Professor Brian Sargent – UMass Amherst (Public Policy and Sociology)

Mike Rocque, Associate Professor of Sociology

Emily W. Kane, Professor of Sociology

A talk by Wendy Roth, Professor of Sociology at The University of British Columbia

David Newman, Professor of Sociology, DePauw University will be presenting the topic: “Redemption or Stigma? The Price, Practice and Promise of Second Chances in American Culture”

Marcelle Medford, Post-Doctoral Fellow in Sociology, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College will be presenting the topic: “Transformative Possibilities of Extranational Black Identities in Diasporic Cultural Spaces”

Bridget Harr, Lecturer in Sociology, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College will be presenting a topic to be announced when the time comes closer.

Emily W. Kane, Professor of Sociology, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College presented the topic: “You are the experts who hold the information we seek”: Participation and Paternalism in a Commodified Poverty Reduction Curriculum.

Mike Rocque, Assistant Professor of Sociology, ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ College presented the topic: “What Are Great Debates in Criminology and Why Does Anyone Care?”

Geri and Jim Taylor are Alzheimer’s Activists and national noted speakers about the disease. They are featured in the New York Times articles .

Sponsored by the Department of Sociology, with co-sponsorship from the Harward Center for Community Partnerships, the Department of Psychology, the Program in Neuroscience and the Interdisciplinary Studies Division.