SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR
Except where noted in bold in the list below, the Social Science Seminar is held on Mondays from 10:30am-12:00pm in Room 5 of Rubenstein Commons. Attendees include Faculty, Members, and Visitors in the School of Social Science. Colleagues from across the campus community are welcome to attend, as are invited scholars from other institutions.
2026 | ||
September 28 | Alondra Nelson | The Algorithmic Surround |
October 5 | Arvind Narayanan | AI as Normal Technology |
October 12 | Ana Aliverti | Moral Bureaucracies: Hostility and Care in Asylum |
October 19 | Elizabeth Chiarello | White Coat Crime |
October 26 | Calvin Thrall | The China Lobby and The China Shock |
November 2 | Jens van 't Klooster | The Calendar of Unelected Policymakers |
November 9 | Susannah Glickman | Technology Has No Constituency |
November 16 | Benjamin Bradlow | The Climate Hinge: Green Industrial Transformations in the Global South |
November 23 | Jens Beckert | Asset Society |
November 30 | David Knight | Mobilizations from Within: Political Struggle and Transformation in the American Prison |
December 7 | Maya Wind | Frontier Resilience: Space and Preparedness in Israeli Trauma Science |
2027 | ||
January 19 | Benjamin Braun | Corporate Elite Discipline |
January 25 | Sareeta Amrute | For Unsafe Times: Cybersecurity and Anti-Caste Thought |
February 1 | Noam Maggor | Great Leap Forward: The History and Politics of State-Led Development in the United States |
February 8 | Kathleen R. McNamara | Constructing Value in Markets |
February 16 | Dina Okamoto | Constituting Race: Asian Americans and Interracial Alignments into the New Era |
February 22 | Yingyao Wang | What Binds East Asia as A Region of Development |
March 1 | Frank Guridy | New York in the Age of Decolonization |
March 8 | Jason Frank | Crowd Theory and Counterrevolution |
March 15 | Ntina Tzouvala | International Law and the Challenge of Secular Stagnation |
March 22 | Kevin Duong | Freudians Against Empire |
April 5 | Wendy Leutert | Policy Collage: Transnationalizing Analysis of China’s Domestic Policymaking |
April 12 | Ethan Kleinberg | The Real Real: Disney's Tomorrowland and the Politics of the Future |
Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included elsewhere on this site. Please refer to the titles above for the topic of each talk.