation" Leacock 429
February 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Feb. 5, 12:00-13:00 PM , Sociology, Barnard College "From Multi-Racial Subjects to Multi-Cultural Citizens: Social听Stratification and Ethnic and Racial Classification among Children of Immigrants in the United Kingdom" Leacock 429
Feb. 12, 12:00-13:00 PM Christina Wolfson, Epidemiology, 平特五不中 "The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging:听 A Platform for Interdisciplinary Research" Leacock 429

Feb. 14, 3:00 PM

, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University

"Coordinating Public Health:听 Between Organizational Practice and Governance"

Leacock 738

Feb. 19, 12:00-13:00 PM , Economics, University of Toronto "Violent Relationships" Leacock 429
Feb. 26,12:00-13:00 PM , Sociology, Yale University "Cumulative Risks of Confirmed Maltreatment听and Foster Care Placement for American Children" Leacock 429
March 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
March 12, 12:00-13:00 PM , Economics, Universit茅 de Montr茅al "Baby Boom, Baby Bust and the Great Depression" Leacock 429

March 14, 3:00 PM

Jennifer Fishman,听Social Studies of Medicine Department, 平特五不中

"The Expansion of Fragile X Carrier Testing: Prospective Parenting, Moral Burdens, and Genetic Responsibilities鈥

Leacock 738

March 19, 12:00-13:00 PM Sarah Brauner-Otto, Sociology, 平特五不中 "The Gendered Nature of Intergenerational Religious Influences and the Timing of First Marriage" Leacock 429
March 24, 4:00-5:30 PM

, Department of Anthropology, Director, Asian Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh

The Global Politics of Migrant Labor, Gender, and Everyday Life"

Burnside 426

March 26, 12:00-13:00 PM , Economics, University of Michigan "The Demand for Medical Male Circumcision" Leacock 429
April 2014
Date Speaker(s) Seminar Location
Apr. 2, 12:00-13:00 PM , Sociology, University of Victoria "Home Alone: Determinants of Living Alone among Older Immigrants in Canada and the U.S." Leacock 429
Apr. 4, 3:00 PM

Matissa Hollister, Organizational Behavior, Desautels Faculty of Management, 平特五不中

鈥淭rends in employment continuity among mothers in the U.S.鈥

Leacock 738

Fall 2013

September 2013
Date Speaker(s) Location
Wed, Sept. 11,
12:00-13:00 PM
Miles Taylor, Sociology, Florida State University
"The Good, the Bad, and the Mean (碌). Limitations and Extensions of Latent Growth Curves in Health Disparities Research"
Leacock 429
Wed, Sept. 18,
12:00-13:00 PM
, Economics,听World Bank
"Cash transfer amd child schooling: evidence from a randomized evaluation of the role of conditionality"
Leacock 429
Fri, Sept. 20,
3:00 PM
Prof Eran Shor,听Department of Sociology, 平特五不中,
"Shades of Foreign Evil鈥: 鈥淗onour Killings鈥 and 鈥淔amily Murders鈥 in the Canadian Press.
Leacock 738
October 2013
Date Speaker(s) Location
Wed, Oct 2,听
12:00-13:00 PM
, Economics, University of Toronto
"Do Stimulant Medications Improve Educational and Behavioral Outcomes for Children with ADHD听"
Leacock 429
Wed, Oct 9,听
12:00-13:00 PM

Morton Weinfeld, Sociology 平特五不中
"Issues with the Canadian census relating to counting religious and ethnic minorities:听the Jewish Case"

Leacock 429
Wed, Oct. 16,听
12:00-13:00 PM
Lisa Kaida, Sociology, Memorial University
"Too poor to work?听Family Poverty and the Employment of Children of Immigrants"
Leacock 429
Fri, Oct. 18,听
3:00 PM

Prof. Edward O. Laumann,听[Talk co-sponsored by Centre on Population Dynamics.]听George H. Mead Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
"The Network Approach to STDs: An Introduction"

Leacock 738

Wed, Oct. 23,听
12:00-13:00 PM

, Sociology, Yale University
"Understanding the links between education and smoking"

Leacock 429

Wed, Oct. 30,听
12:00-13:00 PM

David Rothwell, Social Work, 平特五不中
"Definition and measurement of asset poverty in Canada"

Leacock 429

November 2013
Date Speaker(s) Location
Wed, Nov. 6,听
12:00-13:00 PM
Matissa Holister, School of Management, McGil
"Managerial Diversity and Firm Size听in the United States 1971-2004"
Leacock 429
Wed, Nov. 13,听
12:00-13:00 PM
, Economics, University of Toronto
CANCELLED
Leacock 429
Wed, Nov. 20,听
3:00 PM

,听Economics, Dartmouth
"Unemployment and Disability: Evidence from the Great Recession"

Leacock 429

Fri, Nov. 22,听
3:00 PM

Jerald Hage.听Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park
"Rethinking the Concept of Social Evolution"

Leacock 738

Winter 2013

April 2013
Date Speaker(s) Location
Fri, Apr 5
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Prof Eran Shor. Department of Sociology, 平特五不中,
Why Do They Legislate? A Cross-National Analysis of Terrorism and Counterterrorist Legislation鈥
Leacock 738
March 2013
Date Speaker(s) Location

Fri, Mar 1
3:00 - 5:00 PM

, Department of Government, Harvard University. Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor & Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science
"Big Data Is Not About the Data!"
Faculty Club Ballroom

Wed, Mar 13
12:00-1:00 PM

, Economics, 鲍蚕脌惭
"Prenatal nutritional program and child health at birth: empirical evaluation of the impact of the OLO program in Canada"
Leacock 429
Wed, Mar 20
12:00-1:00 PM
Laurent Roy, Census Operations, Statistics Canada
"National Household Survey: collection, quality and dissemination"
Leacock 429

Fri, Mar 22
1:00 - 3:00 PM

Andreas Wimmer
Cultural Distance, Blocked Assimilation, or Oppositional Culture? Immigrant Acculturation in 24 European Countries
Leacock 738
Wed, Mar 27
12:00-1:00 PM
, Economics, Duke University
"Does the Classic Microfinance Model Discourage Entrepreneurship among the Poor? Experimental Evidence from India"
Leacock 429
February 2013
Date Speaker(s) Location

Mon, Feb 4th
12:00 - 13:00

, Department of Global Health and Population, Havard School of Public Health
"Life and Death in African Slums"
429 Leacock
Wed, Feb 13th
12:00 - 13:00
, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia Population Research Centre
"Problems of passive surveillance for sensitive events in times of war: when is health information propaganda?"
429 Leacock
Wed, Feb 20th
12:00 - 13:00
, Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
"Peer Effects in Sexual Initiation: Separating Demand and Supply Mechanisms"
429 Leacock

Fri, Feb 22th
15:00 - 17:00
,Sociology Department,听University at Albany
"From Consensus to Paralysis in the United States, 1960-2010"
738 Leacock
Wed, Feb 27th
12:00 - 13:00
TBA 429 Leacock
January 2013
Date Speaker(s) Location
Friday, Jan 11
3:00 pm

Professor Am茅lie Quesnel-Vall茅e,听Department of Sociology,听平特五不中
"Understanding the Role of Policy in Health Inequalities"

Leacock 738
Wednesday, Jan. 16
12:00-13:00 PM

, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University
"Gene-Environment Interactions, Health Behaviors and Public Policy"

Leacock 429

Wednesday, Jan. 23
12:00-13:00 PM

, INRS, Urbanisation, culture et soci茅t茅
"Population Aging, Immigration and Future Labor Shortage : Myths and Virtual Reality"

Leacock 429
Wednesday, Jan. 30
12:00-13:00 PM

Fabian Lange, Economics, 平特五不中
"Fertility Transitions along the Extensive and Intensive Margins"

Leacock 429

Fall 2012

September 2012
Date Speaker(s) Location

Wednesday,
Sept. 19
12:00-1:00 PM

, Institute for Health and Social Policy, 平特五不中
"The Qu茅bec convergence and Canadian life satisfaction, 1985-2008"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Sept. 20
3:00 PM

Matthew Lange, Sociology, 平特五不中
The Missionary Origins of Ethnic Violence

Leacock 738

Wednesday,
Sept. 26
12:00-1:00 PM

, Sociology, University of New Brunswick
"To the excess?: Household dynamics and outcomes in men and women's long-distance commuting"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Sept. 29
1:00 -2:30 PM
,听Sociology, Oxford University
"Political Agency, Resistance and Protest in the UK Immigration Detention System鈥
平特五不中 Political Sociology Workshop
Leacock 738
October 2012
Date Speaker(s) Location

Wednesday,听
Oct. 3

12:00-1:00 PM

Aniruddha (Bobby) Das, Sociology, 平特五不中
"Some recent findings in the biosociology/biodemography of aging"
Leacock 429
Friday,听
Oct. 5
3:30 PM

, Sociology,听University of Washington
"Structural Crises and Institutional Legacies: Explaining Patterns of State Formation in Southeast Asia"

Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Oct. 10
12:00-1:00 PM
, Sociology, University of Washington
"Invisible Men:听 Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress"
Leacock 927
Wednesday,
Oct. 17
12:00-1:00 PM
Rachel Margolis, Sociology, Western University
"Happiness Before and After the Kids: The Importance of Parental Well-being for Understanding Low Fertility"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 24
12:00-1:00 PM

Eran Shor. Sociology, 平特五不中

"A Paper Ceiling? The Origins of Gender Inequality in Printed News Coverage, 1880-2008"

Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 31
12:00-1:00 PM

, Social and Preventive Medicine, Universit茅 de Montr茅al
"Measuring Social Inequalities in Health: Going Beyond Description to Support Intervention"

Leacock 429
November 2012
Date Speaker(s) Location

Thursday,
Nov. 1,
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Robert Whitley, Department of Psychiatry, 平特五不中
"Social defeat or social resistance? Reaction to fear of crime among low-income African Americans with a severe mental illness"
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Nov. 7,
12:00pm - 1:00pm
, Social and Preventive Medicine, Universit茅 de Montr茅al
"Three-dimensional behavioral trajectories based on two informants: estimation with KmL3D software and predictive values"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 14,
12:00pm - 1:00pm
, Economics, University of Ottawa
"Virginity and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Nov. 15,
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Morton Weinfeld, Department of Sociology, 平特五不中
"Multicultural Minorities听and the听Dilemma of Dual/divided Loyalties: The Jewish Case"
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Nov. 21,
12:00pm - 1:00pm
, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
"Age at immigration and the adult attainments of child migrants"
Leacock 429

Past

Winter 2012

January 2012
Date Speaker(s) Location
Wednesday,
Jan. 18
12:00-1:00 PM
, Sociology, Stony Brook University
"The Social Stratification of Fame"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Jan. 25
12:00-1:00 PM
, Economics, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Montr茅al
"The impact of the Quebec School Reform on Mathematics: results from NLSCY"
Leacock 429
February 2012
Date Speaker(s) Location
Wednesday,
Feb. 1
12:00-1:00 PM
,Department of Government, Harvard University
"Partisan Convergence in Executive-Legislative Interactions: Modeling Debates in the House of Commons, 1832-1915"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Feb. 8
12:00-1:00 PM
, Political Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam听
"The (in)explicable (ir)rationality of political trust in Europe"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Feb. 9
1:00-2:30 PM
, Department of Sociology at Bates College
"Frames, Scripts, and the Making of Regional Trade Agreements Worldwide"
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Feb. 15
1:00 -2:30 PM
, Institute of Applied Economics, HEC
"The Inefficiency of Worker Time Use"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Feb. 29
1:00 -2:30 PM

, Human Sciences, Universit茅 du Qu茅bec 脿 Chicoutimi

"Ancestral origins and the genetic heritage of Quebec_regional populations"

Leacock 429
March 2012
Date Speaker(s) Location
Friday,
Mar. 2
2:00-3:30 PM
, Queens University
"What does the "crisis of masculinity" mean in African Studies"
听ISID Speaker Series
Arts 160
Wednesday,
Mar. 7
12:00-1:00 PM
Jay Kaufman, Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, 平特五不中
"Nature versus Nurture in the Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Mar. 14
12:00-1:00 PM
, Geography, 平特五不中听
"Unpacking the geographical dimensions of income inequality in Canada"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Mar. 15
4:00 PM
,听Department of Sociology,听Harvard University
鈥淩adical or Righteous? 听Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of Political Violence in El Salvador鈥
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Mar. 21
12:00-1:00 PM
, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC)听
"Reducing Barriers to Postsecondary Education Through Innovative Interventions: Evidence from Canadian Field Experiments"
Leacock 429
Friday,
Mar. 23
TBA
TBA TBA
Wednesday,
Mar. 28
12:00-1:00 PM
, Sociology, Bowling Green State University
"Cohabitation and Marital Dissolution: Evidence from a Recent Marriage Cohort"
Leacock 429

Fall 2011

September 2011
Date Speaker(s) Location
Wednesday,
Sept. 21
12:00-1:00 PM
, Demography, Statistics Canada
"Future Ethnocultural Composition of the Canadian Population听: Key Findings from Demosim"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Sept. 28
12:00-1:00 PM
, Economics, 平特五不中
"Social Exchange and Risk and Ambiguity Preferences"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Sept. 29
1:00 -2:30 PM
(Sociology, Oxford University)
"Political Agency, Resistance and Protest in the UK Immigration Detention System鈥
平特五不中 Political Sociology Workshop
Leacock 738
October 2011
Date Speaker(s) Location
Tuesday,
Oct. 4
3:00-5:00 PM
(Instituto de Asuntos Publicos, Universidad de Chile)
Prof. Philip Oxhorn(Political Science, 平特五不中)
Prof. Marcos Ancelovici (Sociology, 平特五不中)
"Social Movements and Student Protest in Chile: the Beginning of a Post-Pinochet Order?" A Panel Discussion
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 5
12:00-1:00 PM
, Health Policy, Harvard University
"Long-term effect of in-utero rainfall on maternal mortality: Evidence from sub-Saharan Africa"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 12
12:00-1:00 PM
Beno卯t-Paul H茅bert, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
"Life events and the timing of retirement: An event history analysis using the 2007 General Social Survey"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Oct. 13
3:00-5:00 PM
, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
鈥淭he Construction of Managerial Discourse in Education : The Case of Israel鈥
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Oct. 19
12:00-1:00 PM
, Sociology, University of Western Ontario
"The Link Between Childhood Adversity and Adult Health Risk Trajectories"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 26
12:00-1:00 PM
Hicham Ra茂q, Sociology, Universit茅 de Montr茅al &听Axel van den Berg, Sociology, 平特五不中
"Family Type and Poverty under Different Welfare Regimes: A Comparison of Canadian Provinces and Select European Countries"
Leacock 429
November 2011
Date Speaker(s) Location
Wednesday,
Nov. 2
12:00-1:00 PM
David John Roelfs, Sociology, University of Louiseville
"Unlikely Locations: Enclosed Malls, Small Markets, and Civic Prestige"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 9
12:00-1:00 PM
Shelley Clark, Sociology, 平特五不中
"Single motherhood and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa:听 A life course perspective"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 16
12:00-1:00 PM
, Sociology, Queen's University
鈥淔amily Structure, Ethnicity, and The Transition to First Sex in Ghana鈥
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 16
1:00 PM
Dr. Akosua Darkwah,听Department of Sociology,听University of Ghana, Legon
鈥淭he Global Meets the Local: An Analysis of the Impact of Global Economic Reform on Ghanaian Women's Work鈥
Peterson Hall, Rm 310
Thursday,
Nov. 17
1:00-2:30 PM
George Ross (Jean Monnet Chair at the Universit茅 de Montr茅al)
鈥淭he Eurozone Crisis,鈥 平特五不中 Political Sociology Workshop
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Nov. 23
12:00-1:00 PM
Jacques Ledent, Int茅gration 茅conomique des immigrants, INRS
"Overeducation among salaried workers of immigrant origin in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver听: a comparative analysis"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Nov. 24
3:00-5:00 PM
Elizabeth Jelin, Senior Researcher at CONICET, "Public Memorialization in Perspective: Truth, Justice and Memory of Past Repression in the Southern Cone of South America" Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, Room 2/36,听3640 rue University
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