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The following list contains seminars delivered by the Sociology Department, as well as other departments and centres at McGill. More information on external semaniars (including slides from past presentations) may be available on the following sites: Social Statistics Seminars; Social Studies of Medicine Seminars; Centre for Research on Children and Families Seminars.

Sociology - Fall 2013

SEPTEMBER              
Wed, Sept. 11,
12:00-13:00 PM
Miles Taylor, Sociology, Florida State University
"Florida State University "The Good, the Bad, and the Mean (µ). Limitations and Extensions of Latent Growth Curves in Health Disparities Research"
Leacock 429
Wed, Sept. 18,
12:00-13:00 PM
Damien De Walque, Economics, World Bank
TBA
Leacock 429
Fri, Sept. 20,
3:00 PM
Prof Eran ShorDepartment of Sociology, McGill University,
"Shades of Foreign Evil”: “Honour Killings” and “Family Murders” in the Canadian Press.
Leacock 738

 OCTOBER                  
Wed, Oct 2, 
12:00-13:00 PM
Mark Stabile,Economics, University of Toronto
"Do Stimulant Medications Improve Educational and Behavioral Outcomes for Children with ADHD "
Leacock 429
Wed, Oct. 16, 
12:00-13:00 PM
Lisa Kaida, Sociology, Memorial University
TBA
Leacock 429
Fri, Oct. 18, 
3:00 PM

Prof. Edward O. Laumann, [Talk co-sponsored by Centre on Population Dynamics.] George H. Mead Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago.
"The Network Approach to STDs: An Introduction"

Leacock 738

Wed, Oct. 23, 
12:00-13:00 PM

Vida Maralani, Sociology, Yale University
TBA

Leacock 429

Wed, Oct. 30, 
12:00-13:00 PM

David Rothwell, Social Work, McGill University
TBA

Leacock 429

 NOVEMBER               
Wed, Nov. 6, 
12:00-13:00 PM
Matissa Holister, School of Management, McGil
TBA
Leacock 429
Wed, Nov. 13, 
12:00-13:00 PM
Gustavo Bobonis, Economics, University of Toronto
TBA
Leacock 429
Wed, Nov. 20, 
3:00 PM

Ellen MearaEconomics, Dartmouth
TBA

Leacock 429

Fri, Nov. 22, 
3:00 PM

Jerald Hage. Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland-College Park
"Rethinking the Concept of Social Evolution"

Leacock 738

Sociology - Winter 2013

APRIL
Fri, Apr 5
3:00 - 5:00 PM
Prof Eran Shor. Department of Sociology, McGill University,
Why Do They Legislate? A Cross-National Analysis of Terrorism and Counterterrorist Legislation”
Leacock 738

MARCH

Fri, Mar 1
3:00 - 5:00 PM

Gary King, Department of Government, Harvard University. Albert J. Weatherhead III University Professor & Director of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science
"Big Data Is Not About the Data!"
Faculty Club Ballroom

Wed, Mar 13
12:00-1:00 PM

Catherine Haeck, Economics, UQÀM
TBA
Leacock 429
Wed, Mar 20
12:00-1:00 PM
Laurent Roy, Census Operations, Statistics Canada
TBA
Leacock 429

Fri, Mar 22
1:00 - 3:00 PM

Andreas Wimmer
Cultural Distance, Blocked Assimilation, or Oppositional Culture? Immigrant Acculturation in 24 European Countries
Leacock 738
Wed, Mar 27
12:00-1:00 PM
Erica Field, Economics, Duke University
TBA
Leacock 429

FEBRUARY

Mon, Feb 4th
12:00 - 13:00

Kenneth Hill, Department of Global Health and Population, Havard School of Public Health
"Life and Death in African Slums"
429 Leacock
Wed, Feb 13th
12:00 - 13:00
Leslie Roberts, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia Population Research Centre
TBA
429 Leacock
Wed, Feb 20th
12:00 - 13:00
Seth Richards-Shubik, Economics and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon University, Heinz College
TBA
429 Leacock


Fri, Feb 22th
15:00 - 17:00
Richard Lachmann, Sociology Department, University at Albany
"From Consensus to Paralysis in the United States, 1960-2010"
738 Leacock
Wed, Feb 27th
12:00 - 13:00
TBA 429 Leacock

JANUARY
Friday, Jan 11
3:00 pm

Professor Amélie Quesnel-Vallée, Department of Sociology, McGill University
"Understanding the Role of Policy in Health Inequalities"

Leacock 738
Wednesday, Jan. 16
12:00-13:00 PM
Steven Lehrer, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University Leacock 429

Wednesday, Jan. 23
12:00-13:00 PM

Alain Bélanger, INRS, Urbanisation, culture et société Leacock 429
Wednesday, Jan. 30
12:00-13:00 PM
Fabian Lange, Economics, McGill University Leacock 429

 

Sociology - Fall 2012

SEPTEMBER

Wednesday,
Sept. 19
12:00-1:00 PM

Christopher Barrington-Leigh, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University
"The Québec convergence and Canadian life satisfaction, 1985-2008"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Sept. 20
3:00 PM

Matthew Lange, Sociology, McGill University
The Missionary Origins of Ethnic Violence

Leacock 738

Wednesday,
Sept. 26
12:00-1:00 PM  

Michael Haan, Sociology, University of New Brunswick
"To the excess?: Household dynamics and outcomes in men and women's long-distance commuting"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Sept. 29
1:00 -2:30 PM
Evelyne Massa, Sociology, Oxford University
"Political Agency, Resistance and Protest in the UK Immigration Detention System”
McGill Political Sociology Workshop
Leacock 738
October

Wednesday, 
Oct. 3

12:00-1:00 PM  

Aniruddha (Bobby) Das, Sociology, McGill University
TBA
Leacock 429
Friday, 
Oct. 5
3:30 PM

Erik Kahunta, Sociology, University of Washington
"Structural Crises and Institutional Legacies: Explaining Patterns of State Formation in Southeast Asia" 

 

Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Oct. 10
12:00-1:00 PM
Becky Pettit, Sociology, University of Washington
"Invisible Men:  Mass Incarceration and the Myth of Black Progress"
Leacock 927
Wednesday,
Oct. 17
12:00-1:00 PM
Rachel Margolis, Sociology, Western University
TBA
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 24
12:00-1:00 PM
TBA Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 31
12:00-1:00 PM

Marie-France Raynault, Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal
TBA

Leacock 429
NOVEMBER

Thursday,
Nov. 1,
3:00pm - 5:00pm

Robert Whitley, Department of Psychiatry, McGill University
"Social defeat or social resistance? Reaction to fear of crime among low-income African Americans with a severe mental illness" 
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Nov. 7,
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Jean-Baptiste Pingault, Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal
"Three-dimensional behavioral trajectories based on two informants: estimation with KmL3D software and predictive values" 
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 14,
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Catherine Deri Armstrong, Economics, University of Ottawa
"Virginity and Educational Attainment: Evidence from Canadian Micro Data"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Nov. 15,
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Morton Weinfeld, Department of Sociology, McGill University
"Multicultural Minorities and the Dilemma of Dual/divided Loyalties: The Jewish Case"

 

Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Nov. 21,
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Miles Corak, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
 TBA
Leacock 429

 


Past

Winter 2012

January
Wednesday,
Jan. 18
12:00-1:00 PM
Arnout van de Rijt, Sociology, Stony Brook University
"The Social Stratification of Fame"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Jan. 25
12:00-1:00 PM
Philip Merrigan, Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal
"The impact of the Quebec School Reform on Mathematics: results from NLSCY"
Leacock 429

 

February
Wednesday,
Feb. 1
12:00-1:00 PM
Arthur Spirling,Department of Government, Harvard University
"Partisan Convergence in Executive-Legislative Interactions: Modeling Debates in the House of Commons, 1832-1915"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Feb. 8
12:00-1:00 PM
Tom van der Meer, Political Science, Universiteit van Amsterdam 
"The (in)explicable (ir)rationality of political trust in Europe"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Feb. 9
1:00-2:30 PM
Prof. Francesco Duina, Department of Sociology at Bates College
"Frames, Scripts, and the Making of Regional Trade Agreements Worldwide"
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Feb. 15
1:00 -2:30 PM
Decio Coviello, Institute of Applied Economics, HEC
TBA
Leacock 429
Reading Week
Wednesday,
Feb. 29
1:00 -2:30 PM
Hélène Vézina, Human Sciences, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi Leacock 429

 

March
Friday,
Mar. 2
2:00-3:30 PM
Marc Epprecht, Queens University
"What does the "crisis of masculinity" mean in African Studies"
 ISID Speaker Series
Arts 160
Wednesday,
Mar. 7
12:00-1:00 PM
Jay Kaufman, Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Occupational Health, McGill University
"Nature versus Nurture in the Explanations for Racial/Ethnic Health Disparities"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Mar. 14
12:00-1:00 PM
Sébastien Breau, Geography, McGill University 
"Unpacking the geographical dimensions of income inequality in Canada"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Mar. 15
4:00 PM
Jocelyn Viterna, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
“Radical or Righteous?  Using Gender to Shape Public Perceptions of Political Violence in El Salvador”
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Mar. 21
12:00-1:00 PM
Marc Frenette, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC) 
TBA
Leacock 429
Friday,
Mar. 23
TBA
TBA TBA
Wednesday,
Mar. 28
12:00-1:00 PM
Wendy D. Manning, Sociology, Bowling Green State University
TBA
Leacock 429

Sociology - Fall 2011

SEPTEMBER
Wednesday,
Sept. 21
12:00-1:00 PM
Laurent Martel, Demography, Statistics Canada
"Future Ethnocultural Composition of the Canadian Population : Key Findings from Demosim"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Sept. 28
12:00-1:00 PM
Jim Engle-Warnick, Economics, McGill University
TBA
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Sept. 29
1:00 -2:30 PM
Evelyne Massa (Sociology, Oxford University)
"Political Agency, Resistance and Protest in the UK Immigration Detention System”
McGill Political Sociology Workshop
Leacock 738

OCTOBER
Tuesday,
Oct. 4
3:00-5:00 PM
Prof. Robert Funk(Instituto de Asuntos Publicos, Universidad de Chile)
Prof. Philip Oxhorn(Political Science, McGill)
Prof. Marcos Ancelovici (Sociology, McGill)
"Social Movements and Student Protest in Chile: the Beginning of a Post-Pinochet Order?" A Panel Discussion
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 5
12:00-1:00 PM
Alison Comfort, Health Policy, Harvard University
TBA
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 12
12:00-1:00 PM
Benoît-Paul Hébert, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC)
TBA
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Oct. 13
3:00-5:00 PM
Dr. Julia Resnik, School of Education, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
“The Construction of Managerial Discourse in Education : The Case of Israel”
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Oct. 19
12:00-1:00 PM
Andrea Wilson, Sociology, University of Western Ontario
"The Link Between Childhood Adversity and Adult Health Risk Trajectories"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Oct. 26
12:00-1:00 PM
Hicham Raïq, Sociology, Université de Montréal & Axel van den Berg, Sociology, McGill University
"Family Type and Poverty under Different Welfare Regimes: A Comparison of Canadian Provinces and Select European Countries"
Leacock 429

NOVEMBER
Wednesday,
Nov. 2
12:00-1:00 PM
David John Roelfs, Sociology, University of Louiseville
"Unlikely Locations: Enclosed Malls, Small Markets, and Civic Prestige"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 9
12:00-1:00 PM
Shelley Clark, Sociology, McGill University
"Single motherhood and child mortality in sub-Saharan Africa:  A life course perspective"
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 16
12:00-1:00 PM
Stephen Obeng Gyimah, Sociology, Queen's University
“Family Structure, Ethnicity, and The Transition to First Sex in Ghana”
Leacock 429
Wednesday,
Nov. 16
1:00 PM
Dr. Akosua Darkwah, Department of Sociology, University of Ghana, Legon
“The Global Meets the Local: An Analysis of the Impact of Global Economic Reform on Ghanaian Women's Work”
Peterson Hall, Rm 310
Thursday,
Nov. 17
1:00-2:30 PM
George Ross (Jean Monnet Chair at the Université de Montréal)
“The Eurozone Crisis,” McGill Political Sociology Workshop
Leacock 738
Wednesday,
Nov. 23
12:00-1:00 PM
Jacques Ledent, Intégration économique des immigrants, INRS
"Overeducation among salaried workers of immigrant origin in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver : a comparative analysis"
Leacock 429
Thursday,
Nov. 24
3:00-5:00 PM
Elizabeth Jelin, Senior Researcher at CONICET, "Public Memorialization in Perspective: Truth, Justice and Memory of Past Repression in the Southern Cone of South America" Strathcona Anatomy and Dentistry Building, Room 2/36, 3640 rue University