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Sociology Spring 2025 Colloquium - "How I Learned What I Learned: An Ethnographic Portrait of Misunderstandings and Their Consequences" by Dr. Waverly Duck

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MAR
24
2025

Time: 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Location: Carman Hall - CA, B-08

Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students

The Department of Sociology Colloquium Committee is excited to announce the Spring Colloquium with Dr. Waverly Duck, North Hall Endowed Chair Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

The title of Dr. Duck's presentation is "How I Learned What I Learned: An Ethnographic Portrait of Misunderstandings and Their Consequences". This talk explores how interactions break down and why people sometimes struggle to understand each other. Using video and audio recordings from ethnographic research, Dr. Duck highlights three cases: (1) interactions shaped by neighborhood poverty, divestment and the drug trade, (2) food insecurity and neighborhood solidarity, and (3) a clinic where children are assessed for autism, focusing on a test that measures emotional understandings in verbally fluent children. Through these examples, Dr. Duck reveals the hidden social rules and expectations that guide everyday interactions, rules we often take for granted until they break down.

The hybrid event will be in Carman B-08 at 12 noon on Monday March 24. 

Zoom option is available by scanning the QR code on the flyer.