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DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nFriday, March 27, 2026 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm
  \n Main Auditorium \n Mezzanine Floor \n 700 University Ave., Toronto, 
 ON M5G 1Z5 \n\nDescription: \nIn this 2026 S.D. Clark Lecture lecture, Mi
 chèle Lamont will discuss cultural processes such as recognition and stigm
 atization through an analysis of recent political developments in the Unit
 ed States. After revisiting her book “Seeing Others: How Recognition Works
  and How it Can Heal a Divided World, she explores how young American, B
 ritish and Finnish workers seek recognition through politics, and how ind
 igenous people in Eastern Canada and Micronesia are seeking recognition th
 rough environmental justice and jobs. These paired case studies will figur
 e in a book in progress, tentatively titled Recognition Globally.Michèle 
 Lamont is Professor of Sociology and of African and African American Studi
 es and the Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies at Harvard Univ
 ersity. Born in 1957, she grew up in Quebec and studied political theory 
 at the University of Ottawa before obtaining a doctorate in sociology at t
 he University of Paris in 1983. After completing post-doctoral research at
  Stanford University, she has served on the faculty at the University of 
 Texas at Austin (1985-87), Princeton University (1987-2002) and Harvard U
 niversity (2003-present).A cultural and comparative sociologist who studie
 s inclusion and inequality, she has researched how we evaluate social wor
 th across societies, the role of cultural processes in fostering inequali
 ty, symbolic and social boundaries, and the evaluation of knowledge, as
  well as topics such as dignity, stigma, racism, class cultures, colle
 ctive well-being, social resilience, and social change. Her books includ
 e Money, Morals and Manners: the Culture of the French and the American U
 pper-Middle Class (1992), The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Bo
 undaries of Race, Class, and Immigration(2000), How Professors Think: I
 nside the Curious World of Academic Judgement (2009), Getting Respect: Re
 sponding to Stigma and Discrimination in the Us, Brazil and Israel(coauth
 ored, 2016), and Seeing Others: How Recognition Works and How It Can Hea
 l a Divided World (2023). She is also the author of several collective wor
 ks and over a hundred articles published in American Sociological Review,
  American Journal of Sociology, A\nual Review of Sociology, Human Nature
  Behavior, and other prominent outlets.  She served as the 108th presiden
 t of the American Sociological Association in 2016-17.  She is an elected 
 member of the American Academy of Arts and Science, the American Philosop
 hical Society, the Royal Society of Canada, and the British Academy. Hon
 ors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Carnegie Fellowship, Leverhulme Fel
 lowship, the 2014 Gutenberg award, the 2017 Erasmus Prize, the 2024 Koh
 li Prize for Sociology, and honorary doctorates from six countries.Regist
 erReception to follow from 4:00–5:00pm at the Department of Sociology, 17
 th Floor, 700 University Avenue. Drinks and light refreshments will be se
 rved. \n\nContact Information: \n Blair Wheaton blair.wheaton@utoronto.ca 
 \n\nSponsors \nDepartment of Sociology \n700 University Ave., Toronto, O
 N M5G 1Z5 \n\nCategories \n Lecture \n\nAudiences \n Alumni and FriendsGra
 duate StudentsCommunityFaculty
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LOCATION:700 University Ave., Toronto, ON M5G 1Z5
SUMMARY:Trump’s Great Symbolic Reshuffling and Beyond: Recognition, Stigma
 tization and Cultural Processes
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