The following list contains seminars delivered by the Sociology Department, as well as other departments and centres at . 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.
Winter 2025
Date | Speaker | Seminar | Location | |
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January 21, 11:00 - 12:00 | Manuel Vallee, University of Auckland | Managing Public Resistance to Environmental Harms through Ignorance Production: New Zealand's 2002-2004 Urban Pesticide Spraying Campaign | Peterson Hall 116 | |
February 20, 11:00 - 12:00 |
Ellen Berrey, University of Toronto |
U.S. and Canadian Higher Education Protests and University and Police Responses, 2012 to 2018 Co-sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship |
Peterson Hall 116 | |
March 11, 11:00 - 12:00 | Galen Watts, University of Waterloo | From Outer to Inner: Moral Selfhood, Therapy Culture, and Conspicuous Reflexivity | Peterson Hall 116 |
Fall 2024
Date | Speaker | Seminar | Location | |
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November 13, 12:00 - 13:00 | Fauzia Husain, Queens University | Stigma Matrix: Gender, Globalization, and the Agency of Pakistan’s 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 | |
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March 10, 13:00 - 14:30 | Erik Schneiderhan, University of Toronto | "GoFailMe: The Unfulfilled Promise of Digital Crowdfunding" |
TBA |
Winter2022
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location | |
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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 |
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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 |
Fall2021
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location | |
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October 22, 3:00 - 4:30 | Lisa Kaida, McMaster University | "Revisiting Gender Occupational Segregation Trends in Canada, 1991-2016" |
Remote presentation |
Winter 2021
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location | |
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January 22, 10.30 - 12.00 | Robin Gray, UoT. | "Repatriating Indigenous Cultural Heritage: A Case of Ts’msyen Songs" |
Remote presentation |
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February 5, 15.00 - 16.30 |
Gordon Christie, UBC. | “Thinking about Indigenous Self-determination and Ways Forward.” | Remote presentation | |
March 19, TBA | Monica Bell, Yale University. | TBA | TBA |
Fall 2020
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location | |
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October 23, 3:00 PM | Joane Nagel, University of Kansa | “Gender and Climate Change.” | Remote presentation | |
November 13, 3:00 PM | Amin Ghaziani, UBC | “Matters of Culture: From the Metropolis to Measurement and Modes of Inequality.” | Remote presentation | |
December 4, 3:00 PM | Tahseen Shams, University of Toronto | “” | Remote presentation |
Winter 2020
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location | |
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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 | |
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October 18, 12:30PM |
Rochelle Côté, Memorial University of Newfounland | "Tentative topic: The False Dichotomy of Identity versus Wealth?" | Leacock 738 |
Winter 2019
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location | |
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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, | "Navigating Status-Authority Asymmetry between Professions: The Case of 911 Emergency Management" | Leacock 738 |
Winter 2018
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
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January 19, 10:30 AM |
Clayton Childress,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 Scheideland Branko Milanovic |
"The past and future of global inequality: The North vs the South" |
Wendy Patrick Room, Wilson Hall |
Fall2017
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
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September 22, 2PM |
Ingrid Waldron, Faculty of Health, Dalhousie University |
"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,McMaster University |
TBA |
Leacock 738 |
Winter 2017
Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
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Feb. 15, 11:00-12:30 |
, Professor of Sociology, University of Southern California, and Fulbright Scholar, McMaster University Institute on Globalization & the Human Condition |
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 “inclusive” racial Democracy in the U.S. Secession Crisis and the Election of Donald Trump" |
Peterson 116 |
Winter 2015
January 2015 | ||||
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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” (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, |
"The Persistent Effects of the Fetal Environment Over the Life Cycle: Evidence From Ramadan Fasting" |
Leacock 429 |
February 2015 | ||||
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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, |
"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 | ,Center for Complex Network Research,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, | "Incentives for the Transmission of Cultural Practices: Language and Religion in Migrant Families in France" | Leacock 429 |
March 2015 | ||||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location | |
March 11, 12-1 PM | , Demography, Univeristé de Montréal | 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 | ,Department of Policy Analysis and Management & Economics, Cornell University | "Incentivizing Nutritious Diets: A Field Experiment of Relative Price Changes and How They Are Framed" | Leacock 429 |
April 2015 | ||||
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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 |
,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" | Faculty Club3450 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 | |||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
Sept, 17, 12:00-13:00 PM | , Economics, Université de Montréal | "" | Leacock 429 |
Sept. 24, 12:00-13:00 PM | , Institute for Health and Social Policy, | "Exploring the Political Determinants of HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa" | Leacock 429 |
October 2014 | |||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
Oct. 1, 12:00-13:00 PM | , Epidemiology, | "Trends in Racial Inequalities in Life Expectancy among US States: Progress and Pitfalls" | Leacock 429 |
Oct. 3, 2:00-3:30 PM | ,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, À | "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, | "Assessing the Impact of Hypothetical Interventions to Reduce Racial Disparities in Preterm Birth" | Leacock 429 |
Oct. 24, 3:30-5:00 PM | , INED (France’s National Demographic Institute) | Reunifying versus Living Apart Together Across Borders: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 | |||
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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 | |||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
Dec. 3, 12:00-13:00 PM | , Demography,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 | “What Can a City do for Immigrants? A Canadian-French Comparison” (Co-sponsored by the Departments of Geography and Sociology) | Leacock 738 |
Winter 2014
JANUARY 2014 | |||
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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, | "Selective logging and landscape structure patterns in five Conservation Areas in Costa Rica" | Leacock 429 |
Jan. 24, 3:00 PM |
,Sociology, Mississippi State University |
“Normative and political economic barriers to adopting climate change mitigation practices” | Leacock 738 |
Jan. 29, 12:00-13:00 PM | Pierre-Carl Michaud Economics,À | "Career Disruption and Physiological Dysregulation" | Leacock 429 |
February 2014 | |||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
Feb. 5, 12:00-13:00 PM | , Sociology, Barnard College | "From Multi-Racial Subjects to Multi-Cultural Citizens: SocialStratification 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, | "The Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging: A Platform for Interdisciplinary Research" | Leacock 429 |
Feb. 14, 3:00 PM |
, Department of Political Science and Government, Aarhus University |
"Coordinating Public Health: 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 Maltreatmentand Foster Care Placement for American Children" | Leacock 429 |
March 2014 | |||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Seminar | Location |
March 12, 12:00-13:00 PM | , Economics, Université de Montréal | "Baby Boom, Baby Bust and the Great Depression" | Leacock 429 |
March 14, 3:00 PM |
Jennifer Fishman,Social Studies of Medicine Department, |
"The Expansion of Fragile X Carrier Testing: Prospective Parenting, Moral Burdens, and Genetic Responsibilities” |
Leacock 738 |
March 19, 12:00-13:00 PM | Sarah Brauner-Otto, Sociology, | "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 | |||
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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, |
“Trends in employment continuity among mothers in the U.S.” |
Leacock 738 |
Fall 2013
September 2013 | ||
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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 (µ). Limitations and Extensions of Latent Growth Curves in Health Disparities Research" |
Leacock 429 |
Wed, Sept. 18, 12:00-13:00 PM |
, Economics,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,Department of Sociology, , "Shades of Foreign Evil”: “Honour Killings” and “Family Murders” in the Canadian Press. |
Leacock 738 |
October 2013 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Wed, Oct 2, 12:00-13:00 PM |
, Economics, University of Toronto "Do Stimulant Medications Improve Educational and Behavioral Outcomes for Children with ADHD" |
Leacock 429 |
Wed, Oct 9, 12:00-13:00 PM |
Morton Weinfeld, Sociology |
Leacock 429 |
Wed, Oct. 16, 12:00-13:00 PM |
Lisa Kaida, Sociology, Memorial University "Too poor to work?Family Poverty and the Employment of Children of Immigrants" |
Leacock 429 |
Fri, Oct. 18, 3:00 PM |
Prof. Edward O. Laumann,[Talk co-sponsored by Centre on Population Dynamics.]George H. Mead Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. |
Leacock 738 |
Wed, Oct. 23, |
, Sociology, Yale University "Understanding the links between education and smoking" |
Leacock 429 |
Wed, Oct. 30, |
David Rothwell, Social Work, "Definition and measurement of asset poverty in Canada" |
Leacock 429 |
November 2013 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Wed, Nov. 6, 12:00-13:00 PM |
Matissa Holister, School of Management, McGil "Managerial Diversity and Firm Sizein the United States 1971-2004" |
Leacock 429 |
Wed, Nov. 13, 12:00-13:00 PM |
, Economics, University of Toronto CANCELLED |
Leacock 429 |
Wed, Nov. 20, 3:00 PM |
,Economics, Dartmouth |
Leacock 429 |
Fri, Nov. 22, |
Jerald Hage.Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park |
Leacock 738 |
Winter 2013
April 2013 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Fri, Apr 5 3:00 - 5:00 PM |
Prof Eran Shor. Department of Sociology, , Why Do They Legislate? A Cross-National Analysis of Terrorism and Counterterrorist Legislation” |
Leacock 738 |
March 2013 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Fri, Mar 1 |
, 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 |
, Economics, À "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 |
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 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Mon, Feb 4th |
, 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,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 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Friday, Jan 11 3:00 pm |
Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée,Department of Sociology, |
Leacock 738 |
Wednesday, Jan. 16 12:00-13:00 PM |
, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University |
Leacock 429 |
Wednesday, Jan. 23 |
, INRS, Urbanisation, culture et société |
Leacock 429 |
Wednesday, Jan. 30 12:00-13:00 PM |
Fabian Lange, Economics, |
Leacock 429 |
Fall 2012
September 2012 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Wednesday, |
, Institute for Health and Social Policy, "The Québec convergence and Canadian life satisfaction, 1985-2008" |
Leacock 429 |
Thursday, Sept. 20 3:00 PM |
Matthew Lange, Sociology, |
Leacock 738 |
Wednesday, |
, 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 |
,Sociology, Oxford University "Political Agency, Resistance and Protest in the UK Immigration Detention System” Political Sociology Workshop |
Leacock 738 |
October 2012 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Wednesday, 12:00-1:00 PM |
Aniruddha (Bobby) Das, Sociology, "Some recent findings in the biosociology/biodemography of aging" |
Leacock 429 |
Friday, Oct. 5 3:30 PM |
, Sociology,University of Washington |
Leacock 738 |
Wednesday, Oct. 10 12:00-1:00 PM |
, Sociology, University of Washington "Invisible Men: 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, "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, Université de Montréal |
Leacock 429 |
November 2012 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Thursday, |
Robert Whitley, Department of Psychiatry, "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, Université de Montréal "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, "Multicultural Minoritiesand theDilemma 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 | ||
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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, Université du Québec à Montréal "The impact of the Quebec School Reform on Mathematics: results from NLSCY" |
Leacock 429 |
February 2012 | ||
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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 "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, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi "Ancestral origins and the genetic heritage of Quebec_regional populations" |
Leacock 429 |
March 2012 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Friday, Mar. 2 2:00-3:30 PM |
, Queens University "What does the "crisis of masculinity" mean in African Studies" ISID Speaker Series |
Arts 160 |
Wednesday, Mar. 7 12:00-1:00 PM |
Jay Kaufman, Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, "Nature versus Nurture in the Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities" |
Leacock 429 |
Wednesday, Mar. 14 12:00-1:00 PM |
, Geography, "Unpacking the geographical dimensions of income inequality in Canada" |
Leacock 429 |
Thursday, Mar. 15 4:00 PM |
,Department of Sociology,Harvard University “Radical or Righteous? Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of Political Violence in El Salvador” |
Leacock 738 |
Wednesday, Mar. 21 12:00-1:00 PM |
, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) "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 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Wednesday, Sept. 21 12:00-1:00 PM |
, Demography, Statistics Canada "Future Ethnocultural Composition of the Canadian Population: Key Findings from Demosim" |
Leacock 429 |
Wednesday, Sept. 28 12:00-1:00 PM |
, Economics, "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” Political Sociology Workshop |
Leacock 738 |
October 2011 | ||
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Date | Speaker(s) | Location |
Tuesday, Oct. 4 3:00-5:00 PM |
(Instituto de Asuntos Publicos, Universidad de Chile) Prof. Philip Oxhorn(Political Science, ) Prof. Marcos Ancelovici (Sociology, ) "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 |
Benoît-Paul Hébert, 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 “The Construction of Managerial Discourse in Education : The Case of Israel” |
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 Raïq, Sociology, Université de Montréal &Axel van den Berg, Sociology, "Family Type and Poverty under Different Welfare Regimes: A Comparison of Canadian Provinces and Select European Countries" |
Leacock 429 |
November 2011 | ||
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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, "Single motherhood and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: A life course perspective" |
Leacock 429 |
Wednesday, Nov. 16 12:00-1:00 PM |
, Sociology, Queen's University “Family Structure, Ethnicity, and The Transition to First Sex in Ghana” |
Leacock 429 |
Wednesday, Nov. 16 1:00 PM |
Dr. Akosua Darkwah,Department of Sociology,University of Ghana, Legon “The Global Meets the Local: An Analysis of the Impact of Global Economic Reform on Ghanaian Women's Work” |
Peterson Hall, Rm 310 |
Thursday, Nov. 17 1:00-2:30 PM |
George Ross (Jean Monnet Chair at the Université de Montréal) “The Eurozone Crisis,” Political Sociology Workshop |
Leacock 738 |
Wednesday, Nov. 23 12:00-1:00 PM |
Jacques Ledent, Intégration économique des immigrants, INRS "Overeducation among salaried workers of immigrant origin in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver: 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 2/36,3640 rue University |