Comparative Research Workshop-Fall 2015
Tuesdays, 12:00p-1:20p
Fellows Lounge, Calhoun College, Ground Floor, Entryway D, Courtyard.
This workshop is a weekly seminar in which work-in-progress by visiting scholars; Yale graduate students, and Yale faculty from Sociology and other disciplines is discussed. The Workshop is sponsored by the Center for Comparative Research (CCR). Papers are distributed a week ahead of time. Students who take the course for a letter grade present a paper during the term in which they are enrolled for credit. (Course listing: SOCY 560 / PLSC 734.)
The CRW brings together academics to discuss their research and insights in an environment emphasizing free discussion and exchange of ideas.
Workshop Schedule and Speakers
September 8
Welcome and Introductions
September 15
Francesca Tripodi, Andrea Press, University of Virginia
Patriarchy 2.0: The Silencing Problem in Participatory Media Environments
Respondent: Ann Marie Champagne
September 22
Kristin Plys, Yale University
Political Deliberation and Democratic Reversal in India: Indian Coffee House during The Emergency (1975-77) and the Third World ‘Totalitarian Moment’
Job Talk format - no respondent
September 29
Shai Dromi, Yale University
The Origins of the Humanitarian Sector
Job talk format - no respondent
October 6
Paolo Parigi, Stanford
Strange Bedfellows: Informal Relationships and Political Preference Formation Within Boardinghouses, 1820-1840
Respondent: Wei Luo
October 13
Kinga Makovi, Columbia University
Social Structural Avenues for Mobilization – The Case of British Abolition in Manchester
Respondent: Emily Erikson
October 20
Sarah Brothers, Yale University
The Gendered Construction of Knowledge in a Small Corner of Public Health Literature: Assisted Injection
Respondent: Rene Almeling
October 27
Celene Reynolds, Yale University
Sex Discrimination in Higher Education and the Mobilization of Title IX, 1994-2014
Respondent: Marissa King
November 3
Bart Bonikowski, Harvard
Populist Claims-Making in Legislative Discourse: Evidence from the European Parliament, 1999-2004
Respondent: Nicholas Occhiuto
November 10 (CANCELED)
Candas Pinar, Yale University
Methods and Morals: When is Sex Selection Deemed an Acceptable Form of Family Planning?
Respondent: Alex DiBranco
November 17
Rogers Brubaker, UCLA
Thinking with Trans: Gender, Race, and the Micropolitics of Identity
(Special Note: The Rogers Brubaker session runs 11:30a-12:50p, in the Department of Political Science,
The MacMillan Center, Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
Respondent: Elizabeth Becker
November 24 ~ THANKSGIVING
December 1
Sam Stabler, Yale University
Sectarian Affinities: Rationalizing the Divergent Trajectories of Two Puritan Settlements
Respondent: Jonathan Wyrtzen
December 8
Renee Anspach, University of Michigan
Transplants and Trust
Respondent: Candas Pinar