News from the Department of Sociology
Join us for our last colloquium event of the semester with Olivier Godechot from Sciences Po, Paris and CNRS “Economic Separatism: Causes and Consequences of the Increase in Top Earner Segregation” on 4/22/25. Co-sponsored by @UH_DURP and @SparkMMatsunaga
Come and join the Social-ology Club and the Department of Sociology for an Easter Egg Hunt and picnic on April 21st from 2:30pm-4:00pm! Scan the QR code for more information.
Civil Beat's Community Voice recently featured Dr. Ashley Rubin and two of her Crime Lab students, Emma Burnkrant and Jesus Romero, commentary “What Social Science Tells Us About Violence Crime On Oʻahu”
What Social Science Tells Us About Violent Crime On O‘ahu
Aggravated assaults, robberies and sexual offenses are significantly lower than they used to be.
www.civilbeat.org
Please join us for our third colloquium event of the semester with Professor Dingxin Zhao “Nationalism and Empire: Their Dynamics and Implications for the World and the Asia Pacific” on 4/1/25. Co-sponsored by Center for Chinese Studies, Asian Studies, Center for Korean Studies.
Safety in communities is fundamental to individual and collective wellbeing. While policing and incarceration are the routine responses to crime, the outcomes indicate we need to imagine alternatives. Join us to discuss different strategies regarding public safety and wellbeing.
Please join us at our third colloquium event of the semester with Professor Dingxin Zhao "Nationalism and Empire: Their Dynamics and Implications for the World and the Asia Pacific" on 4/1/25. Co-sponsored by the Center for Chinese Studies, @UHMAsianStudies, @cksuhm
Our second colloquium event of the semester with MA student Austin Jay Alika Keaupuni Davis as our guest speaker, co-sponsored by the @UHMCOH, @uhm_es, and the Department of History. It was a successful event! Mahalo to everyone who came!
Check out the most recent edition of Liberty Newsletter! With the help from the students in the Women & Crime course, No Labels, the Creative Writing Project at the Women’s Community Correctional Center, has just published a new issue of Liberty!
http://go.hawaii.edu/Q28
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