Thursday 16 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The fight against the mafia in Italy and the role of the anti-mafia legislation
  Franco La Torre, Federico Varese (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Challenging Capitalism in the Gilded Age: The Knights of Labor and the U.S. Working Class
  Michael Biggs (St Cross College)

Monday 15 January 2018 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Measuring gender inequalities using web data
  Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 January 2018 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Transition to a post-catch-up modernity: the case of Japan
  Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 January 2018 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Sociogenomics: Combining sociology and molecular genetics
  Prof. Melinda Mills (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 February 2018 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - The third way version 2.0? How agent based modelling can transform our understanding of social behaviour
  Edmund Chattoe-Brown (University of Leicester)

Monday 12 February 2018 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Where the Millennials Will Take Us: A New Generation Wrestles with the Gender Structure
  Barbara J Risman (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Monday 19 February 2018 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Unsettling accounts: Confessional performances by perpetrators of past violence
  Leigh A. Payne (Sociology, University of Oxford)

Monday 26 February 2018 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Radical retreat and the appeal to honour. Centennial thoughts on the Great War
  Robin Archer (London School of Economics)

Monday 23 April 2018 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Public trust in police: Collective efficacy and the importance of place
  Ben Bradford (University College, London)

Monday 30 April 2018 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Elite education and social mobility
  Alice Sullivan (University College, London)

Monday 14 May 2018 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Corruption: measures and narratives
  Lucio Picci (University of Bologna)

Monday 21 May 2018 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Cultural, Disruptive, and Organizational Sources of Movement Power
  Kenneth Andrews (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Monday 4 June 2018 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Social Science Genetics and Fertility
  Felix Tropf (University of Oxford)

Monday 11 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Architecture of Genome Wide Association Studies
  Charles Rahal (University of Oxford)

Thursday 14 June 2018 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - Delivering Little Boy: Captain Nolan, Technique, and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age
  James Nolan (Williams College)

Monday 8 October 2018 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Industry of Anonymity: Inside the Business of Cybercrime
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford)

Monday 15 October 2018 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Low status, left behind, ignorant and ignored? Understanding the Brexit voter
  Lindsay Richards (University of Oxford)

Monday 22 October 2018 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Long-term trends in social class mobility in the UK
  Colin Mills (University of Oxford)

Monday 29 October 2018 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Boundary Spillover and the Politics of Racial Violence: The Transatlantic Response to American Lynching 1891-1903
  Charles Seguin (Pennsylvania State University)

Monday 5 November 2018 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Family Size Matters
  Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)

Monday 12 November 2018 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - No evidence that becoming a grandparent benefits well-being: What does this mean for theories of grandparenting
  Paula Sheppard (University of Oxford)

Monday 19 November 2018 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Time, Capitals and Social Structure
  Jonathan Gershuny (University of Oxford)

Monday 26 November 2018 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Trust or distrust in medicines
  Heather Hamill (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Direct Action and Disobedience: Conceptual and Performative clarifications. The case of the Stanstead 15
  Graeme Hayes (Aston University)

Thursday 17 January 2019 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 17:00 - Exodus: Our Journey to Europe
  James Bluemel

Monday 21 January 2019 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Sociological explanation and mixed methods: The example of the Titanic
  Jorg Stolz (University of Lausanne)

Monday 28 January 2019 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Four Types of Corruption
  Avner Offer (University of Oxford)

Monday 4 February 2019 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Organizing collective action: Modes of coordination in UK civic fields
  Mario Diani (University of Trento)

Monday 11 February 2019 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Understanding the Social and Cultural Bases of Brexit
  Tak Wing Chan (University College London)

Monday 18 February 2019 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Mosques and Islamist Activism: Spatial evidence from Interwar Cairo
  Neil Ketchley (Kings College London)

Monday 25 February 2019 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The intergenerational transmission of language skill
  Alice Sullivan (University College, London)

Monday 4 March 2019 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The Ethnic Niche and Economic Integration: the employment prospects of the white British, migrants and minority members residing in ethnic niches
  Neli Demireva (University of Essex)

Monday 29 April 2019 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Adolescent Disability and Educational Attainment
  Dr Stella Chatzitheochari (University of Warwick)

Monday 13 May 2019 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Homeless in Oxford: Some practical reflections on undertaking sensitive qualitative research
  Dr Elisabeth Garratt (University of Oxford), Dr Jan Flaherty (University of Oxford)

Monday 20 May 2019 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
  Sam Friedman (LSE)

Friday 31 May 2019 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Facts and Values: A Processual View
  Professor Andrew Abbott (University of Chicago)

Monday 3 June 2019 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The Class Ceiling: Why it Pays to be Privileged
  Please note: this is a change to the scheduled speaker
  Sam Friedman (LSE)

Monday 10 June 2019 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Using Mass Observation Project writing to investigate continuity and change in voluntary action: 1981 – 2012
  Dr Rose Lindsey (University of Southampton)

Monday 17 June 2019 (8th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Public perceptions and engagement with climate change
  Please note change of venue. The seminar will now be held in the Large Lecture Room at Nuffield College. Apologies: Due to unforeseen circumstances, lunch will not be provided before the seminar.
  Prof Wouter Poortinga (Cardiff University)

Monday 14 October 2019 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Changing families, changing time: marriage, parenthood, and gendered time allocation in Great Britain
  Dr Muzhi Zhou (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 October 2019 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Thoughts on Replication with a Case Study
  Michael Biggs (St Cross College)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 28 October 2019 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Does Children's Education Affect Parental Health and Mortality? A Regression Discontinuity Approach with Linked Census Data from England and Wales
  Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 4 November 2019 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Managing uncertainty in medicine quality in Sub-Saharan Africa
  Heather Hamill (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 11 November 2019 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Brexit and political polarisation in Britain
  Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 18 November 2019 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - The resilience of the Russian mafia: An empirical study
  Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 25 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Accountability from below: Archimedes' lever and bringing justice for past corporate human rights abuses
  Leigh Payne (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Events

Friday 29 November 2019 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - My methodological journey in the interrogation of bridewealth's influence
  Professor Francis Dodoo (University of Ghana & University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 2 December 2019 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:15 - Gendered Ideas of Family and the Care of 'Left-Behind' Children in Rural China
  Rachel Murphy (St Antony's College)
  Department of Sociology Events

Monday 27 January 2020 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - They Can't All Be Stars: The Matthew Effect, Status Bias, and Status Persistence in NBA All-Star Voting
  Thomas Biegert (LSE)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 3 February 2020 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Fertility Projection and Remarriage in Japan
  Shohei Yoda (NIPR)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 10 February 2020 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Social Policy and Fertility Change in the Nordic Countries
  Gunnar Andersson (University of Stockholm)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 17 February 2020 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Establishment Relations and Fatherhood Wage Premiums: New Insights from Finnish Administrative Data
  Lynn Prince Cooke (University of Bath)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Thursday 27 February 2020 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:30 - Postponement of Childbearing and Mental Health Outcomes: Evidence from the British Birth Cohorts
  Maria Sironi (UCL)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 2 March 2020 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - The Wealth Inequality of Nations: Towards and Understanding of Cross-national Differences in Wealth.
  Nora Waitkus (LSE)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 9 March 2020 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Consequences of Immigrant Concentration in Schools for Adolescent Crime
  Are Skeie Hermansen (University of Oslo)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 26 October 2020 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Perspectives from a Pandemic: Demographic Insights and Battling the "Infodemic”
  Jennifer Dowd (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminars MT20

Monday 2 November 2020 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Class Reproduction in the Online Platform Economy: Evidence from a European Survey
  Vili Lehdonvirta (Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminars MT20

Monday 9 November 2020 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Mobile phones and gender equality
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Valentina Rotondi (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminars MT20

Monday 16 November 2020 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Does Parental Separation Affect Children's Daily Activities? Evidence from Longitudinal Cohort Data
  Pablo Gracia (Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin)
  Department of Sociology Seminars MT20

Monday 23 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - Analyzing the gender gap across racialized groups
  Kamila Kolpashnikova (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminars MT20

Monday 30 November 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 13:00 - School Outcomes of Children Raised by Same-Sex Parents: Evidence from Administrative Panel Data
  Please note the new topic for this talk.
  Deni Mazrekaj (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminars MT20

Monday 18 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - “Eish! It is tough living here”: Marginalised young people and FBOs in Pretoria Central, South Africa
  Marlize Rabe (Department of Sociology, University of the Western Cape (South Africa))
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Thursday 21 January 2021 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 14:00 - New Perspectives on Lifespan Inequality
  Email jose-manuel.aburto@sociology.ox.ac.uk for any query
  Various Speakers

Monday 25 January 2021 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - When work and care clash: The gendered nature of caregiver bias
  Elizabeth Hirsh (University of British Columbia)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 1 February 2021 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Caring for Aging Parents and Complex Family Structure
  Sarah Patterson (University of Michigan)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 8 February 2021 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Mobilizing student youth activities in Kyrgyzstan during COVID19 - Enactus American University of Central Asia (AUCA)
  Aizhana Dzhumalieva (American University of Central Asia)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 15 February 2021 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Foreign experience in assessing the level of scientific and technological development
  Tuyara Ediseeva (Academy of Sciences of Sakha Republic)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Friday 26 February 2021 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - RESCHEDULED: Race as positionality
  This seminar has been rescheduled from Monday 22nd February.
  Rima Wilkes (University of British Columbia)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 1 March 2021 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:00 - Gendering the Pandemic: Women’s and Men’s Time Use during COVID-19
  Liana Sayer (University of Maryland)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Wednesday 10 March 2021 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 10:00 - RESCHEDULED: The Gendered Consequences of COVID-19: Initial insights for American Families
  This talk has been rescheduled from Mon 8th to Weds 10th March.
  Leah Ruppanner (University of Melbourne)
  Department of Sociology Hilary Term Seminars

Monday 26 April 2021 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - An audit experiment to investigate the “War on Cops”
  David Kirk (Nuffield College), Marti Rovira (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Trinity Term Lectures

Monday 10 May 2021 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Can the digital revolution promote gender equality?
  Ridhi Kashyap (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Trinity Term Lectures

Monday 17 May 2021 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The socio-political consequences of regional economic divergence in Britain: 1983-2018
  Stephen Fisher (Associate Professor of Political Sociology, Trinity College, Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Trinity Term Lectures

Monday 24 May 2021 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - The Right Against Rights: Counter-movements, Uncivil Movements, and Radical Neo-liberalism in Latin America
  Leigh Payne (St Antony's College, University of Oxford), Julia Zulver (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México / OSGA), Simón Escoffier (Universidad Autónoma de Chile)
  Department of Sociology Trinity Term Lectures

Wednesday 2 June 2021 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 13:00 - Neighbour relations and behaviour during state-orchestrated violence: An ethnographic investigation of anti-minority pogroms in India
  Rescheduled to 2nd June at 13:00
  Raheel Dhattiwala (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Trinity Term Lectures

Monday 7 June 2021 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:00 - The Benefits and Limits of Transparency in Qualitative Research
  Various Speakers

Monday 18 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Trust, Protection and Criminal Governance: My Journey in the Study of Organized Crime
  Prof Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminar

Monday 25 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Events, My Dear Boy, Events
  Dr Michael Biggs (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminar

Monday 1 November 2021 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Gender Equality, It’s About Time
  Dr Man Yee Kan (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminar

Monday 8 November 2021 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Understanding the evidence, getting into mechanisms, and making a contribution: Reflections on The Spirit Level (Why equality is better for everyone)
  Dr Lindsay Richards (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminar

Monday 15 November 2021 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Understanding Political Change
  Dr Stephen Fisher (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminar

Monday 22 November 2021 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Title TBC
  Prof Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminar

Monday 29 November 2021 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:30 - Open and Reproducible Research with Semi-Structured Data
  Dr Charles Rahal (University of Oxford)
  Department of Sociology Seminar

Monday 17 January 2022 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Sociology Seminar Series - Law before the state: the possibilities and challenges of comparison
  Prof. Fernanda Pirie (Centre for Socio-Legal Studies )

Monday 24 January 2022 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Sociology Seminar Series - Global Markets, Corporate Assurances, and the Legitimacy of State Intervention
  Matthew Amengual (University of Oxford)

Monday 31 January 2022 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Sociology Seminar Series - The future of domestic automation: social implications
  Dr Ekaterina Hertog (University of Oxford)

Monday 28 February 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Sociology Seminar Series - Food in the time of COVID-19 anxiety, England 2020
  Professor Stanley Ulijaszek (School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford), Dr Sabine Parrish (School of Health Sciences, City University London)

Friday 4 March 2022 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:00 - The invasion of Ukraine and its implications: a panel discussion
  Prof Federico Varese (University of Oxford), Dr Michael Biggs (University of Oxford), Dr Marnie Howlett (DPIR, University of Oxford), Emma Mateo (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)

Monday 7 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Sociology Seminar Series - Palaeodigital
  Kate Fox (Social Issues Research Centre, Oxford)

Thursday 10 March 2022 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - An evolving elite: New York Times obituaries, 1851-2022 | Professor David Strang
  Professor David Strang (Cornell University)

Monday 9 May 2022 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Sociology Seminar Series - Risk in Research: Covid-19 and the politics of bio-moral marginality on the south Kerala coast (India)
  Professor Filippo Osella (University of Sussex)

Monday 23 May 2022 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Sociology Seminar Series - 'Academic Research with the Twitter API v2'
  Suhem Parack (Developer Relations for Academics, Twitter)

Monday 30 May 2022 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:30 - Sociology Seminar Series - 'Ukraine Crisis: Monitoring population displacement through social media activity' | Dr Douglas Leasure
  Dr Douglas Leasure (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 October 2022 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Seminar: Social Class Mobility in the UK
  Colin Mills (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 17 October 2022 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Seminar: Trends in social mobility in Britain from the early 19th to the early 21st centuries
  Professor Anthony Heath (Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 24 October 2022 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Seminar: The role of education-occupation matching in economic inequality
  Dirk Witteveen (Nuffield College)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 31 October 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Childhood stressful events, age at first birth and health among women at older age: a sociogenomic approach
  Dr Xuejie Ding (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 10:00 - A New Life: Discussing life experiences in and out of the yakuza
  Various Speakers

Monday 7 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Seminar: Do Children Perform Better in Religious Schools?
  Prof Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Tuesday 8 November 2022 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Applying to the Sociology DPhil: Information for Prospective Students
  Prof Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Do Audit Experiments Reflect Applicant Behaviour? Cautions for Calculations of Probabilities of Success
  Michael Vuolo
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Tuesday 15 November 2022 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:00 - Applying to the Sociology MPhil: Information for Prospective Students
  Colin Mills (University of Oxford), Christiaan Monden (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 November 2022 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - 21st Century Yakuza: Resilience and Downfall of Japanese Organised Crime
  Dr Martina Baradel (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 28 November 2022 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Seminar: Social diversity and social cohesion in Britain
  Tak Wing Chan (University College London)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 16 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Purging to Transform the Post-Colonial State: Evidence from the 1952 Egyptian Revolution
  Dr Neil Ketchley (Associate Professor in Politics, St Antony’s College)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Thursday 19 January 2023 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Gangsters and Statesmen: Organised Crime, Governance and Nationalism in Torn States
  Dr Danilo Mandic (Harvard University)
  ExLegi Seminar Series

Monday 23 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Progony: Criminal Governance in Russian Prisons through Hidden Written Communication
  Dr Elena Racheva (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Thursday 26 January 2023 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - The Anxiety of Influence: Wikipedia and Law
  Dr Florian Grisel (CSLS)
  ExLegi Seminar Series

Monday 30 January 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Violence Against Women at Work and at Home
  Professor Abigail Adams-Prassl (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Roadblock politics: mapping trade-based conflict economies
  Peer Schouten (Danish Institute for International Studies)
  ExLegi Seminar Series

Monday 6 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - A historical sociology of ‘mass society’ in Japan: A conception of equality without ‘class’
  Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Thursday 9 February 2023 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Investigating slander and sybil attacks in cybercrime marketplaces using online experiments
  Rebecca Heath (University of Cambridge)
  ExLegi Seminar Series

Monday 13 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Is ability grouping good or bad for school performance and educational choice?
  Jan O. Jonsson (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Gangs, Extortion, and Development in El Salvador
  Dr Carlos Schmidt-Padilla (Penn Development Research Initiative)
  ExLegi Seminar Series

Monday 20 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Boys' and Girls' Views of Parents’ Differential Treatment of Them in Migrant Families in Rural China
  Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 16:00 - Cocaine & the Port: Utopias of security, urban relations, and displacement of policing efforts in the Port of Piraeus
  Professor Anna Sergi (University of Essex)
  ExLegi Seminar Series

Monday 27 February 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Boundaries of Expertise: Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and the Professionalisation Dilemma
  Dr Maryam Alemzadeh (St Antony's College, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 6 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Does it matter where you’re from? Geographical variation in social mobility in Britain
  Professor Richard Breen (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Thursday 23 March 2023 (10th Week, Hilary Term)

• 15:30 - Economic conditions at birth and later-life DNA methylation age acceleration
  Please email LCDS.Office@demography.ox.ac.uk for in person and online attendance
  Professor Gerard van den Berg (University of Groningen)

Monday 3 April 2023 (-2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - The Unpredictability of Life Outcomes
  Please email LCDS.Office@demography.ox.ac.uk for in person and online attendance
  Professor Matthew Salganik (Princeton University)

Monday 24 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Resettled into Poverty: Structural Violence, Trauma and the Labour Market Incorporation of Refugees in the United States
  Dr Molly Fee (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 15 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Mixed-mode sampling and field methods in measuring protesters' characteristics in contemporary protests
  Professor Edmund Cheng (City University of Hong Kong)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 14:15 - The birth hump - A shape decomposition of perinatal excess mortality
  Please email LCDS.Office@demography.ox.ac.uk for in person and online attendance by Friday 12 May
  Dr Jonas Schöley (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research)

Monday 22 May 2023 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - How Married Couples Confront Unemployment
  Professor Aliya Rao (London School of Economics)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Tuesday 30 May 2023 (6th Week, Trinity Term)

• 14:15 - Did behavioural economics boost COVID-19 vaccine acceptance? Evidence and insights from WEIRD and LMIC countries
  Please email LCDS.Office@demography.ox.ac.uk for in person and online attendance by Friday 26 May
  Dr Alison Buttenheim (University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 5 June 2023 (7th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - *CANCELLED* Assessment of the Impact of Pronatalist Measures on the Fertility Rate in Asia
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Professor Paul Siu Fai Yip (University of Hong Kong)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Wednesday 21 June 2023 (9th Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - A life in fighting: A conversation with former guerrillas and paramilitaries after leaving the Colombian conflict
  TBA

Monday 9 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The gendered impacts of partnership and parenthood on time use in Great Britain, 1992-2019
  Dr Muzhi Zhou (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 16 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The Economic Sociology of Cybercrime
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 23 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Parenting and Early Childhood Development in Hong Kong
  Dr Freda Wang
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar
• 12:45 - *Cancelled* A layperson's journey through matched comparisons and instrumental variables, aka the elusive quest for causality
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Federico Varese (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 6 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Mafia Expansion to New Territories: The Case of the 'Ndrangheta in Germany
  Zora Hauser (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 20 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - The childhood origins of social mobility: early findings for a report commissioned by the Social Mobility Commission
  Dr Lindsay Richards (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 27 November 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:45 - Collective Protest and Elite Colleges: The U.S. Anti-War Movement in the 1960s
  Dr Michael Biggs (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 15 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Born to Rule: The making and remaking of the British elite
  Sam Friedman (LSE), Aaron Reeves (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 22 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - How to measure media freedom using the text of news wire: text analysis and language models
  Christopher Barrie (University of Edinburgh)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 29 January 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - How to measure media freedom using the text of news wire: text analysis and language models
  Kieron Barclay (Stockholm University)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 5 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Race, sex, class and educational achievement at age 16
  Professor Steve Strand (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 12 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - From Outsiders to Heroes: Army Veterans, Patriotic Values and the Militarisation of Russia, 1991-2022
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Elena Racheva (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 19 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Does contemporary motherhood work? A qualitative longitudinal analysis of first-time motherhood experiences
  Tina Miller (Oxford Brookes University)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 26 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - UK Environmental Groups
  Nathalie Berny (Sciences Po Rennes)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 4 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 12:45 - Managerial Attainment, Social Origins, and Mechanisms for Workers in Denmark Born 1965-1975
  Nicholas Martindale (DPIR, Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Friday 15 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - 25th Anniversary of the Sociology Department - Conference & Dinner
  Anthony Heath (University of Oxford), Vikki Boliver (Durham University), Robert Ford (University of Manchester)

Monday 22 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Production and Trade of Substandard and Falsified Medicines: a qualitative social network analysis of transnational organised crime
  Heather Hamill (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 29 April 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - From Outsiders to Heroes: Army Veterans, Patriotic Values and the Militarisation of Russia, 1991-2022
  Dr Elena Racheva (Department of Sociology, University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 6 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - What (or who) has changed? Reflections on ‘revisiting’ an English Town
  Professor Ian Loader (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 13 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - Ethnic Earnings Inequality in Football
  Dirk Witteveen (Nuffield College)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar

Monday 20 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:45 - The migration of Hong Kong people to the UK
  Man Yee Kan (University of Oxford)
  Sociology Department Weekly Seminar