Upcoming Events 2013-2014

Winter 2014

Thursday, January 23rd, 12:30-2pm, in Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas
Chris Parker, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
“Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America."
*Hosted by the UCSD Sociology Department

Tuesday, March 4th, 12:30-2pm, in Deutz Conference Room, Institute of the Americas
Neil Gross, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
“Why Are Professors Liberal and Why Do Conservatives Care?â
*Hosted by the UCSD Sociology Department

Completed Events 2012-2013

Spring 2013

Monday April 22, 3-5pm, in SSB 101
Ian Mullins, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego
"Specters of Protests: How Minutemen Produce a Sense of Threat During Public Demonstrations."

Monday, May 6, 3-5pm, in SSB 101
Robert Horwitz, Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego
"America's Right: Anti-establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party."

Completed Events 2011-2012

Winter 2012

Thu, Jan 26, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Michael Young, Department of Sociology, University of Texas
"Rebellion and Breakthrough: Evangelical Disruptions, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Values"

Thu, Feb 9, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
David Meyer, Department of Sociology, University of California, Irvine
"Populists and Plutocrats: The Tea Party and Protest Politics in Contemporary America"

Thu, Feb 23, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Rory McVeigh, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
"Educational Segregation, Tea Party Organizations, and the Structuring of Political Polarization"

Thu, Mar 8, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Josh Pacewicz, ASA Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
"Partisans and Partners: The Politics of the Postindustrial Economy"

Spring 2012

Thu, Apr 12, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Edward Walker, Department of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles
"Commercializing Participation: Public Affairs Consultants, the Mobilization of Anti-Regulatory Sentiments, and the Restructuring of American Democracy"

Thu, Apr 26, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Stephanie Lee Mudge, Department of Sociology, University of California, Davis
"Neoliberalism without Neoliberals: The Late 20th Century Transformation of the Center—and Especially the Left"

Thu, May 31, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Melissa Wilde, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
"Birth of the Culture Wars: Race, Religion and Contraception in the US Circa 1931"

Completed Events 2010-2011

Winter 2011

Tue, Feb 8, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Corey Fields, Department of Sociology, Stanford University
"My People, My People: How Competing Ideas about 'Black People' Shape African-American Republican Politics"
This talk co-sponsored by the UCSD Culture and Society Workshop

Thu, Feb 24, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Corey Robin, Associate Professor, Brooklyn College, CUNY
"The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin"

Tue, Mar 8, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Steven Tepper, Department of Sociology and Curb Center for Art, Enterprise, and Public Policy, Vanderbilt University
"On Air, Our Air: Fighting for Decency on the Airwaves"

Spring 2011

Fri, April 29, 2:00-3:30pm, in SSB101
Jal Mehta, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
"The Chastened Dream"

Tue, May 3, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Joshua C. Wilson, John Jay College, CUNY
"Onward Christian Lawyers: An Initial Look at the Cultural Capital and Idea Dissemination/Penetration of Recently Created Christian Law Schools"

Fri, May 20, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB101
Robert Horwitz, Department of Communication, UCSD
"Richard Hofstadter's 'Paranoid Style' Revisited: The Tea Party, Past as Prologue"

Tue, May 24, 12:30-2:00pm, in SSB101
Jon Shields, Assistant Professor, Claremont McKenna College
"Almost Human: Moral Ambivalence in the Pro-Choice and Pro-Life Movements"

Completed Events 2009-2010

Fall 2009

Thu, Oct 8 at 12:30pm in SSB 101
Tom Medvetz, Department of Sociology, UCSD
"The Crystallization of the Space of Think Tanks"

Winter 2010

Thu, Feb 18 at 12:30pm in SSB 101
Neil Gross, Department of Sociology, University of British Columbia
"Why Are Professors Liberal?

Tue, Feb 23 at 12:30pm in SSB 101
Amy Binder and Kate Wood, Department of Sociology, UCSD
"Varieties of Conservative Student Style and Discourse in American Universities"

Fri, Mar 12 at 12:30pm in SSB 101
Steven Teles, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
"Isomorphism Versus Ideology in the Shaping of Organizational Fields: The Case of Philanthropic Foundations"

Spring 2010

Thu, Apr 1 at 12:30pm in SSB 101
Michael S. Evans, Department of Sociology and Science Studies Program, UCSD
"Does Religious Mean Conservative?"

Completed Events 2008-2009

Fall 2008

Fri, Oct 31, 2:00-3:50pm, in SSB 101
Robert Horwitz, Department of Communication, UCSD
"Two Generations of Neoconservatism and the Cleansing Fire of Violence"

Winter 2009

Fri, Jan 30, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB 102
Mark Smith, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
"Religion, Divorce, and the Missing Culture War in America," from a larger research agenda titled "Malleable Morality: Religious Perspectives on Slavery, Divorce, and Homosexuality in America"

Fri, Feb 20, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB 107
Brian Steensland, Department of Sociology, Indiana University
"Does God Love Free Markets? Fusing Religious and Economic Conservatism in Mid-century America"

Fri, Mar 6, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB 107
Isaac Martin, Department of Sociology, UCSD
"From Feminism to Conservatism: The Women's Movement for Income Tax Repeal, 1944-1956"

Spring 2009

Fri, May 1, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB 107
Ronnee Schreiber, Department of Political Science, San Diego State University
"But Does She Speak for Me? Feminist and Conservative Women's Organizations React to Palin"

Fri, May 15, 12:30-1:50pm, in SSB 107
Kathleen Blee, Department of Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
"Trajectories of Action and Belief in U.S. Organized Racism"