FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | HARVARD.EDU

Political and Historical Sociology

Yuval Feinstein

University of Haifa Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology

Yuval Feinstein is a visiting associate professor...

Read more about Yuval Feinstein

Yuval Feinstein's Website

yfeinstein@fas.harvard.edu

2021 Apr 09

Chris Muller: The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Cotton South, 1910-1925

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Zoom link provided upon registration below.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Chris Muller, UC Berkeley.

Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link. You can also join the mailing list to automatically receive all Zoom invites.

2021 Feb 12

Danilo Mandić: Book Launch: Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World

12:00pm to 2:00pm

Location:

Zoom link provided upon registration below.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop

We will be hosting the book launch for our own Danilo Mandić’s book, ...

Read more about Danilo Mandić: Book Launch: Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World

2020 Nov 20

Angèle Christin: Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Angèle Christin, Stanford University. Read more about Angèle Christin: Metrics at Work: Journalism and the Contested Meaning of Algorithms

2020 Nov 06

Sarah Brayne: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Sarah Brayne, University of Texas at Austin. Read more about Sarah Brayne: Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing

2020 Oct 30

Xueguang Zhou: Fragmented Authoritarianism revisited: China's Governance through the Lens of Personnel Flow

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Xueguang Zhou, Stanford University. Read more about Xueguang Zhou: Fragmented Authoritarianism revisited: China's Governance through the Lens of Personnel Flow

2020 Oct 16

Benjamin Shestakofsky: Venture Capitalism: Startups, Technology, and the Future of Work

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Benjamin Shestakofsky, University of Pennsylvania. Read more about Benjamin Shestakofsky: Venture Capitalism: Startups, Technology, and the Future of Work

2020 Sep 25

Juliet Schor: Rethinking the Gig Economy

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link.

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Juliet Schor, Boston College. Read more about Juliet Schor: Rethinking the Gig Economy

The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S.

June 8, 2020

Orlando Patterson writes in the Wall Street Journal that despite great progress across two centuries, exclusion and injustice remain the reality for too many black Americans. Read more about The Long Reach of Racism in the U.S.

Orlando Patterson

Why America can’t escape its racist roots

June 5, 2020

Orlando Patterson, the John Cowles Professor of Sociology, talks about the killing of George Floyd in Gazette interview. He also discussed the bright side and dark side of America... Read more about Why America can’t escape its racist roots

2020 Mar 27

Catherine Turco: TBA

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Catherine Turco, MIT, Sloan.

2020 Mar 06

Vivek Chibber: Consent, Coercion and Resignation -- the sources of stability in capitalism

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Vivek Chibber, NYU.

2020 Feb 21

Patrick Heller: The Age of Reaction: Retrenchment Populism in India and Brazil

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Patrick Heller, Brown University.

Read more about Patrick Heller: The Age of Reaction: Retrenchment Populism in India and Brazil

2020 Feb 07

Kathleen Thelen: TBA

12:00pm to 1:30pm

Location:

William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Room 1550

History, Culture, and Society Workshop presentation by Kathleen Thelen, MIT. Read more about Kathleen Thelen: TBA

Theory and Society issue devoted to the work of Orlando Patterson

Theory and Society issue devoted to the work of Orlando Patterson

January 7, 2020

The entire current issue of Theory and Society, Vol. 48, #6, is devoted to a consideration of Orlando Patterson's work on slavery and historical Sociology. It is edited by Fiona Greenland and George Steinmetz.... Read more about Theory and Society issue devoted to the work of Orlando Patterson

Pages

Copyright © 2021 The President and Fellows of Harvard College | Accessibility | Digital Accessibility | Report Copyright Infringement