"(Transnational) Ways of Being and Belonging of Digital Nomads"

Annika Müller, PhD Student, DFG Research Training Group 1474: Transnational Social Support, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany.

"Preference Complementarities and Pluralistic Ignorance"

Mauricio Fernández Duque, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, Harvard University.

Following the two presentations we'll also be discussing the three articles here as part of our collaborative research project.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

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"The Structure of Protest Cycles: Contagion and Cohesion in South Korea’s Democracy Movement"

Paul Chang, Faculty Associate. Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

"Finding Patterns in Radical Right Emergence: Exploring the Possibility of Sequence Analysis"

Sarah Valdez, Visiting Scholar, SCANCOR-Weatherhead Partnership. Research Fellow; Associate Director, Institute for Analytical Sociology, Linköping University.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

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"When the Deported May Be White: A Study of Boston's Undocumented Irish Immigrants"

Andrew Keefe, PhD Candidate, Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University.

"The Politicization and Mobilization of Ethnic Identities in Rakhine State, Burma/Myanmar"

Cresa Pugh, PhD Candidate, Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University.

Contact:

Cresa Pugh
clpugh@g.harvard.edu

Brief presentations of works in progress by PhD students to be followed by a discussion of the workshop's collaborative project.

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"US-Cuban Immigration Policy Since the Revolution and its Unintended Consequences"

Speaker:

Susan Eckstein, Professor of Sociology and International Relations, Boston University.

Contact: 

Cresa Pugh
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"Refuge's Resource Environments: A Research Outline"

Speaker:

Fethi Keles, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Social Protection, Transnational Studies Initiative, Harvard University.

“Whether to Weather: A Case Study of Drought Displacement in the Colombian Countryside”

Speaker:

Brianna Castro, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Yueran Zhang
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“Theorizing Transnationality in AIDS Programs and Activism”

Speaker:

Gowri Vijayakumar, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Brandeis University. 

Contact:

John Arroyo
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"Political Context, Organizational Mission and the Quality of Social Services: Insights from Lebanon”

Speaker:

Melani Cammett, Executive Committee; Steering Committee; Faculty Associate; Harvard Academy Senior Scholar. Professor of Government, Department of Government, Harvard University.

Contact:

John Arroyo
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"Social Contexts of Political Belief Systems: The Roles of Welfare Institution and Party-System Polarization in 14 Western European Countries"

Speaker:

Kwan Woo Kim, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

"Moving Money, Capitalizing Land: Politics, the Public and Economic Expertise in China"

Speaker:

Yibing Shen, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Brown University.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Yueran Zhang
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“Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society”

Speaker:

Josh Pacewicz, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Urban Studies, Brown University.

Discussant:

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

Contact:

John Arroyo
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“Development, Inequality, and Disproportionality: Human Drivers of GHG Emissions and the Carbon Intensity of Human Well-Being"

Speaker:

Andrew Jorgenson, Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies, Boston College.

Discussant:

Brianna Castro, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact:

John Arroyo
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"Voting, Protesting, and Beyond: the Meaning of Political Participation According to Today’s Youth"

Speaker: 

Bo Yun Park, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

"Vanguard of the Revolution: Traders and Smugglers at the DPRK-PRC Borderlands"

Speaker: 

Victor Teo, Visiting Scholar, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, The University of Hong Kong.

Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Contact: 

Yueran Zhang 
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"Where Did 'No Taxation without Representation' Come from? The Case of Taxing Private Homeownership in China"

Speaker:

Yueran Zhang, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Discussant:

Fangsheng Zhu, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

"Making Sense of Boundaries in Urbanizing China"

Speaker:

Amy Tsang, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Discussant:

Aaron Benavidez, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.... Read more about Joint Conversations Across Borders and Politics and Social Change Workshop

"The Politics of Culture and the Political Role of Cultural Institutions"

Speakers:

Martha Tedeschi, Director, Harvard Art Museums.

Frederick Wherry, Professor of Sociology, Yale University.

Michael Kennedy, Professor of Sociology and International and Public Affairs, Brown University.

Co-sponsored by the Harvard Culture and Social Analysis Workshop.

Contact:

John Arroyo
arroyojc@mit.edu

Moderator:

Peggy Levitt, Associate. Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College.... Read more about Conversations Across Borders: A Workshop in Transnational Studies

“Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism in Thailand, Brazil, and South Africa.”

Speaker:

Joseph Harris, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University.

Contact:

John Arroyo
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"First Organizing and Planning Meeting for Transnational Studies Initiative (TSI) and Politics and Social Change (PSC) Workshop, 2016-2017”

Chairs:

Peggy Levitt, Associate. Chair; Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Wellesley College; Co-Director of TSI, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

Jocelyn Viterna, Faculty Associate. Associate Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Harvard University; Co-Director of TSI, Weatherhead Center, Harvard University.

"More Fair, More Contentious: Unintended Consequences of Formalization in China”

Speaker:

Fangsheng Zhu, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Harvard University.

Discussant:

Irene Pang, PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology, Brown University.

Contact:

John Arroyo
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