Tri-Co Social Sciences Colloquium: Susanna Fioratta on Aspirational Taste
The Tri-Co Social Sciences Colloquium's inaugural academic year will begin on Nov. 2 at 5 p.m. with Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Center for Social Sciences Susanna Fioratta speaking at Haverford College. There will be three other talks this year, including an outside speaker, Kathleen Thelen (political science, MIT). See the program below.
About the Tri-Co Social Sciences Colloquium
The Tri-Co Social Sciences Colloquium seeks to foster an intellectual community around new work in the empirical social sciences at Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges. We adopt an expansive understanding of the social sciences, including anthropology, sociology, political science, history, economics, psychology, and social work.
This Colloquium is intended to be a space for faculty from all three colleges in the social sciences broadly construed to present their current empirical research, receive useful feedback from colleagues, and for a few invited guests from other institutions to present their ongoing work. We see this speaker series as having the potential to foster intellectual connections across the three colleges and beyond. It is organized by a small steering committee that rotates and has representation from all colleges and a broad range of social science disciplines. Every year, a new theme will be selected for the series. The Colloquium theme for our 23-24 academic year is Inequality.
Program/Events
- Welcome to the One Percent: Aspirational Taste in Colombia
- Susanna Fioratta, associate professor of Anthropology, Bryn Mawr College
- Date: Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023, 5-6:30 p.m.
- Place: Haverford College Hall 107
- Expired and Unfree: How Anti-Blackness Shapes Life After Work
- Edlin Veras,assistant professor of Sociology, Swarthmore College
- Date: Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, 5-6:30 p.m.
- Place: Bryn Mawr College, Dalton 300
- Black Queer and Feminist Challenges to Cultural Nationalism
- Kevin Quin,assistant professor of Africana Studies, Haverford College
- Date: Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024, 5-6:30 p.m.
- Place: Swarthmore College, TBD
- American Retail Capitalism and the Rise of the Amazon Economy
- Kathleen Thelen,Ford Professor of Political Science, MIT
- Date: Tuesday, April 16, 2023, 6:30-9 p.m.
- Place: Friends Center, Philadelphia
Bryn Mawr College welcomes the full participation of all individuals in all aspects of campus life. Should you wish to request a disability-related accommodation for this event, please contact the event sponsor/coordinator. Requests should be made as early as possible.