Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Thursday, November 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter 125 Productivity and Knowledge Transfer: Evidence from Prisoner Employment Michela Giorcelli, Associate Professor of Economics, UCLA,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	T&C Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Seminar Baxter B125 Promise and puzzles of neuroforecasting Brian Knutson, Professor of Psychology, Stanford University,

Monday, November 10, 2025
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Writers in Residence Program Dabney Hall, Lounge When We Were Real Daryl Gregory, American science fiction, fantasy and comic book author,

Tuesday, November 11, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Humanities Brown Bag Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Delanie J. Linden, Anne Rothenberg Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Visual Culture, Caltech,

Saturday, November 15, 2025
2:00 pm - 3:30 pm	David Baltimore Memorial Beckman Auditorium

Tuesday, November 18, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Odilon Camara, Associate Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business; Visiting Associate in Economics, Caltech,

Wednesday, November 19, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced John Rehbeck, Associate Professor of Economics, Ohio State University,

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Michael Keane, Professor of Economics, Carey Business School, John Hopkins University,

Thursday, December 4, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Jeremiah Dittmar, Associate Professor of Economics, The London School of Economics & Political Science,

Friday, December 5, 2025
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Chen Social
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm	Chen Institute Poster Session Chen 130

Saturday, December 6, 2025
8:00 am - 5:00 pm	Political Institutions & Economic Policy (PIEP) Conference Baxter B125

Monday, December 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Linde Center for Science, Society, and Policy (LCSSP) Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Daniel B. Rodriguez, Harold Washington Professor of Law, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern University,

Wednesday, December 10, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Ernesto Dal Bo, Phillip Girgich Professor of Business, Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley,

Thursday, December 11, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Ellora Derenoncourt, Assistant Professor of Economics, Princeton University,

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Stefano Fusi Chen 100 Stefano Fusi, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University,

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics, MIT,

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Humanities Brown Bag Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Tanya Schmidt Morstein, Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in English, Caltech,

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Guillaume Fréchette, Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Marc Meredith, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania,

Thursday, April 2, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Dean's Assistant Professor of Political Economy & Economics, Brown University,

Wednesday, April 8, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Dirk Bergemann, Professor of Economics, Yale University,

Thursday, April 9, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	History & Visual Culture Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Valerie A. Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan,

Tuesday, April 14, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Daniel Martin, Associate Professor of Economics and Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, April 16, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Ruixue Jia, Professor of Economics, UC San Diego,

Tuesday, April 21, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Seth Hill, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,

Thursday, April 30, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Katherine Eriksson, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, UC Davis,

Tuesday, May 5, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Claudio Ferraz, Professor of Economics, University of British Columbia,

Thursday, May 14, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Wei Xiong, John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics, Princeton University,

Wednesday, May 20, 2026
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Kirby Nielsen Beckman Auditorium Kirby Nielsen, professor of economics; William H. Hurt Scholar,

Wednesday, May 27, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Tanya Rosenblat, Professor of Information, School of Information and Professor of Economics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, University of Michigan,