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Past Events

May
23
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Brianne Dubois

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Brianne Dubois “Short Contracts and Contracts Made Short: Examining Professional Stratification among French Contemporary...

May
21
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Mitchell Duneier

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Mitchell Duneier, Professor of Sociology, Princeton University, presents: Slim's Table in Retrospect In-Person Only  

May
21
2024

Urban & Community Workshop: Io Brooks

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop: Io Brooks, Northwestern University   

May
16
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Sharif El Shishtawy Hassan

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Sharif El Shishtawy Hassan "Ambivalent Texts: State Feminism and Official Religion in the UAE” Hybrid

May
14
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Xi Wang

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Xi Wang, PhD Student, Northwestern University, presents:  From Transnational Psychoanalytic Training to the Project of Social...

May
9
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Dima Younes

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Dima Younes "Commoning for Hope: Care, Contention, and the Day-to-Day Opening of New Possibilities...

May
7
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Marco Marzano

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Marco Marzano, Professor of Sociology, The University of Bergamo Hybrid  

May
2
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Valerie Gruest

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Valerie Gruest "Instagram Usage Practices, Representation and Body Image: An Interview Study with Latinx...

Apr
18
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Walker Brewer

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Walker Brewer "Politics for a Latter-Day: Reconceptualizing Religious Socialization through the LDS Seneca Ward...

Apr
16
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Chiara Bassetti

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Chiara Bassetti, Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Research, University of Trento presents: "Airport Security Contradictions:...

Apr
11
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Megan Whitaker

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Megan Whitaker "Remembering the Haystack Prayer Meeting of 1806: Commemorative 'Moments in Time' at...

Apr
4
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Evan Zhao

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Evan Zhao "Exposing the Self, Body, and Soul: The Public/Private Erotics of Online Confession" Hybrid

Mar
12
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Ángel Escamilla García, Yale University

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Ángel Escamilla García, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Yale University, presents: "The Externalization of Legal Categories: How U.S....

Feb
29
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Tomás Gold

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Tomás Gold "Cross-Field Synergy in Free-Market Think Tank Advocacy" Hybrid

Feb
22
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Vineet Gupta

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Vineet Gupta, Northwestern University "The Unbearable Parochialism of Citational Practice in U.S. Sociology" Hybrid

Feb
15
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Yichen Shen

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Yichen Shen, Northwestern University "Identity Experience in Social Movements" Hybrid

Feb
8
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Mora Matassi

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Mora Matassi, Northwestern University "Maintaining disconnection and dealing with lack: Social media disconnection in...

Feb
1
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Jorge Ochoa

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Jorge Ochoa, Northwestern University "Chicago's Leather and Kink Scene During the Era of COVID-19...

Jan
30
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Robert Vargas, University of Chicago

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Robert Vargas, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago, presents: "The Challenges of Publishing Ethnography" Hybrid  

Jan
18
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Io Brooks

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Io Brooks, Northwestern University “Routine Circulations: People Exchanges and Life-Building Prisons” Hybrid

Jan
11
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Miranda Simes

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Miranda Simes, Northwestern University “Epistemic risk cultures: a study of wildfire risk map production...

Nov
9
2023

Culture & Society Workshop: Sino Esthappan

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Sino Esthappan, Northwestern University “Algorithmic scores for institutional persuasion: Attorneys and pretrial risk assessments” Hybrid

Nov
7
2023

Ethnography Workshop: Geoff Harkness, Rhode Island College

5:00 PM - 6:30 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Geoff Harkness, Associate Professor of Sociology, Rhode Island College, presents: "Longitudinal Ethnography: Opportunities and Challenges From...

Oct
26
2023

Culture & Society Workshop: Annika Pinch

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Annika Pinch, Northwestern University "'Is it time for me to be authentic?': Authenticity, Temporal...

Oct
19
2023

Culture & Society Workshop: Ryan Fajardo

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Ryan Fajardo, Northwestern University “The Resale Lens: How Secondhand Clothing Resellers Price in the...

Oct
17
2023

Ethnography Workshop: Coline Ferrant, Habib University

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Coline Ferrant, Assistant Professor in Social Development & Policy, Habib University, presents: "Simple Cooking Using Fresh...

Oct
12
2023

Culture & Society Workshop: Nick Bascuñan-Wiley

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Nick Bascuñan-Wiley, Northwestern University “Diasporic Sensations: Orienting the Embodied Experiences of Migrant Mobility and...