September Newsletter
Our first month of the Fall semester has been a busy one! Here is just a selection of the many September highlights from BU Sociology:
On September 24th, we gathered in Jamaica Plain for our Fall Social and walk around The Arnold Arboretum.
Earlier in the month, Heba Gowayed was selected as a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study for the 2022–23 academic year. Read more about this prestigious fellowship that recognizes the significance of her scholarship here. Heba will also discussing her book Refuge: How the State Shapes Human Potential Friday (9/30) for the return of the Ethnographic Café series. It will be in conversation with Danilo Mandić over Zoom starting at 3:00 pm.
And a new series was launched this month by Joe Harris at the Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future. It’s a new hybrid Global Health Politics Workshop that will meet once a month on Mondays from noon to 1:30 pm.
In new faculty news, Loretta Lees was recently featured in BU Today in their story “For New Initiative on Cities Leader, Urban Geography Is People.” It highlights her experience as an urban geographer and her new role the faculty director of Boston University’s Initiative on Cities (IoC).
And the first of our Fall 2022 Seminar Series with Robin Bartram (Tulane) was a success! Robin gave a fascinating presentation in our 241 seminar room on September 28th based on her new book Stacked Decks: Building Inspectors and the Reproduction of Urban Inequality. Our next Seminar Series event is next Wednesday October 5th with Michael Sierra-Arévalo (UT-Austin) on the “The Danger Imperative: Violence, Death, and the Soul of American Policing.” RSVP here.
Finally, we would like to welcome our fabulous new Department Administrator Elise St. Esprit who joined us this week!