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What: Public Service Weekend
When: Friday, Nov 6 (2:30-6:40 PM) and Saturday, Nov 7 (10:00 AM-12:40 PM)
Where: Online via Zoom (free event)
How: Register online here by November 4
Students: Submit the form above and a resume

Why? Public Service Weekend is an interactive event we host each year to educate the world about the public service sector. It is our way of giving back and fulfilling our mission of educating future public servants. During the event, we focus on public service careers and education primarily within public administration/policy and international affairs/security/development.

Who should attend? SERVICE-MINDED STUDENTS who want to make a difference in a variety of career fields and ADVISORS who want to learn more to better assist you and/or your student; we’d love to have you!

Need more info? View our PSW 2020 Flyer or visit our website.

Please join us for the next Sociology Colloquium on Thursday, October 22 at noon. All faculty, students, and staff are welcome to join this Zoom presentation. Registration is not required.

Sabrina Strings, University of California, Irvine – “Fat Phobia as Misogynoir: Gender, Race, and Weight Stigma”

Sabrina Strings, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. Prior to coming to UCI, she was a UC Berkeley Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow with a joint appointment in the School of Public Health and Department of Sociology. Sabrina has been featured in The Huffington Post, Bitch Media, and The Feminist Wire. Her writing can be found in diverse venues, including The New York Times, Scientific American, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. Her book, Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (2019), has been named an NYU Press Bestseller. It was awarded the 2020 Best Publication Prize by the Body & Embodiment Section of the American Sociological Association. Fearing the Black Body has been featured on BBC, NPR, and WNYC, as well as “must read” lists in Essence, Ms., and Colorlines. 

Join Zoom Meeting: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/92600813855?pwd=VWFqaTFOWWJ5bi9uTU9rc1YwSzQzZz09

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Please join us for the next Sociology Colloquium session on Thursday, October 15 at noon:

Sarah Brayne will present, “Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing”

In the digital age, we scatter millions of digital traces in our wake as we go about our everyday lives. In her forthcoming book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing, Sarah Brayne draws on her research with the Los Angeles Police Department to understand how the police use the digital trails we leave to deploy resources, identify criminal suspects, and conduct investigations. Although big data policing holds potential to reduce bias and increase efficiency, this research analyses how it also reproduces and deepens existing patterns of social inequality, threatens privacy, and challenges civil liberties.

Sarah Brayne is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UT Austin. In her research, Brayne uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine the social consequences of data-intensive surveillance practices. Her forthcoming book, Predict and Surveil: Data, Discretion, and the Future of Policing (Oxford University Press), draws on ethnographic research with the Los Angeles Police Department to understand how law enforcement uses predictive analytics and new surveillance technologies. In previous research, she analyzed the relationship between criminal justice contact and involvement in medical, financial, labor market, and educational institutions. Brayne’s research has appeared in the American Sociological Review, Social Problems, Law and Social Inquiry, and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.  

Prior to joining the faulty at UT Austin, Brayne was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Policy from Princeton University. Brayne has volunteer-taught college-credit sociology classes in prisons since 2012. In 2017, she founded the Texas Prison Education Initiative.

This session will be a regular Zoom meeting, so no registration is required. All faculty, students, and staff are welcome to attend.

To Join Zoom Meeting: https://utexas.zoom.us/j/95890324562?pwd=MDY3NHZ0UHhtZTM3WjdaVFI2V3NzUT09