Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Monday, April 28, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	PhD Thesis Seminar Baxter B125 Essays on Political Accountability and Representation Jacob Morrier, Graduate Student, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 What Makes a World War? A Structural Analysis of Integration Joseph Ruggiero, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University,

Wednesday, April 30, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Sequential Mechanisms for Evidence Acquisition Eddie Dekel, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University,

Thursday, May 1, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	CTESS Seminar Baxter 228 Social and economic inequality Margherita Comola, Associate Professor, Paris School of Economics,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Literary Dimensions Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) OXO, Art Spiegelman: Comics, Tic-Tac-Toe, and the Art of Losing Emmy Waldman, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Virginia Tech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Mobility and Housing: Cash Resettlement in China's Shantytown Renovation Zhiguo He, James Irvin Miller Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business,

Friday, May 2, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	History Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Ecosystem Transformation, Climate Change, and Economic Development in Medieval Northern Tuscany (500-1500) Ned Schoolman, Department Vice Chair; Professor, Department of History, University of Nevada, Reno,

Monday, May 5, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Science Talk Baxter B125 Empirical Analysis of Network Data Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,

Tuesday, May 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Yannai Gonczarowski, Professor of Economics and of Computer Science, Harvard University,

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Humanities Brown Bag Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) From Dust Worlds to Don DeLillo Jocelyn Holland, Professor of Comparative Literature, Caltech,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Science Lunch Talk Baxter B125 Empirical Analysis of Large Games Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Jean-Francois Houde, Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Thursday, May 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Using a New Legal Form: the GmbH 1892-1932 Tim Guinnane, Philip Golden Bartlett Professor Emeritus of Economics, Department of Economics, Yale University,

Monday, May 12, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Sciences Brown Bag Seminar Baxter 127 Psychological Principles Underlying Bursty Power-law Activity in Human Behavior Colin Camerer, Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Economics; T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership Chair; Director, T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience, Caltech,

Tuesday, May 13, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Inference on High Dimensional Selective Labeling Models Shakeeb Khan, Professor of Economics, Morrissey College of Arts & Sciences, Boston College,

Thursday, May 15, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Noam Yuchtman, Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Oxford and All Souls College,

Monday, May 19, 2025
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm	James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program Dabney Hall, Lounge Can Storytelling Save The World? Attica Locke, Author, Screenwriter, and Producer,

Tuesday, May 20, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series) Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Healthcare AI and Machine Personhood Sara Gerke, Associate Professor of Law and Richard W. & Marie L. Corman Scholar, College of Law, University of Illinois, Boris Babic, Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law, University of Hong Kong,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Loss and Damage Today: How Climate Change is Impacting Output and Capital James Rising, Assistant Professor, School of Marine Science and Policy, University of Delaware,

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	► CANCELED: Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 This seminar has been canceled. Mariagiovanna Baccara, Professor of Economics, Olin School of Business, Washington University St. Louis,

Tuesday, May 27, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Aislinn Bohren, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	History and Philosophy of Science Seminar (cross-listed with the LCSSP series) Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Boris Babic, Associate Professor of Data Science, Philosophy, and Law, University of Hong Kong,

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Asymmetric information and the supply-chain of mortgages: The case of Ginnie Mae loans Laurent Bouton, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University,

Thursday, May 29, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Visual Culture Program Event Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Heather Davis,

Friday, May 30, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 127 Topic to be announced Haifeng Xu, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science, University of Chicago,

Tuesday, June 3, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Menaka Hampole, Assistant Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management,

Friday, June 6, 2025
9:30 am - 6:00 pm	Visual Culture Program Event Location to be announced Second Meeting of the Anthropocene Media Working Group

Thursday, July 24, 2025
8:00 am - 7:00 pm	SoCal Political Economy and Institutions Workshop Baxter B125 This workshop is invitation-only.

Monday, December 8, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm	LCSSP Workshop Location to be announced Dismantling the Regulatory State