{"id":10631,"date":"2024-02-02T12:19:54","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T17:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/149.4.100.129\/academics\/ss\/?page_id=10631"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T21:20:15","slug":"social-sciences-research-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/academics\/ss\/social-sciences-research-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Sciences Research Seminar"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Social Sciences Research Seminars<\/span><\/h2>\n

Time:<\/strong> 12:15\u20131:30 PM<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> Powdermaker Hall, Room 333<\/p>\n

The traditional pizza from the one and only Gino\u2019s of Kissena<\/strong> will be served.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\udd0d Upcoming Schedule:<\/strong> Spring 2026<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, May 13, 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Carol Giardina (QC History)
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Topic: <\/strong>“Sexism as a Cold War Imperative: the Myth of the Already Liberated American Woman”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

During the Cold War, US policymakers exalted domesticity, protection, and glamour for women as selling points for capitalism. Their showcasing of hi-tech housewifery and
women\u2019s domestic luxury was intended to show that the United States was winning the living-standards race with the Soviet Union (and thus, that capitalism was superior to communism). In this presentation, Dr. Carol Giardina details how sexism was a Cold War imperative until the feminist movement of the 1960s rejected Cold War nationalism, linked US women\u2019s inequality to revolutionary women\u2019s liberation developments worldwide, and revealed that the free world\u2019s premier capitalist democracy was
losing the hearts and minds of its own women. Some have argued that Cold War competition helped the advancement of civil rights; could the same be said for women\u2019s rights? <\/span><\/p>\n

Giardina argues that it was not the Cold War or its proponents who advanced freedom for women, but rather the women\u2019s liberation movement, who rejected anti-communist propaganda and fought against Cold War nationalist standards for women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Postponed to Fall 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Yinxian Zhang (QC Sociology)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Topic: <\/strong>“Parallel Politics: Chinese Diaspora on YouTube and the 2024 U.S. Election”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Chinese American voters showed a significant shift in <\/span>the 2024 U.S. presidential election, with support for <\/span>Donald Trump rising from 27% in 2020 to 39% in 2024 <\/span>\u2014 the largest increase among all Asian American <\/span>subgroups. In this presentation, Dr. Yinxian Zhang will<\/span>
discuss the information environment of the Chinese <\/span>diaspora, which serves as a critical context of these <\/span>trends. The presentation is based on Dr. Zhang’s <\/span>ongoing research project that contrasts Chinese language political YouTube videos against their <\/span>English-language counterparts during the 2024 <\/span>election period. Drawing on a large-scale video dataset, the study employs <\/span>both computational and qualitative content <\/span>analysis to investigate this parallel information <\/span>environment for Chinese-speaking <\/span>audiences. We will discuss the peculiarities of <\/span>the online Chinese diaspora, the unique <\/span>narratives and frames in immigrant social <\/span>media, and the insights into Chinese <\/span>Americans\u2019 political attitudes and identities <\/span>amid tightened U.S.-China relations.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Monday, April 20, 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Christine Jang-Trettien (QC Sociology)
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Topic: <\/strong>“The Making of an Epidemic of Pain”
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This paper examines the \u201ceconomy of pain\u201d that has emerged in
Eastern Kentucky. We do so by building on the concept of transfer economies, as well as recent literature on chronic pain. Export industries have traditionally been prioritized as the central engine of regional economies. However, places such as Eastern Kentucky have become increasingly reliant on transfer payments from federal and state governments to bring money into the region. Using 178 interviews with various stakeholders in Clay County and Perry County, Kentucky, this paper examines how reliance on transfer payments, intended to address the poor health of individual residents, comes to shape local institutions. We focus primarily on health insurance programs (Medicaid, Medicare), as well as disability assistance programs (SSI, SSDI) and how they transform healthcare facilities, law firms, businesses, as well as non-profit organizations. This study demonstrates how government assistance programs intended to target the needs of individual people can have a profound effect on places. In the case of Eastern Kentucky, this paper demonstrates how community organizations, much like the coal and timber industries that preceded them, often maintain their economic standing by extracting from the health and well-being of the community\u2019s most vulnerable residents.<\/p>\n

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Monday, April 13, 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker<\/strong>: Nerve Macaspac (QC School of Information)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Topic: <\/strong>“Peace Zones and Unarmed Civilian Protection”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Unarmed community self-protection refers to the practice of civilians using nonviolent means to protect themselves and other civilians within their own communities from violence, in contexts of little or no outside support. The need for protection of civilians from armed violence today is more pressing than ever, while the capacity and\/or willingness of states and international institutions to provide protection to civilians seems to be further decreasing\u2014heightening the importance of understanding and supporting community-led forms of protection. Drawing from the findings of Creating Safer Space, an international research network funded by the United Kingdom\u2019s Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) through the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF), this lecture focuses on the phenomenon of unarmed community self-protection as a practical critique of conventional concepts and practices of security, and as a lived alternative to direct and structural violences and as a different way of (alternative) collective security and world-making.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, March 18, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Discussion Panel:<\/span><\/strong> Learning Outcomes in On-Line Classes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, March 11, 2026\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

School-Wide Faculty Meeting\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Monday, February 23, 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n

Speaker:<\/strong> Elissa Bemporad (QC History)<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Topic:<\/strong> \u201cAnti-Jewish Violence in the Aftermath of the Great War and the Bolshevik Revolution”\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

In the wake of the Great War, an estimated 150,000 Jews were killed amid some 2,000 documented pogroms marked by systematic looting, destruction of property, and widespread sexual violence. As extreme nationalism and revolutionary upheaval reshaped the western borderlands of the collapsing Romanov Empire, Jewish communities became
targets of unprecedented brutality as competing military forces fought to assert territorial and political control<\/span><\/p>\n

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