Meeting No. 1447 — Kai Erikson presents “The Prevention of Urban Violence”

Event time: 
Wednesday, November 11, 2015 - 5:00pm
Location: 
The Whitney Center See map
200 Leeder Hill Drive
Hamden, CT 06517
Event description: 

Meeting No. 14476 —  Kai Erikson presents “The Prevention of Urban Violence”  

Kai Erikson is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor Emeritus of Sociology and American Studies at Yale University.

Kai Erikson is past president of the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, and the Eastern Sociological Society. He has been a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and a Visiting Scholar of the Russell Sage Foundation. He is the author of Wayward Puritans: A Study in the Sociology of Deviance, which won the MacIver Award of the ASA; and of Everything In Its Path, which won the Sorokin Award of the ASA. He is the only sociologist to ever twice win the top award of the Association for the best book of the year. His latest book is entitled A New Species of Trouble: Explorations in Disaster, Trauma, and Community. His research and teaching interests include American communities, human disasters, and ethnonational conflict. He has been Master of Trumbull College, Chair of the American Studies program at Yale, editor of The Yale Review, and Chair of the Department of Sociology.

This meeting is free and open to the public. The meeting begins at 5 p.m. with a reception. 

Please bring a donation of non-perishable food.

The lecture presentation is from 5:30-6:30 p.m. with discussion. Dinner follows! (Dinner fee is $35/person)
 
For information, dinner reservations and directions, phone the CAAS office at (203) 432-3113 ext. 2 or email to: caas.membership@yale.edu
 
Dinner reservations are required by Thursday prior to meeting. Any cancellations must be received by that date in order for us to refund dinner cost.  
 
Free Parking is available.
 
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(203) 432-3113 ext. 2