Workshop on Culture, History, and Society

"The Idea of Black-on-Black Crime: Explanation, Normativity, and Ideology" Speaker: Brandon Terry, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences; Co-director, Institute on Policing, Incarceration, and Public Safety, Hutchins Center for African...

"Rethinking Culture and Action: Meaning-Maintaining and the Causal Powers of Culture" Speaker: Stephen Ostertag, Associate Professor of Sociology, Tulane University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts...

"Markets in Conflict: Trust Networks and Wartime Exchange in Syrian Hawala" Speaker: Gözde Güran, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and the Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu...

"The Body as Barrier to the Sacred: Durkheim's Homo Duplex at Wagner's Bayreuth Festival" Speaker: Philip Smith, Professor of Sociology, Yale University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...

"Plea Bargaining as Constitutional Contradiction: A Comparative Study of Criminal Procedure in America and Brazil, 1804-1898" Speaker: Andrew Keefe, PhD Candidate in Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard...

"Plea Bargaining as Constitutional Contradiction: A Comparative Study of Criminal Procedure in the American South and Brazil, 1804-1898" Speaker: Andrew Keefe, Graduate Student Associate; Weatherhead Center Dissertation Fellow. JD/PhD Candidate...

"The Business of Advocacy: Companies and NGOs in the Fight against 'Modern Slavery'” Speaker: Stephanie Limoncelli, Associate Professor of Sociology, Loyola Marymount University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate...

"The Migration-Development Regime: How Class Shapes Indian Emigration" Speaker: Rina Agarwala, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the...

"On Historical Progress" Speaker: Steven Pinker, Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department of Sociology, Harvard...

"Human Rights Enculturation and Conceptualizations of Abuse" Speaker: Jeffrey Swindle, College Fellow in Sociology, Harvard University. Contact: Jess Viator jviator@fas.harvard.edu Cosponsored by the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Department...