Sociology Colloquium Series


Date Title Speaker(s)
Friday, January 24
3-4 pm
Saunders 244
Citizen Science and Politics of Environmental Knowledge Aya H. Kimura, Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Friday, February 7
3-4 pm
Saunders 244
Privilege and Anxiety: The Upper Middle Class in the Neoliberal Era Hagen Koo, Professor Emeritus, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Tuesday, March 10
4:30-6:30 pm
Crawford 115
Exposure Outliers: Children, Families, and Disaster Recovery in an Age of Environmental Extremes Lori Peek, Director of the Natural Hazards Center and Professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder
Postponed Sexual Victimization Against Transgender Women in Prison: Consent and Coercion in Context Valerie Jenness, Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society and Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
Thursday, April 9
10-11 am
CKS auditorium, UHM
Decentering Citizenship: Gender, Labor, and Migrant Rights in South Korea Hae Yeon Choo, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga
Tuesday, April 28
3-4 pm
Saunders 242
Does Attractiveness Influence Depression During the Transition to Adulthood? Krysia Mossakowski, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Tuesday, May 5
3-4 pm
Saunders 242
Bureaucratic Violence: How 'rule by none' Enables Violence and Why Criminologists Should Care More Nicholas Chagnon, Lecturer, Departments of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa

Date Title Speaker(s)
Tuesday, October 1, 3-4pm The Varieties of Neoliberalisms: A Brief Overview of Their Intellectual Origins and Concrete Policy Manifestations Dr. Ravi Roy, Associate Professor, Southern Utah State University
Tuesday, October 22, 3-4pm Femininities, Masculinities and the “Gender Lens” Dr. Terrell Carver, Professor of Political Theory at the University of Bristol, School of Sociology, Politics, and International Relations in the UK
Friday, November 8, 2-3pm Service Divides: Race, Class, and the Reproduction of Inequality in Los Angeles Restaurants (tentative title) Dr. Eli Wilson, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of New Mexico