4TH ANNUAL MORRIS LECTURE THIS FRIDAY APRIL 13TH AT 5PM WITH ARLIE HOCHSCHILD
Please join us at 5PM this Friday, April 13th at the Photonics Center Colloquium room (9th floor) for the 4th Annual Morris Lecture in Sociology. The event is free and open to all who wish to join. There will be a reception after the event as well, to meet with the speaker and Sociology faculty […]
BU T.V. FEATURES PROF. RUHA BENJAMIN ON POSTRACIALISM
Professor Ruha Benjamin was recently highlighted on BU T.V. show ‘On That Point’, an award-winning current events discussion program. To hear Professor Benjamin’s perspective on race in America and the significance of President Obama’s election click here.
SOCIOLOGY DEPARTMENT TO CO-SPONSOR GENETICS AND GENEALOGY SYMPOSIUM
The sociology department is proud to co-sponsor the upcoming event: Genetics & Genealogy: Medicine, Identity, and the African American Community With special guest Professor Henry Louis Gates Photo Credit: INSPIRED MINORITY PICTURES/Mark Wessels The event will take place February 22nd at The Boston University Hillel House, 233 bay State Road from 10:00am – 6:30pm. […]
NEW BOOK BY ALUMNI FRANCES CHAPUT WAKSLER
Frances Chaput Waksler (PhD, Sociology, 1973) announces her forthcoming book The New Orleans Sniper: A Phenomenological Case Study of Constituting the Other (University Press of America, 2010) which traces the events of a 1973 attack in New Orleans. Many believed the attack be the work of multiple snipers when it was really only one. […]
BOSTON GLOBE OP-ED PROMOTES SOCIOLOGY’S ‘BOSTON’S PEOPLE SERIES’
On Tuesday, November 2nd, the Boston Globe online ran an article highlighting the upcoming Boston’s People Series, co-sponsored by the Sociology Department. The talk, focusing on the reconstruction of the politics and city of Boston from the 1980’s, will be held in the School of Hospitality Administration, Room 110 at 3:30 pm on Thursday, November […]
SPRING SEMINAR SERIES
Each semester the Department of Sociology invites renowned scholars to participate in its Seminar Series. Meetings take place in Sociology 241 at 12 PM (noon) unless otherwise noted. January 29: Laurel Smith-Doerr, Boston University “The Accidental Policymaker: Adventures in Studying and Doing Science Policy” February 12: Anjulet Tucker, Boston University “Race, Religion & Perceptions of […]
FALL SEMINAR SERIES
RHACEL PARREÑAS Brown University The Gender Revolution in the Philippines: Children and Transnational Mothers NITSAN CHOREV Brown University Gates Governs the Global? On the Transformation of International Health Politics GEORGE PSATHAS Boston University Alfred Schutz: Philosopher and Sociologist MICHAEL BURAWOY UC Berkeley Who’s Afraid of Pierre Bourdieu? Reflections on Sociology as a Combat Sport ELIZABETH […]