Social Sciences School-Wide Events



School Calendar
April 16, 2012 On the Road to Heaven: Poll Tax, Religion, and Human Capital in Medieval and Modern Egypt
Mohamed Saleh, Graduate Student, Department of Economics, USC
April 13, 2012 A Dream Deferred: Toward the U.S. Racial Future
Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara
April 13, 2012 Neuroscience and Ethics: How Do We Make Moral Decisions?
James A. Van Slyke, Research Assistant Professor, Fuller Theological Seminary and current UCI Tobis Fellow
April 13, 2012 - April 14, 2012 Actuality and Subjunctivity Workshop
April 12, 2012 Healthcare Futures: Policy, Promise and Politics
Matthew Beckmann, UCI political scientist; Andrew Noymer, UCI sociologist; John Molina, Molina Healthcare chief financial officer; Jeff Margolis, Margolis Health Enterprises president and ceo (moderator)
April 11, 2012 Ellipsis: Diagnosing Unpronounced Structures
Jason Merchant, Department of Linguistics, University of Chicago
April 10, 2012 Political Institutions, Constitutional Change, and Economic Development - Evidence from the Constitutions of American Indian Nations
Randall Akee, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Tufts University
April 10, 2012 Security Concerns and Policies in Today's Wider Europe
Mr. Kari Mottola, Finnish Foreign Ministry
April 10, 2012 Racial and Ethnic Group Differences in Gendered Time on Household Labor
Catherine Bolzendahl, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, UCI
April 10, 2012 Remembering Trayvon Martin
April 9, 2012 - April 16, 2012 214 sq ft : an installation
April 9, 2012 Offshoring, Unemployment and Wages: The Role of Labor Market Institutions
Priya Ranjan, Department of Economics, UCI
April 9, 2012 City as Laboratory Series at CicLAvia: Panel on Experiments in Urban Fieldwork at UC Irvine
Alexandra Lippman, Adonia Lugo and Joanne Nucho, UCI Anthropology Graduate Students
April 6, 2012 Analyzing the Structural Flows of Political Communication
William Chiu, Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, UCI
April 6, 2012 Retinex-like Color Computations in Human Vision and Visual Cortex
Michael E. Rudd, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Washington School of Medicine
April 6, 2012 The Future of Violence: What Is High Tech Doing to Violent Conflict?
Randall Collins, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Professor in Sociology, University of Pennsylvania
April 5, 2012 Yes Mr. President! Thinking in New Ways About Just War
Cian O'Driscoll, University of Glasgow
April 5, 2012 Ethnography of Virtual Groups of Play
Olivier Servais, University of Louvain
April 3, 2012 Keepin' em Down on the Farm: Migration and Strategic Investment in Children's Schooling
Robert Jensen, UCLA
April 3, 2012 Effects of Legalized Same-Sex Marriage on Family Formation
Christopher (Kitt) Carpenter, Paul Merage School of Business, UCI
April 2, 2012 On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough
Paola Giuliano, UCLA
March 20, 2012 Financial Incentives for Weight Loss: Results From a Workplace Wellness Program
John Cawley, Cornell University
March 20, 2012 Equilibrium Bank Runs Reconsidered
Ed Nosal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
March 16, 2012 Organization and Dynamic Mechanistic Explanation
William Bechtel, Department of Philosophy and Center for Chronobiology, University of California, San Diego
March 16, 2012 CANCELED: The Camera Rolls: Using Video Records to Study the Police
Nikki Jones, UC Santa Barbara
March 14, 2012 Neural Mechanisms of Perception in a “Cocktail Party”
Lee M. Miller, Associate Professor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology, & Behavior and Center for Mind & Brain, University of California, Davis
March 13, 2012 Syria - A Flood In Baath Country
March 13, 2012 Bridging the Gap Between Cultures in Conflict through Information and Communication Technology
Elaine Hoter, Mofet International
March 13, 2012 The Price Effects of the Delta/Northwest Airline Merger
Dan Luo, Graduate Student, Department of Economics, University of California, Irvine
March 13, 2012 (Un)Healthy Immigrant Citizens: Naturalization and Functional Limitations in Older Age
Zoya Gubernskaya, Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, UC Irvine