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
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)
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)
November 7, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
“Visions of Financial Order”
November 21, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology, UCLA
“Enforcing Visibility” (with Mary Ellen Stitt)
December 5, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology, NYU
“Tipping the Balance: Predictive Algorithms and Institutional Decision-Making in Context”
Winter 2025
January 23, 2025
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California San Diego
“Managing the Homeless Migrant: Asylum-Seeking as an Object of Urban Poverty Governance”
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)
February 6, 2025
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin
“Labor at the Margins: How Time and Space Uncertainty Shape Precarious Work”
February 12, 2025 (Department Colloquium 3-4:30pm in Haines 279)
Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UNC Chapel Hill
“Challenging Inequality: Variation across Post-Industrial Societies”
February 27, 2025
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, UCLA
“Dissimilation: Shifting the Perspective on Migrant Outcomes”
March 5, 2025 (Special Mid-Day Event @12 Noon)
Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability
“Retreat: Moving to Higher Ground in a Climate-Changed City”
March 13, 2025
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology, UCLA
“The Vehicle as Homeless Problem or Housing Solution? Towards a Framework of ‘Vehicle Residency’”
Spring 2025
April 17, 2025
Associate Professor of Political Science and Islamic Studies, McGill University
April 24, 2025
Israel Institute Fellow at UCLA’s Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies and UCLA’s Department of Sociology
