Event Archive

The Changing World and Sociological Significance of Workforce Credentials

Stephen Crawford, research professor at the GW Institute of Public Policy, joins his colleague Kyle Albert to discuss the value of credentials to employers and workers.

Bottom-Up Politics: What Do We Know and Where Do We Need to Go?

This symposium examines the bottom-up processes and practices of local problem solving in which communities gather evidence, build coalitions, display creativity and often increase their efforts in scale and breadth.

Sociological Lens on Eastern Europe: Gender, Collective Memory, and Social Inequality

GW Sociology Department professors Daina Eglitis, Michelle Kelso and Steve Tuch will provide an overview of their research in Latvia, Romania and Poland. They examine the significance of turning a sociological lens on both historical and contemporary issues in the region, including the Holocaust, World War II and post-communist experiences of capitalism and socioeconomic stratification.

Going All City: A Graffiti Writer's Autoethnography

Stefano Bloch is a former Los Angeles-based graffiti writer and current Assistant Professor in the School of Geography & Development and the Graduate Interdisciplinary Program in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory and faculty affiliate with the Center for Latin American Studies at the University of Arizona.

The Limits of Resonant Frames: Organizational Mobilization Against Racially Biased Policing in France & the United States

Nicole Hirsch, Turpanjian chair in civil society and postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Southern California, researches race relations, social change, organizations and comparative research.

Dean's Lecture Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Criminal Justice

U.S. immigration law criminalizes unauthored immigrants and render many of immigrants' daily activities "illegal". How does this affect immigrants' attitudes and practices toward the law? Drawing on interviews with unauthorized Mexican immigrants in Philadelphia, Professor Amada Armenta will show how time spent in the United States transforms migrants' legal attitudes from one of "resolviendo" (solving problems or getting by) to one of "doing things the right way". Armenta will highlight the implications of this legal transformation for the moral economy of immigration policy, for immigrant claims-making, and for Latino immigrants' place in the racial hierarchy.

Dean's Lecture Series on Race, Ethnicity, and Criminal Justice

The Department of Sociology welcomes Carla Shedd, associate professor of Urban Education at City University of New York Graduate Center, in a lecture titled "When Protection Becomes Punishment: Coming of Age in an Unequal City." Associate Professor Carla Shedd will preview parts of her new book on juvenile justice in NYC that builds upon her study in Chicago, Unequal City.