Urban Ethnography Workshop- Spring 2013

Workshop Schedule and Speakers


January 14th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Mats Trondman, Linnaeus University
“You have giving me everything, but I am nothing”: Revisiting the “ethnicity paradox”: On processes of multicultural incorporation and schooling in Malmö City, Sweden
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January 18th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Elijah Anderson, Yale University
“How to Get Mugged: The Ethnography of the Stick-up”
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January 28th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Robin Wagner-Pacifici, The New School
Event and the City
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February 4th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
A special session of Endeavors, Co-Sponsored by the Department of African American Studies
The Invisible Weight of Whiteness: The Racial Grammar of Everyday Life in America
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February 11th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
(Cancelled)

February 18th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Nick Lemann, Columbia University
The Craft of Nonfiction
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February 25th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Katherine Newman, Johns-Hopkins University
School Shootings: Why Bad Things Happen in Perfect Places
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March 4th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Orly Clerge, Brown University
Black Identities Revisited: “New” and “Old” African Americans in Middle-Class New York
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March 25th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Yasser Payne, University of Delaware
The People’s Report:
How Change is Created on the Street Corner Through Street Participatory Action Research

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April 1st, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Andrew Hacker, Queens College
Race, Races, and Racism: From Urban to Urbane
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April 8th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Al Hunter, Northwestern University
The Neighbors and the Gang:
A Multimethod Comparative Case Study of Local Community Moral Orders

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April 15th , 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Scott Brooks, University of Missouri
Still Looking for Freedom: An Ethnography of Black Men Through Basketball
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April 22nd, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Philippe Bourgois, University of Pennsylvania
Just-in-Time Labor in Philadelphia’s Puerto Rican Community: Hypersegregation, Hyperincarceration, Violence and the Efficiency of Street-Based Drug Markets
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April 22nd, 4:30 pm-6:30 pm
RESCHEDULE FROM FEBRUARY 11
Mayor Michael A. Nutter, City of Philadelphia
The Gun Violence Crisis in Cities and the National Call for Action
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April 29th, 11:30 am-1:20 pm
Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University
The Authority of the Stranger: Analytic Distance, Ethnographic Authority, and the Presentation of Causal Inference
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