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Event: OOW Virtual Panel on Racialized and Gendered Organizations

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Join our lively discussion of the ways sociology can move the study of work and occupations towards more intersectional understandings of inequality at work and in workplaces, in worker’s experiences, and in theoretical and practical diversity.

DATE: Thursday, March 7, 2024
TIME: Noon – 1pm (ET)
LINK: https://wsu.zoom.us/j/99023987599 , Meeting ID: 990 2398 7599

PANELISTS:
Dr. Sharla Alegria, University of Toronto. Her research is primarily concerned with understanding how inequalities, particularly those at the intersections of gender and race persist in institutions and organizations that reject discrimination and make commitments to equity. Her work connects technology, its applications, and the conditions in which it was developed to better understand the persistence of race and gender inequalities in technologies and the workplaces that produce them.

Dr. Koji Chavez, Indiana University. His research is focused on gender and racial inequalities in the labor market and in the workplace. Much of his research centers specifically on discrimination in the hiring process, trends in discrimination, and is developing a theory of diversity commodification which explains how the corporate drive to diversify the workforce affects patterns of gender and racial discrimination in software engineering hiring.

Maritess Escueta, University of Delaware. Her research considers how workplace organizations reproduce gender and racial inequality, particularly in the tech industry. Her current research project examines how formalized performance evaluation processes are used to maintain race, class, and gender divisions between workers.

Bonnie Siegler, Columbia University. She studies diversity and equity discourses in education and DEI work and workers in schools. Her dissertation investigates U.S. school district commitments to racial equity in 2020 and the relationship between racial equity statements and organizational legitimacy.

Moderated by Dr. Julie Kmec, Washington State University

Update: OOW Book Discussion – Work, Pray, Code 

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OOW Book Discussion: New date – January 22

All OOW members are invited to participate in an informal, online discussion of Catherine Chen’s Work, Pray, Code on January 22nd, 12-1pm EST. The book is a brisk, qualitative study of how work becomes religion in Silicon Valley. The conversation will be “book club style”, with everyone welcome to share ideas. (If you’d like to participate but time is short, focus on the introduction & chapter 4.) 

We hope students and faculty alike come to discuss and meet with fellow OOW members. To register and receive a zoom link, click here.

Questions? Contact Laura Doering (laura.doering@utoronto.ca).

Upcoming Event: Socio-Economic Review Cafe— Close Relationships, Trust, and the Economy

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Socio-Economic Review Cafe: Close Relationships, Trust, and the Economy

Featuring a conversation with SER authors Wenjuan Zheng (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology), David Shulman (Lafayette College), and Kent Grayson (Northwestern University) 

Join us for a discussion of close relationships and the potential and pitfalls of trust in the economy, as well as the ways technology can mediate these dynamics. Shulman and Grayson’s paper “Et Tu, Brute? Unraveling the puzzle of deception and broken trust in close relations” (2023)  discusses why closeness, as with friends or coworkers, is no guarantee of trust, revisiting theoretical discussions of trust to shed light on detection errors and associational dilemmas. Meanwhile, Zheng’s paper “Converting donation to transaction: how platform capitalism exploits relational labor in non-profit fundraising” (2023) investigates what happens when platforms intermediate trusting relationships, demonstrating how they reconfigure charity events and mediate civic interactions through invisible value extraction. 

Together, these papers offer insights into how trust is built, maintained, and challenged in a world increasingly facilitated by technology. 

The event will take place on Thursday, November 16th, at 9AM PST/12PM EST/6PM CET. Register at this link!

As with all SER Cafe events, we will facilitate a dynamic conversation with the authors rather than lengthy talks. Come ready to engage. 

Upcoming Event: City & Community virtual panel series, “Reaching a Broader Audience: How to Publish Crossover Books

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City & Community Presents: “Reaching a Broader Audience: How to Publish Crossover Books”

A Virtual Panel Event

Thursday, September 21, 2023; 3:30-5:00 p.m. EST 

Wanting to write a “crossover” book for a “broader” audience is becoming more and more common in sociology. But how is it different to write a book for readers outside of academia compared to writing one for scholars? How does an author identify and write to a specific non-academic audience? What are the potential pros and cons of writing a crossover book? What are editors looking for from scholars who propose crossover books? And what challenges have authors who have written books for broader audiences faced in the research, writing, and promotion of their work? 

Hosted by City & Community, this virtual panel event brings together authors and a book editor who will share their experiences with crossover books. We welcome sociologists at any level who are interested in writing a book to a broader audience now or in the future to attend. 

Host and Moderator: Richard Ocejo, Editor, City & Community 

Panelists:

Greggor Mattson, Oberlin College, author of Who Needs Gay Bars? Bar-Hopping throughAmerican’s Endangered LGBTQ+ Places

Victoria Reyes, University of California, Riverside, author of Academic Outsider: Stories ofExclusion and Hope

Meagan Levinson, Editorial Director, Three Hills Press

Registration is required for this event. 

Please send any questions to cicojournal@gmail.com.