Colloquium and Events

Please save the dates of our upcoming departmental colloquia and events.

Events

Friday, March 7th from 4:00pm to 5:00pm: Étienne Ollion will discuss The Candidates: Amateurs and Professionals in French Politics at the seminary coop. More details here.

Tuesday, March 25 from 11:00am to 4:00pm: Third Year Dissertation Proposal Mini-Conference in the SSRB Tea Room

Tuesday, March 25th at 5:00 pm: Visit Day Department Reception in the SSRB Tea Room.

Wednesday, March 26th at 12:30pm: Visit Day Colloquium in the SSRB Tea Room.

Saturday, April 26th: Chicago Ethnography Conference at Swift Hall:

The Chicago Ethnography Conference (CEC) is an annual conference organized by and for graduate students, rotating between universities in the Midwest, creating a dynamic forum for ethnographic research presentation and discussion. The CEC offers graduate students from all over a platform to showcase their work while receiving invaluable feedback from Chicago-area faculty members.

This year the conference will be hosted at Swift Hall on the University of Chicago's campus, continuing a proud tradition of scholarly excellence and methodological innovation in the heart of Chicago. For more information and registration details, visit here.

Colloquium

We're pleased to welcome the following scholars to share their work at our department colloquium. All talks will take place in Albion Small (SSRB 305) on Wednesdays from 12:30pm to 1:50pm CT unless otherwise noted. Additional colloquia and talk titles will be added in the following weeks.

Winter 2025

January 22: Stephen Vaisey (Duke University), "Advancing Theories and Methods for Understanding Cultural Change"

February 5: Ariela Schachter (Washington University), "Moving Stories: Designing a Tool to Promote Immigrant Inclusion"

February 19: Minwoo Jung (Loyola University), "Queer Entanglements in Geopolitics"

February 26: Ethan Raker (University of British Columbia), "Heat, Environmental Adaptations, and Racial Disparities in Mortality, 1968-1979"

March 6: Etienne Ollion (l'Ecole polytechnique), "Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?"

Fall 2024

October 2: Mary Racelis (Ateneo de Manila University) with Marco Garrido (University of Chicago), "The Postcolonial Reconstruction of the Chicago School in the Philippines"

October 16: Yige Dong (SUNY Buffalo), "Collective Care and Its Discontents: The Politics of Social Reproduction in Socialist China"

November 6: Mathijs De Vaan (Berkeley Haas), "Mental Health and Labor Market Outcomes"

November 20: Zophia Edwards (Johns Hopkins University), "Liberation Unionism: A Black Radical Labor Tradition and Its Impact on Development in Trinidad and Tobago"