Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/group/3478/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Riding the Leviathan: Gender, Fertility, and Selfhood in Autocratic China (March 29, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119524 119524-21842939@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Lane Hall
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Abstract:
What does it mean to be independent and "lead a life of one's own," when the state holds considerable power over individuals? Drawing on the deep theoretical tradition that connects large-scale demographic changes and the "pursuit of individualism," I approach this question by examining individuals' fertility ideations and behavior in contemporary China. Marshaling a mixed-methods design that combines 115 in-depth interviews and six waves of national surveys, I ask: How do urban Chinese women and men formulate fertility aspirations and make decisions about parenthood, as they construct visions of selfhood? Findings demonstrate that among men, transition into parenthood is frequently viewed as integral to the making of an independent self, marking the beginning of becoming legible as an individual person with a family of his own. Women, on the other hand, largely view parenthood as the harbinger of the breaking of an independent self and the end of individual autonomy. I further elucidate how such sharp contrast is rooted in the gender and family systems of contemporary China that entangle the sometimes-contradictory scripts of authoritarian pronatalism, on the one hand, and market centric neoliberal development, on the other.

Bio:
Yun Zhou is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. Zhou' research examines social inequality and state-market-family relations through the lens of gender, marriage, and reproduction. Intersecting the studies of population and politics, Zhou's current project investigates the demographic, political, and gendered consequences of China's evolving reproductive governance. In addition to her academic publications, Zhou's research and commentary have been featured in BBC, the Guardian, the New York Times, NPR, Reuters, the Washington Post, among others. Zhou received her PhD in Sociology from Harvard University, and completed her postdoctoral training at the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University.

In-person attendees will receive lunch from Jerusalem Garden.

This event is part of the Global South Gender and Sexuality (GS2) Collective 2023/2024 speaker series. GS2 Collective was launched in 2023 with the goal of fostering interdisciplinary scholarship and conversation around the issues of gender, sexuality, and racialization in the Global South.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:08:37 -0500 2024-03-29T12:00:00-04:00 2024-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 Lane Hall Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Image of speaker Yun Zhou
Feeling like a fraud: The Impact of the Impostor Phenomenon on the Mental Health of Minoritized College Students (March 29, 2024 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/116557 116557-21837561@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 29, 2024 1:00pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Sociology

In this talk, Dr. Kevin Cokley will engage participants in a discussion around effectively confronting the impostor phenomenon. He will discuss how the impostor phenomenon is created, share clinical observations, and describe the impostor cycle. Next, he will discuss the nature of impostor feelings and its mental health implications. He will address how impostor feelings differ among minoritized individuals. He will end by providing individual and institutional strategies to combat impostor feelings.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 29 Jan 2024 12:51:34 -0500 2024-03-29T13:00:00-04:00 2024-03-29T13:30:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Kevin Cokley
PSC Brownbag Series: A New Window on Human Fecundity: Converting Digital Exhaust into Demographic Parameters (April 1, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119463 119463-21842796@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Sociology

The PSC Brown Bag Series runs live and on Zoom this year, Mondays from noon to 1.

Speaker: Jenna Nobles

Seminar Date: 4/01/24

A New Window on Human Fecundity: Converting Digital Exhaust into Demographic Parameters

Pregnancy loss is a primary limit on human reproduction and a key driver of population dynamics. It shapes the composition of families and communities. It is also very difficult to observe. By combining data from menstrual and pregnancy tracking "apps" with administrative data and original survey data, we demonstrate that U.S. pregnancy loss is both common and socially patterned. Understanding this process is of broad interest; it is essential to answering a number of central questions in the social sciences. To advance the integration of the prenatal period into social science research, we construct model prenatal life tables that span the full length of gestation and are indexed by levels of infant mortality. With this approach, we extend a long history of demographic research on cohort selection to the period before birth.  

Jenna Nobles is professor of sociology and population health sciences at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the implications of migration systems for sending and receiving communities, the causes and consequences of population variation in fertility and fecundity, and the effects of environmental change on population processes. At UW-Madison, she is the director of the Center for Demography & Ecology and the training director of the Collaborative for Reproductive Equity. Nobles currently serves on the NIH stillbirth taskforce and the National Academies' committee on population.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:23:44 -0500 2024-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-01T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar PSC Brownbag Series: A New Window on Human Fecundity: Converting Digital Exhaust into Demographic Parameters
Race & Racial Ideologies Workshop (April 1, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117301 117301-21839135@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2024 2:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Join us for this Race & Racial Ideologies workshop with Erykah Benson.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 27 Mar 2024 08:06:14 -0400 2024-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 2024-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar Race & Racial Ideology - Benson
RCGD/EHAP Winter Seminar Series: Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution (April 1, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115987 115987-21835980@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution
Monday, April 1, 2024 (2 PM – 3:30 PM)

Mark Flinn
University of Missouri

Charles Darwin posited that social competition among conspecifics could be a powerful selective pressure. Richard Alexander (1989, 1990) proposed a model of human evolution involving a runaway process of social competition based on Darwin’s insight. Here we briefly review Alexander’s logic, and then expand upon his model by elucidating runaway, positive-feedback processes that were likely involved in the evolution of the remarkable combination of adaptations in humans. We discuss how these ideas fit with the hypothesis that increased inter-group interaction and cooperation among individuals in small fission-fusion groups opened the door to runaway social selection and cumulative culture during hominin evolution.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Jan 2024 08:24:24 -0500 2024-04-01T14:00:00-04:00 2024-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar RCGD/EHAP Winter Seminar Series: Runaway Social Selection in Human Evolution
Grad School & Beyond (April 2, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117518 117518-21839465@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 10:00am
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Tips for managing different priorities, developing a writing practice, and balancing teaching and research

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:50:43 -0500 2024-04-02T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar Event details are shared over a dark blue textured background with brick orange accents. The Michigan Sociology logo is on the top right and the department website address is on the bottom.
Inequality and Social Demography (ISD) Workshop (April 2, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117295 117295-21839129@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Join us for this ISD workship with Giovanni Román-Torres.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:31:03 -0500 2024-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-02T14:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar ISD Román-Torres
Fifty Mothers: Empirical Poems on Policing, Punishment & Poverty Governance (April 8, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119977 119977-21843889@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2024 12:00pm
Location: LSA Building
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Fifty Mothers is a project on how Black American women living on the margins love, fear, hope, dream, ache, wonder, resist, grieve, claim their dignity, and remake their lives around the laws, policies, practices, and social situations that closely regulate them. To tell these mothers' stories and to advance theory about the relationship between race, gender, class, and law, the talk uses the tool of "empirical poetry"—a humanistic social science method that draws from data coded both thematically and poetically.

About Monica Bell: Dr. Monica C. Bell is Professor of Law & Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University. Bell works at the intersection of law and sociology, using sociological tools to explore a wide variety of legal questions, mostly those focused on race and class inequality. Some subject matters that Bell has focused on include policing, structural and interpersonal violence, safety and security, welfare and public benefits, and housing and residential segregation. Bell uses multiple techniques for analysis, theory construction, and data presentation, with an emphasis on qualitative methodology.

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Presentation Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:57:39 -0400 2024-04-08T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-08T13:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Presentation Monica Bell
RCGD/EHAP Winter Seminar Series: A Seven Decade Lifespan? Variations on an Evolutionary Theme (April 8, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115988 115988-21835981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Sociology

A Seven Decade Lifespan? Variations on an Evolutionary Theme
Monday, April 8, 2024 (2 PM – 3:30 PM)

The evolution of human longevity still remains a curious puzzle. Here I provide some new perspectives on the why and how of longevity over the course of human evolution, using longitudinal study of subsistence societies as an imperfect lens for gaining insight. I argue that our evolved human lifespan is about seven decades, and that the multifaceted contributions of middle-to-older aged adults is part of the reason why. I will combine ethnographic, demographic and biomedical studies to shed light on the timing and significance of the transition from “asset” to “burden” in late adulthood, with implications on the global Gray Wave of population aging.

Michael Gurven is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is Chair of Integrative Anthropological Sciences, and Associate Director of the Broom Center for Demography. His research program applies an evolutionary lens to help inform our understanding of aging and today’s complex diseases. Since 2002, Gurven has co-directed the Tsimane’ Health and Life History Project to better understand how lifestyle and the physical and social environment affect health and lifespan in subsistence-level societies.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 09 Feb 2024 13:36:55 -0500 2024-04-08T14:00:00-04:00 2024-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar RCGD/EHAP Winter Seminar Series: A Seven Decade Lifespan? Variations on an Evolutionary Theme
CES Conversations on Europe. Can the EU Shut Down the Sale of Citizenship? Unpacking the Geopolitics of the Global Market in Golden Passports (April 8, 2024 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/115853 115853-21835743@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2024 4:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Department of Sociology

Citizenship has become a hot commodity. Now nearly a dozen countries allow wealthy individuals to naturalize in exchange for a donation or investment, and more than 50,000 people use such “citizenship by investment” programs to acquire “golden passports” each year. If the sale of citizenship has grabbed headlines, much less is known about the geopolitical powerplays that define this global market. We typically think of citizenship as a status that secures rights within a country. However, the value of citizenship by investment usually hinges on the rights that citizenship secures outside the country, including visa-free access and business opportunities. This grants third countries and supra-national powers substantial influence over how other states admit new members. Indeed, the European Union has become a key player in this scene, and the European Parliament and European Commission have called for an end to these programs. Will they succeed? Drawing on eight years of fieldwork in eighteen countries, this talk lays bare the operation of the global market in golden passports, focusing on the geopolitical powerplays that both define and disrupt these global flows.

Kristin Surak is Associate Professor of Political Sociology at the LSE and the author of *The Golden Passport: Global Mobility for Millionaires *(Harvard University Press, 2023). Her research on elite mobility, international migration, nationalism, and politics has been translated into a half-dozen languages. In addition to publishing in major academic and intellectual journals, she also writes for popular outlets, including *The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post*, and *The Guardian*, and comments regularly for the *BBC, Bloomberg TV*, and *Sky TV News*.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Dec 2023 12:55:29 -0500 2024-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2024-04-08T17:30:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Kristin Surak, Associate Professor of Political Sociology, London School of Economics
Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS) Webinar Series (April 10, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117077 117077-21838601@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 10, 2024 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Sociology

This webinar focuses on preliminary findings from the Climate Risk Perceptions survey that was carried out in Chitwan in Spring 2022. In this study, we measured Chitwan farmers’ exposure to various climate-linked hazards (including droughts, floods, and pests), their perceptions of climate risk, and their livelihood choices and income from 2015-2021. We find that climate risks are among the most salient types of risks considered by farmers, and that these affect perceptions not just of farming, but also of other livelihoods e.g. migration and wage labor. We also find that households tend to rely even more on farming activities for income in years in which they experience a drought or flood. We will discuss implications of these findings for theory on livelihood diversification, and also overview additional data from this survey that may be of interest to CVFS users. There will be a Q&A session after the presentation.

The webinar will be hosted using Zoom. Registration is required to attend the webinar. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

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About the CVFS Webinar Series:
Attend the webinars to learn more about the Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS), other research happening at the Institute for Social and Environmental Research – Nepal (ISER-N), and data creation for global and comparative population research. The CVFS Webinar Series is held monthly. Visit the CVFS website to register for upcoming webinars or view past webinars. Support provided by NICHD (R25 HD101358).

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Jan 2024 15:00:43 -0500 2024-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2024-04-10T15:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar dry dirt
Narrative Alchemy: How Sharing Work with Children Shapes Parents' Narrative Identity Construction (April 12, 2024 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/120078 120078-21844011@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2024 1:30pm
Location: Ross School of Business
Organized By: Department of Sociology

We conduct a qualitative, inductive study of working parents and their school-aged children to examine how parents co-construct work identity narratives with their children. Our analysis revealed that parents’ work orientations influenced how they share their work with their children (i.e., withholding, telling, showing, demonstrating, or involving), reinforcing or shaping their work identities. We find that when parents’ work holds a more central place in their identity, such as in the case of a “calling” as opposed to a “job,” parents engage in richer and more multifaceted forms of narrative sharing with their children. These unique sharing strategies preface particular narrative identity patterns, including identity diminishment, affirmation, enhancement, or expansion. Through bids for connection and understanding, parents who initially withheld their work narratives from their children (those with “jobs”) achieved self-enhancement as children sought and ascribed a more profound sense of meaning to their parents’ work. Parents who initially sought to affirm their identities through narrative (those with “callings”) achieved self-expansion by involving children in their work. Our proposed model describes a narrative alchemy that makes contributions to the narrative identity literature.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 12 Mar 2024 15:39:33 -0400 2024-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 2024-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Ross School of Business Department of Sociology Lecture / Discussion Theresa Glomb
PSC Brownbag Series: Effects of Expanding Contraceptive Choice: New Evidence from Virginia’s Contraceptive Access Initiative (April 15, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119166 119166-21842289@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Sociology

In 2018, the Virginia Department of Health implemented the Contraceptive Access Initiative (CAI) to increase access to hormonal contraceptives and Long-Acting Reversible Contraceptives (LARC) for low-income women. In this paper, we use encounter-level data on contraceptive choice in participating CAI clinics and county-level natality data from 2014–2021 to estimate relative changes in childbearing before and after the CAI. When comparing counties with CAI clinics in Virginia to counties in bordering states with publicly funded clinics, difference-in-differences estimates indicate that the CAI reduced birth rates in participating counties by 1.8–3.5 percent. Despite the success of the program in reducing unintended births, we note that this magnitude is less than half of the effect size of other similar, state-level programs. We present new evidence that this smaller effect is due to the existing high LARC take-up in Virginia as well as the substitution effects from other contraceptive devices, suggesting that policy environment and demand are important determinants for effectiveness

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:04:24 -0500 2024-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar PSC Brownbag Series: Effects of Expanding Contraceptive Choice: New Evidence from Virginia’s Contraceptive Access Initiative
Economic Sociology and Organizations (ESO) Workshop (April 15, 2024 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117006 117006-21838446@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2024 12:30pm
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Join us for this ESO workshop with Mira Vale.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 11 Jan 2024 14:49:05 -0500 2024-04-15T12:30:00-04:00 2024-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar ESO Vale
Race & Racial Ideologies Workshop (April 15, 2024 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117300 117300-21839134@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2024 2:00pm
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Join us for this Race & Racial Ideologies workshop with Malcolm Thomas.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:19:18 -0400 2024-04-15T14:00:00-04:00 2024-04-15T15:30:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar Race & Racial Ideology - Thomas
Grad School & Beyond (April 16, 2024 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/117519 117519-21839466@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 10:00am
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Tips for finding sources, mapping a field, and choosing a conversation to join.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:48:12 -0500 2024-04-16T10:00:00-04:00 2024-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar Event details are shared over a dark blue textured background with brick orange accents. The Michigan Sociology logo is on the top right and the department website address is on the bottom.
Inequality and Social Demography (ISD) Workshop (April 16, 2024 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117296 117296-21839130@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2024 12:30pm
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Join us for this ISD workshop with Kelsi Caywood.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:32:29 -0500 2024-04-16T12:30:00-04:00 2024-04-16T14:00:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar ISD Caywood
Social Theory Workshop (April 17, 2024 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/117306 117306-21839139@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 17, 2024 3:30pm
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Join us for this Social Theory Workshop with Wolfgang Knobl.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:17:34 -0500 2024-04-17T15:30:00-04:00 2024-04-17T17:00:00-04:00 LSA Building Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar Social Theory - Knobl
PSC Brownbag Series: Digital Financial Services and Women’s Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania (April 22, 2024 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/119925 119925-21843827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2024 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
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The PSC Brown Bag Seminar runs live and on Zoom from noon to 1.

Speaker: Emma Riley, University of Michigan

Seminar Date: 4/22/24

Digital Financial Services and Women’s Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania

Can increasing women’s use of digital financial services improve their empowerment? We test this using a randomized control trial with 152 female microfinance groups in Tanzania where treated groups were randomly switched to repay their loan using mobile money instead of the usual method of cash. We find that this exogenous shift in the way that women use mobile money for loan repayment increases their use of mobile money for other transactions. Women’s control over their finances increases, they have higher levels of empowerment in the household and expenditures shift towards goods aligned with their preferences. We see small positive effects of the shift to mobile money repayment on loan repayment behavior and social cohesion within the microfinance group. These findings highlight the benefits that encouraging greater use of digital technologies can bring to women.
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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 08 Mar 2024 16:29:19 -0500 2024-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2024-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Sociology Workshop / Seminar PSC Brownbag Series: Digital Financial Services and Women’s Empowerment: Experimental Evidence from Tanzania