Colloquia

During the last weeks, Germany is discussing the first elected right-wing district administrator in Sonneberg in Thuringia. Numerous right-wing-populist and right-wing extremist parties in Europe are celebrating electoral successes. The lecture will first give an overview of current developments, election campaigns and results. Secondly, changes in the European Public sphere, above all effects of digitalization and therewith interwoven…

"The rise of right-wing-populism in Europe: Insights from party research and political sociology"
In this talk, Dr. Acosta explores the strategies that mixed-race (and racially minoritized) stepfamilies led by lesbian, bisexual, transgender and queer parents use to make themselves intelligible as family to others. Based on interview data with parents from more than 40 families before and after the SCOTUS Obergefell ruling, Dr. Acosta highlights how these families’ strategies vary not only based on their racial composition, but also on the…

Everyone Thinks We Look Alike: Seeking Recognition in LGBTQ-Parented Stepfamilies
Black professionals frequently encounter competency microaggressions in the workplace, characterized by comments and behaviors that suggest low expectations of their abilities, casting doubt on their qualifications, or eliciting surprise when they demonstrate competence. While existing research has documented the prevalence of workplace racial microaggressions, coping strategies, and their effects on job satisfaction, there is a dearth of…

Just a Race Hire? The Effects of Competency Microaggressions on Workplace Behaviors and Emotion
Join us for an Active Learning Workshop that is tailored to the Department of Sociology's specific needs. While intended for Sociology faculty and graduate students, all who teach or are planning on teaching in the future would benefit from participating. This workshop will be led by Dr. Ching-Yu Huang who, as Associate Director for Active Learning Initiatives, oversees development and implementation of active learning instructional development…

Active Learning Workshop for Graduate Students
This talk will highlight and discuss the importance of intersectionality when examining racism at a HPWI (historically, predominately white institution). Black undergraduate women experience both racism and sexism simultaneously, or what Black feminists call gendered racism. HPWI’s are white-centric spaces but are also sites for patriarchy and male domination. Higher education scholars and race scholars must shift the discourse intersectionality…

"THE RACIAL AND GENDERED DYNAMICS OF POWER ON CAMPUS: BLACK WOMEN CREATING COUNTER-SPACES AS RESISTANCE"
In February, 2020, when COVID-19 infections had started to spread globally, the World Health Organization warned against an accompanying “massive infodemic.” In the months that followed misinformation and conspiracies regarding COVID spread like wildfire and critically impacted healthcare provision all across the world. These misinformation and conspiracies also led to widespread calls to urgently tackle the growing anti-science attitudes and,…

What is Anti-Science? Science, Scientists, and COVID-19 Misinformation and Conspiracies
Young Americans expect to form egalitarian partnerships in which both partners work for pay and perform unpaid housework and childcare. Yet, working couples’ realities often deviate from this ideal, with women trading off paid work to take on unpaid family care. Will contemporary young professionals in different-gender relationships repeat this pattern, or will they follow different trajectories as they launch and build careers, maintain…

"EQUAL PARTNERS? HOW DUAL PROFESSIONAL COUPLES MAKE CAREER, RELATIONSHIP, AND FAMILY DECISIONS"
This workshop is open to graduate students and investigators who have never submitted or successfully competed for internal and external grant applications. Attendants will learn the basic principles of grant writing, funder prospecting, as well as evaluation.

Grant Writing Workshop
The notion of race as a social construct, rather than an objective physical reality, has increasingly made inroads in the United States in recent years. Yet even in quarters where it seems most widely accepted and familiar, it has hit roadblocks. After a brief discussion of the idea of race as socially constructed, I will describe and dissect three areas in which it seems to have been difficult to apply: genetic and biomedical research; debates…

Reckoning with Race: Fluidity, Invention, and 'Reality'
In research, you can’t always test what you want, but if you try sometimes, you just might find, you can test what you need to. What do you do when you are theory testing and aren’t yet able to directly test the mechanisms you want to test? This presentation explores a series of setbacks in figuring out how to test a new theoretical research program. This talk also discusses the transitions in a theoretical research project that…

“You Can’t Always Test What You Want: But if you try…you test what you need”
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