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Upcoming Events

Spring 2008

RIGS Research Seminar Series
Chris Whytock (University of Utah)
"Law and Politics in Transnational Judicial Governance"

Ashley Williams (UC Irvine), Discussant 

Date: Friday, April 4, 2008
Time: 12:00 - 1:30pm
Location: RIGS Conference Room (SST 575)

Paper is available at : http://internationalstudies.ss.uci.edu/rigs.ph

For more information please go to: http://internationalstudies.ss.uci.edu/rigs_research.php

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Spring Quarter Center Meeting - Discussion of Faculty Members’ Work
Val Jenness (Criminology, Law and Society)
"Pluto, Prisons, and Plaintiffs: Notes on Systematic Back Translation from an Embedded Researcher"

This meeting will use Val Jenness's presidential address to the Society for the Study of Social Problems as a springboard for a broader discussion of embedded research.

Panel Speakers:
Deborah Avant (Political Science)
Inderpal Grewal (Women's Studies)
David Obstfeld (Paul Merage School of Business)

Date: April 16, 2008
Time: 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Social Ecology 2 2372

Co-Sponsored by the Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, the Department of Sociology, and the School of Humanities, the School of Social Ecology, and the School of Social Sciences

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Conference: Gender, Connectivity and Change in the Gulf Arab States
Friday, April 18: 8:30 am - 6:30 pm
Saturday, April 19: 8:30 am - 1:00 pm

***Contact voran@uci.edu if you are interested in attending and/or presenting a paper

For more information go to: www.socsci.uci.edu/newsevents/event.php?eid=693

Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, Center for Ethnography, Center for Law, Society and Culture, Department of Women's Studies, The International Center for Writing and Translation, The Humanities Center, The Working Group in African and Middle Eastern Studies, UCHRI, Center for Asian Studies, Research Group for the Cultural and Historical Study of Transnational Networks

Conference: The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States
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Date: May 2-3, 2008

Co-Sponsored by Law and Society Review, the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, the Department of Sociology, and the Center in Law, Society and Culture, the School of Humanities, the School of Social Ecology, the School of Social Sciences and the Law and Society Association

Lecture: Joseph DiMento (Planning, Policy and Design and Criminology, Law and Society)

"The Extraordinary Condition of Extraordinary Rendition"

Date: Friday, May 16, 2008
Time:12:00 - 1:30 pm
Location: Social Science Plaza B 5250

Light lunch will be served.
RSVP by May 12, 2008 to Sandy Cushman at scushman@uci.edu or 949-824-3344

Sponsored by The Center for Global Peace and Conflict Studies (CGPACS), The UCI Interdisciplinary Center for Scientific Study of Ethics and Morality, the Center in Law, Society and Culture,the Department of Criminology, Law and Society, the Department of Sociology, the School of Humanities, the School of Social Ecology, the School of Social Sciences

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Additional upcoming events for the 2007-2008 academic year will be posted as they are scheduled.