Speakers: Professors Barbara Katz Rothman and Lynn Chancer; Omar Montana (speaking on his experience of the orals as a student) A Zoom link will be sent via our email listserv.
Citizenship Reimagined: A New Framework for State Rights in the United States Allan Colbern, Assistant Professor in Political Science, Arizona State University Karthick Ramakrishnan, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, University of California, Riverside Discussant: Monica Varsanyi, Professor of Political Science, John Jay College & CUNY Graduate Center Register online here to receive Zoom links. You can select... Read more »
Professor Ruth Milkman will speak on her new book Immigrant Labor and the New Precariat (Polity 2020) The Zoom link will be shared via our department email listserv.
The President and Immigration Law Adam Cox, Robert A. Kindler Professor of Law, New York University Law School Cristina Rodríguez, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School Moderator: Julie Suk, Professor of Sociology, Political Science, and Liberal Studies and Dean for Master’s Programs, CUNY Graduate Center; Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law, Yale Law School Discussant: Anna... Read more »
“Trump and the Rise of Authoritarianism” Speaker: Kieran Durkin, York University Psychosocial Reading Group is an international once a month reading and discussion group that is run by Lynn Chancer and Neil McLaughlin with people participating by Zoom from Brazil, Canada, New Zealand and other places around the world. Our focus is on how to better... Read more »
"Ethnoracial Inequality in Egalitarian Sweden: Swedish Exceptionalism and Racial Legacies" Beiyi Hu, CUNY Graduate Center The GC Immigration Working Group is a graduate student-run group where we exchange, discuss, and collaborate on ideas and research related to immigration. We are now soliciting papers to be presented during our workshop. The purpose of our workshop is... Read more »
Gendered Market Devices: The Persistence of Gender Discrimination in Insurance Markets Greta Krippner, University of Michigan The insurance industry presents a striking anomaly in the post-civil rights era in American life: across most lines of insurance, men and women can expect to pay different prices for access to coverage, or receive substantially different benefits when they... Read more »
Speakers (presenting on a survey they conducted at Hunter College in Sociology courses): Kate Pok and Peter Tuckel, Sociology Dept., Hunter College, CUNY The Zoom link will be shared via our department email listserv.
The Browning of the New South: Race, Immigration, and Minority Linked Fate Jennifer Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology & Latin American/Latino Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago Register online here to receive Zoom links. You can select any or all seminar sessions. Contact: Dakota Ross-Cabrera <[email protected]>
Professor Barbara Katz Rothman will be speaking on her new book The Biomedical Empire: Lessons Learned from The COVID Pandemic (Stanford 2021). About the Book We are all citizens of the Biomedical Empire, though few of us know it, and even fewer understand the extent of its power. Critiques of biopower and the “medical industrial complex”... Read more »
