Michèle Lamont

Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Myra Marx Ferree

Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Jonathan Mijs

Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Alya Guseva

Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

* Note: This seminar is on hold during the 2024-2025 academic year.

The Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion examines group relations, inequalities, and cultural frames within and between European societies as well as the social construction of a broader European community. It regularly sponsors research presentations by European and American social scientists working on questions of social integration and cohesion, social hierarchies, and conflicts. Recent seminar topics included immigrant integration policies, the French banlieues, convergence in social welfare policies, social resilience, and racialization in Europe.

Series Events Calendar

Negotiating Diversity in European Public Spaces

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion and Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion — Negotiating Diversity in European Public Spaces

April 11, 2024
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Riva Kastoryano – Visiting Professor of Sociology and Government, Harvard University; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po
Chair Jacqueline Bhabha – Director of Research & Professor of the Practice of Health and Human Rights, FXB Center of for Health and Human Rights, Harvard T. Chan School of Public Health; Jeremiah Smith Jr. Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School; Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — New Cultural Approaches in Political Science: Emerging Agendas

March 26, 2024
4:30pm - 5:45pm

Cathie Jo Martin – Professor of Political Science, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Du Boisian Sociology After Du Bois: Reading Black Sociology as Postcolonial Sociology

March 5, 2024
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Ali Meghji – Associate Professor in Social Inequalities, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Fatma Müge Göçek – Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Feminist Mobilization and Transgender Rights in the UK and France

October 25, 2023
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Madeleine Pape – Senior FNS Researcher, Institute of Sports Science, University of Lausanne
Elizabeth Sharrow – Associate Professor of History and Public Policy & Director of Faculty Research, Institute for Social Science Research, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Chair Jonathan Mijs – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Varieties of Wealth: Wealth Inequality in Comparative Perspective

September 28, 2023
4:00pm - 5:30pm

Jens Beckert – Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies & Resident Faculty, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Katharina Hecht – Postdoctoral Research Associate, International Business and Strategy Group, D'Amore-McKim School of Business, Northeastern University
Chair Alya Guseva – Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Jonathan Mijs – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — The Return of the Native: Can Liberalism Safeguard Us Against Nativism

September 27, 2023
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Jan Willem Duyvendak – Director, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences; Distinguished Research Professor of Sociology, University of Amsterdam
Berna Turam – Professor of Sociology and International Affairs, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Inequalities and Platform Economies

March 29, 2023
4:00pm - 5:45pm

Vili Lehdonvirta – Professor of Economic Sociology and Digital Social Research, University of Oxford
Ashley Mears – Professor of Sociology, Boston University
Juliet Schor – Professor, Sociology Department, Boston College
Chair Alya Guseva – Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Jonathan Mijs – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Immigration, Integration and Citizenship: Elements of a New Political Demography

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion & Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion — Immigration, Integration and Citizenship: Elements of a New Political Demography

September 13, 2022
12:15pm - 1:45pm

Adrian Favell – Chair in Sociology and Social Theory, University of Leeds; From October 2022, Incoming Director, Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork
Philip Kasinitz – Presidential Professor in Sociology, Graduate Center, CUNY
Ali Meghji – Associate Professor in Social Inequalities, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
Gökce Yurdakul – Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict, Humboldt University of Berlin; Chair in Research Cluster, Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion & WCFIA Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion — New Research on Muslims in Europe

April 6, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Elisabeth Becker-Topkara – Assistant Professor and Freigeist Fellow, Max Weber Institute of Sociology, Heidelberg University
Erik Bleich – Charles A. Dana Professor of Political Science, Middlebury College
Guillaume Roux – Research Fellow, National Foundation of Political Science (Science Po Grenoble)
Julien Talpin – Research Fellow, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique; Member, Research Center on Administration, Politics and Society, Université de Lille 2
A. Maurits van der Veen – Associate Professor of Government, College of William and Mary
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Jonathan Mijs – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Feminist Troubles? Debating Islam in France and Quebec

March 24, 2022
12:00pm - 1:15pm

Eléonore Lépinard – Associate Professor, Institute of Social Sciences and Centre for Gender Studies, University of Lausanne
Zakiya Luna – Associate Professor of Sociology and Dean's Distinguished Professorial Scholar, Washington University in St. Louis
Joan Wallach Scott – Professor Emerita, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study
Chair Myra Marx Ferree – Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Value, Capitalism, and Politicization – A Conversation with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion & Culture and Social Analysis Workshop — Value, Capitalism, and Politicization – A Conversation with Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre

March 22, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Luc Boltanski – Professor & Director of Studies in Sociology, School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)
Arnaud Esquerre – Director of Research, The French National Centre for Scientific Research
Shai Dromi – Lecturer, Department of Sociology, Harvard University
Bo Yun Park – Postdoctoral Scholar, Social Science Data Lab (D-Lab), University of California, Berkeley
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Forging an Ethical Life: The Experiences of German-Turkish Women Returning to Turkey

January 27, 2022
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Susan Rottmann – Assistant Professor, Özyeğin University
Mounira M. Charrad – Associate Professor of Sociology, The University of Texas at Austin
Anna Lund – Professor of Sociology & Deputy Head of Department, Stockholm University
Gökce Yurdakul – Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict, Humboldt University of Berlin; Chair in Research Cluster, Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research
Chair Myra Marx Ferree – Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Kathrin Zippel – Einstein Strategic Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion & Weatherhead Research Cluster on Comparative Inequality and Inclusion — The Return of Inequality

October 27, 2021
12:00pm - 1:45pm

Mike Savage – Martin White Professor of Sociology, London School of Economics
Miguel Centeno – Musgrave Professor of Sociology & Vice Dean, School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Leslie McCall – Associate Director, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality & Presidential Professor of Sociology and Political Science, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)
Branko Milanovic – Research Professor & Senior Scholar, Stone Center on Socio-Economic Inequality, City University of New York (CUNY)
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University and Jonathan Mijs – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Boston University; Veni Fellow, Erasmus University Rotterdam; Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Debating Democracy in a Pandemic – German and US Resistance Movements

April 6, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Myra Marx Ferree – Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Elizabeth A. Wood – Professor of History, MIT
Chair Kathrin Zippel – Einstein Strategic Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — An Ugly Word: Rethinking "Race" in Italy

March 2, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Ann J Morning – Associate Professor of Sociology, New York University
Tommaso Vitale – Associate Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po
Sunmin Kim – Assistant Professor of Sociology, Dartmouth College
Chair Natasha Warikoo – Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Ethnicity, Migration and Belonging in Europe

February 9, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Maurice Crul – Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Rahsaan Maxwell – Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Claire Alexander – Professor of Sociology, The University of Manchester
Chair Natasha Warikoo – Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Ascent to Glory: How "One Hundred Years of Solitude" Was Written and Became a Global Classic

February 2, 2021
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Álvaro Santana-Acuña – Associate Professor of Sociology, Whitman College
Gisèle Sapiro – Professor of Sociology, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHSS); Research Professor, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
Diana Sorensen – James F. Rothenberg Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures (Spanish), Professor of Comparative Literature, Harvard University
Chair Michèle Lamont – Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and of African-American Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — CANCELLED - Wealth and Social Inequality. Some Preliminary Thoughts on a Research Program

April 29, 2020
2:30pm - 3:30pm

Jens Beckert – Director, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies; Theodor Heuss Visiting Professor, the New School for Social Research
Peter A. Hall – Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies & CES Resident Faculty, Harvard University
Chair Kathrin Zippel – Einstein Strategic Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — CANCELLED - The Contexts of Reception that Make Asylum Seekers Feel Welcome in Germany

March 31, 2020
12:00pm - 1:30pm

Rahsaan Maxwell – Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chair Natasha Warikoo – Professor of Sociology, Tufts University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany

November 14, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Cynthia Miller-Idriss – Professor of Education and Sociology, American University
Chair Natasha Warikoo – Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion – A CES 50th Anniversary Event — Troubling Times for Gender Equality Politics: German and European Experiences

October 11, 2019
2:00pm - 5:00pm

Caitlyn Collins – Assistant Professor of Sociology and of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Angelika von Wahl – Chair, International Affairs Program, and Associate Professor, Lafayette University
Mary C. Brinton – Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University; Faculty Associate, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Kathrin Zippel – Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University; CES Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Harvard University
Louise Davidson-Schmich – Professor of Political Science, University of Miami
Myra Marx Ferree – Alice H. Cook Professor of Sociology (Emerita), University of Wisconsin-Madison; Local Affiliate & Seminar Co-chair, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Sarah Wiliarty – Associate Professor of Government, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and German Studies, and Tutor, College of Social Studies, Wesleyan University
Laura Levine Frader – Professor of History, Northeastern University; CES Local Affiliate Harvard University

Fears, Anxieties and Resources: Parental Strategies for Securing Children's Social Mobility in the Turkish Educational System

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — Fears, Anxieties and Resources: Parental Strategies for Securing Children's Social Mobility in the Turkish Educational System

April 25, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Çetin Çelik – Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead Scholars Program, Harvard University; Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, Koç University
Gökce Yurdakul – Georg Simmel Professor of Diversity and Social Conflict, Humboldt University of Berlin; Chair in Research Cluster, Berlin Institute of Migration and Integration Research
Chair Michèle Lamont – Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Director, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Faculty Associate & Co-Chair, Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion, CES, Harvard University and Natasha Warikoo – Professor of Sociology, Tufts University and Kathrin Zippel – Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University; Local Affiliate & Co-Chair, Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion, CES, Harvard University

Seminar on Social Excusion and Inclusion — Higher Education Disrupted: Trajectories of Regulatory Transformation in Europe and the US

March 11, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Tobias Schulze-Cleven – Visiting Scholar 2011-2012, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University
Manja Klemenčič – Lecturer, Department of Sociology & CES Local Affiliate, Harvard University
Chair Natasha Warikoo – Professor of Sociology, Tufts University and Kathrin Zippel – Einstein Strategic Professor, Freie Universität Berlin

Seminar on Social Exclusion and Inclusion — On the Shoulders of Grandmothers: Gender, Migration and Post-Soviet Nation-State-Building

February 27, 2019
4:30pm - 6:00pm

Cinzia Solari – Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston
Chair Natasha Warikoo – Associate Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education and Kathrin Zippel – Associate Professor of Sociology, Northeastern University

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