Fall 2003
September 17, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Jack Vowles, Professor, Political Studies, University of Auckland
"Adopting a Mixed-Member Electoral System: Some Intended and Unintended Consequences"
(Co-sponsored by the Political Science Speakers Series).
September 24, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Michael Smith, Professor, Sociology, McGill University
Yoko Yoshida, Sociology, McGill University
"The Effects of Immigration and Visible Minority Status on the Relation Between Education, Training, and Earnings"
September 29, Leacock 738, 12:30-1:30
Patrick Ball, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Deputy Director, Science and Human Rights Program
"From stories to graphs: statistical estimation of deaths in political killings using qualitative sources in Peru."
October 8th, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
John Kilburn, Associate Professor Department of Sociology, Eastern Connnecticut State University
"Circling the welcome wagons: area, income, race and legal handgun concealment"
October 15, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Jim Engle-Warnick, Assistant Professor, Economics, McGill University
"Playing games in the experimental laboratory, and an application to a bargaining experiment conducted in four countries"
October 22, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Mary MacKinnon, Associate Professor, Economics, McGill University
"Conspicuous by their Absence: French Canadians and the Settlement of the Canadian West"
November 12, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Diana Mok, Assistant Professor, Geography, McGill University
TBA
November 19, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Maurice Pinard, Professor Emeritus, Sociology, McGill University
TBA
November 26, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Richard Johnston, Professor and Head, Distinguished University Scholar, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia
"The Presidential campaign as a natural experiment: Evidence from 2000"
(Co-sponsored by the Political Science Speakers Series).
Winter 2004
January 28, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Andre Costopolous, Assistant Professor, Anthropology, McGill University
"In for the long haul: requirements for an agent-based simulation model of ery long-term human adaptation processes"
February 4, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Thomas Legrand , Sociology, Universite de Montreal
"Safe sex at first sex? Early sexual behaviors of adolescent boys in the shanty towns of Recife (Northeastern Brazil)"
February 11, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Steve Saideman, Associate Professor, Political Science, McGill University
"Understanding Elections, Institutions, and Ethnic Conflict: Challenges and Opportunities"
February 18, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Social Statistics Roundtable: Social Capital
February 25, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Study Break
March 10, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
James Ron and Howard Ramos, Sociology, McGill University
"Human Rights Claims-Making in the Global Arena, 1975-2000: A Preliminary Analysis"
March 17, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Stefaan Walgrave, Political Science, University of Antwerp and Visitor, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard
"Specifying the political agenda-setting power of the media. Media, civil society, parliament and government in a small consociational democracy (Belgium, 1991-2000)"
March 24, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Lee Soderstrom, Department of Economics, McGill University
"Health System Reform in Montreal: The Impact on some Surgical Patients and their Caregivers".
March 31, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
Steve Rytina, Sociology, McGill University
"The Emergent Orderliness of Occupational Stratification"
April 7, Leacock 721, 12:30-1:30
TBA