Social Science Seminar 2020-2021
The Social Science Seminar meets every Monday (unless otherwise noted) for presentations by current scholars that begin at 10:00 a.m. and conclude by 11:45 a.m. This year, the seminars are hybrid in nature, accommodating scholars both remotely and in the Dilworth Room. Due to the pandemic, the seminar is limited to School Faculty, Members, Visitors, and invited guests only. If there are any questions regarding the Seminar, please contact Donne Petito at 609.734.8250 or donne@ias.edu.
Seminar Schedule
2020 |
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September 21 | Alondra Nelson |
The Scientist-in-Chief: Executive Authority and Technocratic Charisma in the Obama Administration |
September 28 | David Owen |
Justification and Vindication in Ethics and Politics |
October 5 | Emmanuel Henry |
How Scientific Knowledge and Ignorance Build Non-issues. The Non-emergence of Environmental and Occupational Health Issues |
October 12 | Waqar Zaidi | Cyrus Eaton and the Battle over Pugwash Internationalism, 1957-1962 |
October 19 | Anne Norton |
Intimate Inscriptions: Race, Sex, Labor and the Survival of the Feudal |
October 26 | Fabien Truong | High Rises. When "Social Integration" Make Violent Divisions |
November 2 | Lawrie Balfour | "Modern Life Begins with Slavery": Toni Morrison and the Imagination of Freedom |
November 9 | Nikolas Kosmatopolous | Master Peace: Violence, Expertise and Subject Formation in Lebanon |
November 16 | Florence Jany-Catrice |
A Political Economy of Macroeconomic Indicators. Increasingly Discreet Conflicts around the Measurement of Inflation |
November 23 | David Ost | Workers, The Fascist Allure, and the Transformation of the Left |
November 30 | Magdalena Malecka | Knowledge, Behaviour, and Policy. Questioning the Epistemic Presuppositions of Behavioural Public Policymaking |
December 7 | Robyn Spencer | Mekonsippi: The politics and poetics of Black anti-Vietnam war activism |
December 14 | Jacob Foster | Computation, Evolution, Construction: Three Tools for Re-Imagining the Social |
2021 | ||
January 25 | Charis Thompson | We Are Become Life: From Existential Threat to Selecting Society |
February 1 | Diana Graizbord | Indications of Democracy: Evaluation Expertise and the Politics of Accountability in Mexico |
February 8 | Arnaud Orain | Enlightenment Against Political Economy |
February 16 (Tuesday) | Sarah Barringer Gordon | Staying in Place: The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church and the Law of Property after the American Civil War |
February 22 | Thomas Fossen | Facing Authority: A Theory of Political Legitimacy |
March 1 | Christo Sims | The Garden in the Machine: Architectural Politics in an Age of Climate Catastrophe |
March 8 | Nusrat Chowdhury | Mobs and Megaprojects: Rumor and the Political Life of Development in Bangladesh |
March 15 | Joshua Barkan | A Genealogy of International Concessions: Legal Framings of the Corporate Control of Land |
March 22 | Joy Rohde | Machines of Government: Computers, Social Science, and American Democracy since 1945 |
March 29 | Ryo Morimoto | The Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihood in Fukushima’s Gray Zone |
April 5 | Sarah Vaughn | The Limits to Computational Growth: Databases and Climate Change in the Caribbean |
April 12 | Leslie Paik | Injustice and Inequality in the Law: Legal Financial Obligations and Everyday Life |
April 19 | Aisha Ghani |
The Piety of Terrorists: Islamic Translations of Violence in Terrorism Trials |
April 26 | Banu Bargu | Corporeal Contentions |
May 3 | Timothy Pachirat | Guiltlessly Guilty: Industrialized Animal Agriculture (and the atomic bomb) in an Age of Complicity |
May 10 | Sonja van Wichelen | After Biosovereignty: The Material Transfer Agreement in the Global South |
Seminar subjects may vary from the personal statements of Members included on this site. Please refer to the descriptions above for exact topic of talk.