Upcoming Presentations

For more information or to join the seminar’s listserv, please email soc237@soc.ucla.edu. Seminars take place in Haines Hall 279 at 5pm.

Fall 2024

Salma Mousa

October 10, 2024

Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCLA

“Intergroup Contact, Empathy Training, and Refugee-Native Integration in Lebanon” (with Lennard Naumann and Alexandra Scacco)

Kelsey Norman

October 24, 2024

Fellow and Director of the Women’s Rights, Human Rights & Refugees program at the Edward P. Djerejian Center for the Middle East at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy

“Migration Management Aid, Governance, and Repression” (with Nickolas Micinski)

Kim Pernell

November 7, 2024

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

“Visions of Financial Order”

Faith Deckard

November 21, 2024

Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA

Simone Zhang

December 5, 2024

Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU

Winter 2025

Neil Gong

January 23, 2025

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California San Diego

Zachary Levenson

January 30, 2025

Assistant Professor of Global and Sociocultural Studies, Florida International University

“Absorbed in Struggle: South Africa’s Passive Revolution from Below” (with Marcel Paret)

Kathleen Griesbach

February 6, 2025

Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

Liz Koslov

March 5, 2025 (Special Mid-Day Event @12 Noon)

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability

Ya-Wen Lei

March 13, 2025

Professor of Sociology, Harvard University

Spring 2025

Khalid Mustafa Medani

April 17, 2025

Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies, McGill University

Sam Lutzker

May 22, 2025

Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, UCLA