PPSS: Writing Successful Grant and Fellowship Articles
Online EventSpeaker: Professor Juan Battle, Sociology Ph.D. Program
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 <drosscabrera@gradcenter.cuny.edu>
Title: Professional Work in a ‘Post-Racial’ Era: Black Health Care Workers in the New Economy Speaker: Adia Harvey Wingfield, Washington University in St Louis Abstract: What happens to black professionals when work transforms? In an era of rapid technological change, shrinking protections for workers, and growing income inequality, work is no longer the secure, stable, predictable path to... Read more »
Contact Joanna at jdressel@gradcenter.cuny.edu for the Zoom information. The SSA meetings are open to all students.
"Finding Their Place – How Declining Cities Envision a Politics of Belonging for the Forcibly Displaced" Janina Selzer, 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.... Read more »
Presented by Hannah Wohl, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara This is an online event. Please register online to participate via Zoom.
"Precarious Times, Professional Tensions: The Ethics of Migration Research and the Drive for Scientific Accountability" Irene Bloemraad, UC Berkeley This is an online event. Please register here to receive the zoom link.
"Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles" Rocio Rosales, UC Irvine This work examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local and federal laws prohibiting both their presence and their work on street corners. Known as fruteros, they sell fruit salads out of pushcarts... Read more »
Speaker: Angela Jones, Farmingdale State College, State University of New York Title: "Camming: Money, Power, and Pleasure in the Sex Work Industry" Abstract: Through the erotic webcam industry—"camming”—millions of people from all over the globe have found decent wages, friendship, intimacy, community, empowerment, and pleasure. Cam models, like all sex workers, must grapple with exploitation,... Read more »
The open house this year will be held virtually on Zoom. Please sign up for the event here. All are welcome to join!