Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Monday, February 23, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	History Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) For Want of a Bale: Equine Energy in the American Civil War Ariel Ron, Glenn M. Linden Associate Professor of the U.S. Civil War Era and Director of the Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University,

Tuesday, February 24, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	History Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Vested Interests: Trusteeship and Native Dispossession in the United States Emilie Connolly, Assistant Professor of History, Brandeis University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Dr. Stefano Fusi Chen 100 The geometry of abstraction: from cognitive to spatial maps Stefano Fusi, Professor of Neuroscience, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University,

Wednesday, February 25, 2026
11:00 am - 12:00 pm	Election Science Office Hours Online Event Bridging the Gap: Supporting Election Stakeholders at the Intersection of Administration, Technology, and Security Mike Moser, Founder of Moser Solutions LLC,

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) Margaret Cavendish's Dialogue Poetics Tanya Schmidt Morstein, Postdoctoral Scholar Teaching Fellow in English, Caltech,

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

Tuesday, March 10, 2026
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	HPS/LCSSP Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Defining and Detecting Discrimination: A New Way Forward Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology, Yale University,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 People as Intuitive Modelers: How Model Complexity Adapts to Data 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 Reducing Lost Votes by Mail: Evidence on Vote Curing from Pennsylvania 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,

Monday, March 30, 2026
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Visual Culture Program Event Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Environmental Feeling and Environmental Fact: The Case of the Monterey Shore Margaret Cohen, Andrew B. Hammond Professor of French Language, Literature, and Civilization, and Professor of English, and by courtesy, of French and Italian and of Comparative Literature, Stanford University,

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) Pictures from the Arctic: The Colonized Draw Back Valerie A. Kivelson, Thomas N. Tentler Collegiate Professor and Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of History, University of Michigan,

Friday, April 10, 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, 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,

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