Fall 2011
September 26, **Monday** 12:00 – 1pm – 215 Haines
Welcome and Introductions – Dessert and Drinks Provided
October 31, **Monday** 9:30 – 11:00 – 279 Haines
Cameron Macdonald (University of Wisconsin-Madison – Department of Sociology)
“Healthcare Offloading and Cancer Care: What’s at Issue for Family Caregivers”
Click here for abstract and speaker info
Co-Sponsored with the Gender Working Group
November 10, **THURSDAY** 12:00 – 2pm – 352 Haines
Linda Layne (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Department of Anthropology)
“’Angel Babies’ and ‘Phantom Fathers’: Some ‘Uncanny’ Similarities Between These Absent Presences in
Pregnancy Loss and Intentionally Father-Absent Families”
Co-Sponsored with the Culture, Power and Social Change Interest Group (UCLA Anthropology)
December 5, **Monday** 11:30 – 1pm – 279 Haines
Student Works in Progress Session – Xuewen Tan (UCLA Geography visiting scholar)
“How a Migrant Family Chooses Who Moves and Who Stays”
-and- Dwight Davis (UCLA Sociology)
“Marriage in East Asia: Trends and Projections”
Winter 2012
January 30, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm – 135 Haines (Bunche Center Library)
Suzanne Bianchi (University of California – Los Angeles)
“Composing a Work and Family Life: Reflections”
Career trajectory talk
February 13, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm – 279 Haines
Student Works in Progress Session – Rebecca DiBennardo (UCLA Sociology)
“Gay Families Count: Contact, Tolerance, and Voting on Gay Marriage Bans”
-and- Karra Greenberg (UCLA Sociology)
“Macro-level Change and Individual Circumstance: A Look at Marriage Timing in Mid-20th Century Western Europe”
March 5, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm – 4240 Public Affairs
Jennifer Barber (University of Michigan – Department of Sociology)
“The Dynamics of Intimate Partner Conflict and the Risk of Pregnancy”
Co-Sponsored with the California Center for Population Research
Spring 2012
April 9, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm – 279 Haines
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung (National University of Singapore – Department of Sociology and Asia Research Institute)
“Black-White Achievement Gap: An Intergenerational and Developmental View”
Co-Sponsored with the Poverty and Inequality Working Group
April 16, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm – 279 Haines
Kristin Turney (UC-Irvine – Department of Sociology)
“Incarcerating Parenthood? The Collateral and Countervailing Consequences of Paternal Incarceration”
April 30, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm – 4240 Public Affairs
Elizabeth Thomson (UW-Madison – Dept. of Sociology (Emerita) and Stockholm University – Dept. of Sociology)
“Childbearing Across Partnerships”
Co-Sponsored with the California Center for Population Research
May 21, **Monday** 12:00 – 1:30pm – 279 Haines
Candy Goodwin (UCLA – Department of Anthropology)
“Participation and the Co-Operative Organization of Social Action in Family Interaction”
June 4, **Monday** 12:00 – 1pm – 279 Haines
End-of-year planning meeting – Lunch provided!
*Please rsvp to: lkietzer@ucla.edu*
