Other Department Activities

Informal and Celebratory Occasions. The department (faculty, staff and students) meets at least twice a year for social gatherings which are less and more formally planned according to the occasion. These have included formal dinners for the presentation of awards to graduating seniors, buffet dinners at home and evenings of movies and music, as well as a breakfast reception for graduating seniors and their families.

Colloquium and Lecture Series. Each year, we invite several guests to speak with our students. Often we invite young researchers to present seminars on their work. The theme for each year's seminars varies: one year we devoted ourselves to the professions; another year we explored the issues of social change.

April 2002, Sociology Department faculty and students at the Central Artery cable bridge.

In 2002-03, the Sociology Department sponsored the following lectures:

• "Gender Issues in Undergraduate Science Education and their Significance" Elaine Seymour, University of Colorado at Boulder
• "A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT: A Progress Report" Nancy Hopkins, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• "Transforming Gender Relations: Some Experiences from India" Srilatha Batliwala, Harvard University
• "Women (?!) in Medicine" Elaine Woo '67, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital
• "Does Diversity Matter in Science?" Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University
• "Thinking about a Culture of Peace in a Time of Global Conflict" Cecilia Fong '04 and Catherine Cachero '04
• "Freedom of Speech and Dissent at Wellesley College" A panel discussion with Jonathan Imber (Sociology), Jerold Auerbach (History), Thomas Cushman (Sociology) and Pamela Bandyopadhay '03 (Editor, The Wellesley News)
• "Reparations Politics: Between Past and Future" John Torpey, University of British Columbia
• "The Humanitarian Trap" David Rieff
• "How International Tribunals Write History" Richard Wilson, New School University