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Past SRI Speakers and Themes

2012 Insiders, Outsiders & Social Boundaries (PDF)

“America's Death Penalty: A Problem for Sociological Explanation"
David Garland
Arthur T. Vanderbilt Professor of Law & Professor of Sociology
New York University

2011 Communities: Yours, Mine & Ours (PDF)

“Choosing Homes, Choosing Schools: Reflections on a Work in Progress"
Annette Lareau
Professor of Sociology
University of Pennsylvania

2010 20th Anniversary Celebration! (PDF)

“Punishment in America: It's About Race."
Michael Tonry
Professor of Law and Director, Institute of Crime and
Public Policy at the University of Minnesota

2009 Changing Lives in Changing Contexts (PDF)

“Failure to Launch? The Complications of Delayed Departure from the Natal Home in Western Europe, Japan & the U.S."
Katherine Newman
Malcolm Stevenson Forbes, Class of 1941 Professor of Sociology & Public Affairs,
Princeton University

2008 Culture, Politics and Social Change

"New Slants on the Slippery Slope: The Politics of Polygamy and Gay Family Rights in South Africa and the U.S."
Judith Stacey
Professor of Sociology, Gender & Sexuality Studies, New York University

2007 Community Connections

"Immigrant Rights and the Law"
Teresa Ortiz, Resource Center of the Americas

"The Politics of Sexuality"
Ann Marie DeGroot, OutFront Minnesota

"Justice in Action"
Tom Johnson, Council on Crime and Justice

2006 Carnal Sociology

"Carnal Connections: of Prizefighters, Painters, and Professors"
Loïc Waquant
Professor of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley

2005 Inequality and Change in a New Era

"The Gender System: What's Changing?"
Paula England
Professor of Sociology and Faculty Research Affiliate
Institute for Research on Women and Gender
Stanford University

2004 Technology & Inequality

"Digital Inequality: How Social Inequality Influences Who Has Access to the Internet and What They do Online"
Paul DiMaggio
Professor of Sociology, Princeton University

Special Presentation: "Public Sociologies"
Michael Burawoy
Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley

2003 Sociology of Difficult Times: Traumatic Events, Collective Memory and the Self

"A Theory of Cultural Trauma"
Jeffrey Alexander
Professor of and Chair of the Department of Sociology, Yale University

2002 Celebrating 100 Years of Sociology

The Future of Sociology: Internationalization and Interdisciplinary
Craig Calhoun
Professor of Sociology and History, New York University

Minnesota Contributions to Social Psychology
Sheldon Stryker
Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Indiana University

2002 SRI Papers

100 Years Slide Presentation (pdf)

2001 Paths and Pitfalls in a Globalizing Society

John Meyer
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University

2000 Values in Conflict: Culture, Politics, and Sociology

Sharon Hays
Associate Professor of Sociology and Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia

1999 The Countdown to the New Millennium

Douglas McAdam
Professor of Sociology, Stanford University and
Bernice Pescosolido Professor of Sociology, Indiana University

1998 Law and Crime in Japan as a Testing Ground for Comparative Sociological Theories

Setsuo Miyazawa
Professor of Law, Kobe University, Japan

1996 Sex in America

Edward O. Laumann
Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

1995 Altruism: The Root of Racial and Ethnic Loyalty

Herbert A. Simon
Professor of Computer Science and Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University

1994 Hard vs. Soft Sociology: Cross-national Ethnographer Meets Cross-national Survey

Michael Burawoy
Professor of Sociology, University of California Berkeley

1993 Social Issues and Public Policy

Herbert J. Gans
Professor of Sociology, Columbia University

1992 Working on a Sociology for Women

Dorothy E. Smith
Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

1991 Social Change in an Age of Uncertainty

Ivan Szelenyi
Professor of Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles

1990 Futures of Sociology in the 21st Century

James S. Coleman
Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

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Professor Joachim Savelsberg receiving the Faculty Mentoring award from grad students Rob Stewart & Kristin Haltinner

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Staff member Mary Drew receiving Outstanding Service Award from Deparment Chair, Elizabeth Boyle