Department Research & Study Groups

 

 

This seminar brings together graduate students and faculty with common interests in the study of crime, race, and social justice.  It has sponsored annual Harpur College Dean’s Workshops, including this year’s Global Race, Crime and Social Justice Workshop.   

The Research Seminar provides an additional forum for the presentation of works-in-progress by local faculty and students.  Presentations this semester include work by the following: 

  • March 20: Robert Schmidt, “Exhaustion of Consent and the Neoliberal Consensus: World-system Transformation and the Forging of the ‘Social Regulatory Ensemble’”
  • March 27: Zeynep Gonen
  • April 17: Charles Venator Santiago (as part of the Dean’s Workshop), “United States Territorial Imperialism and the Use of the State of Exception: The Legacy of Nation-State Building" [ at the Fernand Braudel Center]
  • April 24: Kelvin Santiago

Seminar meetings are normally on Tuesdays 3-5pm, in LT 410.  Papers are usually available beforehand. To join the group and receive papers please contact William Martin at wgmartin@binghamton.edu . 

The Research Seminar is affiliated with a larger body of projects by local campus and community groups.  See the Binghamton Justice Projects website:  www.justiceprojects.org . 

 

The Labor Studies Discussion Group brings together for study and debate graduate students and faculty members who share an interest in labor systems, broadly defined as socially regulated, historically conditioned, politically contested and structurally differentiated processes of allocation, transformation, valorization, and social reproduction of labor at multiple scales, from local sites of production to national economies, world economic regions and global commodity chains.   The Group meets once each month, normally on Wednesday afternoons, and will be co-hosting, under the leadership of Professor Yoonkyung Lee, an October 2007 workshop on Asian Labor. Further information on the Group may be found on the Binghamton University Blackboard.