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Colloquia Speakers Schedule - Spring 2010

The Center for Community Studies organizes and hosts speakers, round-table discussions and other informal events that provide a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge scholarship, national and local policy initiatives, and community issues and programs. Community-partner representatives often participate in these events as both presenters and attendees.

For more information about these events, please contact Jill Robinson.

The spring 2010 colloquia are scheduled on Fridays from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. and usually are held in Room 102 of the Home Economics Building on the Peabody campus. Please check this schedule frequently for updates on location, presentation abstracts, speakers and other information. Everyone is welcomed to attend these interactive sessions.

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RESCHEDULED due to snow

Friday, Feb. 19

2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Home Economics 102/Peabody campus

Katharine Donato, Professor and Chair of the Vanderbilt Sociology Department

Parental Involvement in Schools and Immigration in U.S. Destinations

Donato’s research interests include international migration between Mexico and the United States, social determinants of health, immigrants in the U.S. economy, and ethnic and gender stratification. She is editor of the American Sociological Review. Associate Professor of Human and Organizational Development Doug Perkins will serve as discussant.

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Friday, Feb. 26

2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Home Economics 102/Peabody Campus

Student researchers in the Center for Community Studies Community Matching Program

Student researchers working with community partners through the Vanderbilt Center for Community Studies Community Matching Program will discuss their projects and take questions and feedback. The Center started a pilot phase of the program in fall 2009 to connect academic researchers with community-partner agencies and organizations to provide research and other assistance to help guide and support their missions. The matching program, which builds upon the Center’s long-time working relationships with these agencies, will continue in the spring semester to link researchers with community partners that have requested assistance and is considering ways to continue support for and expand the much-in-demand program.

Graduate students and faculty members are encouraged to attend this informal session to offer feedback and advice to these student researchers.

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Friday, March 19

2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Home Economics 102/Peabody campus

Peabody faculty members Mimi Engel, Stella Flores, Maury Nation and Claire Smrekar

The Center’s Schools, Communities and Youth (SCY) research group is hosting a colloquium to showcase the research of several Peabody faculty members whose work considers the intersections of education and community, issues of diversity and social justice. Peabody faculty members Mimi Engel, Stella Flores, Maury Nation and Claire Smrekar will discuss their current research with a question-and-answer session to follow. This colloquium offers an opportunity to foster a greater degree of interdepartmental collegiality among Peabody faculty and students interested in themes of schools, communities, youth development and social justice. Any student or faculty member interested in these areas is encouraged to attend.

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Friday, April 2

2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Home Economics 102/Peabody campus

Cecelia Tichi, William R. Kenan Professor of English, Vanderbilt University

Hubbell Medal winner Tichi will lecture on her book, Civic Passions: Seven Who Launched Progressive America (and What They Teach Us). Following the lecture, faculty members will discuss activists profiled in Tichi’s book whose historical work aligns with their current research or projects. Discussants will include Tony Brown, associate professor in the Vanderbilt Department of Sociology, and Paul Speer, associate professor of Human and Organizational Development, Vanderbilt Peabody College.

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Read about the Hubbell Medal

Read more about the book

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Friday, April 16

2:30 p.m.-4 p.m.

Home Economics 102/Peabody campus

Juan Battle, Professor of Sociology, Public Health and Urban Education at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Social Justice Sexuality: Insights from a Public Sociologist

An internationally known scholar, Battle is a Fulbright Senior Specialist and was the Fulbright Distinguished Chair of Gender Studies at the University of Klagenfurt, Austria. His research interests include race, sexuality and social justice. Battle currently is heading several large research endeavors examining race and sexuality in the United States, of which the largest is the Social Justice Sexuality initiative. He is a recent president of the Association of Black Sociologists and is actively involved with the American Sociological Association. In addition to publishing in many academic journals, Battle’s work has been highlighted in popular national magazines, on radio shows and in newspapers. He was selected as one of the "Ten Black Men Transforming the World."

The colloquium is being organized by the Human and Organizational Development (HOD) Minority Student Committee and sponsored by the HOD and Sociology departments, the Vanderbilt Center for Community Studies and the Divinity School. A reception will follow the presentation.

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