Upcoming Events for Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

Friday, October 25, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Caltech Postdocs Launch – October 25, 2024 Caltech Hall 9th Floor
2:30 pm - 5:00 pm	Visual Culture Program Event Cahill, Hameetman Auditorium Sustainable Fashion Symposium

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	Office Hours, a webinar series presented by the Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project Online Event Conducting elections in the largest U.S. election jurisdiction Dean Logan, Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Do Rational Beliefs Make You Happy? An Experiment on How to be a Spectator Andrew Schotter, Professor of Economics, New York University,

Wednesday, October 30, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Erica Field, Professor of Economics, Duke University,

Thursday, October 31, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Literary Dimensions Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) What is a machine in the European Middle Ages? Cognition, mechanics, and cosmology in medieval philosophy Jonathan Morton, Associate Professor, Tulane University,

Friday, November 1, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Structured Deliberation Dmitri Gallow, Associate Professor of Philosophy, USC,

Monday, November 4, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Job Market Seminar See event detail for location Trade, Industrialization, and Regional Disparities: Evidence from China during the Warlord Era Kexin Feng, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Tuesday, November 5, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Daniel Gottlieb, Professor of Managerial Economics and Strategy, London School of Economics (LSE),

Wednesday, November 6, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) The Mathematical Writings of Antoine Parent John F. Hall, Professor of Civil Engineering, Emeritus, Caltech,
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Inertial Updating Gerelt Tserenjigmid, Assistant Professor of Economics, UC Santa Cruz,

Thursday, November 7, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Job Market Seminar See event detail for location Incentivizing Information Acquisition Fan Wu, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,
7:00 pm - 8:30 pm	Visual Culture Program Event Guggenheim 133 (Lees-Kubota Lecture Hall) An Entrepreneurial Journey on the Road Less Traveled Stuart Weitzman, American shoe designer and the founder of the luxury shoe company Stuart Weitzman,

Friday, November 8, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 127 Topic to be announced Manuel Mueller-Frank, Professor of Economics, IESE Business School, University of Navarra,

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Dimitri Landa, Professor of Politics and Director of the MA Pre-PhD program, New York University,

Thursday, November 14, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Job Market Seminar See event detail for location Topic to be announced Peter Doe, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Monday, November 18, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	CMS-EE Partners Program Tech Talk with MIT Annenberg 105 Another AI is Possible Catherine D'Ignazio, Director of the MIT Data + Feminism Lab, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Job Market Seminar See event detail for location Failing to Plan or Planning to Fail: A Study on Commitment Failure Polina Detkova, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced John Asker, Armen Alchian Professor of Economics, UCLA,

Wednesday, November 20, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Nima Haghpanah, Assistant Professor of Economics, Pennsylvania State University,

Thursday, November 21, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Job Market Seminar See event detail for location Topic to be announced Ke Shi, Graduate Student, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Caltech,

Friday, November 22, 2024
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Economic History Talk Baxter 239 Topic to be announced Qiyi Zhao, PhD Student, Department of Economics, Stanford University,
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Humanities Brown Bag Seminar Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Travis McKenna, Ahmanson Postdoctoral Instructor in Philosophy of Science, Caltech,

Wednesday, December 4, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Erkut Ozbay, Professor of Economics, University of Maryland,

Friday, December 6, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Dividing al-ʿUlūm: Mathematics as a 'Rational Science' in the Post-Classical Islamicate World Julia Tomasson, PhD Candidate, Department of History, Columbia University,

Tuesday, December 10, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Bryan Graham, Professor of Economics, UC Berkeley,

Wednesday, December 11, 2024
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Jacob Montgomery, Professor and Director of Data Science Training, Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis,

Thursday, January 16, 2025
1/16 8:00 am - 1/17 4:00 pm	Caltech 2024 Election Integrity Project Conference Baxter Lecture Hall Information and Misinformation in Elections

Saturday, January 25, 2025
8:30 am - 5:30 pm	Chen Institute Symposium Chen 100

Thursday, February 6, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Science as social choice Conor Mayo-Wilson, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Washington, Seattle,

Monday, February 24, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm	Center for Social Information Sciences (CSIS) Seminar Baxter 127 Topic to be announced S. Nageeb Ali, Professor of Economics, Penn State University,

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Áureo de Paula, Professor, Department of Economics, University College London,

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Ariel Pakes, Thomas Professor of Economics, Harvard University,

Wednesday, March 26, 2025
7:30 pm - 8:30 pm	Watson Lecture - Brian Jacobson Beckman Auditorium

Monday, March 31, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science Dabney Hall 110 (Treasure Room) Topic to be announced Friedrich Steinle, Professor of History of Science, Emeritus, Technische Universität Berlin, Germany; President of the German Society for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology,

Tuesday, April 1, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Alex Rees-Jones, Associate Professor of Business Economics and Public Policy, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania,

Wednesday, April 2, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Gergely Ujhelyi, Professor of Economics, University of Houston,

Tuesday, April 8, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Tatyana Deryugina, Associate Professor of Finance, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,

Wednesday, April 9, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Maria Kogelnik, Postdoctoral Associate at the Economic Growth Center and the Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University,

Tuesday, April 15, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Claudio Ferraz, Professor, Vancouver School of Economics, University of British Columbia,

Wednesday, April 16, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Zi Yang Kang, Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Toronto,

Tuesday, April 22, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Paul Kellstedt, Professor, Department of Political Science, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University,

Tuesday, April 29, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Joseph Ruggiero, Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University,

Wednesday, May 7, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Jean-Francois Houde, Professor and Juli Plant Grainger Distinguished Chair, Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison,

Thursday, May 15, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Noam Yuchtman, Drummond Professor of Political Economy, Department of Economics, University of Oxford and All Souls College,

Wednesday, May 21, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Mariagiovanna Baccara, Professor of Economics, Olin School of Business, Washington University St. Louis,

Tuesday, May 27, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Aislinn Bohren, Associate Professor, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania,

Wednesday, May 28, 2025
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm	Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar Baxter B125 Topic to be announced Laurent Bouton, Professor of Economics, Georgetown University,