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September
September 3 | 12-1pm | University Center, 310
UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar Series
“Spirituality: How we define it, defines us”
Dr. Jennifer Mata-McMahon, Associate Professor, UMBC Dept. of Education
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September 4 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | Public Policy, Room 367
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
“The Social Consequences of Technological Change: Evidence from U.S. Electrification and Immigrant Labor”
Sara Benetti, PhD student at the University of British Columbia
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September 9 | 3pm | Public Policy, Room 451
“Q Methodology: Mapping Shared Viewpoints”
Adrian Lundberg, Malmö University, Sweden
Register by September 8th.
Organized by the TESOL graduate program.
September 16 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | Public Policy, Room 367
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
“Targeted Cash Transfers and Financial Well-Being: Findings from the In Her Hands and St. Louis GI Pilots”
Leah Hamilton, Appalachian State University
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September 17 | noon | AOK Library Gallery
Annual Constitution Day Lecture
“State Policy, Civil Rights, and the U.S. Constitution: Insights from State Senator William C. Smith, Jr.”
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
September 17 | 4pm | Public Policy, Room 206
GES Seminar with Richard Sadler, PhD, MPH, Michigan State University
“‘Not Just Redlining’: An Urban Geographer’s View on Neighborhood Change Influencing Health Disparities”
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September 18 | 4pm | University Center Ballroom
The 7th Annual Hill-Robinson-McNair Lecture
Dr. Yolanda Valencia, Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environmental Systems
“Roots and Resilience Across Boarders: Resisting Legal Death in and Across the U.S. and Mexico”
Register here.
September 22 | 12-1pm | AOK Library, Room 259 or Webex
How to Prepare a Social Science/Humanities Literature Review
An AOK Library Workshop
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October
October 1 | 12pm ET | Webex
“Beyond the Journal: Turning Scholarship into Impact”
with Elizabeth Rigby, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University and Mandana Mohsenzadegan, Director of Member Engagement at Scholars Strategy Network.
Click here to register and for more information on this event and series.
October 1 | 12-1pm | University Center, 310
UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar Series
“Disability Sustaining Pedagogy: Reimagining Teaching and Teacher Education with the
Expertise of Educators with Disabilities”
Amy Tondreau, UMBC Department of Education
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October 3 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Advancing Social Science Research: A Workshop Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods
“Introduction to R, R Projects, R Markdown and the Basics of LLMs” led by Dr. Eric Stokan.
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October 3 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | Public Policy, Room 367
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Nicholas Papageorge (Johns Hopkins University)
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October 7 | 7-8:30pm | Fine Arts Recital Hall
“Energy Wars at Home and Abroad”
A conversation with Andrew Light, Philosopher and Former Assistant Secretary of Energy for International Affairs at the Department of Energy (2021-2025)
Moderated by Blake Francis, Assistant Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Human Context of Science and Technology Program.
Hosted by the Center for Ethics and Values.
October 14 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | Public Policy, Room 367
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Meiping Aggie Sun (Fordham University)
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October 16 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Annual Korenman Lecture
Banu Subramaniam, Ph.D., Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies, Wellesley College
“Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire”
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
October 17 | 10am – 3pm | Fine Arts, Room 011
Research in Perilous Times, Part 2, A Faculty Workshop
Register here. Details coming soon!
October 22 | 12-1pm | Webex
CS3’s Fall 2025 Virtual Speaker Series
Eric Luedtke, Director, Capital Projects
Office of the Secretary, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
Part of CS3’s Fall 2025 Web Series – Demonstrating your Impact Beyond Academia
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October 29 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | Public Policy, Room 367
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Paul Mohnen, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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November
November 5 | 12-1:30pm | Commons 329
Advancing Social Science Research: A Workshop Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods
“Inductive Analysis of Texts with Embeddings” led by Dr. Dustin Stoltz, Assistant Professor of Sociology and Cognitive Science at Lehigh University. Click here for series information and to register.
November 5 | 12-1pm | University Center, 310
UMBC Department of Education Research Seminar Series
“Gatekeepers or Gate Openers?: The Role of Human Resource Officers in Diversifying
the K-12 Teaching Profession”
Ramon Goings (UMBC Language, Literacy, and Culture doctoral program)
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November 6 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
“Caring Robots in an Aging World”
Shawn Bender, Ph.D., Dickinson College
Hosted by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health.
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November 7 | 12-1:30pm | PUP 451
Advancing Social Science Research: A Workshop Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods
“Dealing with unstructured data (text, images), APIs, and API calls to LLMs” led by Dr. Eric Stokan.
Click here for series information and to register.
November 10 | 6pm | UC Ballroom
47th Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture
Ousseina Alidou, Ph.D.,
Distinguished Professor of Humane Letters, School of Arts and Science, Rutgers University-New Brunswick
“Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women’s Literary and Cultural Narratives”
Part of the Social Sciences Forum.
November 11 | 11:30am – 12:45pm | Public Policy, Room 367
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Aakash Kalyani, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
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November 12 | 12-1pm | Webex
“Advanced Opportunities with AI and Large Language Models (LLMs): Examples from the Social Sciences” with Dr. Eric Stokan
Part of the “Exploring the Gadgets & Gizmos in Your AI Toolkit” Fall 2025 Library Symposium.
November 18 | 12pm | AOK Library Gallery
“Youth Critical Racial Consciousness Development: Exploring Sociocultural Supports, Youth Voice, and Pathways for Action”
Dr. Josefina Bañales, Assistant Professor, Community and Applied Developmental Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago
Hosted by the Department of Psychology. Cosponsored by the Center for Social Science Scholarship, the Shriver Center, and the Department of Education.
Details coming soon!
December
Jamie Gurganus, UMBC Center for the Integration of Research, Teaching and Learning
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December 5 | 12-1pm | Webex
“Translating Research for a Public Audience: Writing for the Public and Talking to the Press”
with Arielle Kuperberg, Associate Professor & Associate Chair, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health at UMBC
Co-Chair, Council on Contemporary Families
Part of CS3’s Fall 2025 Web Series – Demonstrating your Impact Beyond Academia
Advancing Social Science Research: A Workshop Series on AI, LLMs, and Computational Methods
“Prompt-engineering and Fine-tuning in R” led by Dr. Eric Stokan.
Click here for series information and to register.
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