Radha Hegde | Spaces of exception:  Violence, technology and the transgressive gendered body in the Indian call center industry
Global Café Series
Dec 02 12:00PM - 2:00PM

With India being drawn into global marketplace as the high-tech solution center for business problems and operations, new types of labor demands and work environments  have surfaced. The growing influence of new media...

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Discussion with CoF Member Martha Poon
Cultures of Finance - Member Meetings Series
Dec 03 3:00PM - 5:00PM

This session, led by Martha Poon, will focus on the origin of managing the event of consumer default as a quantifiable risk. We will examine two moments of this history in tandem: the first a description of lending practices in...

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Craft and Charisma
Menus in the Media - Member Meetings Series
Dec 07 2:00PM - 4:00PM

Embodied knowledge, routine, and innovation are among the elements that allow us to practice our professions. In the kitchen, they must also reconcile the interest of two audiences: that of other cooks, particularly the ones who...

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L'Heureux Lewis | Inequality in the Promised Land: New Dilemmas in Education Opportunity
Global Café Series
Dec 16 12:00PM - 2:00PM

R. L’Heureux Lewis is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Black Studies at The City College of New York. Prof. Lewis is concerned with a the issues facing African-Americans and the African Diaspora. With specializations in race...

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