Current Schedule

Spring 2026:

February 19, 2026: Cat O'Donnell, PhD Student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "Making the GOP Great Again: Organizational Conflict and Institutional Transformation in the Republican Party"

March 5, 2026: Loren Beard, Harvard College Fellow, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "Governance Undone: Bureaucratic Churning in the Case of Child Warfare"

March 12, 2026: Madeline Phuong and Cy Schwalbe, Undergraduate Students and Refugee Fieldwork Program Officers, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "Refugee Fieldwork: Insights, Obstacles, and Ethics" 

March 26, 2026: Kayla Thomas, Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology and Africana Studies, Bates College, on ""The ‘Crown Heights Corner’: Deregulation, Disrepair, and Tenant Organizing in a Single Building in Brooklyn, New York"

Fall 2025:

September 11, 2025: Major Eason, PhD student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "Ain’t Nothing but Dollar General: Reputation Management in an Environmental Community" 

October 2, 2025: Aaron Benavidez, PhD student, Department of Sociology, Harvard University, on "Sense and Sensoria: An Invitation to Multisensorial Ethnography" 

October 16, 2025: Joanna Dreby, Professor of Sociology, SUNY at Albany, on "On Shutdowns and Trauma: Surviving while Researching the ICE Age in New York" 

October 30, 2025: Sarah Vaughn, Associate Professor of Anthropology, UC Berkeley, on "Steps Toward Staying Alive: The 1.5 C Threshold and Ways of Knowing and Thriving with Lines"

November 13, 2025: Jon Wargo, Associate Professor of Education, University of Michigan, on "Do You Feel That?" Tracing the Affective Relationscapes of Youth Learning to Play a Part Together

November 20, 2025: Derron Wallace, Associate Professor of Education Policy and Africana Studies, Brown University, on "When Culture Traps: Ethnic Picks, Racial Tricks and the Secret Life of Social Class"