DC Sociological Society upcoming events

The Struggle for Democracy in Iran (October 15, 2026)

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:00:00 GMT

The Struggle for Democracy in Iran

Thursday, October 15, 2026 4:00 PM

In-Person in the CCAS Boardroom (ICC 141)
Zoom Option Available

"Has the Iran War created an opening for democracy in Iran? Or has the US campaign merely strengthened the authoritarian status quo? Join us for the final event in the Iran Lecture Series with Ali Kadviar and Daniel Brumberg for a candid conversation on the prospects for democracy in Iran."

Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to study Americans’ social lives: opportunities and limitations (October 16, 2026)

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:00:00 GMT

Using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) to study Americans’ social lives: opportunities and limitations

Friday, Oct 16, 2026 - 12:00 - 1:30PM
Online Webinar via Zoom

"The ATUS, being the primary source of information on how Americans allocate their time, is a crucial source of data for studying the health of Americans’ social lives. In this webinar, I discuss the ATUS’s time diary methodology, review the various ways the ATUS has been used to study Americans’ sociality, and highlight what this research tells us. I then demonstrate how researchers can get started using the ATUS via IPUMS’s extract builder (www.atusdata.org/atus/) while highlighting the ATUS’s limitations for studying time spent with others and time spent alone.

"About the Speaker: R. Gordon Rinderknecht is the Resident Fellow of the German Marshall Fund and Affiliate Researcher of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research."

More information and registration on the Maryland Population Research Center website

Tunisia’s Fractured Transition in Comparative Perspective (October 20, 2026)

Tue, 20 Oct 2026 15:30:00 GMT

Tunisia’s Fractured Transition in Comparative Perspective

Tuesday, Oct 20, 2026 | 11:30am - 2:30pm EDT
Georgetown University, 3700 O St. NW, Washington, D.C.
CCAS Boardroom, ICC 241

"Georgetown University Democracy and Governance MA Program, the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the Arab Center Washington DC invite you to a roundtable that will present an interim report highlighting the key questions and provisional findings animating Georgetown University Qatar’s Tunisia Study Group. Made up of scholars and analysts from the US, Iraq, Tunisia, Denmark, Canada, Turkey, Germany and France, the study was convened in Spring 2025 to explore the social, economic, political institutional and ideological forces that shaped Tunisia’s “Fractured Transition” from 2011 to 2021. This is a hybrid event. If in-person, the event will begin at 11:30 with lunch and the panel will begin introductions at 12:00 PM, when the virtual event will start."

DCSS Event - Elijah Anderson: Norms and Deviance (October 28, 2026)

Wed, 28 Oct 2026 21:00:00 GMT

Elijah Anderson
Sterling Professor of Sociology and of African American Studies, Yale University

Norms and Deviance

Wednesday, October 28, 2026 | 5:00 p.m.
Howard University
Founders Library, Browsing Rm

Sponsored by the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Program, the Office of the Provost, the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies, the Department of Sociology & Criminology, and the DC Sociological Society.

For more information, contact caroline.stark@howard.edu.

The Crisis in Sudan: Updates and Analysis (November 04, 2026)

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 19:00:00 GMT

The Crisis in Sudan: Updates and Analysis

Wednesday, Nov 4, 2026 | 2:00pm - 3:30pm EST
3700 O St. NW, Washington, D.C.
McGhee Library, ICC 301

"Join Georgetown’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies and the African Studies Program for a panel on the situation in Sudan with expert speakers who will address both the context and history as well as unfolding events. This is a hybrid event that can be attended in-person at McGhee Library (ICC 301) on Georgetown’s Hilltop campus or remotely via Zoom.

"The panel will include Kholood Khair, founder and director of Confluence Advisory; Ahmed Kodouda, Senior Technical Adviser at Impact Policy Group; journalist Isma’il Kushkush; and Rowida Tariq of the Norwegian Refugee Council Khartoum. Elobaid Elobaid of the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and Georgetown University will moderate."

Practical Use of IPUMS Census Microdata: From Online Data Analysis to Mapping (November 10, 2026)

Tue, 10 Nov 2026 15:00:00 GMT

Practical Use of IPUMS Census Microdata: From Online Data Analysis to Mapping

Two sessions:
November 10, 9:00am & 7:00pm Central

"This webinar will demonstrate how to use the Survey Documentation and Analysis (SDA) tool with IPUMS Census microdata to analyze changes in educational attainment over time at detailed geographic levels. Participants will learn how to generate statistical tables using SDA and then use those results as inputs for GIS software. The session shows how tabular census data can be transformed into maps, helping users visualize geographic patterns and trends across places and time."