Monday 12:00 noon in SSPB 4206

September 28: David Frank. "Environmental Sociology from a World Society Perspective"

October 5: Ann Hironaka. "An Institutional Theory of Environmental Consequences"

October 12: Evan Schofer. Work in Progress: Educational Expansion and Income Inequality

October 19: Karen Robinson and Jared Oleson. "The Global Expansion of Environmental Education in Universities"

October 26: Colin Beck, Dept. of Sociology, Pomona College. "The World Cultural Origins of Revolutionary Waves"

November 2: Mandi Bane. Dept of Sociology, University of Michigan. "Community Projects are Worthless": The Paradox of Indigenous Community Organizing in Saquisili, Ecuador.

November 9: Jasmine Kerrissey and Evan Schofer. "Unions Membership and Political Participation in the United States."

November 16: Ann Hironaka. Work in Progress: The Long Term Consequences of Great Power Interventions.

November 23: Nina Smart. "Resisting World Polity Transmission: The Silence on the Glocalization of anti-FGM legislature in the Parliament of Sierra Leone"

November 30: Mike Landis. Dissertation research: Cross-national research on terrorism.

December 7: Exam Week

March 30: Ann Hironaka. Book Chapter from Tokens of Power.

April 6: Kristen Shrorette. "Integration into the World-Economy and Development Prospects for Peripheral States: A Global Comparative Analysis."

April 13: Jasmine Kerrissey and Evan Schofer. "Union Membership and Civic Life"

April 20: NO MEETING due to 2nd Year Paper Talks.

April 27: Prof. Wai Kit Choi, CSULA. "The Ethics of Recognition and Mass Mobilization: From Chinese Communist Guerrillas to Anti-WTO Korean Farmers"

May 4: Karen Robinson: "Discipline, Choice and the Educated Person."

May 11: Prof. Feng Wang. "Expanding Production, Shrinking Reproduction: Understanding the Global Birth Dearth"

May 18: Scott Byrd. "Claims, Aims, and Climate Change: Global Climate Justice Movement and the UNFCCC Negotiations"

May 25: No Meeting: Memorial Day.

June 1: Mike Landis. "Terrorism: A Cross National Comparison in the Rates of Terrorism"
and Stefan Malizi. "The Globalization of Environmental Governance.".

June 8: Prof. Matthew Mahutga, UC Riverside. "Production Networks and the Organization of the Global Economy."

January 5: Prof. David Suarez, USC. "Institutionalizing a Global Social Movement: Human Rights as University Knowledge." (with Tricia Martin)

January 12: Steve Boutcher. Work in Progress: Models of Large Firm Pro Bono Participation

January 19: MLK Day -- No Meeting

January 26: Evan Schofer "The Consequences of Higher Education as a Global Institution."

February 2: **Time change: Start at 1:30pm ** Ting Jiang. "Economic Globalization and Welfare Spending in 23 Transitional Economies"

February 9: Katie Bolzendahl. "Domains, Disaggregation, And Welfare State Development: Does Gender Equality Matter?"

February 16: President's Day -- No Meeting.

February 23: Elizabeth McEneaney, CSU Long Beach. "Conceptions of Risk to Child Participants in Applied Research".

March 2: David Frank: Work in Progress: "Cross-national analyses of the criminal regulation of sex"

March 9: Megan Thiele: Dissertation Research: "Culture, Class and an Elite Education." AND Marianne Ryan-Go Navada "Foreign Ownership of Firms and Knowledge Diffusion"

September 27: Evan Schofer "NGOs, INGOs, and Social Change: Environmental Policy Reform in the Developing World, 1970-1995." (with Wes Longhofer and David Frank)

October 6: Ann Hironaka "Tank Doctrine in the Inter-War Period" -- Chapter of her book-in-progress Tokens of Power

October 13: David Frank: "Preliminary Thoughts on Cross National Variation in the Criminal Regulation of Sex"

October 20: Megan Thiele and Karen Robinson

October 27: Evan Schofer -- Work in Progress: Models of environmental association

November 3: Jasmine Kerrisey -- Dissertation proposal

November 10: Nathanael Matthiasen -- Dissertation proposal

November 17: Steve Boutcher -- Book Chapter

November 24: Ann Hironaka -- Book Chapter

December 1: David Frank -- work-in-progress

December 8: Ann Hironaka -- Book Chapter