DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY

FALL 2011 WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS AND LECTURES

Date Time	Seminar	Location	Speaker and Title
9/9/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Peggy Thoits: “Role-Identity Salience, Purpose and Meaning in Life, and Well-Being”
9/9/2011 2:30-5pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	J. Scott Long: Principles of workflow with Stata
9/10/2011	WIM	Library 503	Introduction to R Workshop, part I
9/16/2011 2:30pm	Grimshaw Lecture	IMU University Club	Wendy Griswold: “How the Federal Writers' Project Accidentally Diversified American Culture and Why It Matters Today”
9/17/2011	WIM	Library 503	Introduction to R Workshop, part II
9/23/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Casey Oberlin and Oren Pizmony-Levy: “Beyond Access: Exploring Utilization Patterns of a Free Clinic”
9/23/2011 1:30-3pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	John H. Stanfield II: Ethical and political considerations in doing research in communities of color
9/24/2011 10-2pm	IIDS		Jack Martin: “Dissertation Funding”
9/27/2011 4-6pm	WIM	Library 503	General Linear Model Workshop, part I
9/28/2011 6-8pm	PSF	Fine Arts Building 102	Joseph Kosciw, GLSEN: “Making It Better: Improving School Climate For LGBT Youth”
9/30/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	David Heise: "Computer Modeling of Small Group Interactions"
9/30/2011 3-4:30pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	John R. Baumann: Workshop on avoiding and addressing research misconduct
10/1/2011 1-3pm	WIM	Library 503	Introduction to Stata Workshop, part I
10/4/2011 4-6pm	WIM	Library 503	General Linear Model Workshop, part II
10/7/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Alexander Lu: “Volunteerism and Health Risk Behaviors”
10/7/2011 2-3:30pm	GRC	KSISR 201	Shandu Foster: "Lifetime Attempted Suicide within a Transgender Population: The Effect of Race/Ethnicity and Passing"
10/7/2011 3-5pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	Patricia McManus: An introduction to analyzing panel data
10/1/2011 1-3pm	WIM	Library 503	Introduction to Stata Workshop, part II
10/14/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Abigail Sewell: Opening the Black Box: Towards an Understanding of Causal Structures of Racial Health Disparities”
10/21/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Kosali Simon: "Married to your Health Insurance? The Relationship between Marital Disruption and Health Insurance"
10/21/2011 2:30-4:30pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	Tom W. Smith, NORC: “The General Social Survey and the International Social Survey Program: Monitoring American across time and in comparative perspective”
10/28/2011 10-11:30	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	Andrew Bennett: Research design for case studies
10/28/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Shawna Rohrman and Christy Erving: "Psychological Well-Being, Perceived Discrimination, and Acculturation: Evidence from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Study"
10/28/2011 2-3:30pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	Andrew Bennett: Typological theorizing and case selection in case study research
11/4/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Steve Hitlin, Iowa
11/4/2011 2-3:30pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	Alan R. Dennis: Theory construction in the social sciences
11/7/2011 6pm	SPEA/SOC	Wells Library Room 001	James A. Evans, University of Chicago: “Semantic networks and the construction of science”
11/11/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Bill Corsaro: "Children and Civic Society: Italian and Norwegian Children and Youth Perception and Participation in Civic Events Related to Life Transitions"
11/11/2011 2:30-4pm	WIM	Woodburn Hall 200	Russell Lyons: Fat chance: Adventures in debunking
11/11/2011 2-3:30pm	GRC	KSISR 201	Karen Li: "States of Marriage: Law, Nation-Building, and Marriage Crises in Modern China"; Christy Erving: "Are you Black or Caribbean? Understanding the Racial and Ethnic Identities of Caribbean Blacks in the United States"
11/18/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Eric Grollman: "Perceived Discrimination and Health among Transgender and Gender Non-Confirming Adults"
11/19/2011 Noon	IIDS	TBA	Tim Hallett, Emily Meanwell, Laura Backstrom “Demystifying Qualitative Research”
12/2/2011 Noon	SHeL	KSISR 100	Amy Irby: "Because I don't know: Perceptions of Discrimination in Health Care."
12/2/2011 9am-12	LAW/SOC	Maurer School of Law	Symposium on Human Trafficking
12/2/2011 2-3:30pm	GRC	KSISR 201	Jennifer Puentes and Matt Gougherty: "Gender, Race, and Class in Etiquette Books"
12/2/2011 12:1:30pm	SPEA/SOC	ROOM-TBD	Christopher Marquis, Harvard Business School: “Punctuated Generosity: Events, Communities, and Corporate Philanthropy in the United States, 1980-2006”