CALENDAR OF SEMINARS
April 2006

Week of April 3:

April 3
Lawrence King (Yale University) "The Sociology of Economic Genocide: Rapid Large-Scale Privatization and the Post-Communist mortality Crisis."
Place: 165 Wallace Hall, Time: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., Sponsor: Sociology Dept.

April 4
Amy L. Sherman, Senior Fellow and Director of the Faith in Communities Initiative, Sagamore Institute for Policy Research and Senior Fellow, International Justice Mission - Crossroads of Religion and Politics Lecture Series: "Faith-Based Organizations and the Public Good."
Place: Bowl 016 Robertson Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for the Study of Religion.

April 4
Barbara Reskin, University of Washington, Title - TBA
Place: 300 Wallace Hall, Time: 12 noon, Sponsor: Office of Population Research.

April 6
Robert Smith, City University of New York - "Assimilation and Transnational Life among Children of Immigrants"
Place: 165 Wallace Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development.

April 7
CONFERENCE: "New Directions in Inequality and Stratification" - various speakers.
Place: Bowl 16, Robertson Hall, Time: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (both days), Sponsor: Global Network on Inequality and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

April 8
CONFERENCE: "New Directions in Inequality and Stratification" - various speakers.
Place: Bowl 16, Robertson Hall, Time: 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (both days), Sponsor: Global Network on Inequality and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.
Week of April 10:

April 10
William Bodiford, University of California, Los Angeles - Buddhist Studies Workshop: "Japanese Buddhism During the Tokugawa Period: A New Perspective"
Place: 1879 Hall, Room 137, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for the Study of Religion.

April 10
Verta Taylor and Leila Rupp (University of California- Santa Barbara) - "Cultural Performances as Social Movement Tactics: Drag Queens at the 801 Cabaret"
Place: 165 Wallace Hall, Time: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., Sponsor: Sociology Dept.

April 10
Werner Troesken , Department of History, University of Pittsburgh - "Death and the City: Chicago's Mortality Transition, 1850-1925"
Place: 300 Wallace Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing.

April 10
Boris Gasparov, Columbia University - 'World of Art' Lecture: "History of a Triplet: Pasternak and Scriabin"
Place: 245 East Pyne, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

April 11
Roland Fryer, Harvard University - Title TBA
Place: 300 Wallace Hall, Time: 12 noon, Sponsor: Office of Population Research.

April 13
George Lakoff, Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Berkeley.
Place: Robertson Hall, Dodds Auditorium. Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for the Study of Religion.

April 13
Suzanna Reiss, New York University - PIIRS Luncheon Seminar: "Policing Development: Coca Control and U.S.-Andean Collaborations at Mid-century"
Place: 216 Aaron Burr Hall, Time: 12:00 noon, Sponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies.
Week of April 17:

April 17
Hannah Brueckner (Yale University) "Occupational Aspirations, Gender Segregation, and the Gender Gap in Wages."
Place: 165 Wallace Hall, Time: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., Sponsor: Sociology Dept.

April 17
Hoyt Bleakley, Department of Economics, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago - "Malaria Eradication in the Americas: A Retrospective Analysis of Childhood Exposure"
Place: 300 Wallace Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for Health and Wellbeing.

April 18
Marylin Rhie, Smith College - Buddhist Studies Workshop: "Some Issues in Korean Buddhist Art"
Place: McCormick 106, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for the Study of Religion.

April 18
Arline Geronimus, University of Michigan - Title TBA
Place: 300 Wallace Hall, Time: 12 noon, Sponsor: Office of Population Research.

April 18
Janet Kennedy, Indiana University - 'World of Art' Lecture: "Rescuing Rococo: Alexandre Benois, the World of Art, and Russia's Eighteenth-Century Heritage"
Place: 101 McCormick Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies

April 19
Marylin Rhie, Smith College - Buddhist Studies Workshop: "Regional Schools in Later Tibetan Art"
Place: McCormick 106, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for the Study of Religion.

April 20
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Noah Professor of Philosophical Theology, Emeritus, Yale Divinity School - Princeton Lectures in Cognition and Religion: "Can God Answer Back?"
Place: Friend 101, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for the Study of Religion.

April 20
Parfait M. Eloundou-Enyegue, Cornell University - "Foster Children in Informal Safety Nets? - Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa"
Place: 165 Wallace Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for Migration and Development.
Week of April 24:

April 24
Amy Binder (University of California- San Diego) "Transforming Lives, Preserving Selves: Poor Women's Struggles in Transitional Housing."
Place: 165 Wallace Hall, Time: 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., Sponsor: Sociology Dept.

April 24
Scott Lynch, Sociology, Princeton University - Princeton Dialogues and Sociology and Public Affairs: "Socioeconomic and Racial Inequalities in Health and Mortality: A Life Course Perspective"
Place: Bowl 1, Robertson Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m., Sponsors: Global Network on Inequality and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

April 25
Jim House, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (CASBS), Stanford University - Title TBA
Place: 300 Wallace Hall, Time: 12 noon, Sponsor: Office of Population Research.

April 26
Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religion and Society in the Research Centre Religion and Society, University of Amsterdam - Princeton Lectures in Religion and Global Culture: "The Pentecostal Aesthetic and the Spirit of Modern Consumerism."
Place: McCosh 50, Time: 4:30 p.m., Sponsor: Center for the Study of Religion

April 27
Pierrette Hondagneu Sotelo, University of Southern California - "Mobilizing Faith for Immigrant Rights"
Place: 165 Wallace Hall, Time: 4:30 p.m., Center for Migration and Development

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