"Plea Bargaining as Constitutional Contradiction: A Comparative Study of Criminal Procedure in the American South and Brazil, 1804-1898"

Speaker:

Andrew Keefe, Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. JD/PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Program in Social Policy, Harvard Kennedy School.

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"The Business of Advocacy: Companies and NGOs in the Fight against 'Modern Slavery'”

Speaker:

Stephanie Limoncelli, Associate Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University.

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"The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration"

Speaker:

Rina Agarwala, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University.

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"On Historical Progress"

Speaker:

Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, February 7.

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"Human Rights Enculturation and Conceptualizations of Abuse"

Speaker:

Jeffrey Swindle, College Fellow in Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

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"The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue"

Speaker:

Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, October 18.

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"Risk Roulette: How Lawyers Make Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools Matter in Criminal Court"

Speaker:

Cierra Robson, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, November 15.

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"Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity"

Speaker:

Daron Acemoglu, Institute Professor, MIT.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, November 1.

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Please note: This event has been rescheduled for Friday, October 27th.

"The Paradox of Freedom: A Biographical Dialogue"

Speaker:

Orlando Patterson, Faculty Associate. John Cowles Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, October 18.

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"Thinking like an Economist: How Efficiency Replaced Equality in U.S. Public Policy"

Speaker:

Elizabeth Popp Berman, Richard H. Price Professor and Director of Organizational Studies; Associate Professor of Sociology by courtesy, University of Michigan.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, October 4.

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"From Plantation to Prison: The Origins of American Mass Incarceration"

Speaker:

Adaner Usmani, Faculty Associate. Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Social Studies, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, September 20.

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"The Great Refusal: The West, the Rest and the Geopolitics of Homosexuality"

Speaker:

Jason Ferguson, Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UCLA.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, April 5.

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"The Cultural Promise of Digital Hyperconnectivity"

Speaker:

Rogers Brubaker, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, March 22.

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"From Dual to Dissonant: The Changing Shape of Affordable Housing in Suburban Chicago"

Speaker:

John N. Robinson III, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, March 1.

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"How Events Begin: Retrospective Rupture and the Discovery of Global Warming"

Speaker:

Madison Renner, PhD Candidate in Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

Jess Viator
jviator@fas.harvard.edu

Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Lunch is provided if you RSVP. Please send an email to Jess Viator by Wednesday, February 16.

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