Latest Past Events

2019 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting: Plenary on D.E.B. DuBois

chicago hyatt regency 151 East Wacker Drive, Chicago

2019 Midwest Sociological Society Annual Meeting Theme & Call for Participants April 17-20, 2019 Chicago Hyatt Regency, Downtown in the Loop   QUEERING/QUERYING BODIES Bodies are central to social life and as a consequence they have been a site of sociological inquiry for more than 30 years. More recently queer theory, methods and embodiment studies […]

W.E.B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter

Mary Ann and John D. Mangels Lecturer Leon Forrest Professor of Sociology and African American Studies at Northwestern University February 28, 2019 | 7:30 p.m. Kane Hall, room 120 Register here! This event is free and open to the public. W.E.B. Du Bois at the Center: From Science, Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter […]

Critical Conversations: An Interactive Symposium on W. E. B. Du Bois and 21st Century Color Lines

Lang Performing Arts Center and Kohlberg​ Swarthmore College, 500 College Avenue, Swarthmore

William Edward Burghardt “W. E. B.” Du Bois was born in 1868 and became the nation’s leading social scientist on race, social inequality, African-American life and culture, and the ideology of white supremacy. He famously predicted that “the problem of the twentieth century the problem of the color line”—a prescient observation that rings truer than […]