SPRING 2017
The Department of Sociology is Proud to Present
SOCIOLOGY TALKS
A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES FROM VOICES IN THE FIELD
REFRESHMENTS SERVED AT ALL EVENTS
FREE |
Catherine Benoit, Professor of Anthropology, Connecticut College |
Fortress Europe’s Far-Flung Walls: “Illegality and the Deportation in France’s Atlantic and Indian Ocean Territories Regime” |
2/23/2017 |
Sociology Conference Rm.520.28 HH
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Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm |
FREE |
Amy Adamczyk, Professor of Sociology, John Jay College |
Book Talk: Examining Tolerance For Homosexuality: A Cross-National Analysis (University of California Press, 2016) Free Book Raffle |
3/2/2017 |
Rm. L.63NB |
Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm |
FREE |
Jan Yager, Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Jay College |
Skills Building Workshop- Time Mgmt., Writing Skills Presentation and more... Free Books to First 25 Students |
3/8/2017 |
Sociology Conference Rm. 520.28HH |
Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm |
FREE |
Robert Antony, Distinguished Professor, Canton’s Thirteen Hongs Research Center, Guangzhou University, China, and Visiting Scholar, John Jay College |
Was Piracy a Crime in Southeast Asia? |
3/14/2017 |
Sociology Conference Room 520.28HH |
Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm |
FREE |
Susan Dewey, Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wyoming |
Book Talk: The Criminal Justice-Social Services Alliance: A Punitive Therapeutic Paradox for Street Involved Women (Women of the Street, New York University Press, 2016) |
3/22/2017
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Rm. L.63NB
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Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm |
FREE |
Matthew Yeager, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, King’s University College, Canada |
Book Talk “Frank Tannenbaum: The Making of a Convict Criminologist.” (Rutledge, 2016) Discounted Books for Sale |
4/6/2017 |
9th flr. Conference Rm. NB |
Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm
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FREE |
Henry Pontell, Distinguished Professor & Chair of Sociology, John Jay College; Robert Tillman, Professor of Sociology St. Johns University; William Black, Associate Professor of Law and Economics, University of Missouri, Kansas City |
Book Talk: Financial Crime and Crises in the Era of False Profits (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Free Books, including those in the Oxford Keynotes in Criminology and Criminal Justice Series on Violence (Currie); Electronic Crime (Grabosky); White-Collar Crime (Geis); and Gangs (Klein) |
4/26/2017 |
Rm. L.63NB |
Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm |
FREE |
Jennifer Musto, Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College |
Book Talk: Control and Protect: Collaboration, Carceral Protection and Domestic Sex Trafficking in the United States, (University of California Press, 2016) Free Book Raffle |
5/1/2017 |
Rm. L.61NB |
Community Hour 1:40 - 2:55pm
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We gratefully acknowledge the Office for the Advancement of Research at John Jay College for Funding this Event.
The Department of Sociology is Proud to Present
Sociology talks
A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES FROM VOICES IN THE FIELD
Fall 2016
Paul Maginn
Sr, Lecturer, University of Western Australia
“The Regulation of Commercial Sex in Northern Ireland”
Mon., September 12TH 1:40PM – 2:55PM RM. 9.64NB (New Bldg. 9th Flr. Conf. Room)
Jan Yager
Skill Building Workshop
“All attendees receive her book!”
Wed., September 14TH 9:00AM – 12:00PM RM. 630HH (Harren Hall/Tbldg. 6th Flr)
John Hipp
Professor, Department of Criminology, Law and Society, Planning, Policy and Design and Sociology, University of California, Irvine
“The Spatial Scale of Crime”
Thurs., October 13TH 1:40PM – 2:55PM RM. 520.28HH (Harren Hall/Tbldg. 5th Flr. Soc. Conf. Room)
Sylvie Frignon
Professor of Criminology & Social Sciences, University of Ottawa
“The Art of Doing Criminology” Symposium
Tues., October 25TH 9:00AM – 4:30PM RM. 52.0.28HH (Harren Hall/Tbldg. 5th Flr. Soc. Conf. Room)
Diego Vigil
Professor, Criminology & Social Sciences, University of California, Irvine
“Gang Studies”
Thurs., November 3rd 1:40PM – 2:55PM RM. Moot Court NB (6th Flr. Rm. 6.68)
Keramet Reiter
Asst.Prof. of Criminology, Law and Society and Law, University of California, Irvine
Book Talk “Supermax Prisons”
Thurs., November 10Th 1:40PM – 2:55PM RM. Student Dining Hall East NB (New Bldg. Cafeteria entrance)
REFRESHMENTS SERVED AT ALL EVENTS!
SOCIOLOGY TALKS
A WORLD OF POSSIBILITIES FROM VOICES IN THE FIELD
SPRING 2016
The Department of Sociology is Proud to Present
ALDO CIVICO
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
“HANGING OUT WITH TERRORISTS”
WED., FEBRUARY 24TH 12:15PM – 1:30PM 9TH FLOOR NEW BUILDING CONFERENCE ROOM
KAREN GRAHAM
LECTURER IN WORKING WITH CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND FAMILIES, NEWMAN UNIVERSITY,
BIRMINGHAM, UK
“DOES SCHOOL PREPARE MEN FOR PRISON? THE LIFE HISTORIES OF ELEVEN FORMER PRISONERS”
TUES., MARCH 8TH 1:40PM – 2:55PM New Building L.61
JEFFREY IAN ROSS
PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE
“IN CONTROLLING CRIMES OF THE POWERFUL, WHICH ENTITY IS THE MOST POWERFUL AND WHY?”
THURS., MARCH 31TH 1:40PM – 2:55PM New Building L.61
DAVID GARLAND
ARTHUR T. VANDERBILT PROFESSOR OF LAW & PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY
“AMERICA THE PUNITIVE? ON THE SOCIAL ROOTS OF MASS INCARCERATION AND ‘THE NEW JIM CROW”
WED., APRIL 6TH 1:40PM – 2:55PM STUDENT DINING HALL EAST NB
JOHN HIPP
PROFESSOR, DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINOLOGY, LAW AND SOCIETY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE
“THE SPATIAL SCALE OF CRIME”
THURS., APRIL 21ST 1:40PM – 2:55PM New Building L.61
JODY MILLER
PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
“SEX WORK AND VIOLENCE IN SRI LANKA: THE POLITICS AND PRACTICE OF INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
FOR SOCIAL CHANGE”
THURS., MAY 5TH 1:40PM – 2:55PM SOCIOLOGY CONFERENCE ROOM
REFRESHMENTS SERVED AT ALL EVENTS!
We gratefully acknowledge the Office for the Advancement of Research at John Jay
College for Funding this Event
Department of Sociology - First Town Hall Meeting - November 2015
The first 60 students were given free T-shirts !
Department of Sociology
Spring 2013 colloquium series
Crimmigration in Australia: Loud and Quiet Panic Over Asylum Seekers
Presented by Guest Professor Michael Welch (Rutgers University)
Tuesday, April 24 @ 3:00pm-4:00pm in the Sociology Conference Room (5th Floor T-building)
Performance and Justice: Representing Dangerous Truths Symposium at John Jay College
March 13, 14, &15
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
524 West 59th. Street New York, NY, 10019
Admission: Free
Registration: http://performanceandjustice2013.eventbrite.com
CLICK HERE FOR FULL INFORMATION!
SOCIOLOGY COLLOQUIUM SERIES
OCTOBER 24, 2012
1:30-3:00pm
Sociology Conference Room
EMERITUS PROFESSOR LYDIA ROSNER ON HER LATEST BOOK:
The Russian Writer’s Daughter (Mayapple Press 2011)
At the center of these memories is Lyduce’s father, whose complex personality mixes a passion for social justice, the desire to protect his family, and intellectual snobbery. In this revelatory memoir, international politics shadow a child’s gradual awakening to the world around her. As she tells her family’s story, Rosner shows how complicated autobiography can be, more a matter of pursuing the truth than of asserting it.
PROFESSOR MUCAHIT BILICI ON HIS UPCOMING BOOK:
Finding Mecca in America: How Islam is Becoming an American Religion (University of Chicago Press, 2012)
In this book, Mucahit Bilici traces American Muslims’ progress from outsiders to natives and from immigrants to citizens. Drawing on the philosophies of Simmel and Heidegger, Bilici develops a novel sociological approach and offers insights into the civil rights activities of Muslim Americans, their increasing efforts at interfaith dialogue, and the recent phenomenon of Muslim ethnic comedy. Theoretically sophisticated, Finding Mecca in America is both a portrait of American Islam and a groundbreaking study of what it means to feel at home.
Structural Violence at the Global Frontier
A reflection about the impact of anti-immigration legislation and the dangers that surround in-transit migrants
We will finish with a March of Silence and Vigil to remember the missing migrants
Thursday October 4th - John Jay College of Criminal Justice - 524 West 59th Street, New York, NY, 10019
6pm to 8pm – Room 9.64NB
Inauguration
México, Global Frontier and Humanitarian Catastrophe
Reverend Hoover, Founder and Director of Humane Borders and Project Rescátame! Tucson, Arizona
Migrant Poetry by poet Tania Romero
Reception - Mexican Music
RSVP, Full Schedule & Details: http://jornadasmigracion.blogspot.com
The conference will be live streamed by Asuntos del Sur: http://asuntosdelsur.org/
CUNY Graduate Center Sociology Seminar Series in Crime, Law, and Deviance:
CHRISTIAN PARENTI
6pm-8pm
CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue
Room 6112.04
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure.In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe--the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's midlatitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters. But he also reveals the unsettling presence of Western military forces and explains how they see an opportunity in the crisis to prepare for open-ended global counterinsurgency.
Parenti argues that this incipient "climate fascism"--a political hardening of wealthy states-- is bound to fail. The struggling states of the developing world cannot be allowed to collapse, as they will take other nations down as well. Instead, we must work to meet the challenge of climate-driven violence with a very different set of sustainable economic and development policies.
Christian Parenti is the author of "Tropic of Chaos", "The Freedom", "The Soft Cage", and "Lockdown America."
http://www.christianparenti.com/bio/
COLLOQUIUM:
“Religion and Sexual Behaviors: Understanding the Influence of Islamic Cultures and Religious Affiliation for Explaining Sex Outside of Marriage”
Presented by Amy Adamczyk and Brittany Hayes
Wednesday, November 7
1:30 pm
Sociology Conference Room
Amy Adamczyk and Brittany Hayes will discuss their recently published research which analyzed data on pre-marital and extra-marital sexual behaviors in over 30 countries around the world. Their data includes countries that are predominantly Muslim as well as countries that contain religious variation, allowing them to discern whether differences in sexual behavior are based on either religious or national-legal contexts, or both.
The CUNY Dispute Resolution Consortium at John Jay College
The Interfaith Center of New York
and
The 9/11 Community for Common Ground Initiative
invite you to a book talk with
Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf
author of
Moving the Mountain:
Beyond Ground Zero to a New Vision of Islam in America
Wednesday, Sept. 19
6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
John Jay College of Criminal Justice – CUNY
524 West 59th Street, Room L61
RSVP: mvolpe@jjay.cuny.edu
2012-13 Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series, “Democratic Citizenship and the Recognition of Cultural Differences,” at The Graduate Center, CUNY.
The CUNY Graduate Center will be holding an interdisciplinary seminar series focused on how democratic societies can be inclusive of a wide range of cultural practices and forms of expression while maintaining a commitment to respecting a secular public sphere, universal human rights, and women’s equality.
CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION.
THE CENTER ON RACE, CRIME AND JUSTICE AT
JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
CONFERENCE:
“ISSUES OF IMMIGRATION IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE”
March 22, 2012
Room 630T, Haaren Hall
CLICK HERE FOR CONFERENCE SCHEDULE & INFORMATION
NYC-DR presents
Thursday, September 3, 2009
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Room 610T
899 Tenth Avenue
New York, NY
Scott Gassman, founder of IdeaJuice, and a 9/11 survivor, will be our September Roundtable Breakfast presenter. Join us as we remember how we first got started on the Listserve and at the Roundtable. Below is Scott's own description of his program. While there is no charge for the breakfast, we do need to know how many to expect, so please RSVP by return email acrgnyinfo@aol.com. For more information, click here.
SAVE THE DATE!
May 15, 2009
9:00PM – 5:00PM
North Hall, Room 2200
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Anabela Zigova
Filmmaker
Michael Flynn
Associate Professor of Psychology, York College
Thursday, May 7, 2009 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
'Tough Love’ in the Urban Boxing Gym: Hegemonic or Counter Hegemonic Discursive Practice?
Lucia Trimbur
Assistant Professor of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Thursday, April 30, 2009 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Althea Wasow
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Thursday, April 22, 2009 3:15pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
The Liberian Diaspora and the Recurring Coup
Jonny Steinberg
Visiting Scholar, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Harvey Molotch,
Professor of Sociology and Metropolitan Studies, New York University
Thursday, March 19, 2009 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Bob Crow
General Secretary of the RMT Specialist Transport Trade Union, London
Monday, March 16, 2009 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 636T
Maja Lenhardt
Teacher at the juvenile penitentiary, Jugendstrafanstal, Berlin, and Online Editor at the Jewish Museum, Berlin
Wednesday, March 4, 2009 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
“Surviving the Streets” Risk in ethnography: research on drugs, violence and crime
Tuesday, February 3, 2009 3:30pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Social Bulimia, Immigration and the Law in Contemporary Tuscany
Robert Garot
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
The Darfur Investigation of the International Criminal Court
Sociology Department,
John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue,
Between 58th and 59th Street
Date: Thursday, 26th February, 2009
2.00PM – 3.30PM
Location: Room 636T
SAVE THE DATE!
A discussion by
Dr. Alford Young, Jr. of the University of Michigan on his new book, The Minds of Marginalized Black Men: Making Sense of Mobility, Opportunity, and Future Life Chances
February 23rd
12:30PM – 3PM
Theater Lobby, John Jay College
899 Tenth Avenue
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
The Rise of Berserk Warriors: Pure Charisma and Mixed Martial Arts
Mucahit Bilici
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Wasting Away: Inside a Shooting Gallery in Santo Domingo
Language: English, with short fragments in Spanish (includes English subtitles), 42 min. Warning: Graphic Images. Viewer Discretion Advised.
Yolanda Martin
Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Scott Atran
David Brotherton
David Green
Lou Kontos
Mangai Natarajan
Jock Young
Thursday, October 23, 2008 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Reporting Murder: Rethinking News Media Criminology
Dr. Chris Greer
Wednesday, September 24, 2008 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Thinking and Researching Psychosocially
A One Day Seminar, Sociology Department,
John Jay College, 899 Tenth Avenue,
Between 58th and 59th Street
Date: Monday, 5th May, 2008
9.30AM – 5PM
Location: Room 630T
For program details. click here.
COLLOQUIUM SERIES
The Criminological Gap: “Lumping It” as Emotion Work
Professor Robert Garot
Wednesday, December 5, 2007 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Understanding Racial Hatred: A New Psychosocial Approach
Tony Jefferson
Wednesday, November , 2007 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T
Professor Justin Ready
Wednesday, October 24, 2007 3:00pm
Sociology Department, Suite 520.14T

On the Edge: Transgression and the Dangerous Other
This two day interdisciplinary conference will celebrate intellectual and artistic transgression that will focus on a concept of a new criminology for the 21st Century which can grasp the phenomenology of everyday life, its experience of joy, humiliation, anger and desperation, the seductions of transgression and the appeal of the vindictive, the myriad forms of resistance and the repressive nature of acquiescence. The conference will bring together national and international scholars, students and artists from a variety of disciplines.
• NYC-DR Monthly Roundtable Breakfast held since 9/11 on the first Thursday of the month featured speakers on selected topics.