Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Tuesday, January 27, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Extreme Equilibria: The Benefits of Correlation Leeat Yariv, Uwe E. Reinhardt Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Princeton University,

Wednesday, January 28, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Election Science Office Hours Online Event Beyond the Hype: A Research Driven Look at Claims About New Voting Technology Michael Specter, Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Cybersecurity & Privacy, Georgia Tech, Delaney Gomen, PhD Student in Computer Science, Georgia Tech,

Thursday, January 29, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Literary Dimensions & Visual Culture Program Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) From Text to Media Anna Shechtman, Assistant Professor of Literatures in English, Cornell University,

Friday, January 30, 2026
4:30 pm - 6:30 pm	Norton Simon Museum & Visual Culture Program Event Off Campus Film Screening | Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Directed by Werner Herzog

Wednesday, February 11, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Christian Traeger, Professor of Economics, University of Oslo,

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Stefano Fusi Chen 100 Stefano Fusi, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University,

Tuesday, March 3, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Alberto Abadie, Professor of Economics, MIT,

Wednesday, March 4, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Humanities Brown Bag Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Tanya Schmidt Morstein, Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in English, Caltech,

Friday, March 6, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 125 Topic to be announced Yizhou Zhang, Graduate Student, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Monday, March 9, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Neuro Lunch Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Guillaume Fréchette, Professor, Department of Economics, New York University,

Wednesday, March 11, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Marc Meredith, Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania,

Friday, March 13, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 125 Topic to be announced Eden Saig, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Thursday, April 2, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Felipe Valencia Caicedo, Dean's Assistant Professor of Political Economy & Economics, Brown University,

Friday, April 3, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 125 Topic to be announced Yashaswini Murthy, Postdoctoral Scholar Research Associate in Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Caltech,

Tuesday, April 7, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced James Read, Associate Professor, Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy, Pembroke College, Oxford University,

Wednesday, April 8, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Dirk Bergemann, Professor of Economics, Yale University,

Thursday, April 9, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	History & Visual Culture Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Valerie A. Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan,

Monday, April 13, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Neuro Lunch Beckman Behavioral Biology B180

Wednesday, April 15, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Daniel Martin, Associate Professor of Economics and Wilcox Family Chair in Entrepreneurial Economics, UC Santa Barbara,

Thursday, April 16, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Humanities Brown Bag Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Mateusz Falkowski, Howard E. and Susanne C. Jessen Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in Early Modern Literature and the Classical Tradition, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Social Sciences History Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced 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 Topic to be announced Seth Hill, Professor of Political Science, UC San Diego,

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

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

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,