Upcoming Presentations
For more information or to join the seminar’s listserv, please email kevanharris@soc.ucla.edu or jweinger@ucla.edu. Seminars take place in Haines Hall 279 at 5 pm.
Spring 2024
April 4, 2024
Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
“‘But Switzerland’s Boring’: Snobbery, Stigma And Why The Wealthy Say No To Tax Migration”
April 25, 2024
Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University
“A Fiduciary Empire Divided”
May 16, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
“Patient Capital, Impatient Organizations: Producing ‘Hypergrowth’ Inside a Tech Startup”
May 23, 2024
Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Princeton University
Winter 2024
February 8, 2024
Charles Tilly Collegiate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
“Durkheim, (anti)colonialism, (anti)imperialism, and postcolonial theory”
February 22, 2024
Distinguished Professor, UC San Diego
“Privilege versus Right: Jewish Vigilantism against Israel’s Palestinian Citizens”
February 29, 2024
Assistant Professor, UCLA
“Weaponizing Shelter” (from Cruel Streets: Policing and Punishing the Unhoused in the American City, under contract with University of California Press)
March 6, 2024
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
“The New Industrial Policy and the Political Economy of Conditionality”
March 14, 2024
Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA Sociology
“On the Indispensability of the Disability Category for Modern State Administration”
Fall 2023
October 15, 2023
Graduate Student, UCLA Geography, “Los Angeles as Rent Plantation: A Racial Geography of Owners and Tenants”
October 12, 2023
Stone Program Postdoc at Harvard University & incoming Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC Berkeley, “Suburban Boardinghouses: Contesting Commercial Homeownership in Southern California.”
October 19, 2023
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia, “Official Rotation and Interstitial Emergence: Corruption and the Rise of Alternative Political Networks in China”
October 26, 2023
Emeritus University Professor of Social Science, University of Amsterdam, “Against Women: The Worldwide War Against Emancipation by Religious Fundamentalists and Extreme Rightists”
November 30, 2023
Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Service, New York University, “Black Lives Matter and the Shifting Geography of Implicit Racial Bias”
December 7, 2023
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan, “Balancing Gender at Work: Contradictory Identities and Feminized Ambition Among University Graduates in Kampala”