This year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Social Sciences Forum. Click here for the history of the SSF and a list of archived events.
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October
October 2 | noon | UC 310
Department of Education Seminar Series
“Asian Americans and Education: Defining Justice and Defining Race”
Ricky Blissett, Center for Democracy and Civic Life, UMBC
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October 15 | noon | Webex
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Davide Alonzo
Department of Economic Sciences, University of Montreal
“Marrying Your Job: Matching and Mobility with Geographic Heterogeneity”
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October 16 | 4:30pm | AOK Library Gallery
“Informing Policy Decisions through Evidence-Based Practice Policy”
Dr. Michael Fernandez, Founding Director, AAAS Center for Scientific Evidence in Public Issues.
Coffee and refreshments from 4:30-5pm followed by the event. Click here for more information.
October 18 | beginning at 8:30am
Families in Perilous Times: A Council on Contemporary Families Policy and Public Scholarship Workshop
Organized by the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, & Public Health.
Click here for more details.
October 22 | 6pm | AOK Library Gallery
“Hiding in the Walls: the untold stories of Baltimore’s lead poisoning epidemic”
Documentary screening followed by a Q&A with producers Angel King Wilson and David Sebastiao.
Sponsored by the Department of Geography and Environmental Systems. Click here for details.
GES seminar session with students Amalie Rebstock & Connor Mahone, who will present on their research with Dr. Ali Tokay.
October 23 | 4:30pm | AOK Library Gallery
“Social Science Research in Government, Business, & Non-Profit Careers: An Alumni Panel”
Join us to learn how UMBC alumni are using social science research to support government and business clients. A panel will be followed by networking and refreshments. Click here for details.
October 25 | beginning at 11am | Public Policy Building, Room 367
The Department of Economics hosts a “double header” seminar with two PhD students from American University:
11am – 12pm
Tinatin Mumladze
“Cultural Non-Independence in the Ethnographic Atlas and What to Do About It”
12 – 1pm Lunch
1 – 2pm
Amy Cross
“Women’s Entry into Nontraditional Occupations: Evidence from the Gender Desegregation of the U.S. Army”
November
November 4 | noon | location TBD
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Catherine van der List
Department of Economics, University of Essex
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November 6 | noon | UC 310
Department of Education Seminar Series
“An Exploration of Preservice Teachers’ Perceptions of Generative AI: Applying the Technological Acceptance Model”
Shuling Yang (Department of Education, UMBC)
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November 6 | 5pm | PAHB 216 or Webex
CAHSS New Faculty Microtalks
Click here for details on the new faculty who will be presenting this semester!
November 7 | 7pm | Fine Arts Recital Hall
Center for Ethics and Values hosts
“Post-Election 2024: Debrief and Dialogue”
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November 11 | 6pm | UC Ballroom
46th annual W.E.B. DuBois lecture, part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum
Dr. Nikki Taylor, Howard University
“Seizing Justice with their Own Hands: Enslaved Women and Lethal Resistance”
This lecture contends that enslaved black women carried deep and personal ideas about justice, which they exercised to resist slavery and ultimately end the tyranny of their enslavers. Using a black feminist theoretical framework the talk will explain why enslaved women were motivated to this type of slave resistance.
November 12 | 5pm | Webex
Join us for a conversation with Dr. Amy Tondreau and Laurie Rabinowitz about their new book, Sustaining Cultural and Disability Identities in the Literacy Classroom, K-6.
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November 19 | noon | Webex
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Gaia Dossi
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Economics, London School of Economics
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Stone Centre, University College London
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November 20 | 4pm | Fine Arts Room 533
The Department of History hosts Faime Alpagu, the Max Kade postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Germanic Languages at Columbia University where she works on Turkish-origin migration to Austria and the United States.
“Audio-Visual Migration Correspondence in Archives of Migration: Connecting Personal Narratives to Collective Histories.”
December
December 4 | noon | UC 310
Department of Education Seminar Series
“Who Gets Seats in Selective Magnet Schools in a Majority-Black School District?”
Jane Arnold Lincove (School of Public Policy, UMBC) and Jon Valant (Brookings Institution)
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September
September 4 | noon | UC 310
Department of Education Seminar Series
“The Korean Wave and Language Learning in the Digital Wilds”
Shannon Sauro, UMBC.
RSVP here by September 3rd.
“Delivering and Navigating Legislative Testimony in Annapolis”
A faculty workshop with Jake Weissman, Vice President for Government Relations and Community Affairs at UMBC.
Presentation
Marco Errico
Research Fellow, Banca d’Italia
“Oligopolies in Trade and Transportation: Implications for the Gains from Trade”
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September 17 | noon | Webex
Constitution Day Lecture, part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum
“Voting in Trying Times: A Constitution Day Conversation with Jared DeMarinis”
Jared DeMarinis
Administrator, Maryland State Board of Elections
Hosted by the Department of Political Science.
September 18 | noon | Webex
“Honest Data Visualization”
Dr. Kieran Healy, Duke University
Presentation
September 19 | 5pm | UC Ballroom
6th Annual Hill-Robinson McNair Lecture
Dr. Antoinette Newsome, Associate Director, Moon Shot for Equity at EAB.
“Equity at the Core: Transforming Research into Action”
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September 23 | 4pm | AOK Library Gallery
Mullen Lecture, part of the Fall 2024 Social Sciences Forum
Dr. Heidi Williams, Professor of Economics, Dartmouth University
“Innovation and Productivity Policies: a Budgetary Perspective”
Hosted by the Department of Economics.
September 26 | 7pm | Fine Arts Recital Hall
Public Forum: Journalism, Ethics, and Democracy
Organized by the Center for Ethics and Values.
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September 30 | noon | PUP 367
ECON/PUBL Seminar Series
Bernhard Ganglmair
Department of Economics, University of Mannheim
Regulatory Compliance with Limited Enforceability: Evidence from Privacy Policies
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