Culture and Society Workshop at UCSD

 

Schedule 2005 – 2006

All Meetings Take Place from 12:30-1:50 in SSB 101

Bring Your Own Lunch

 

Fall 2005

 

[Break in Schedule for Job Talks]

 

Winter 2006

January 12      Jeff Kidder (Department of Sociology, UCSD)

“Bike Messengers in a Global City: An Exploration of Structure and Agency”

 

February 9      Andrew Lakoff (Department of Sociology, UCSD)

                      “Preparing for the Next Emergency: an Anatomy of Contemporary Security Expertise”                

 

March 16        Nina Eliasoph, (Department of Sociology, USC)

“Scrambled Moral Worlds: American Youth Programs Trying to Raise Good Citizens”                 

 

 

Spring 2006

 

April 18          Matt Stahl, (Department of Communications, UCSD)

                      “Recording Artists, Work for Hire Doctrine, Employment and Appropriation”

 

May 5             Second Annual UCSD Culture Conference

 

May 16           Abby Saguy and Rene Almeling (Department of Sociology, UCLA)

“Fat Devils and Moral Panics: News Reporting on Obesity Science”

 

June 1            Steve Epstein (Department of Sociology, UCSD) and Hector Carrillo (Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, UC San Francisco)

                      “Becoming a Sexual Citizen: Practices of Belonging among Mexican Gay and Bisexual Male Immigrants to the United States”

 

Papers will be distributed one week before the meeting, in the mail room. 

They will also be available as .pdf files at: http://weber.ucsd.edu/~jhevans/

 

Convenors: John H. Evans, Andy Lakoff, Mary Blair-Loy, Kwai Ng, Amy Binder

 

Schedule for Previous Years of the Culture and Society Workshop

2002-2003

2003-2004

2004-2005