Monday, August 24th, 1:30pm, B32 Warren - Faculty Meeting - Note the Time!
Tuesday, August 25th, 10am-Noon, B32 Warren - Undergrad Orientation
Friday, August 28th, 1pm-3pm, B32 Warren - Graduate Orientation
Friday, August 28th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Faculty Meeting
Monday, August 31st, 3pm, B32 Warren - Department Meeting
Monday, September 14th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Faculty Meeting
Monday, September 21st, 3pm B32 Warren - Faculty Meeting - Canceled
Monday, September 28th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Field Meeting
Monday, October 19th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Faculty Meeting
Monday, November 9th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Field Meeting
Monday, November 23rd, 3pm, B32 Warren - Faculty Meeting
Monday, December 7th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Department Meeting
Monday, December 14th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Faculty Meeting
Thursday, September 17th and Friday, September 18th - CPP Encore Conference
Statler Hotel
Monday, September 21st, 4:30pm, 401 Warren - Addressing Farmworker Needs, The Cornell Farmworker Program will host its student summer internship panel presentation, *Addressing Farmworker Needs*. Featuring presentations on: Farmworker Housing; Farm Chemical Safety and Farmworkers; Detentions and Immigration Concerns among Farmworkers; Opportunities for Fair Trade in NYS; Human Trafficking: Information for Farmworkers; and Teaching English as a Second Language to Farmworkers.
Tuesday, September 22nd, 12:15pm, B32 Warren - Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminar: Daniel Lumonya, "Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Land Question in East Africa: Some Emerging Inshights and Questions."
Friday, September 25th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Tom Hirschl, "The Link Between Voter Choice, Religion and Identity in Contemporary Society: Bringing Classical Theory Back In."
Tuesday, September 29th, 3:30pm, 304 Fernow Hall - Chuck Geisler, "National Security and Land Use Planning: (Dis)connecting the Dots," (NTRES Seminar Series).
Tuesday, October 6th, 12:15pm, B32 Warren - Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminar: Jomoke Warritay, "Middlemen: African Middle Classes in the Modern World." Presenting her master's thesis framework for a conceptual understanding of modern middle classes. Work in progress, feedback desired.
Friday, October 9th, 3pm, Statler Hall Room 196 - Marc Mauer, "The Collateral Consequences of Mass Imprisonment," (co-sponsored by Development Sociology, City and Regional Planning, Polson Institute, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and the Cornell Prison Education Program)
Friday, October 9th and Saturday, October 10th, Casadesus Recital Hall, Fine Arts Bldg., Binghamton University - Food, Energy, Environment: Crisis of the Modern World System (co-sponsored by Fernand Braudel Center for the Study of Economies, Historical Systems, and Civilizations Binghamton University and Development Sociology and the Polson Institute for Global Development, Cornell University Conversations in the Discipline). For the full schedule, click here.
Friday, October 9th, 3-4:30pm, B32 Warren - TA Instruction Seminar
Friday, October 16th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Harriet Friedmann, "Regimes and Networks: Complementary Approaches to Multi-scalar Agrifood Studies."
Tuesday, October 20th, 12:15pm, B32 Warren - Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminar: Marygold Walsh-Dilley Hybrid Economies: Cooperative Strategies, Competitive Markets, and Imperfect Modernization in Rural Bolivia.
Friday, October 23rd, 3pm, B32 Warren - Iñaki Permanyer, City and Regional Planning, "The Measurement of Socio-Economic Gender Inequality Revisited."
Friday, October 30th, 3pm, Bache Aud., Malott Hall - "International Development Forum on Food, Politics, and Society: Alternative Futures" followed by a reception Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall
Speakers: Josée Johnston, University of Toronto, Sociology
Philip McMichael, Cornell University, Development Sociology
Alan McHughen, University of California, Riverside, Botany and Plant Sciences
Martina Newell-McGloughlin, University of California, Davis, Plant Pathology
Commentary: Janice Thies, Cornell University, Crop and Soil Sciences
Moderator: Ronald Herring, Cornell University, Government
Tuesday,November 3rd, 12:15pm, B32 Warren - Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminar: Jason Cons, "Sensitive Spaces: Rethinking Exception Along the India-Bangladesh Border."
Friday, November 6th, 4pm, Mann Gallery - Event Honoring J.M. Stycos
Friday, November 13th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Phil McMichael, "Changing the Subject of Development - A Review of Contesting Development: Critical Struggles for Social Change" (Polson RWG product). Friday's seminar will feature not only Phil, but also Andreas Hernandez and Gayatri Menon because they are launching the book: Contesting Development. Critical Struggles for Social Change. This is a home-grown product -- of an 8-year Research Working Group in the Polson Institute, comprised of 14 members of the Department.
Tuesday, November 17th, 12:15pm, B32 Warren - Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminar: Luisa Steur, "Adivasi Mobilization: 'Identity' versus 'Class' After the Kerala Model of Development."
Friday, November 20th, 3pm, Statler Hall Room 196 - Ruthie Gilmore, "Life in Hell: Incarceration and the City, 1980-2008," (co-sponsored by Development Sociology, City and Regional Planning, Polson Institute, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, and the Cornell Prison Education Program).
Tuesday, December 1st, 12:15pm, B32 Warren - Graduate Student Brown Bag Seminar: Andrea Woodward, "Beyond School Lunch: The Changing Nutritional and Ecological Food Environment in Schools."
Friday, December 4th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Rural New York Seminar - Positioning New York's Rural Communities: Vision, Policy, and Action in a Regional Context
Panelists will include:
Jill Harvey, State Director, USDA NYS Rural Development
Erica Heintz, Executive Director, LCRR (NYS Legislative Commission on Rural Resources)
Andy Fagan, Executive Director, CCE Tioga and Chemung Counties
David Brown, CaRDI co-chair, and Professor, Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University
Friday, January 29th, 1-5:30pm, ILR Conference Center - Encore Seminar
TBA - Loic Wacquant ((co-sponsored by Development Sociology, City and Regional Planning, Polson Institute, Africana Studies and Anthropology)
Friday, February 5th, 3pm, Fouad Makki and Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue, "African Development: Looking Back, Moving Forward."
Friday, February 12th, 3pm,
Friday, February 19th, 3pm
Friday, February 26th, 3pm, B32 Warren - Rural New York Seminar:The Impact of 'Green' Energy Development on Rural Community Sustainability.Friday, March 5th, 3pm
Friday, March 12th, 3pm
Friday, March 19th, 3pm
Friday, April 2nd, 3pm
Friday, April 9th, 3pm
Friday, April 16th, 3pm
Friday, April 23rd, 3pm
Friday, April 30th, 3pm
Friday, May 7th, 3pm