Date: Thursday, February 21, 2013
Time: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
Building: Lavin-Bernick Center (LBC) in Room 212
Location: uptown campus
Other Information: Qatar Ballroom

There will be a reception at 5:30pm. Dr. Snow is one of the preeminent scholars in the fields of collective behavior and social movements, urban sociology, socioeconomic inequality and marginality with an emphasis on homelessness and poverty, as well as ethnographic research methods. Dr. Snow has been President of Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and the Pacific Sociological Association, and Vice-President Elect of the American Sociological Association. He is also the recipient of the 2008 Society for the Study of Social Problems' Lee Founders Award for career contributions to the study of social problems and the 2013 John D. McCarthy Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Scholarship of Social Movements and Collective Behavior.

Sponsored by: Sociology Department, Academic Affairs, Center for Inter-American Policy and Research

Admission: Free
Attendance: Open to the public
Open to: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate students, Parents, Prospective undergrads, Staff, Undergraduates, Visitors

For more information contact David Ortiz via email to dortiz@tulane.edu

Additional information may be found at the event website at http://cipr.tulane.edu/articles/detail/1221/David-Snow-Lecture-Living-on-the-Streets-in-Four-Global-Cities-A-Comparative-Study-of-Homelessness-in-Los-Angeles-Paris-Sao-Paulo-and-Tokyo