Winter 2023
Winter 2021
ICSW will be meeting remotely on zoom. Please get on the email list for info on how to attend.
January 20 – Julia C. Lerch, Evan Schofer, David John Frank, Wesley Longhofer, Francisco O. Ramirez, Christine Min Wotipka, and Kristopher Velasco. “Women’s Participation in the Post-Liberal Era: A Global Perspective.”
January 27 – Colin J. Beck: “What Do We Really Know About (the Social Science of) Revolution?”
February 3 – Kristopher Velasco: “Mapping the Middle: Using Text Analysis to Evaluate How World Culture Shapes the Saliency and Framing of LGBT Issues in Domestic Media Coverage.”
February 17 – Aaron W. Tester
February 24 – Arman A. Azedi: “Does Job Security Influence Protest? Cross-National Evidence from the World Values Survey and European Social Survey”
March 3 – Zaoying (Cherry) Ji : “The Effect of High-Stakes Testing on Gender Parity in Higher Education Enrollments: Cross-National Evidence, 1960-2012”
Winter 2020
Wednesdays 12:00-1:30 in SSPB 4206
January 8 – David Frank “New Research Potpourri”
January 22 – Aaron Tester “Reconstituting the State: Decentralization to Local Governments and Subnational Administrations 1970-2010”
January 29 – Ann Hironaka TBD
February 5 – Evan Schofer/Julia Lerch TBD
February 19 – Steven Mejia “No Laughing Matter: A Cross-National Analysis of Nitrous Oxide Emissions, 1990-2014”
March 4 – Julia Lerch “From National Triumph to Human Rights Violation? Changing Depictions of War in School Textbooks from 1950 to 2011”
Spring 2019
Time: 12:00-1:30
Room: SSPB 4250
April 3: David Frank. “Human Rights in Everyday Life.”
April 10: No Meeting
April 17: Rachel Ahrens
April 24: No Meeting: 2YP
May 1: Ann Hironaka. “Constructing the Enemy.”
May 8: Ben Leffel. “Testing Shorette’s integrated theory the city-level: Does it explain urban greenhouse gas emissions change.”
May 15: No Meeting
May 22: Evan Schofer. “The Societal Consequences of Higher Education.” (with Francisco Ramirez and John Meyer)
May 29: No Meeting
June 5: Aaron Tester. “Reconstituting the State: Political Decentralization and the Rise of Municipal Planning”
Winter 2019
January 9, 16, 23: No Meeting
January 30: Ann Hironaka. “Systems of War and Peace.”
February 6: No meeting
February 13: Julia Lerch. “Global Neoliberalism and its Educational Effects.” With Patricia Bromley and John W. Meyer.
February 20: DJF?
February 27: No Meeting.
March 6: Colin Beck, Pomona College. “All the Terrorism Fit to Print: News Media Coverage of Militant Groups, Worldwide 1970-2013.” (with Eric Schoon)
March 13: No Meeting
Fall 2018
October 3: Ann Hironaka. “War and Peace in World Society.”
October 10: No Meeting.
October 17: No Meeting.
October 24: No Meeting.
October 31: Jukka Syvatera. “The Authority of Science in Parliamentary Policymaking: An Epistemic Governance Perspective”
November 7: No meeting.
November 14: No Meeting.
November 21: Aaron Tester. “Reconstituting the State: Deconcentration and Democratic Decentralization 1970-2015.”
November 28: Zapp, Mike and Julia C. Lerch. “Teaching Knowledge for a Global Society – Patterns and Determinants of Internationalization in Higher Education Curricula Worldwide.”
December 5: No Meeting.
Spring 2018
April 4: No Meetings
April 11: No Meeting.
April 18: No Meeting.
April 25: Tania DoCarmo. “Dissertation Prospectus: Translating Contemporary Human Trafficking Law into Action”
May 2: No Meeting.
May 9: Aaron Tester. Dissertation proposal: “Participatory Democracy in Global Context.”
May 16: No Meeting.
May 23: Evan Schofer (with Jared Furuta and Shawn Wick). “The Effects of High Stakes Educational Testing on Enrollments in an Era of Hyper-Expansion: Cross-National Evidence, 1960-2010”
May 30: No Meeting
June 6: Julia Lerch. “Beyond Survival: Empowered Individualism and the Rise of Education as a Humanitarian Response”
Winter 2018
Wednesdays 1:30pm in SBSG 1321
Winter Quarter Jan 8-Mar 16. Holidays Jan 15, Feb 19
January 10: Evan Schofer and Julia Lerch. “Illiberal movements and the rise of attacks on universities.” (with John Meyer)
January 17: David Frank. “Beyond the State: Human Rights in Everyday Life.”
January 24: No Meeting.
January 31: David Frank. “The Expansion of Academic Knowledge in World Society”
February 7: No Meeting.
February 14: No Meeting.
February 21: No Meeting.
February 28: Evan Schofer. Ongoing work on illiberal reactions in world society. (With John Meyer)
March 7: Jolene McCall. Practice job talk.
March 14: Jared Furuta. “Liberal Individualism, Social Rights, and the Global Education Regime: The Worldwide Decline of Tracking, 1960-2010.”
Fall 2017
Wednesdays 2:00pm in SSPB 4206
Fall Quarter Sept 28-Dec 8. Holidays Nov 10, 23, 24
October 4: Ann Hironaka. “Ambiguity and Military Competition”
October 11: Pertti Alasuutari “Authority as Epistemic Capital” and Marjaana Rautalin “The Rise of International Policy Models and Recommendations: The Case of the OECD”
October 18: Julia Lerch. “INGO Memberships Revisited: Local Variation of Receptor Sites in the Diffusion of Emergency Education as a New Global Norm”
October 25: Benjamin J. Leffel. “Enmity of the Underling: Theorizing Sub-State Diplomacy in a World Society”
November 1: Steven Mejia. “Global Economy, Polity, and Integrated Theory of Global Environmentalism: A Cross-National Study on Air Pollution”
November 8: No Meeting.
November 15: David Reimer, Aarhus U. “Joint Forces: How Social Background and Gender Shape Segregation in Higher Education across Nations”
November 22: Probably no meeting due to Thanksgiving.
November 29: No Meeting.
December 6: Lizzie Buckner. “The Internationalization of Higher Education: Global Citizenship or Neo-Colonization?”
Spring 2017
Upcoming Spring: April 3-June 9. Meetings April 3,10,17,24 May 1,8,15,22,29(holiday) June 5
April 3: Katri Sieberg, University of Tampere, Finland. Current issues in health care in the US and Finland.
April 10: Steven Schmidt. (2nd year paper) “Justifying the Growth Machine: Urban Revelopment in Mexico City’s City Center.”
April 17: No Meeting.
April 24: Rodolfo Lopez. “Conditions of Protest Participation of Evangelicals Across Latin America.”
May 1: Aaron Tester. “Radical Democracy or Neoliberalism? States, Civil Society, and Individualization in the Era of Participatory Development.”
May 8: George Thomas, Arizona State University. “Making Inferences from Institutional Structures to Human Personhood.”
May 15: Evan Schofer. “Higher Education and Progressive Societal Movements.”
May 22: Nigel Kragten, University of Amsterdam. “The Diffusion of Educational Reforms Across Europe.”
May 29: No Meeting.
June 5: Anna Kosmützky, INCHER-Kassel. “International Comparative Research – Methodological and Social Challenges and Prospects.”
Winter 2017
Monday 2:00-3:30. Location: SSPB 4250
January 9: Alexandra Olsen. “State Level Deinstitutionalization and Reinstitutionalization: Understanding the Rise of Overdose Prevention Laws”
January 16: MLK Jr. Holiday. No meeting.
January 23: Lir Wang and Evan Schofer. “Coming Out of the Penumbras: World Culture and Cross-national Variation in Divorce Rates.”
January 30: Pertti Alasuutari, University of Tampere. “Decision-making in world parliaments and the parliamentary dataset.”
February 6: Karen Robinson. “Social Origins of the American Professoriate: Race, Class, and Gender in Academia”
February 13: Ann Hironaka. “Notes on Institutional Change.”
February 20: President’s Day: No meeting.
February 27: Jacques E. C. Hymans, USC. “Bolivar and Beyond: The Changing Iconography of South American Banknotes from the Late 19th Century Until Today.”
March 6: David John Frank. University book draft.
March 13: Nina Bandelj and Aaron Tester. “Coopting Economic Institutions, Scripting Globalization: The Changing Role of Bilateral Investment Treaties in the World Polity (1958-2013).”
Fall 2016
Wednesday 1:30-3:00 in SSBP 2214
September 28: Erin Evans, Ann Hironaka, Evan Schofer, and Sheila Xiao. “Environmental Protest around the World”
October 5: No Meeting.
October 12: Wayne Sandholtz. USC School of International Relations. “United States Military Assistance and Human Rights”
October 19: No Meeting.
October 26: Ann Hironaka. “Power in World Society.”
October 27: Special joint event with ISPF in SSPA 1100: Andreas Wimmer, Princeton U. “Nation Building. Why Some Countries Came Together While Others Fell Apart”
November 2: Aaron Tester. “Deforestation in the Global South: Assessing Uneven Environmental Improvements 1991-2012.”
November 9: Tania DoCarmo. “UN Workspaces and the Institutionalization of Human Trafficking as a Contemporary Phenomenon”
November 16: Suzie Caldwell Mulesky. “Unknown Victims: Amnesty International’s Strategic Incentives Against Reporting Human Rights Violations.”
November 23: No Meeting.
November 30: Ralph Hosoki. Dissertation chapter.
Spring 2016
Monday 12-1:30 in SSPB 4206.
March 28. Martin Jacinto. “Interrupting the Democratic Peace: Democracy and State Repression in Latin America”
April 4: Lir Wang: “The National and Global Fight Against Child Marriage”
April 11: David J. Frank. “The Global Expansion of Academic Knowledge”
April 18: NO MEETING: 2nd year paper presentations.
April 25: NO MEETING: 2nd year paper presentations.
May 2: Francisco O. Ramirez, Stanford University. “The Socially Embedded American University: Intensification and Globalization.”
May 9: Matt Pearce. “Global Expansion of Participation and Policy”
May 16: Jolene McCall. “Cross national study of renewable energy production”
May 23: Marc Schneiberg, Reed College. “Losing their way? Institutional heterogeneity, identity and credit unions’ embrace of market-based investment practices.”
May 30: Holiday. No Meeting.
June 6: Ralph Hosoki. “The Determinants of Protections for Low- and High-skilled Migrants”
Winter 2016
Our Winter meeting time is 12:00-1:30 in SSPB 4206.
January 4-March 11; Holidays Jan 18, Feb 15
January 4: Nolan Phillips and Matt Pearce. “The Evolution of the Health INGOs Network”
January 11: Aaron Tester. “Restoring the Lungs of the Earth? Assessing Patterns of Cross-National Deforestation 1990-2012.”
January 18: Holiday. NO MEETING.
January 25: Rodolfo Lopez. “The Structural Conditions of Protest Participation.”
February 1: Natasha Miric. “The Effect of Economic and Social Cultural Factors on the Expansion of Different Park Types, 1970-2008”
February 8: Tania DoCarmo. “Human Trafficking: Why Now?”
February 15: Holiday. NO MEETING.
February 22: Kiyoteru Tsutsui, University of Michigan. “Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan”
February 29: Lir Wang. “Coming out of the Penumbra: The Implications of World Culture for Divorce”
March 7: Ralph Hosoki. “The Determinants of Cross-national Variations in Protections for Trafficking Victims”
Fall 2015
September 24-Dec 4. Holidays Nov 11, 26, 27
Our Fall meeting time is 1:00-2:30 in SSPB 2214.
Sept 28: Organizational Meeting
October 5: David Frank. “The Proliferation of University Scholars.” (Chapter of book with John Meyer.)
October 12: Chris Gibson. “Social Policy Responsiveness in Arab League Member States: A post-Arab Spring Analysis, 1996-2013”
October 19: Natasha Miric, Dissertation Chapter
October 26: Evan Schofer, Lir Wang, and Rodolfo Lopez. “The Mechanisms of World Society: Environmental NGOs in Global Context.” (with Laura Valkeasuo, Tuomas Ylla-Anttila, and Todd Beer)
November 2: Wayne Sandholtz, School of International Relations and Gould School of Law, USC. “Implementing the International Criminal Court”
November 9: Elizabeth Boyle, University of Minnesota. “Abortion Liberalization and the Catholic Church in the World Polity.”
November 16: Evan Schofer. “No Salvation Outside Higher Education.” (with Chiqui Ramirez and John Meyer).
November 23: Nolan Phillips. “The Categorical Diffusion of Multisectoralism in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS.”
November 30: No Meeting.
Spring 2015
March 30-June 5. Holiday May 25.
Our Spring meeting time is Wednesday 12:00-1:30 in SSPB 4250.
April 1: No Meeting (faculty meeting)
April 8: No Meeting
April 15: Jolene McCall. “A Cross-National Study of Renewable Energy Production, 1970 through 2012”
April 22: No Meeting (2nd year paper talks)
April 29: Tuomas Ylla-Anttila. “Cooptation of ENGOs or Treadmill of Production? Corporatism and Climate Policy Networks in Finland.”
May 6: No Meeting.
May 13: No Meeting (faculty meeting)
May 20: Special early meeting @ 11:00am. Bill Robinson, UCSB. “The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Conjunctural, Structural, or Systemic?”
May 27: Patricia Bromley, University of Utah. “Casting Call: The Expansion of Actorhood in U.S. Firms, 1960-2010.”
June 3: No Meeting (faculty meeting)
Winter 2015
Our Winter meeting time is Wednesday 12:00-1:30 in SSPB 4250.
January 7: Evan Schofer. “Labor Unions and Political Participation in Comparative Perspective” (paper w/ Jasmine Kerrissey)
January 14: NO MEETING. (faculty meeting)
January 21: NO MEETING. (faculty meeting)
January 28: Gregory Shaffer, UCI School of Law. “Transnational Legal Orders.”
February 4: Ann Hironaka. “Tokens of Power: Rethinking War.”
February 11: Natasha Miric. “The Effect of Global Economic and Environmental Pressures in the Case of National Park Expansion.”
February 18: Matt Pearce. “Democracy and Global Cultural Causes of Internet Expansion”
February 25: NO MEETING. (faculty meeting)
March 4: Tytti Nahi, Aalto University. “Co-creation as Sensemaking: Collaboration in Inclusive Business Creation in Low-income Contexts” (with Minna Halme)
March 11: Rachael Russell. “The International Women’s Movement and Structural Expansion in Social Concerns of the State”.
Fall 2014-15
Our Fall 2014 meeting time is Friday 12:00-1:30 in SSPB 4206.
October 3: Organizational meeting
October 10: NO MEETING.
October 17: Wade Cole, University of Utah. “Peace through Strength? State Capacity, Regime Type, and Human Rights”
October 24: David Frank. “The University and the Knowledge Society.”
October 31: Evan Schofer. “Educational Expansion and Economic Inequality.”
November 7: Natasha Miric. “A Natural Development? The Effect of Global Economic and Environmental Pressures in the Case of National Park Expansion.”
November 14: Ron Jepperson, U. of Tulsa. “Distinguishing the multiple cultural projects driving the post-war period.”
November 21: Lir Wang. “National and Global Influence on Divorce Patterns”
November 28: Thanksgiving. NO MEETING.
December 5: Tuomas Yla-Anttila “Crowding in: Why and how indian civil society organizations mobilized on climate change.” (may be moved earlier if space available)
December 12: Katie Bolzendahl. “Gendered Political Institutions and Patterns of Welfare State Development”
Spring 2014
Our Spring 2014 meeting time is Wednesdays 12:00-1:30.
April 2: Charles Ragin. “Using Fuzzy-Set Coincidence to Study Configurations of Causal and Outcome Conditions.”
April 9: Markus Siewert. Goethe-University Frankfurt. “Presidential Legislative Success: Approaching a Fuzzy Concept with a Fuzzy Method”
April 16: NO MEETING.
April 23: NO MEETING
April 30: Group discussion of work-in-progress.
May 7: David Frank. “The Worldwide Expansion of the University Curriculum: Preliminary Evidence”
May 14: NO MEETING.
May 21: Ann Hironaka and Evan Schofer. “Learning, Hierarchy, and the Origins of Institutional Forms in World Society.”
May 28: Erin Evans, Sheila Xiao, Ann Hironaka, and Evan Schofer. “Cross-national variation in environmental protest.”
June 4: NO MEETING.
Winter 2014
Our Winter 2014 meeting time is 12:00-1:30 in SSPB 4250.
January 10: Thad Domina, Andrew Penner, Emily Penner, and Marianne Bitler. “Membership Has Its Privileges: Incentives, Stigma, and Stereotype Threat in High School”
January 17: Ann Hironaka. “Rethinking the Foundations of War”
January 24: Jon Kvist, University of Southern Denmark. “The Post-Crisis European Social Model”
January 31: Nolan Phillips. “Developing National AIDS Responses.”
February 7: Departmental Colloquia. NO MEETING. (Soc 259 will meet at 1:30)
February 14: David Frank, Matt Pearce, and Evan Schofer. “The Worldwide Expansion of the University Curriculum: Preliminary Evidence”
February 21: Emilio Castilla, MIT. Department colloquium. “Off to a Green Start? Statistical or Preference-based Inequality in the Employment of Foreign Nationals.”
February 28: Mark Berlin. “When Do States Domesticate International Law? The Worldwide Criminalization of Atrocities in Domestic Legal Systems, 1945-2011.”
March 7: Rachael Chatterson. Dissertation chapter: “The International Women’s Movement and the Expanding Scope of State Responsibility.”
March 14: Erin Evans. “Changing the Institutional Logics of Science: How
movement relevant policies influence laboratory culture.”
Spring 2013
April 12: Nolan Phillips. ”Developing National AIDS Responses” (2nd year paper)
April 19: Second year paper presentations. NO MEETING.
April 26: Departmental colloquium. NO MEETING
May 3: Natasha Miric. ”A natural development?: competition and conflict between global environmental and development discourses from 1980-2010″
May 10: Departmental colloquium. NO MEETING.
May 17: Alwyn Lim, USC Sociology. ”Field Change and Institutional Outcomes in Global Corporate Social Responsibility”
May 24: Christine Beckman. ”The Impact of Interdisciplinarity on Scientist’s Careers.” With Erin Leahy and Taryn Stanko.
May 31: Jasmine Kerrissey. “Labor Rights in the Global South: International Institutions, the Global Economy, and Domestic Politics”
June 7: Lir Wang: Dissertation proposal topic. ”The world population regime and family planning programs: transformation and restructuring.”
Winter 2013
Social Science Plaza B 4250 from 12:00-1:30 on Fridays.
January 11: No Meeting.
January 18: Departmental Colloquium: Irene Bleomraad. No Meeting.
January 25: Jasmine Kerrissey, Evan Schofer, and Beth Gardner. ”World Society, INGOs, and Political Participation.”
February 1: Anne McDaniel. ”Who wants to be a scientist? The cross-national gender gap in STEM career expectations.”
February 8: Rachael Chatterson “The Structure of the International Organization of Woman in
World Culture, 1870-2005.”
February 15: Kristen Shorette. ”Reduction or Transfer? Global Environmentalism and Carbon Dioxide Emissions Across the World System.”
February 22: David Frank and Nolan Phillips. ”Sex Laws and Sexuality Rights in Comparative and Global Perspectives”
March 1: Departmental Colloquium. No Meeting.
March 8: Colin Beck, Pomona College. ”The Comparative Method in Practice: Evidence from the Study of Revolution”
March 15:
Fall 2012
Meetings will be in Social Science Plaza B 4250 from 12:00-1:30, unless otherwise indicated. To receive email announcements and papers, sign up for our mailing list.
September 28 (Special meeting time 2:00pm): Organizational meeting
October 5: NO MEETING.
October 12: Kristen Shorette and Nolan Phillips. ”Culture and Power in Global Health Disparities”
October 19: Laura Valkeasuo. ”Domesticating Knowledge-Based Economy in Finland”
October 26: Kristen Shorette. ”The Uneven Rise of Fair Trade Producer Organizations” (practice job talk)
November 2: Ann Hironaka
November 9: Raul Perez
November 16: Rachael Chatterson. Dissertation Chapter.
November 23: Thanksgiving Holiday. NO MEETING.
November 30: Katie Bolzendahl & Rottem Sagi “Godliness and Government: Individual and Institutional Connections between Religiosity and Citizenship”
December 7: Pertti Alasuutari
| Spring 2012 |
| April 2: Cheng Tong (Lir) Wang. “From Global to Local: Diffusion Mechanisms of the Isomorphic Development of Taiwan’s Environmental Movement”April 9: No TalkApril 16: Ann Hironaka. “Conflict and Interests in World Society Theory.”April 23: Kristen Shorette. “Nongovernmental Regulation and Construction of Value in Global Markets: The Rise of Fair Trade Organizations, 1961-2006″April 30: Stefan Malizia. “Variation in medical marijuana policies across U.S. states.”May 7: Wayne Sandholtz: “Constitutions and Human Rights Treaty Commitments.”May 14: Miriam? Title TBAMay 21: Thomas Hannan, UCLA. “World culture at the world’s periphery: The role of small-scale transnational altruistic networks in the diffusion of world culture.”May 28: UNIVERSITY HOLIDAY. NO MEETING.June 4: Colin Beck, Pomona University. “Reflections on the Revolutionary Wave in 2011” |
| Winter 2012 |
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January 9: Andreas Wimmer, UCLA Sociology. “Nation-building or ethnic exclusion? A global analysis, 1945-2005″January 16: MLK Day. NO MEETINGJanuary 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. “Polity types and political participation” February 6: Christine Hegel. “Promises, Promises: Thinking Anthropologically about Legal Fictions, Intimate Politics, and Due Process.” February 13: Kristen Shorette: “The Uneven Rise of Fair Trade Producer Organizations” February 20: President’s Day. NO MEETING. February 27: April Linton, UCSD. “Growing Fair Trade in South Africa.” March 5: Ralph Hosoki. “The Determinants of Cross-National Variation in the Length Requirements for Naturalization.” March 12: Kristen Shorette & Nolan Phillips “Culture and Power in Global Health Disparities” |
| Fall 2011 |
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September 23: Organizational MeetingSeptember 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. |
| Spring 2011 |
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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-MrÄela, Nina Bandelj, and Trond Petersen. “Within–job gender inequality in Slovenia, 1993–2007†May 30: Memorial Day. NO MEETING. |
| Winter 2011 |
| 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 KateÅ™ina VráblÃková. “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: TBAMarch 7: Jared Oleson |
| Fall 2010 |
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September 27: Brief Organizational MeetingOctober 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: KateÅ™ina VráblÃková  “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.” |
| Spring 2010 |
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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. |
| Winter 2010 |
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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 |
| Fall 2009 |
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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 InequalityOctober 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 |
| Spring 2009 |
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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” June 8: Prof. Matthew Mahutga, UC Riverside. “Production Networks and the Organization of the Global Economy.” |
| Winter 2009 |
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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 ParticipationJanuary 19: MLK Day — No MeetingJanuary 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” |
| Fall 2008 |
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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 PowerOctober 13: David Frank: “Preliminary Thoughts on Cross National Variation in the Criminal Regulation of Sex”October 20: Megan Thiele and Karen RobinsonOctober 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 |