Winter 2017 Schedule

January 10, 5 – 6:30 PM

{A joint opening session with Politics, History, Society Workshop}

Elizabeth Popp Berman

Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Albany, SUNY

 Politics by Other Means: How Experts Channeled Interests in U.S. Antitrust Policy

 

January 17, 5 – 6:30 PM

{In collaboration with Politics, History, Society Workshop}

Wan-Zi Lu

PhD Student, Sociology, University of Chicago

Authority Structures and Adoption of Credit Unions: Indigenous Credit Unions in Taiwan, 1965-2015

 

January 24, 5 – 6:30 PM

Rachel Geoffrey

PhD Candidate, Booth School, University of Chicago

The Monitoring and Corporate Governance Effect of Proxy Statements Dissemination on Heterogenous Investors

 

February 7, 5 – 6:30 PM

Michael Castelle

PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago

Angel, Agent, Publisher, Subscriber: The Financial Technics of the Message Broker

(((Cancelled)))

 

February 21, 12 – 1:30 PM

{In collaboration with the Urban Workshop}

Kaya Williams

PhD Candidate, Anthropology, University of Chicago

Public, Safety, Risk: Captive Logics and Speculative Investments of Pretrial Incarceration

 

March 7, 5 – 6:30 PM

Whitney Johnson

PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of Chicago

Learning to Listen: Textual Value Devices in Auditory Culture