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Past Events

Nov
21
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Maura Fennelly

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

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Maura Fennelly "Paradoxes of Private Property: Homeowners' Associations and Regulated Residence” Hybrid

Nov
18
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Maria-Fatima Santos

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

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Maria-Fatima Santos, Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Methodologies and Strategies for Ethnographic Fieldwork 

Nov
14
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Facundo Suenzo

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

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Facundo Suenzo Practice Job Talk: “Platforms of Desire: Sexuality and Identity in the Digital Age” Hybrid

Nov
12
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Atef Said

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

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Atef Said, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Illinois Chicago  Positionality and Historical Ethnography 

Nov
11
2024

Urban & Community Workshop: Rae Leader & Felix Enterkin

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

The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop: Rae Leader: "Black LGBT+ Community Networks in Chicago" Felix Enterkin: "Rally or Accountability: How...

Nov
7
2024

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 Practice Job Talk: “Cell Phones, Social Media, and Stigma: Navigating Identity in...

Nov
5
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Santiago Molina

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

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Santiago Molina, Assistant Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University  Book proposal and chapter discussion     

Oct
24
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Nash Jenkins

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

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Nash Jenkins “Mundane Heresy: The Cultural Performance of Conservatism” Hybrid

Oct
22
2024

Ethnography Workshop: Nisarg Mehta

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

The Department of Sociology's Ethnography Workshop: Nisarg Mehta, Sociology PhD candidate at the University of Chicago "'The Garb of Modernity:' The India...

Oct
17
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Thijs van Dooremalen

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

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Thijs van Dooremalen “Extreme Weather Events as Catalysts for a Change of Climate Crisis Politics?” Hybrid

Oct
14
2024

Urban & Community Workshop: Rose Werth (Job Talk)

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

The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop: Rose Werth (Job Talk) "A Fractured Community Safety Landscape and the Struggle for Racial...

Oct
10
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 “Towards a New Sociology of Risk” Hybrid

Oct
7
2024

Urban & Community Workshop: Michelle Phelps

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM, sponsored by Sociology Department

The Department of Sociology's Urban & Community Workshop: Michelle Phelps, University of Minnesota "The Minneapolis Reckoning: Race & the Politics of Policing...

Oct
3
2024

Culture & Society Workshop: Organizational Meeting

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

The Department of Sociology's Culture & Society Workshop: Organizational Meeting: Introduction to Culture & Society; Overview of Workshop Hybrid

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...