All events are free and open to the public. Unless otherwise indicated, events start at 6:00 pm with refreshments followed by a lecture at 7:00 pm.
Fourth DCSS Meeting, Wednesday, March 24, 2010
6:00 Reception 7:00 Lecture
Speaker: Randall Collins, President-Elect, American Sociological Association, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania "Who Has Been a Successful or a Failed Public Intellectual? Historical Comparisons and Conditions"
6:00 Reception 7:00 Lecture by Prof. Jim Witte: "Applied Sociology at the George Mason Center for Social Science Research"
Johnson Center, Third Floor, Meeting Room G George Mason University, Fairfax Campus 4400 University Drive Fairfax, VA
RECENT MEETINGS: FALL 2009
Second Meeting: Wednesday, December 2, 2009 6:00 p.m. Reception 7:00 p.m. Lecture by Prof. Riley Dunlap: "Climate-Change Denial and Conservatism in the USA: Exploring the Connections" Battelle-Tompkins Bldg., First Floor Atrium American University 4400 Massachusetts Ave. NW Washington, DC 20016
First Meeting. Thursday, October 1, 2009 Introductory Remarks by John Drysdale Lecture by Professor Mel Kohn. Mary Graydon Center, Room 2 (1st Floor) American University. 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW Washington, DC 20016
Thursday, February 5. Dr. Evelyn Nakano Glenn, University of California Berkeley.
Thursday, April 16. New Faculty Research.
Tuesday, May 12. Annual Banquet.
September 25Dr. José V. Casanova, Professor of Sociology and Senior Fellow at The Berkely Center at Georgetown University.
October 21.Dr. Mark H. Lopez, Associate Director, The Pew Hispanic Center.
November 17. Dr. Christopher Grech, Associate Professor and Director of the Master of Science in Sustainable Design at The Catholic University School of Architecture.
December 5. 1:00-4:00 pm. The Society and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Social Security Administration Office of Retirement and Disability are sponsoring a retirement workshop to explore the implications of resource disparities among adults nearing retirement.
