Politics and Social Change Workshop

2024 Mar 28

Politics and Social Change Workshop (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St, Room 1550

"Panel: Graduate Student Presentations"

"Loving and Caring in a Precarious Age: A Case Study of Marriage Decline in South Korea”

Speaker:

Jiyeon Lee, MA Candidate, Regional Studies East Asia Program, Harvard University.

“Policy and Pedagogy: Teacher Response to Restrictive Education Laws”

Speaker:

Hannah Castner, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

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2024 Mar 07

Politics and Social Change Workshop (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St, Room 1550

Panel: "Graduate Student Presentations"

"Diversity as Hegemony: Understanding Minority Participation in Rightist Movements” 

Speaker:

Adam Burston, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara.

“Individual experience, Local contexts, and Belief in Upward Mobility”

Speaker:

Minjin Chae, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

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2024 Feb 22

Politics and Social Change Workshop (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Hybrid Event

Panel: "Graduate Student Presentations"

"From Fields to Streets: Fuel Protests, Extraction, and Refinement (2005-2019)”

Speaker:

Saber Khani, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Boston College.

"LGBTQ Narratives, Mobilization, and Collective Identity in Jamaica”

Speaker:

Clayton Covington, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

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2024 Feb 08

Politics and Social Change Workshop (In Person)

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland St, Room 1550

"Panel: Post-Doctoral Fellow Presentations"

"Building States and Illicit Markets in Postrevolutionary Mexico” 

Speaker:

Joel Herrera, Academy Scholar, The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies. PhD, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles.

“Insurgent Policymaking: How the Housing Justice Movement Challenges Neoliberal Policy in the United States”

Speaker:

Kenton Card, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Initiative on Cities, Boston University.

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2024 Jan 25

Politics and Social Change Workshop (In Person)

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

"Panel: Graduate Student Presentations"

"Grassroots Conservatism and the Trump Movement” 

Speaker:

Catharina O'DonnellGraduate Student Associate. PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

“Is Consensual Nonmonogamy a Social Movement?”

Speaker:

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2023 Nov 30

Politics and Social Change Workshop (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location: 

Hybrid Event

Panel Discussion: "Organizing Movements: Membership and Leadership"

"Pushing Against Jim Crow: Research on African American Cross-Class Fraternal Orders from the Civil War to the 1960s"

Speaker:

Theda SkocpolFaculty Associate. Victor S. Thomas Professor of Government and Sociology, Departments of Government and of Sociology, Harvard University.

"People, Power and Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal"

Speaker:

Marshall GanzRita E. Hauser Senior Lecturer in Leadership, Organizing, and Civil Society, Harvard Kennedy School.

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2023 Nov 02

Politics and Social Change Workshop (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Hybrid Event

Panel Discussion: "Political Challenges and Responsibility in a Globalizing Society"

“Queering Repression: How the Global Crackdown on Civil Society Affects LGBT+ NGO Founding”

Speaker:

Kristopher VelascoAssistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Princeton University.

"Platform Problems: Assessing Global Social Media Harms and Political Responsibility”

Speaker:

Swati SrivastavaAssociate Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University; Visiting Scholar, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University.

"Europe's Transnational Legal System and France's 1958 Constitution"

Speaker:

William PhelanVisiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program (fall 2023). Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Trinity College Dublin.

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2023 Oct 19

Politics and Social Change Workshop (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Hybrid Event

Panel Discussion: "Histories of Polarization in America's Political Institutions"

 "'We feel honored to sponsor a rally such as that': the contentious emergence of Christian Right broadcasting companies amidst massive resistance to desegregation"

Speaker:

Matthew BrookePhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

"Architects of the Divided States: Doing Federalism in Red and Blue America"

Speaker:

Josh PacewiczAssociate Professor, Department of Sociology, Brown University.

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2023 Oct 05

Politics and Social Change Workshop (Hybrid)

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location: 

Hybrid Event

Panel: "Institutional Responses to Gendered Violence and Reproductive Care"

"Why Police Sexual Harassment?"

Speaker:

Poulami Roychowdhury, Associate Professor, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

"Global Enculturation: International Organizations, Information Brokers, and Moral Visions of ‘Abuse’"

Speaker:

Jeffrey Swindle, College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

“Global Fertility Industry and the Transnational Reproduction of Whiteness”

Speaker:

Amrita Pande, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Cape Town.

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2019 Apr 08

Politics and Social Change Workshop

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

"Contraceptives for Men in the Brazilian Digital Press: A Case Study on the Politics of Contraception and Social Representations and Masculinities"

Speaker:

Adriane Roso, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Psychology, Harvard University.

"The New Rural Reconstruction Movement in China"

Speaker:

Jingyun Dai, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

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2019 Mar 11

Politics and Social Change Workshop

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

"Failure of the Establishment: Comparing Political Crises from the US Civil War to the Depression and Donald Trump"

Speaker:

Cedric de Leon, Associate Professor,  Department of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

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2019 Feb 25

Politics and Social Change Workshop

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

"Ploughshares into Swords: Reproducing the 'Apartheid City' in Post-Apartheid Johannesburg"

Speaker:

Benjamin Bradlow, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Brown University.

"Legal Standards and Moral Worth in Frontline Decision-Making: Evaluations of Victimization in US Asylum Determinations."

Speaker:

Talia Shiff, Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
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2019 Feb 11

Politics and Social Change Workshop

4:00pm to 5:30pm

Location: 

CGIS Knafel Building, 1737 Cambridge Street, Room K050

"Pregnancy and the Forty-Year Prison Sentence: Countermovements, Targets and the Institutionalization of Social Movement Outcomes in Central America"

Speaker:

Jocelyn Viterna, Faculty Associate. Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
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