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 »
Reuniting Families: Central American Minors between Separation and Family Reunification Ernesto Castañeda, Associate Professor of Sociology, American University Register online here to receive the Zoom link. You can select any or all seminar sessions. Contact: Dakota Ross-Cabrera <[email protected]>
Kyla Bender-Baird will be speaking about her recently defended dissertation (Chair: Professor Barbara Katz Rothman), “Standing Trans Before the Law.” The Zoom link will be sent via the department email listserv.
"Striking for Control: Labor Movement Renewal in Amazon's Logistics Network" Nantina Vgontzas, Postdoctoral Researcher at AI Now Institute, NYU Nantina Vgontzas is a postdoctoral researcher at NYU's AI Now Institute and received their PhD in sociology from NYU in 2020. Their research sits at the intersection of political economy, labor and social movements. Situating ethnographic findings... Read more »
"Latinx Food Startup Founders: Adaptation Strategies and New Businesses in COVID-19 Era New York" Ivana Mellers, 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... Read more »
Contact Joanna at [email protected] for the Zoom information. The SSA meetings are open to all students.
Represented But Unequal: The Contingent Effect of Legal Representation in Removal Proceedings Emily Ryo, Professor of Law and Sociology, University of Southern California Gould School of Law Register online here to receive Zoom links. You can select any or all seminar sessions. Contact: Dakota Ross-Cabrera <[email protected]>
“Contemporary Ramifications of the Historic Fromm/Marcuse Debate” Speaker: Matheus Romanetto, Tuebingen University, Germany 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... Read more »
Speaker: Professor Juan Battle, Sociology Ph.D. Program
Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era Ming Hsu Chen, Associate Professor of Law, University of Colorado Law School Co-sponsor: PhD Program in Political Science, CUNY Graduate Center Register online here to receive Zoom links. You can select any or all seminar sessions. Contact: Dakota Ross-Cabrera <[email protected]>
