2014-2015 Seminars

Fall 2014

► November 10: 
Love In the Middle East: the Contradictions of Romance in the Facebook World
Roger Friedland, Professor of Religious Studies, Department of Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Spring 2015

► February 16: 
Revisiting the Racial Legacy of Homer Plessy: A Racial Mobility Perspective
Aliya Saperstein, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Stanford University

► March 2:
Measuring Meaning: The Modern Quest for a Science of Interpretation
John Mohr, Professor of Sociology, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Visiting Research Collaborator at CSSO (March 2015)

 ► March 30:
The Urban Memory Machine: Municipal Politics and the Creation of "Historic" Philadelphia 
Gary Alan Fine, John Evans Professor of Sociology, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences