| Department of Economics Tuesdays 3:30pm - 4:50pm, Saieh 146 Nov 9: Marta Prato, Ph.D. - Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago; "The Global Race for Talent: Brain Drain, Knowledge Transfer and Growth”
Nov 16: Ufuk Akcigit - Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics, University of Chicago; "Navigating Stormy Waters: Crisis, Selection, and Productivity Dynamics under Financial Frictions"
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| Council on Advanced Studies East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop Thursdays, 4:00 - 5:30pm, Zoom Nov 18: Carl Kubler, CISSR Dissertation Fellow, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago. Title: “Dealing with Barbarians: Negotiating and Contextualizing Conflict between East and West” Discussant: Yuan Tian
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| The Center for Health and the Social Sciences Tuesday 3:30 - 5:00pm, KCBD Building Nov 16: Lee Lockwood, PhD, MSc
Associate Professor of Economics University of Virginia
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| Division of the Social Sciences Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop
Fridays, 3:30pm, Tea Room Nov 19: “Caricature, Skeleton, and the Baudelairean Self: the Emergence of Comicality in ‘Danse Macabre'”, by Xin Yan, MAPH Student, The University of Chicago.
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| Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
Thursdays, 3:30 - 5:00pm, Haskell 315 / Zoom Nov 11: [virtual] Julian Thibeau (Lab Assistant, CAMEL Lab, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago); “Mapping the Irrigation System of the Greco-Roman Fayum Using CORONA Imagery”
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| Division of the Social Sciences Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30pm, Livestream Nov 12: Arlen Wiesenthal (NELC): “The Traveling Court as Locus of Death: The Ottoman Traveler Evliya Çelebi on Sultan Mehmed IV’s “Bloodthirst””
Nov 19: Prof. Ahmed El Shamsy (Associate Professor of Islamic Thought, NELC): “A fourteenth century Muslim theory of religion”
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| Center for the Economics of Human DevelopmentTuesdays 1:30 - 3:00pm, Livestream Nov 9: Daron Acemoglu, MIT: Tasks, Automation, and the Rise in U.S. Wage Inequality
Nov 16: Dionissi Aliprantis, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland: What Determines the Success of Housing Mobility Programs?
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| Center for Latin American StudiesLatin American History WorkshopTuesdays 4:30 - 6:00pm, Kelly 114/Livestream Nov 16: Keegan Boyar, "Vendors and Police Power in Early Twentieth Century Mexico City"
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| | Katz Center for Mexican Studies Tuesdays 1:00 - 2:00pm, Livestream Nov 9: Eric Van Young “A Life Together: Lucas Alamán and Mexico, 1792-1853”
Nov 16: Gabriela Torres-Mazuera "Privatización Selectiva de Tierra Comunal en la Península de Yucatán: Antes y Después del Tren Maya
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| Division of the Social Sciences
Thursdays 5:00pm - 6:20pm, Zoom Nov 18: Ningning Zhao (PhD student UIC, Sociology): “The State and Political Education in China and Taiwan since 1949: A Comparative Historical Perspective” Discussant: Assistant Professor Atef Said (UIC, Sociology)
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| Department of Economics
Public Policy & Economics Workshop
Wednesdays, 3:00 - 4:20pm, Keller Center 1022 / Zoom Nov 10: Heather Royer, University of California-Santa Barbara
Nov 17: Christopher Walters, University of California-Berkeley
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| Council on Advanced Studies Transnational Approaches to Modern Europe Workshop Wednesdays, 4:30 - 6:00pm, Zoom Nov 10: Fabian Baumann, Postdoctoral Fellow, History. Title: “Diverging Paths: An Intimate History of Russian and Ukrainian Nationalism in Late Imperial Kiev.”
Nov 17: Roy Kimmey, PhD Candidate, History. Title: “Life beyond Labor: The ‘New (Romani) Socialist Man.’”
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| Division of the Social Sciences Slavery and Visual Culture Working Group Thursday, 4:00pm, Zoom Nov 17: Prof. C.C. McKee at Bryn Mawr College, “At the Threshold of Human and Vegetable: Painting Black Monstrosity in the French Atlantic”
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| Center for Latin American Studies Workshop on Latin America and the Caribbean
Wednesday, 5:00 - 6:30pm, Kelly 114 / Zoom Nov 10: Pablo Ottonello, PhD Candidate, Romance Languages and Literatures, “No sé para qué escribo”: el fracaso en los diarios de Ricardo Piglia
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| Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences Workshop on Quantitative Research Methods in Education, Health, and Social Sciences
Friday, Zoom Nov 19: Stephane Bonhomme, Professor at the University of Chicago Department of Economics. “Estimating Individual Responses when Tomorrow Matters.” | |
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Please note: Workshops are scholarly communities that pre-circulate papers. They meet regularly throughout the year and are generally not open to the public.
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