Fall
2011
September 26, **Monday**
12:00
– 1pm - 215 Haines
Welcome and Introductions – Dessert and Drinks Provided
October
31, **Monday** 9:30
– 11:00
- 279 Haines
Cameron Macdonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison – Department of
Sociology)
“Healthcare
Offloading and Cancer Care: What’s at Issue for Family Caregivers”
Click here for abstract and speaker info
Co-Sponsored with the
Gender Working Group
November
10, **THURSDAY** 12:00
– 2pm
– 352 Haines
Linda Layne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Department of
Anthropology)
“’Angel
Babies’ and ‘Phantom Fathers’: Some ‘Uncanny’
Similarities Between These Absent Presences in
Pregnancy
Loss and Intentionally Father-Absent Families”
Co-Sponsored with the
Culture, Power and Social Change Interest Group (UCLA Anthropology)
December
5, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm - 279 Haines
Student Works in Progress Session – Xuewen Tan
(UCLA Geography visiting scholar)
“How
a Migrant Family Chooses Who Moves and Who Stays”
-and- Dwight Davis (UCLA
Sociology)
“Marriage
in East Asia: Trends and Projections”
Winter 2012
January
30, **Monday** 12:00
– 1:30pm
- 135 Haines (Bunche Center Library)
Suzanne Bianchi (University of California – Los Angeles)
“Composing a Work and
Family Life: Reflections”
Career
trajectory talk
February
13, **Monday** 12:00
– 1:30pm
- 279 Haines
Student Works in Progress Session – Rebecca DiBennardo
(UCLA Sociology)
“Gay
Families Count: Contact, Tolerance, and Voting on Gay Marriage Bans”
-and- Karra
Greenberg (UCLA Sociology)
“Macro-level
Change and Individual Circumstance: A Look at Marriage Timing in Mid-20th
Century Western Europe”
March 5, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm –
4240 Public Affairs
Jennifer Barber (University of Michigan – Department of Sociology)
“The
Dynamics of Intimate Partner Conflict and the Risk of Pregnancy”
Co-Sponsored with the
California Center for Population Research
Spring
2012
April 9, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm - 279 Haines
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung (National University of Singapore
– Department of Sociology and Asia Research Institute)
“Black-White
Achievement Gap: An Intergenerational and Developmental View”
Co-Sponsored with the
Poverty and Inequality Working Group
April
16, **Monday** 12:00
– 1:30pm
- 279 Haines
Kristin Turney (UC-Irvine – Department of
Sociology)
“Incarcerating
Parenthood? The Collateral and Countervailing Consequences of Paternal
Incarceration”
April
30, **Monday** 12:00
– 1:30pm
– 4240 Public Affairs
Elizabeth Thomson (UW-Madison – Dept. of Sociology (Emerita) and
Stockholm University – Dept. of Sociology)
“Childbearing
Across Partnerships”
Co-Sponsored with the
California Center for Population Research
May 21, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm
- 279 Haines
Candy Goodwin (UCLA – Department of Anthropology)
“Participation
and the Co-Operative Organization of Social Action in Family Interaction”
June 4, **Monday**
12:00
– 1pm - 279 Haines
End-of-year planning meeting – Dessert and Drinks Provided
Last update 3/15/2012
by Lisa Kietzer.