Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm	Techer Live Online Event Einstein: Beyond the Myth Diana Kormos-Buchwald, Robert M. Abbey Professor of History; Director and General Editor, The Einstein Papers Project, Patt Morrison, LA Times columnist, author,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Learning from an Unknown DGP: Experimental Evidence on Belief Updating with AI Recommendations 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 Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood 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 Have Fiscal Policy Failures Diminished American Democracy? Seth Hill, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,

Thursday, April 23, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Humanities Brown Bag Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Wise and not rowdy nor ignorant Mateusz Falkowski, Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature and the Classical Tradition, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 28, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced B. Pablo Montagnes, Associate Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and Political Science, Emory University,

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,

Friday, May 1, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 125 Topic to be announced Lauren Conger, Graduate Student, Department of Control & Dynamical Systems, Caltech,

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,

Monday, May 11, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Neuro Lunch Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Tuesday, May 12, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Shuo Liu, Associate Professor, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University,

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	POSTPONED: Watson Lecture - Kirby Nielsen Beckman Auditorium Kirby Nielsen, professor of economics; William H. Hurt Scholar,

Tuesday, May 26, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Banks-McKelvey Memorial Lecture Location to be announced Topic to be announced Arthur Lupia, Vice President for Research and Innovation, Gerald R. Ford Distinguished University Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Michigan,

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,

Monday, June 8, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Neuro Lunch Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Thursday, November 19, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Trevor Teitel, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Stanford University,

Thursday, December 3, 2026
4:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Chen Institute Symposium: Keynote Address Chen 100

Friday, December 4, 2026
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Chen Institute Symposium Chen 100