Important Dates
General Graduate Center Dates and Deadlines
Download and refer to the GC Academic Calendar for registration deadlines, add/drop deadlines, financial aid deadlines, dissertation and thesis deposit dates, observed holidays, and more for this and upcoming semesters.
Sociology Program Meetings and Colloquia
Be sure to also check out our calendar of upcoming program events, seminars and talks.
Fall 2023 Colloquia
September 22
The Peer Effect: How Your Peers Shape Who You Are and Who You Will Become
Syed Ali, Professor of Sociology, Long Island University Brooklyn; Margaret Chin, Professor of Sociology, Hunter College
October 20
Dominant Ideologies of Immigration and a Rational Approach toward its Future Management
Alejandro Portes, Howard Harrison and Gabrielle S. Beck Professor of Sociology (Emeritus), Princeton University; Professor of Law and Distinguished Scholar of Arts & Sciences, University of Miami
November 17
Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and it can Heal a Divided World
Michèle Lamont, Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studies and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies, Harvard University
December 8
Side Hustle Safety Net: How Vulnerable Workers Survive Precarious Times
Alexandrea Ravenelle, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
