5TH ANNUAL
INTER-IVY SOCIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM 2009

Graduate Student Research
in the Social Sciences

Columbia University










Program IISS 2009 (pdf)
Saturday March 28th, 2009

Photos here


Location:  Philosophy Hall (in front of Rodin’s The Thinker map)

8:00-8:30 a.m. Registration and Breakfast. 301 Philosophy Hall.

8:40 a.m. Welcoming David Stark, Chair, Sociology Department. 301 Philosophy Hall.

 9:00-10:45 a.m. Panels 1-3

Format: Each presenter will talk for up to 20 minutes. Then the discussant will comment on all the papers for up to 20 minutes, and then the discussion will then be opened up to questions and comments from faculty and students in the audience and responses by the panelists.

1. Migration and Inequality [Room 201B Philosophy Hall]

Yao Lu, Sociology, Department, Columbia University

·         Feeding into the Underclass: Trajectory of Undocumented Latino Immigrants

Esther Chihye Kim, (Sociology Department, Yale University)

·         Politics of Reproduction Among Urban Migrants in China

Chang Kuei-Min, (Department of Political Science, Columbia University)

·         Why Poor Villagers Demand Less Social Protection? Decomposition of the Rural-Urban Gap in Social Policy Preference

Weihua An, (Sociology and Social Policy, Harvard University)

·         Beliefs and Attitudes toward Economic Inequality in Contemporary China: What do Cross-National Data tell us?

Dong-Kyun Im, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)

 

2. The Worth of Networks [Room 507 Philosophy Hall]

David Stark, Chair, Arthur Lehman Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Columbia University

·         Reciprocity in Online Relationships
Patrick Park, (Sociology Department, Cornell University)

·         Kin-Network Structure, Size and Social Support
Eric Hedberg, (Sociology Department, The University of Chicago)

·         Signaling Trust and Creating Value through Social Networks: Structural and Individual Contributions
Chia-Jung Tsay, (Organizational Behavior, Harvard Business School)

 
3. Civic Engagement and Resistance [Room 201A Philosophy Hall]

Debra Minkoff, Chair, Department of Sociology, Barnard College, Columbia University

·         Making Citizens: How Associations Stimulate Individual and Civic Engagement

Matthew Baggetta, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)

·         Painting with Permission: Legal Graffiti in New York City

Ronald Kramer, (Department of Sociology, Yale University)

·         Sites of Resistance: Death Row Homepages and The Politics of Compassion

Ezra Tessler, (History Department, Columbia University) 


 11:00 – 12:45
p.m. Panels 4-6

4. History, Contentious Politics, and the Public Sphere [Room 201A]

Andreas Koller, Research Fellow, Social Science Research Council and New York University

·         Domestic Civility: Locating Private Political Action

Alison Gerber, (Sociology Department, Yale University)

·         Battling with the Bhils: Gandian Legatees and the Economics of Non-Violent Protest

Thakur Vikramaditya, (Department of Anthropology, Yale University)

·         Small State, Big Revolution: Geography and the Revolution in Laos

Anoulak Kittikhoun, (Department of Political Science, Graduate Center, City University of New York)

 
5. Evaluation of Quality, Knowledge, and Expertise [Room 507]

Angela Aidala, Associate Research Scientist (MSPH), Sociology Department, Columbia University

·         Cultural Dimensions of Quality in Art Museums: Lessons for Evaluation in Non-Profit Organizations

Mark Pachucki, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)

·         Knowing We Know: Detecting Scientific Consensus

Uri Shwed, (Department of Sociology, Columbia University)

·         The Birth of the American Medical Association: An Organizational Solution to an Epistemological Problem

Owen Whooley, (Department of Sociology, New York University)

 

6. Educational Achievement and Class Reproduction [Room 201B]

Shamus Khan, Sociology Department, Columbia University

·         Negotiating Race and Gender: How High Schools affect Achievement through the Allocation of Status Rewards
Megan Holland, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)

·         Apron Strings Attached: Parental Dependence and Hindered Development

Sylvie Honig, (Sociology Department, the University of Chicago)

·         Toward a Theory of Generations

Yelena Biberman, (Political Science, Brown University)


12:45-1:30
p.m.  Lunch [301 Philosophy Hall]


1:30 – 2:30
Keynote Speech [301 Philosophy Hall]

Saskia Sassen, Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology, Member of the Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University, and Centennial Visiting Professor, London School of Economics.


2:45-4:30 p.m.
Panels 7-8

7. The Inertia of Capital [Room 507]

Josh Whitford, Sociology Department, Columbia University

·         Mortgage debt as a Motor of Spatio-temporal Fix

Matthias Thiemann, (Department of Sociology, Columbia University)

·         Does Urban Reputation Matter? Estimating the Cost of a “Bad” Reputation on Housing Prices
Matthew Kaliner, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)

·         Developmental Effects of Local Government Revenue Effort under Devolution 1987-2002

Lisa Cimbaluk, (Sociology Department, Cornell University)

8. Boundaries and Ethnicity [Room 201A]

Ervin Kosta, Sociology Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York

·         Relational Nationalism in Serbia

Danilo Mandić, (Sociology Department Harvard University)

·         Uneven Development and Categorical Inequality: A Relational Synthesis

Kacper Poblocki, (Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University)


·         Sleepwalking to Segregation: Drift, Layering, and Synchronization of Multicultural and Counter-Terrorism Policy in the United Kingdom 2000-07

Christopher Bail, (Sociology Department, Harvard University) 

 

4:45 – 6:30 p.m. Panels 9-10

9. Economic Sociology [Room 507]

Daniel Beunza, Business School, Columbia University

·         Unproductive Labor as Gift in Modern Capitalism

Jared Hanneman, (Sociology Department, Graduate Center, City University of New York)

·         Integrating or Fragmenting: Gravity in the Global Trade 1950-2000

Min Zhou, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)

·         Extending the W(y) Model of Production Markets: Ambiguity, Segmentation, and Dynamics

Xiaolu Wang, (Sociology Department, Columbia University)

10. Urban Space and Economic Disparities [Room 201A]

Cuz Potter, Urban Planning, Columbia University

·         "Space for Lease": Small Business and Gentrification in a Chicago Neighborhood

Teresa Gonzales, (Sociology Department, University of California Berkeley)

·         Participation in Context: Neighborhood Diversity and Organizing Involvements in Boston

Van Tran, Corina Graif and Alison Denton Jones, (Sociology Department, Harvard University)

·         Parallel Cities: Urban Form, Urbanization and Residential Segregation in a Latin American City
Omar Pereyra, (Sociology Department, Brown University)

6:45-7:30 p.m. Informal dinner [310 Philosophy Hall]

8:00 p.m. Play [Columbia University’s Miller Theatre. 2960 Broadway at 116th Street]

Toni Morrison’s, Margaret Garner & Assia Djebar’s

*The Daughters of Ishmael*

The performance will be accompanied by a discussion with Morrison, Djebar, Leila Ahmed (Harvard Divinity School), Richard Danielpour (Manhattan School of Music) Angela Davis (University of California, Santa Cruz), Gina Dent (UCSC), Clarisse Zimra (Southern Illinois University), and the performers, opening questions of feminism, femininity, slavery, and
Islam. The event will be moderated by University Professor Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak.
See: flyer



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