Colloquium

We're pleased to welcome the following scholars to share their work at our department colloquium. All talks will take place in Albion Small (SSRB 305) on Wednesdays from 12:30pm to 1:50pm CT unless otherwise noted. Additional colloquia and talk titles will be added in the following weeks.

Winter 2025

January 22: Stephen Vaisey (Duke University), "Advancing Theories and Methods for Understanding Cultural Change"

February 5: Ariela Schachter (Washington University), "Neighborhood Desirability and Decision-Making in Online, Multiracial, Metropolitan America"

February 19: Mingwoo Jung (Loyola University), "Queer Entanglements in Geopolitics"

February 26: Ethan Raker (University of British Columbia), "Heat, Environmental Adaptations, and Racial Disparities in Mortality, 1968-1979"

March 6: Etienne Ollion (l'Ecole polytechnique), "Machine Bias. How Do Generative Language Models Answer Opinion Polls?"

Fall 2024

October 2: Mary Racelis (Ateneo de Manila University) with Marco Garrido (University of Chicago), "The Postcolonial Reconstruction of the Chicago School in the Philippines"

October 16: Yige Dong (SUNY Buffalo), "Collective Care and Its Discontents: The Politics of Social Reproduction in Socialist China"

November 6: Mathijs De Vaan (Berkeley Haas), "Mental Health and Labor Market Outcomes"

November 20: Zophia Edwards (Johns Hopkins University), "Liberation Unionism: A Black Radical Labor Tradition and Its Impact on Development in Trinidad and Tobago"