News and Updates

Congratulations to Winners of the 2011 Student Paper Competition!

This year was the first time the CSSR hosted a student paper competition. There were two categories in the competition, one for the long essay and one for the short essay (under 5 pages). This year's winner are Jared Reynolds for the long essay, and Erica Darpino for the short essay. Honorable mentions go to Emily Hunter (long essay) and Kathryn Lorenz (short essay). Awards were given at the Urban Space and Social Life Conference. We look forward to next year!

Recent Book Released by CSSR: Imagining Globalization

"Imagining Globalization" provides a multifaceted discussion of globalization that integrates cultural, economic, and political perspectives.  The cases in the collection encompass the historical eras of colonization, Cold War, and post-Cold War.  The book's multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches allow the exploration of identity, boundaries, language use, and other issues in the context of specific temporal and spatial contexts.

The chapters in the book--"Language," "Identities," and "Boundaries"--were derived from three conferences organized by the Center for Social Science Research at SUNY Oneonta. 

For more information on the book, please visit:

http://us.macmillan.com/imaginingglobalization

To download the official poster for the book:

imagining-globalization-poster.pfd

Upcoming Events

Diversity Series, Spring 2011, May 3
5:00-6:30 pm
The Craven Lounge, Morris Conference Center

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Diversity and Globalization:  Challenges
Mohammed Baqer, a senior student, Department of Sociology, SUNY College at Oneonta
James Henry, a junior student, Department of Sociology, SUNY College at Oneonta

Emancipating Multicultural Education from Multiculturalism
Jeffrey K. Pegram, Department of Education at Hartwick College

Everyone is welcome
Light refreshment will be provided.
The series is sponsored by the Division of Behavioral & Applied Science and Center for Social Science Research.

Past Events

Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice
Dates: April 1, 2011
Time: 8:45 am - 5pm

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The Center for Social Science Research (CSSR) at State University of New York (SUNY) College at Oneonta and the 4C5M Studio co-hosted the 2nd conference on Urban Space and Social Life: Theory and Practice, April 1, 2011. 

Scholars, professionals, business people, artists and relevant parties interested in researching and discussing urban space and social life attended this multidisciplinary conference.

For more information, please visit the event page.

Music as a Live Process: Mind, Culture and Esthetics Experience

Time: March 16, 2010 from 4:00–5:30 p.m.

Location: Little Theater in Alumni Hall

Geoff O’Shea, Department of Psychology, will talk about “Musical Cognition: How the Mind Responds to Music; Joseph Pignato, Music Department, will explore “Improvisation in School Music Contexts: Case Studies in New York State Schools”; and Don Hill, Anthropology and Africana/Latino Studies, will discuss “Field Recordings in Two Contexts: Nashville 1959 and Carriacou 1999”. Everyone is welcome. Free admission. Invite your students and friends. The symposium will be broadcast live online. Anyone who wants to participate in this symposium virtually, please click the image below:

All the World at Wembley: Britain in the 1920s
Time: Monday, November 5 from 7 – 9:30 p.m.

Location: Morris Hall, Room 104

Dr. Anne Clendinning, Associate Professor, (Department of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada) will be giving a public lecture. Her talk will examine the British Empire Exhibition held in the summers of 1924 and 1925 at Wembley in north London. Part trade fair and part theme park, the event brought together the member nations of the British Empire to celebrate imperial unity and foster economic cooperation between the member nations. Dr. Anne Clendinning will show how the British Empire Exhibition served as a microcosm that revealed a great deal about British attitudes to empire, race and gender and the politics or post-war reconstruction in Britain during the 1920s. Students, faculty, staff and members of the public are welcome to attend this free lecture.

Dr. Clendinning is the author of Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 (Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2004) which is a study of “lady demonstrators” of gas kitchen appliances as well as women in the gas industry in general in early twentieth century Britain. Her new work is on the British Empire Exhibition of 1924- 1925.