Fall
2012
October 15, **Monday**
12:00 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Welcome and Introductions – Dessert and Drinks Provided
October
22, **Monday** 11:30
– 1:00
– 279 Haines
Sarah Schlabach
(UCLA – PhD Candidate, Department of Sociology)
“Does Race Matter for Grandparent-Grandchild
Relationships? Closeness in the Biracial Family”
Student Job
Talk
October
25, **Thursday** 12:00
– 1:30
– 10383 Bunche Hall
Christy Glass (Utah State University
– Department of Sociology, Social Work & Anthropology)
“Global
Migrants, Guest Workers and Good Mothers: Gender and (Con)Temporary
Labor Migration to Spain”
Click here for abstract and speaker info
Co-Sponsored with the
UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies (CEES), Gender Working Group*
(UCLA Sociology), UCLA Program on International Migration, UCLA Department of
Gender Studies
* The
Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible
by a gift from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
November
7, **Wednesday** 12:00
– 1:30pm
– 4240 Public Affairs Building
Jennie Brand (UCLA –
Department of Sociology)
“Job
Displacement Among Single Mothers: Effects on Children’s Outcomes in
Young Adulthood”
Click
here for abstract and speaker info
Co-Sponsored with the
California Center for Population Research (UCLA)
December 3, **Monday** 11:30
– 1:00pm
– 279 Haines
Mignon Moore (UCLA –
Department of Sociology)
“Lesbian
Motherhood and the Politics of Respectability”
Click here for book
description and speaker info
Winter 2013
February
4, **Monday** 12:00-1:30pm – 279 Haines
Discussion led by Gary Gates (UCLA- Law School & The Williams Institute)
Discussion
of new and controversial research published on gay families and its subsequent
commentaries and rejoinder
Click
here for original article by Mark Regnerus
Click
here for commentaries and rejoinder on the Social Science Research exchange
(Users must have a BOL login and password
to access these articles)
February
25, **Monday** 12:00-1:30pm – 279 Haines
Megan Sweeney (UCLA –
Department of Sociology) and Mieke Eeckhaut (Universiteit Gent)
“Gender,
Class, and Contraception in Comparative Context: The Perplexing Links between
Sterilization and Disadvantage”
March 4, **Monday** 12:00-1:30pm –
279 Haines*
Jennifer Hook (University of
Southern California – Department of Sociology)
“Multiple-Jeopardy: Poor, Economically
Disconnected, and Child Welfare Involved”
Co-Sponsored with the
Poverty and Inequality Working Group (UCLA Sociology)*
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift
from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
March
11, **Monday** 12:00-1:30pm – 279 Haines
Student
Works-in-Progress Presentations:
Jessica Carbino
(UCLA - Department of Sociology)
“The
Good, Old-Fashioned Way: Matchmaking meets Online Dating”
Danielle Wondra (UCLA - Department
of Sociology)
“Gay Men and Lesbians Forming Families”
Spring
2013
April
22, **Monday** 12:00
– 1:00pm – 279 Haines
Donald Treiman
(Distinguished Professor Emeritus – UCLA– Department of Sociology),
co-author Qiang Ren (Peking
University)
“Living Arrangements of the Elderly in China
and Consequences for their Emotional Well-being”
April
29, **Monday** 12:00
– 1:30pm – 279 Haines*
Kevin Lewis (University of
California at San Diego – Department of Sociology)
“The Limits of Racial Prejudice”
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift
from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
May 10, **Friday** 12:00 – 1:30pm –
279 Haines*
Jody Agius
Vallejo (University of Southern California – Department of Sociology)
“Barrios
to Burbs: Middle Class Mexican Americans’ Patterns of Mobility and
Incorporation”
Co-Sponsored with the
Immigration Working Group (UCLA Sociology)*
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift
from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
May 13, **Monday** 12:00-1:30pm –
279 Haines
Student Work-in-Progress
Presentation:
Liz Kofman (UCLA
- Department of Sociology)
”The
Effects of Precarious Employment on the Transition to Adulthood”
and
Participant Round-Robin Research Updates
May 20, **Monday** 12:00-1:30pm –
279 Haines*
Sara McLanahan
(Princeton University – Departments of Sociology and Public Affairs)
Career Trajectory Talk
* The Irene Flecknoe Ross Lecture Series is made possible by a gift
from Ray Ross in memory of his wife
June 3, **Monday** 12:00-1:00pm – 279
Haines
End-of-Year Meeting
Last update 4/10/2013
by Karra Greenberg