Culture & Politics Workshop

August 31: Abby Newell, UNC Sociology, “Pro-Life and Pro-Woman: Complicating the U.S. Antiabortion Narrative.”

September 14: Hurricane Florence

September 28: Deen Freelon, UNC School of Media and Journalism, “The (non)Americans: Analyzing Networked Disinformation on Twitter.”

October 12: Taylor Brown, Duke, “Qualities or Inequalities? A Machine Learning Approach to the Study of Value and Gender Bias in Creative Professions.”

October 24 (Wednesday, 3:00 p.m.): Edwin Amenta, University of California, Irvine, “Why Are U.S. Movements of the Right So Politically Influential?”

November 9: Graeme Robertson, UNC Political Science,”Protest Participation and Attitude Change in Ukraine’s Euromaidan Revolution.”

November 30: Akram Al-Turk, UNC Sociology, “The Emergence and Success of a Policy Paradigm: How Standards-Based Reforms in Education Won Out.”

January 19: Daniel Laurison, Swarthmore College, “Neither Geeks nor Gurus: Campaign Staff and Consultants in American National Elections.”

January 26: Christopher Barrie, University of Oxford, “Sect, Nation, and Identity after the Fall of Mosul: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment.”

February 2: Alana Gillis, “Uncertainty and Inequality: How College Experiences and Exits Reproduce Class and Gender Inequality.”

February 16: Jessi Streib, Duke University, “Privilege Lost: Downward Mobility in the New Gilded Age.”

March 2: Neal Caren and Andy Andrews, “Grande Resistance: Protest During the Trump Presidency.”

March 23: Michelle Dromgold-Sermen, “Trajectories of Resettlement: New Networks, Changing Class, and Restructuring Family Roles Among Syrian Refugees.”

April 6: Adam Reich, Columbia University, “The Disciplining Effect of Mass Incarceration on Labor Organization.”

April 20: Ruth Braunstein, “We Can’t Pay!: Taxpaying, Tax Resisting and Good Citizenship.”

9/1 – Charlie Kurzman

9/15 – Junghoon Park

9/29 – Daniel Kreiss

10/13 – Jocelyn Viterna*

10/27 – Omar Lizardo*

11/10 – Didem Turkoglu

12/1 – Akram Al-Turk

September 2: Karam Hwang, “Rare Birds: Culture and Interracial Friendship on Two College Campuses.”

September 16: Scott Fitzgerald, UNC-Charlotte, “Media and Economic Inequality in the U.S. and U.K, 1984-2014.”

September 30: Ahsan Kamal, “Enclosures, Valuations, and Ontologies of Water: A Study of Anti-Dam Movements in the Global South.”

October 14: Alanna Gillis, “The Enthusiasts, Backup Planners, and Professionals: How College Students End Up Aspiring to Participate in a Service Program after Graduation.”

October 28: Haj Yazdiha, “We’re All Civil Rights Activists Now! Theorizing Collective Memory as Social Movement Strategy.”

November 11: Kraig Beyerlein, Notre Dame, “Protests Making News: New Evidence from a Nationally-Representative Sample of U.S. Events.”

December 2: Taylor Brown, Duke, “Cultural Impasse: Disjointed Logics and the Perpetuation of Gender Inequality in the Contemporary Art World.”

Jan 22
Didem Turkoglu, “Neoliberal Reforms and Protest in Higher Education”

Feb 5
Jonathan Horowitz, “Activism in the Post-Undergraduate Transition”

Feb 19
Brandon Gorman, “Local Threats, Exclusion, and Identification with World Society: Evidence from Cross-National Surveys and a Natural Experiment”

Mar 4
Charlie Kurzman, “Citizenship Discrimination”

Mar 25
Luke Sherry, “What’s Good: Critics and Cultural Consumption”

Apr 8
Akram Al-Turk, “Do Movements Affect Policy Adoption and Impact Differently? The Case of Affordable Housing Mobilization in U.S. Cities from 1990 to 2010”

Apr 22
Joseph Crane, “Deconstructing the Framing Process in the Early Tea Party Movement”