Monthly Archives: November 2011

Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines call for submissions

Intersections: Women’s and Gender Studies in Review Across Disciplines has just published its ninth issue. Earlier this month, four current editorial staff members, Amy Lodge, Michelle Mott, Vivian Shaw, and Maggie Tate, hosted a round table discussion about working on … Continue reading

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Screw the Models: A Talk on Data Dilemmas with Professor Alex Weinreb

Last week on Wednesday, 9 November, Professor Alex Weinreb gave a fascinating talk to an audience of graduate students and professors from the Department of Sociology here at UT Austin. Professor Weinreb’s talk, entitled “Screw the Models, get back to … Continue reading

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Letisha Brown wins Outstanding Paper Award at NASSS

Graduate student Letisha Brown received the Barbara A. Brown Outstanding Student Paper Award in the master’s students section of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport, for her paper “The Spectacle of Blackness: Race, Representation and the Black … Continue reading

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Addenda errata, or, Toward a sociology without society

In ‘What’s in an Error? A Lévy Walk from Astronomy to the Social Sciences’ Isaac talked about how it was really error, or more precisely, the idea and observation that errors in natural scientific experiments and measurements seem to exhibit … Continue reading

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Statistical Methods Unbound with Amanda Stevenson and Isaac Sasson

Join us today for “Slow Pitch Stats: Causality with Pictures” and “What’s in an Error? A Levy Walk from Astronomy to the Social Sciences” today’s brown bag for stats geeks and the stats averse alike. Read more

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