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Adam Reich (Columbia Sociology)

October 23, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
"Inside Jobs: Prison Work in the American Labor Market" From the stone quarries of Sing Sing that supplied marble for early New York City landmarks to twenty-first-century construction projects staffed by formerly incarcerated workers, Inside Jobs traces...

Livio Silva-Muller (Harvard Academy Scholar)

October 16, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 1550
"Environmental State-Building in the Amazon Rainforest and the Origins of Global Climate Finance" This talk covers the historical origins of environmental institutions in the Brazilian Amazon and how they informed climate finance models that later became...

Simone Ispa-Landa (Northwestern Sociology)

November 6, 2026
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
"Metrics that Mislead: How Accountability Policy Undermines School Community" For decades, the dashboards, test scores, attendance rates, and accountability “report cards” that have proliferated across public education have promised an authoritative, bird...