“Occupying Schools, Occupying Land: How the Landless Workers Movement Transformed Brazilian Education” Speaker: Rebecca Tarlau, Associate Professor of Education and of Labor and Employment Relations, Pennsylvania State University Over the... Read more »
Speakers: Erica Chito Childs, Chair, Department of Sociology, Hunter College Jonathan Wynn, Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst (GC Alum) Van Tran, Associate Professor, PhD Program in Sociology, GC... Read more »
"Crossing: How We Label and React to People on the Move" Rebecca Hamlin, UMass Amherst Today, the concept of "the refugee" as distinct from other migrants looms large. Immigration laws... Read more »
"Home Care Fault Lines: Understanding Tensions and Creating Alliances" Speaker: Cynthia Cranford, University of Toronto Mississauga Home care is a window into the complexity of inequality. In this talk, I... Read more »
Speakers: Richard Ocejo, John Jay College and GC, Chief Editor of City and Community Jessica Hardie, Hunter College and GC (on article publishing) Hayden Ju, GC (on article publishing from... Read more »
"African Americans in Suburbs and Coastal Communities: Two Projects on Achieving Security and Facing Structural Risks" Speaker: Greg Smithsimon, Professor at Brooklyn College and GC Gregory Smithsimon’s forthcoming book,... Read more »
"Immigrant Crossroads: Globalization, Incorporation, and Placemaking in Queens, NY" Tarry Hum, Queens College This is an online event. Please register here to receive the Zoom link.
One Quarter of the Nation: Immigration and the Transformation of America Nancy Foner, Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY Filiz Garip, Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University Philip Kasinitz, Presidential Professor of Sociology, The Graduate Center, CUNY Mary Waters, PVK Professor of Arts and Sciences and the John L. Loeb... Read more »
Speaker: Arun Hendi, Princeton University Title: "Where Does the Black-White Life Expectancy Gap Come From? The Deadly Effects of Residential Segregation" In 2018, newborn black boys and girls could expect to live for 71 and 78 years, respectively. The last time white life expectancy levels were that low was in 1980, meaning that black life... Read more »
States of Belonging:Immigration Policies, Attitudes, and Inclusion Tomás R. Jiménez, Professor of Sociology and Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, Stanford University Register here to receive Zoom link.
