Fall 2017

Professor Erika Robb Larkins
"The 'Vigi-licia:' Public/Private Security Identities in Rio de Janeiro"
Wednesday, October 18th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229 

Professor Minjeong Kim
"SDSU CTL STEP Experience: A Reflection"
Wednesday, November 1st
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229 

Professor Luigi Achilli
"Fleeing the War: Palestinian Refugees from Syria and Border Crossing Facilitation"
Wednesday, December 6th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229

Spring 2017

Professor Rebecca Bartel - Department of Religious Studies
“Microfinance and Religion” 
Monday, February 20th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229 

Professor Rosemary Serra, PhD - Universitá degli Studi di Triste, Italy
“The New Italian American Identity” 
Tuesday, April 11th @ 11AM in Nasatir Hall, Room 229 
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM 

Professor Hae Yeon Choo - Department of Sociology, University of Toronto
"Selling Fantasies of Rescue: Intimate Labor, Filipina Migrant Hostesses, and US GIs in a Shifting Global Order"
Monday, May 1st
2:00-3:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229

Fall 2016

Professor Ruth Liu 
“Harsh Parental Discipline and Delinquency among Chinese Adolescents”
Monday, September 26th
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229

Ietza Bojorquez*
“Deported Mexican Migrants: Mental Health and Access to Health Care Services” 
Monday, October 24th
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229

Professor Emeritus Rolf Schulze 
“Dangerous Delusions: Autobiography and Partial Family History” 
Monday, December 12th 
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM 
Location: Sociology Department Conference Room, Nasatir Hall, Room 229 

*Note: Session organized in collaboration with the El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico and the Center for Latin American Studies, SDSU.

Spring 2016

Jill Esbenshade, Ph.D., Associate Professor, SDSU ; Peter Brownell, Ph.D., Research Director for the Center on Policy Initiatives; Matt Phutisatayakul; Juan Flores; Kat Durant; Jennifer Renner; Lucas Lacerda 
"Shorted: Wage Theft, Time Theft and Discrimination in San Diego County Restaurant Jobs"
Monday, April 11, 2016
3:00-4:00 PM 
Location: Nasatir Hall, Room 229

Justin Brooks, Professor, California Western School of Law and Director, California Innocence Project 
"Clinical Legal Education and Freeing the Innocent"
Monday, March 7, 2016
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Location: Nasatir Hall, Room 229

Fall 2015

Jung Choi and Tom Semm – San Diego State University
"Tú eres mi otro yo: education as dialogue"
Monday, October the 5th
2:00 – 3:00 PM 
Room: Physics 149

Sheldon Zhang – San Diego State University
"Labor trafficking and challenges in estimating its scope" 
Monday November the 2nd
2:00 - 3:00 PM 
Room: NH 229

Eunice Vargas V. and Rodrigo Aguilar Z. - El Colegio de la Frontera Norte *
"Educational continuity of recent migrants from the U.S. to the highly urban areas of México"
Monday December the 7th
2:00 – 3:00 PM 
Room: NH 229

*Note: Sessions organized in collaboration with the Center for Latin American Studies, SDSU.

Spring 2015

Audrey Beck, Ph.D. – San Diego State University 
"Racial Disparities in Health: Cohort Trends and Explanations." 
February the 12th

Fall 2014

Angela Garcia, Ph.D. Candidate – University of California, San Diego
"Hidden in Plain Sight: Embodied Immigrant Assimilation in Restrictionist Destinations"
September 30th

Rodolfo Cruz, Ph.D. – El Colegio de la Frontera Norte*
"The Mexico – U.S. Migration: change and continuity"
October 28th

Silvia Mejia, Ph.D. – El Colegio de la Frontera Norte*
"Mental Health among Mexicans and Mexican Americans: the case of elderly"
November 18th

*Note: Sessions organized in collaboration with the Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Mexico and the Center for Latin American Studies, San Diego State University.

Spring 2014

Michael Roberts, Ph.D. and Benjamin Wright, MA. – San Diego State University
"Reproducing Really Useful Workers: Children’s Television as an Ideological State Apparatus"
March 3rd

Hank Johnston, Ph.D. – San Diego State University
"Social Movements in Authoritarian Regimes"
April 22nd