Comparative Research Workshop
Spring 2009

January19
Martin Luther King Day, no session

January 24
CCR GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

February 2
Gisele Sapiro (Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche
Scientifique (Paris); Fulbright Visiting Scholar, NYU and Columbia)
[session sponsored jointly with the Center for Cultural Sociology]
"Globalization and Cultural Diversity in the Book Market: The Case of Translations"

February 9
Mansoor Moaddel (Professor, Sociology, Eastern Michigan University and
Research Affiliate, Population Studies Center, University of Michigan)
 "Religious Regimes, Liberal Values, Political Violence, and the Donkey in the Mud: Iran and Saudi Arabia in Comparative Perspective"

February 16
Esther Kim (Sociology Department, Yale)
 "Establishing Korean Solidarity in the U.S.: From Isolation to
Collective Consciousness"

February 23
Jeffrey Guhin (Sociology Department, Yale)
"Tabling Irony: Ironic Narratives, Structural Rejection, and Moral Stakes"

March 2 - CANCELLED
Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UC-Berkeley)
"Where Interest and Passion Unite to Confound All Order: Corruption as State Formation in Early Colonial British India"

March 9 - March 16 - Spring Break

March 23
Ian Roxborough (Professor, Sociology and History, SUNY-Stony Brook)
"Irregular Warfare and the Global State System"

March 30
Saglar Bougdaeva (Sociology Department, Yale)
"Ethnicity and Mortality in Russia During Socialism, at the Breakdown of the System, and After Russia's Return to the Growth Trajectory"

April 6
Jean-Louis Fabiani (Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology,
Central European University)
 "Concepts and Careers: An Historical Sociology of French Philosophy"

April 13
 Roberto Franzosi (Professor, Sociology, Emory University) [session
sponsored jointly with CIQLE]
 "Quantitative Narrative Analysis and What You Can Do With It: An
Application to the Rise of Italian Fascism (1919-1922)"

April 20
 Nicholas Hoover Wilson (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UC-Berkeley)
"Where Interest and Passion Unite to Confound All Order: Corruption as State Formation in Early Colonial British India"

April 27
 Warren McKinney (Sociology Department, Yale)
"Neoliberalism, Development and the State: the Case of Ghana"