Lecture | Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology

Wednesday September 30

Making Skid Row Cool: Los Angeles Poverty Department’s (failed) Skid Row Walk of Fame - Opening lecture of Urban Imagineering and the Construction of Cool Cities by Marina Peterson

Marina Peterson

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday September 28

Girl Capital in the VIP: A Return to Ownership in the Forms of Capital

Ashley Mears

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday May 18

Multiple modes of transnationalism around Japan: Diversifying Migrant Populations and Policy Paradoxes, public lecture by Akihiro Koido (Hitotsubashi University)

Akihiro Koido

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday May 04

Industrial Hauntings: Smokestack Nostalgia or Working Class Obituary?, public lecture by Tim Strangleman (University of Kent)

Tim Strangleman

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday March 23

Sociologizing the Technological Frontier: The Next Generation of Growth in China and the World, public lecture by Salvatore Babones (University of Sydney)

Salvatore Babones

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday March 16

The Global Middle as 'Normal', public lecture by József Böröcz (Rutgers University)

József Böröcz

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday February 23

Roma Local Minority Self-Governance in Hungary, public lecture by Kai Schafft (Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU and Associate Professor of Education at Penn State University )

Kai Schafft

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday February 09

Imagining and practising citizenship in austere times, public lecture by John Clarke (Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU)

John Clarke

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Tuesday December 09

The Death of Jokes? The Shifting Landscape of Humor in Postsocialist Hungary, public lecture by Martha Lampland, University of California

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday December 01

Contesting the Value of Household Property, public lecture by Hadas Weiss, Institute for Advanced Study, CEU

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday September 29

The 'Protest Events Dimension' of the Ukrainian Maidan: how significant were regional unevenness, far right participation, and violence?, public lecture by Volodymyr Ishchenko (Center for Society Research, Kiev)

Volodymyr Ishchenko

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday May 26

Re-envisioning Social Movements in the Global City: the Politics of Displacement in New York City: 1975-2014, public lecture by Ida Susser (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center)

Ida Susser

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday March 17

DEVADASIS – courtesans between Power, Shame and Fame, public lecture by Dr. Saskia Kersenboom (University of Amsterdam)

Dr. Saskia Kersenboom

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday February 17

Citizenship in Dispute: Austerity, authoritarianism and the remaking of the social, public lecture by John Clarke (Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, CEU)

John Clarke

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday February 03

Meeting the extremes and observing the mundane in-between: exploring social inequality in Bucharest, public lecture by Ger Duijzings (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London)

Ger Duijzings

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday January 20

Crystallizing race into socio-spatial configurations. A genealogy of urban camps for Roma in Italy and France, public lecture by Giovanni Picker (CEU IAS)

Giovanni Picker

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday December 02

The Re-Underdevelopment of an ‘Internal Periphery’: Persistent Polarization in the Mississippi Delta, public lecture by Michael Timberlake (University of Utah)

Michael Timberlake

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday November 11

"Gypsycriminality" and The Racial Politics of Punishment in Central Europe

Lynne Haney

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Thursday October 10

Competing Rights and Social Control: A Comparison of Polygamy’s Regulation in Canada and France: a public lecture by Melanie Heath (McMaster University)

Melanie Heath (McMaster University)

5:20pm to 7:00pm

Wednesday October 09

Does Anthropology have Style: possibilities and limitations in the contemporary study of Material Culture: a public lecture by Tamar El Or (Hebrew University)

Tamar El Or (Hebrew University)

5:20pm to 7:00pm

Monday May 06

Collectivization and the Restratification of Everyday Life in Romania, 1949-1962. Public lecture by Gail Kligman (UCLA)

Gail Kligman (UCLA)

4:00pm to 6:00pm

Monday March 18

Karl Polanyi, the global economic crisis, and social theory: series of lectures by Fred Block (UC Davis)

Fred Block (UC Davis)

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday March 11

Crude Power: Rethinking Oil and Politics: a lecture by Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University)

Kaveh Ehsani (DePaul University)

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday March 04

Contradictions of the Welfare State Today: revisiting Claus Offe. A public lecture by John Clarke (The Open University, UK)

John Clarke (The Open University)

5:30pm to 7:00pm

Monday December 03

Time's Arrow in Tázlár (and in Anthropology): a lecture by Chris Hann

Chris Hann

5:30pm to 7:00pm