Michele Lamont
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Harvard social scientist, author of #SeeingOthers #GettingRespect #DignityofWorkingMen and more. Curious mind, mother, friend, mentor, professor
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For those of you who missed the big news: My colleague Ya- Wen Lei is now tenured professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard. A wonderful and remarkable person. So well deserved!! Warmest congrats!!!
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Being elected by my colleagues is meaningful to me. Thank you so much!
Congratulations to our new members! Just announced! We are honoring the excellence of extraordinary leaders in an array of disciplines and professions. The first members were elected in 1781. Learn who was elected in 2023:
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Here's my new book, to be released on 9/12/23!
Check it out:
Preorder:
Merci:
@OneSignalPub
@simonschuster
@AtriaBooks
@WordNerdMargo
@jcheiffetz
@HarvardSoc
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@RussellSageFdn
@CarnegieCorp
@HarvardCulture
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BIG CELEBRATION TODAY: 🎉🎈⭐️
Induction ceremony the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge. We tail-gated at our house yesterday with sociology friends/colleagues: Aldon Morris, Min Zhou, Jan Willem Duyvendak, and Tom DiPrete, and social psychologist Naomi Ellemers
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Grateful for an honorary doctorate from the University of Antwerp last week. My ancestors came from Antwerp to Canada in the late 19 century!!
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I learned a lot from this new book just off to Press: “The authors bring our knowledge of dignity to a whole new level”!
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So thrilled that Chris Muller and Caitlin Daniel are joining
@HarvardSoc
.
Also tremendously proud of internal promotions to full professor for four remarkable scholars:
@jlegewie
,
@EllisMonk
, Xiang Zhou and Ya-Wen Lei.
This is the new Harvard !!
Lots of new ideas and new
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I will be posting about a few books I recently endorsed. Ye They’re all amazing. Hi The first one is by Gabi Abend.
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This is a big day!! 🔥🔥🔥
Two big boxes of
#SeeingOthers
arrived earlier today.
@jcheiffetz
@OneSignalPub
@simonschuster
@WordNerdMargo
: You are the best !! Thanks so much for the smooth production process.
Stay tuned for the official launch on 09/12/23
This brilliant new book by Professor
@mlamont6
could not be more timely. SEEING OTHERS features interviews with brilliant minds from
@ParsnipRogaine
to
@nhannahjones
and will change how you think about our future!
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Here is the famous music video my department produced as a gift to
@devah_pager
. So proud of it: faculty are zombies to Jackson's Thriller! Staff dances to Abba's Dancing Queen. And much more. A fantastic and fun way to express our feelings for her!
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My department is now recruiting a tenure-track faculty -
Please apply by 09/15.
Position open, but ethnography/qualitative/big data experts particularly needed
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My Ted Talk is live!!
How do change agents and Gen Zs broaden recognition to create more inclusive societies?? Fighting stigma finding hope
@ASAnews
@HarvardSoc
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@HarvardWCFIA
@OneSignalPub
@WordNerdMargo
@TEDTalks
@dbiello
@Simonbooks
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Thank you for this amazing honor. I will do my best to live up to it!
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Paul Pierson and I coedited a special issue of Daedalus (journal of he American Academy of Arts and Sciences) on Inequality as a multidimensional process" () Several chapters are open access
#cifar
#inequality
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I am thrilled to share the reading list on racism created by my colleagues in African and African American Studies at Harvard!!!
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My ASA presidential address is now out in ASR: "Addressing the Recognition Gap: Destigmatization and the reduction of inequality"
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Very honored to receive a doctorate honoris causa at Uppsala university yesterday!
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In Palm Springs to record my first
@TEDTalks
@TEDWomen
this Friday. The topic??
#Dignity
@OneSignalPub
@simonschuster
@Harvard
@ASAnews
Stay tuned!!
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I consider myself exceptionally lucky to have a friend who gives me a present such as this one!!
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In hommage of my amazing colleague Devah Pager who passed away yesterday. I can’t believe she is gone. We will miss her so much!
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My Ted talk has been online for three months now and was seen by over 280 K people
Experiencing the scale of diffusion made possible by the social media is mind-boggling, especially for someone w/ primary media socialization from “before” times…
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Delighted to have been elected corresponding fellow of the
@BritishAcademy_
What an honor!
Warm thanks to the organizations that are supporting my current work:
@CarnegieCorp
@CIFAR_News
@RussellSageFdn
@HarvardWCFIA
@Harvard
@HarvardSoc
@harvardResearch
Today we’re celebrating the election of 76 new Fellows to the British Academy in recognition of their achievements in the
#humanities
and
#socialsciences
! We'll be introducing some of them throughout the day, but you can see the full list on our website:
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🔥 off the press: "Recreating a Plausible Future: Combining Cultural Repertoires in Unsettled Times" w/ S. Zilberstein and M Sanchez. 🔥🔥 🔥 How do young people make sense of their future when the American dream fails?
@HarvardCulture
@asaculture
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This honorary doctorate means a lot to me.! Thank you!!
Professor Michèle Lamont
@mlamont6
was honoured yesterday by
@warwickuni
for her outstanding contribution to social science. In this podcast she speaks about her time studying in 1970s Paris, the value of sociology and the importance of hope
#warwickgrad
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Thrilled w/ trade book deal FROM HAVING TO BEING: CONFRONTING THE NEW GILDED AGE, based on her 35 years of research, the case for collective well-being, and how to manifest it in the face of mass inequity, to Julia Cheiffetz at One Signal, at auction, by Margo Fleming at Brockman
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I am stepping down as director of WCFIA at the end of June. It's been a great run thanks to an amazing team. Will continue to lead the Comparative Inequality and Inclusion research cluster. Looking forward to the next adventure!
As she wraps up her term as director,
@mlamont6
reminds us just how far the Center has come over the years—even amidst the challenges of the pandemic—and offers hope for the days ahead.
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Harvard's Culture workshop for spring 21!! Open to public
file:///Users/lamont/Desktop/CultureWorkshop_SpringPoster_final.pdf
@tressiemcphd
@rasmus_kleis
@ASACulture
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@Fisher_DanaR
@JLeeSoc
@zizip
@TarletonG
@ellenberrey
@Lgrinder
@sjjphd
@ellenberrey
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SOCIOLOGISTS: Read the ASA statement on the Executive Order Ban on Refugees!! Join forces with ASA in various ways
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in today's NYT: What if Sociologists Had as Much Influence as Economists?
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It is a great honor to be included in this year’s cohort!!
Congrats to the 2019 class of Andrew
#CarnegieFellows
! From tracking migrant labor in Renaissance Florence to strengthening election cybersecurity, their work in the humanities and social sciences is contributing to global peace and progress.
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Looking forward to the exchange with the members of my former department! Exciting!!
Today
@Princeton
!
@mlamont6
shares her important new book on recognition. Check out the book, which extends her field defining work on dignity, equality, and belonging. And get the book, hot off the presses!!!
@simonschuster
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Brookline: My home office window on October 30!! More insanity, but beautiful!!
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I am so thrilled to see that this book is now out. Collaborating with Bruno was a dream. Thank you so much for the invitation and to
@NDuvoux
and
@laviedesidees
@booksandideas
for much enthousiasm!!
À paraître le 16 septembre ! / Out on September 16!
@mlamont6
@laviedesidees
@editions_PUF
@NDuvoux
@HarvardSoc
@HarvardWCFIA
@HarvardAAAS
@HarvardCES
@SciencesPo_CEE
@ScPoResearch
@sciencespo
@EHESS_fr
@cdf1530
@the_IAS
@inedfr
@univparis8
@KelloggSchool
@INSHS_CNRS
@CulSoc
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Thank you so much, dear friends and colleagues, for your enthusiasm for this book. I cannot wait to discuss it w/ you all!!
Here's my new book, to be released on 9/12/23!
Check it out:
Preorder:
Merci:
@OneSignalPub
@simonschuster
@AtriaBooks
@WordNerdMargo
@jcheiffetz
@HarvardSoc
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@RussellSageFdn
@CarnegieCorp
@HarvardCulture
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Sociologisk Forskning, journal of Swedish Sociological Association publishes interview: "The world is not a field". I discuss my intellectual trajectory and agenda (class cultures, boundaries, evaluation, cultural processes, knowledge production and more)
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Such an honor!! I am particularly pleased that this award is helping stimulate conversations around diversity, national identity and post-colonialism in the Netherlands (and hopefully elsewhere)
Michèle Lamont ontvangt voor haar werk de
@Erasmusprijs
die wordt uitgereikt door Koning Willem-Alexander op het Koninklijk Paleis in Amsterdam. Meer weten?
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Very honored to be in such excellent company!!
Economist Raj Chetty and sociologist Michèle Lamont of Harvard are among the 2019
#CarnegieFellows
named by the
@CarnegieCorp
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Excited to give keynote at a Canberra conference on gendered methodologies, drawing on what How Professors Think had to say on epistemological diversity. . The qual/quant divide is gendered and feeds levels of gender inequality across disciplines
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Join us, remotely or in person,
to learn about new research at the forefront of the field!
@ASACulture
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@HarvardWCFIA
@HarvardSoc
Please join us for Harvard’s Culture and Social Analysis fall workshop series!
Hear from local and visiting scholars at the forefront of cultural sociology.
Topics include morality, organizations, discrimination, social change, big data, and more!
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Don’t miss Harvard’s culture workshop this spring!! Hear about the research of
@DromiShai
@StefanTimmerma6
@alizaluft
@vantrannyc
and others…
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Harvard's Culture workshop for spring 21!! Open to public
file:///Users/lamont/Desktop/CultureWorkshop_SpringPoster_final.pdf
@tressiemcphd
@rasmus_kleis
@ASACulture
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@Fisher_DanaR
@JLeeSoc
@zizip
@TarletonG
@ellenberrey
@Lgrinder
@sjjphd
@ellenberrey
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Michèle Lamont: "Seeing Others: How Recognition Works — and How It Can Heal a Divided World" - Social Science Matrix
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Frontier research on morality!!
Final proofs are submitted - the Handbook of the Sociology of Morality, vol 2, is coming out in November!
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Fall colors have been the saving grace of these absurd
times... Getting ready to go back to city life...
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Thank you
@AbigailSaguy
for sending me this picture taken at the 1996 mini conference of the culture section, when I was chair. We all look so young! Great to be great to see so many friends
@ASACulture
@H_Wohl
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We had a great live exchange on NPR/WNYC's The Brian Lehrer Show yesterday. He really got it!!
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Harvard sociology grad students: "equality in theory and practice" hurray!!!
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Another wonderful book that I was asked to endorse:
How do French and American societies address a major health crisis?
@HenriBergeronSP
and Connie Nathanson give us a great multi-causal answer!!
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"Prisms of inequality: Moral Boundaries, Exclusion and Academic Evaluation": The essay I wrote for the Erasmus prize here:
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TODAY 7 PM
Please attend!! It would be great to have your reactions to the book!!!
🗓️ In-store, 7PM tonight: Harvard's
@mlamont6
presents 'Seeing Others: How Recognition Works—and How It Can Heal a Divided World.' She draws on ~40 years of research + shows how new narratives are essential for all to feel respect + assert their dignity. 🔗
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This is the 2018 British journal of sociology annual lecture which I delivered at LSE last week: "From Having to Being: Self-Worth and the Current Crisis of American Society." I had stimulating exchanges with faculty and students. Warm tks again!!
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Woke up to beautiful flowers from my publisher
@jcheiffetz
@OneSignalPub
to celebrate the publication of
#SeeingOthers
.
Such a wonderful week w/ stimulating exchanges
@InequalityHKS
and
@nyu_ipk
.
Thks so much Julia for this and everything!!
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Greatly looking forward to interacting w/ our Swedish colleagues!
The Gunnar Myrdal Lecture 2020. On Fri 7 Feb 2020 at 1pm (CET)
@Stockholm_Uni
is proud to welcome Michèle Lamont
@mlamont6
@Harvard
. The event is open to the public! For more info:
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Tu Feb 16, 12 pm
Harvard's Culture and Social Analysis workshop w/
@claytonchirping
Childress, Shyon Bauman and Josee Johnston (U of Toronto) and
@mlamont6
, discussing current research on culture and inequality
Registration open to all
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My 2018 British Journal of Sociology annual lecture now officially online!
Trying to make sense of the current moment. How can we reengineer the public sphere to sustain a plurality of criteria of evaluation beyond material success which is feeding Trumpmania ???
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Thrilled to be involved in this important contribution! Thanks for the invitation to the three editors!
I’m very grateful to be finally holding this book. Steve,
@alizaluft
, and I have many people to thank, first and foremost our wonderful authors for writing such great chapters and
@mlamont6
for the excellent preface. The introduction is available here:
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Harvard's Weatherhead Scholars Program offers post-docs for social scientists doing comparative/international/global/ transnatioanal research. Apply by Nov 1 .
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Warm congrats to
@mathuclair
, co-winner of the Mary Douglas Prize for Best Book in the Sociology of Culture (ASA) for Privilege and Punishment (PUP) Much deserved!
@HarvardSoc
@Meagan_Levinson
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Really enjoyed exchanging w/ British audience today at
@officialUoM
! I look forward to more after Seing Others comes out in Sept!!
@PenguinUKBooks
Seeing Others with
@mlamont6
at
@OfficialUoM
@AllianceMBS
: why do we seek recognition, how do we do it, and why is it important? Professor Lamont addresses challenges of
#dignity
,
#respect
and
#equality
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Bravo to the new Dr Amy Tsang (with Marty Whyte and Y’a-wen Lei
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Was thrilled to also be there to celebrate the many achievements of my old friend Annette. It was particularly wonderful to listen to the presentations by her talented mentees, a great testimony to her work as a mentor.
Annette Lareau is a giant in the field of Sociology--her work has inspired countless scholars and shaped national conversations about families and schools.
Yesterday, I had the honor of toasting Annette at her retirement conference, and I wanted to share those words here. 1/
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We are thrilled to have broadened our team with such an excellent group!
“We are thrilled to welcome three new editors to the Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology series. Clayton Childress, Angèle Christin, and Iddo Tavory join current editors Paul DiMaggio, Michèle Lamont, and Viviana A. Zelizer” 📈🎉
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One of the best things about a book tour is reconnecting w/ old friends. Here recording a podcast w/ Woody Powell at CASBS in Palo Alto. As I was starting the book, Woody helped me understand the role of philanthropy in recognition chains in
#SeeingOthers
SO COOL to welcome 2002-03 CASBS fellow
@mlamont6
on the CASBS podcast Monday! Two-time fellow & former director Woody Powell engaged Michèle in a terrific conversation about her new book, "Seeing Others," & a host of other topics
We'll release the episode in the next few weeks!
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Thrilled to be I delivering a
@TEDTalks
on dignity and broadening who matters in Palm Springs CA in two weeks from today!! Stay tuned!!
@OneSignalPub
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@HarvardWCFIA
@HarvardSoc
@Harvard
@EuropeAtHarvard
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I am honored and look forward!!!
EVENT: We're welcoming
@mlamont6
for the
@BJSociology
Annual Lecture 2018, who will be diagnosing the challenges of neoliberal American society. Free to attend and open to all. More information here:
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OfIf to Indiana University today to deliver the annual Alan Grimshaw Lecture! Both honored and excited to return to this state, which led me to write Money, Morals and Manners!
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Why did I write
#SeeingOthers
? Why it Matters?
[recorded in Japan, jet-lagged]
Harvard University professor and sociologist
@mlamont6
was inspired to write her book SEEING OTHERS during the Trump presidency when she felt hopeless. She decided to research how people find hope; here's what she found.
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Please join Harvard's Culture and Social Analysis workshop this fall, led by
@ellismonk
@ShiraZilb
@lizziesheprow
Mari Sanchez
@mlamont6
Sessions w/locals are hybrid; visitors on zoom
Join list here:
#soctwitter
@HarvardSoc
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Read here the wonderful interviews w/
@AngeleChristin
Clayton Childress and Iddo Tavory, the new co-editors of the Princeton series in Cultural Sociology (w/ Paul DiMaggio, Viviana Zelizer and yours truly)
@PrincetonUPress
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APSA Announces the New Editorial Team for the American Political Science Review -
Now AN ALL-WOMEN EDITORIAL TEAM FOR POL SCIENCE'S LEADING JOURNAL!!! Bravo to
@kathleenthelen
@rogersmsmith
@melanicammett
and others who make change happen!
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Delighted to be delivering the annual Myrdal Lecture in Stockholm on Friday!
The Faculty of Social Sciences presents: The 2020 Gunnar Myrdal Lecture - Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten
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Cultural sociologists: this is a great opportunity to connect fields that should be in regular conversation with one another!!
@ASACulture
@ASA_SREM
@brunsma
@dgembrick
@cii_cluster
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This new book is coming out today in Paris. We are positioning cultural sociology in relation to cognitive psychology and others developments. Thank you
@brucousin
for leading this stimulating collaboration!!!
Nouvel ouvrage La Vie des idées /
@editions_PUF
📙:
Dirigé par Bruno Cousin (
@BruCousin
) & Michèle Lamont (
@mlamont6
)
La
#sociologie
n’a pas abandonné à la
#psychologie
et aux
#neurosciences
l’étude des émotions et des mœurs qui conditionnent nos vies
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Bravo to our brilliant
@HarvardSoc
colleague for this prestigious award!!
David Showalter
@dbshowalter
receives the 2023 Dissertation Award for “Going Nowhere: The Social Life of Opioids in Backcountry California,” completed at
@UCBerkeley
.
#ASA2023
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Merci beaucoup pour toutes vos super suggestions mes ami(e)s !!!
Thank you for all your help, friends!
Here is TOTO!! As in the Wizard of Oz.
Total familial consensus reached. Bien sûr ce sera aussi Poupi dans l’intimité!!
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Fall program of the Culture and Social Analysis Workshop, WCFIA:
Lead by Ellis Monk, Nicole Letourneau, Mari Sanchez, Shira Zilberstein and myself
@HarvardWCFIA
@HarvardSoc
See you on September 8th at noon for the first event!
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Read my op ed in today's LATimes on how the recent Supreme Court decisions attack dignity and recognition:
@OneSignalPub
@AtriaBooks
@simonschuster
@Harvard
@latimes
#SeeingOthers
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Everyone is invited to join us on zoom or in person for stimulating discussions!!
@WcfiaCiiCluster
@HarvardWCFIA
@ASACulture
@HarvardSoc
@InequalityHKS
The Spring 2023 schedule for Harvard’s Culture and Social Analysis Workshop is now available.
Join us in person or virtually to hear from scholars on a range of topics related to culture.
More info: .
Register to attend online:
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Exciting new paper by
@JulianHamann1
and Stefan Beljean on evaluation and gatekeeping in academia and in comedy. Fascinating stuff on legitimation, typecasting and categorization!
@HarvardSoc
@harvardWCFIA
@CulturalSociol
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Joining political scientists and economists, sociologists speak against Trump. Please sign the petition here:
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thanks also to all our wonderful contributors!!
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TODAY IN PRINCETON: Finding New Narratives of Worth: Self-Worth and the Crisis of American and European Societies
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Great visit at Stanford soc last Th at invitation of grad students association. Honored to be selected as this year’s lecturer! great exchanges w/ many students and faculty! So fun to reconnect w/
@mathuclair
@asad
@davidgrusky
@mivich
@RobbWiller
@florenciatorche
& others!!
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Back in Israel to deliver keynote at the Israeli sociological association meetings at Bar-Ilan university
Great to reconnect with many old friends
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Some asked about my
#TedTalk
of Dec 3rd, to be launched in March. Will circulate then!
For now, enjoy my Falling Walls talk in Berlin. The two talks have a similar structure.
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At
@MaxPlanck
headquarters in Munich to learn about plenty of new research on social, symbolic and institutional boundaries... boundary objects, borders, violence and more.
This concept keeps giving!!!
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Welcome to Harvard, Danny!!
Please join us in welcoming
@dannyjschneider
to the faculty at Harvard Kennedy School
Daniel Schneider is Professor of Public Policy and Co-Director of The Shift Project
@Shift_UCB
in the Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy
@Kennedy_School
Read more
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New
@cifar
interview where I discuss my book in progress
in the context of the pandemic and current
#BLM
movement
Thanks to
@RussellSageFdn
@CarnegieCorp
for support !
@HarvardWCFIA
@InequalityHKS
@HarvardSoc
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