About Us
Politics, Culture, and Society (familiarly known as PCS) is a weekly training seminar of graduate students and faculty in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. PCS meets Tuesdays 12:30-2:00 in Room 8108, Sewell Social Science Building. Most sessions are devoted to relatively informal faculty or student presentations of work in progress, followed by lively discussion. Papers (optional) are circulated in advance through the PCS email list.
We are interested in research in a broad range of sociological areas, including but not limited to political sociology and cultural sociology; we are open to a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and both quantitative and qualitative methods. Visitors and newcomers are welcome.
If you want to be on the email list, contact Pamela Oliver or use the ListStar interface to add yourself to the PCS list. The name of the list you want is just "PCS". You need an SSC account to access ListStar. If you do not have an SSC account or do not know how to use ListStar, you may send email to oliver@ssc.wisc.edu or freeland@ssc.wisc.edu or cgoldber@ssc.wisc.edu, the authorized list administrators.
Spring 2012 Schedule
| Jan 24 | Joint session with CDE Mike Massoglia | |
| Jan 31 | Aliza Luft "Does Racism Explain Genocide Perpetrators' Motives? The Significance of Racism for Genocide in Rwanda" | |
| Feb 7 | Yifei Li "Growth Machine and Local Environmental Politics: Case Study of Plastic Bag Ordinance in Marin County, California" | |
| Feb 14 | ||
| Feb 21 | Political sociology prelim meeting | |
| Feb 28 | Fiona Greenland "The Parthenon Marbles as Icons of Nationalism in 19th century Britain" | |
| Mar 6 | Ivan Ermakoff | |
| Mar 13 | Alex Hanna | |
| Mar 20 | Zach Baumgart "Friends or foes: an analytical framework for understanding conceptual dynamics between police and protesters." |
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| Mar 27 | Megan Shoji. Ethical Issues in Field Research-- Professional Development Workshop |
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| Spring Break | ||
| Apr 10 | Matt Kearney | |
| Apr 17 | Ramya Rajagopalan | |
| Apr 24 | Sida Liu "Migration and Stratification: The Spatial Mobility of Chinese Lawyers" (Sida Liu, Lily Liang, and Ethan Michelson) | |
| May 1 | ||
| May 8 | Ramya Rajagopalan | |