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Mondays 2:15-3:45 in SSPB 4206.

January 9: Andreas Wimmer, UCLA Sociology. "Nation-building or ethnic exclusion? A global analysis, 1945-2005"

January 16: MLK Day. NO MEETING

January 23: Meet on Wednesday instead...

January 25: SPECIAL WEDNESDAY SESSION, 12:15-1:45. SSPB 4206. John Meyer, Stanford University. "Accounting for the Worldwide Expansion of 'Organization'"

January 30: Evan Schofer

February 6: Christine Hegel. "Promises, Promises: Thinking Anthropologically about Legal Fictions, Intimate Politics, and Due Process."

February 13:

February 20: President's Day. NO MEETING.

February 27: April Linton, UCSD. "Growing Fair Trade in South Africa."

March 5:

March 12:

September 23: Organizational Meeting

September 30: Informal meeting on work-in-progress.

October 7: Kristen Shorette, Dissertation chapters. "Cross-national variation in fair trade consumption in the global north and in the concentration of fair trade producer organizations in the global south."

October 14: David Frank and Dana Moss. "Cross-National Variation in the Criminal Regulation of Sex."

October 21: Jasmine Kerrissey. "The Making of Democracy: Union Membership, Political Participation and Race, Gender and SES"

October 28: Colin Beck, Dept. of Sociology, Pomona College. "Who Gets Designated a Terrorist and Why? A Comparative Cross-Sectional Analysis of Organizational Categories and Schemas"

November 4: Nolan Phillips "Exploring Convergence and Divergence in National Strategic AIDS Plans"

November 11: Veteran's Day: NO MEETING.

November 18: Department Colloquium. NO MEETING.

November 25: Thanksgving break. NO MEETING.

December 2: Last day of classes. NO MEETING.

March 28: Kristen Shorette. "The Formation and Expansion of Global Markets: Fair Trade Organization Foundations, 1960-2004"

April 4: Matt Peace "World Society Diffusion of Internet Participation and Filtering"

April 11: Erin Evans "'If slaughterhouses had glass walls…' Animal Rights Activists and Media Coverage of Grievances"

April 18: Natasha Miric "International Football and the State-making Process"

April 25: Andrew Duncan "Post-Socialist Developmentalism: The Role of the Hybrid Sector in China's Economy"

May 2: CANCELLED due to faculty meeting.

May 9: Ondrej Cisar and Katerina Vrablikova. "Transnational Activism of Social Movement Organizations: The Effect of European Funding on Local Groups in the Czech Republic"

May 13 (Special Friday Event): Matthias Koenig, University of Toronto. "Human rights, judicial politics and the secularization of nation-states - Contestations over religion at the European Court of Human Rights"

May 16: Rune Holmgaard Andersen, U. of Tartu, Estonia. "Transnational Accident or Accidental Transition: A New Approach to Economic Transition."

May 23: Andrew M. Penner, Aleksandra Kanjuo-Mrčela, Nina Bandelj, and Trond Petersen. “Within–job gender inequality in Slovenia, 1993–2007”

May 30: Memorial Day. NO MEETING.

January 3: Mandi Bane, University of Michigan. "Development with Identity in Ecuador: Neoliberal Governance, Indigeneity, and Social Change"

January 10: Stefan Malizia. "Redefining Marijuana: Culture Change and Policy Reform in California, 1972-1996."

January 17: No Meeting: MLK Day.

January 24: Ondrej Cisar and Kateřina Vráblíková. "The Transnationalization of Social Movement Organizations and its
Determinants: An Overstudied Deviation or Transformative Trend?"

January 31: Meeting cancelled due to job candidate talk.

February 7: Kristen Shorette: Dissertation Research: "Fair Trade Certified: Nongovernmental Regulation of International Markets" Meeting cancelled due to job candidate talk.

February 14: Jasmine Kerrissey: "Democracy and Mergers in U.S. Unions, 1900-2005".

February 21: No Meeting: President's Day.

February 28: Karen Robinson: TBA

March 7: Jared Oleson

Fall 2010

September 27: Brief Organizational Meeting

October 4: David Frank: "University Expansion and the Knowledge Society -- Stanford and Toulouse"

October 11: Evan Schofer and Jasmine Kerrissey: "Institutional Context, Labor Unions, and Political Participation in Affluent Democracies"

October 18: Colin Beck: "What Do We Really Know About (the Social Science of) Revolution?"

October 25: Natasha Miric: "International Football and the State-making Process."

November 1: November 1:  Kateřina Vráblíková  “Contextual Determinants of Political Participation in Democratic Countries."

November 8: Jacques E. C. Hymans, USC School of International Relations. "Implementing Nuclear Ambitions: The Political Foundations of Technical Achievement."

November 15: Evan Schofer, Beth Gardner, and Wes Longhofer:" Voluntary Associations and Economic Inequality"

November 22: Thanksgiving Week. No Meeting.

November 29: Nicole Doerr: "Democracy in Translation - How Activists Transform the Politics of Talk."

March 29: Organizational meeting and teaching talk by Megan Thiele.

April 5: Mandi Bane. Dissertation chapter: "Indigenous and Ecuadorian: Cultural Citizenship in the Neoliberal Era"

April 12:Evan Schofer, David Frank, Ann Hironaka, and Wes Longhofer: World Society Theory.

April 19: Andrew Noymer: "The decline of TB mortality: The USA and Southeast Asia in historical-comparative perspective"

April 26: Anthony McGann and Wayne Sandholtz: "Patterns of Death Penalty Abolition, 1960-2005."

May 3: Jared Olesen. "Local food system expansion in the United States 1997-2007"

May 10: Michelle Peria. "Global Civil Society, Social Movements and the State: the rise of affirmative action policy in Brazil 1995-2008"

May 17: Raul Perez. Dissertation Proposal: "Cultural Reification, 'Non-Racism,' and Stand-Up Comedy,: Performing Undisputed Racism in a Post Civil Rights Society"

May 24: Karen Robinson: Dissertation Chapter: Curricular Choice in Basic and Applied Fields.

May 31: Memorial Day. No Meeting.

January 11: Nina Smart. "Resisting World Polity Transmission: The Silence on the Glocalization of anti-FGM Legislature in the Parliament of Sierra Leone"

January 18: Martin Luther King Day. No Meeting.

January 25: Rachael Chatterson. "The Expansion of Evangelicalism in the Modern World Culture"

February 1: Kristen Shorette and Ann Hironaka: "Outcomes of the World Polity: Trends in Fertilizer and Pesticide Consumption, 1961-2006"

February 8: Megan Thiele and Kristen Shorette "State Funding of Higher Education: The effects of Legislators' Educational Experience on Support for Public Universities"

February 15: President's Day. No Meeting.

February 22: Kris Noam-Zuidervaart "Cultural Transmission by Intermarried Second-Generation Chinese parents: An International Comparison"

March 1: Evan Schofer (with Wes Longhofer): "Structural Adjustment and Economic Inequality, 1980-2000"

March 8: Andrew Penner (with Todd CadwallerOlsker): "Looking Beyond Mean-based Studies of Mathematics Achievement in the United States."

March 15; Exam Week

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