Week of April 8, 2024

Jamie Mayerfeld “Religion, Scripture, and Morality,” Essays in the Philosophy of Humanism, vol. 32 (2024). 

Jessica Sciarone “Radicalization Pathways among Women in U.S. Far-Right Extremist Networks Radicalization Pathways among Women in U.S. Far-Right Extremist Networks and Implications for Deradicalization” Journal for Deradicalization (Spring 2024). 

Susan Whiting presented the paper "The Transformative Power of Grievance," co-authored Zhaowen Guo, to the Seminar on Comparative Politics at Columbia University (February 14, 2024) and at the China Law and Governance Workshop at Duke University (February 23, 2024).

Center for Environmental Politics presents Dr. Robert Bullard (Texas Southern University), “The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice”. Tuesday, April 9th, Town Hall Seattle: 6:30pm 

Political Theory Colloquium presents Becca Peach (University of Washington), “Replacing Welfare as we Know it: Crisis Pregnancy Centers & State Funding of Faith Based Institutions”. Thursday, April 11th, Gowen – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Devin Joshi (Singapore Management University), a chapter from “Stumbling Upon the Way: Daoist Political Thought in Comparative Perspective". Thursday, April 11th, Tateuchi East Asia Library:12:00-1:30pm. RSVP here  

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Devin Joshi (Singapore Management University), a chapter from “Stumbling Upon the Way: Daoist Political Thought in Comparative Perspective". Friday, April 12th, Gowen– Olson 1A: 3:30-5:00pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Jihyeon Bae (University of Washington), “Limitations of BERT and GloVe: Using UN General Debate Data”. Thursday, April 18th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm. 

Center for Environmental Politics presents Gary Machlis (Clemson University), “The Imperative Challenges of Sustainability for the Forgotten”. Friday, April 19th, Gowen – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Waleed Saleem (University of Washington), a chapter from his dissertation. Friday, April 19th, Gowen– Olson 1A: 3:30-5:00pm 

Political Theory Colloquium presents Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University), “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy and Freedom in African American Political Thought”. Friday, April 26th, Suzzallo Library- Smith Room: 12:00-1:30pm 

UW International Security Colloquium presents Rob Blair (Brown University), “Does it Matter if Peacekeepers Follow their Mandates?”. Friday, April 26th, Gowen- Olson 1A: 1:30-3:00pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Tao Lin (University of Washington), “Code-showcasing 'Relation: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives' by Ash et al. (2024)”. Thursday, May 2^nd, Gowen – Olson 1A, 3:00-4:00 pm.  

Center for Environmental Politics presents Mahalet Fikru (Missouri University of Science and Technology), “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador”. Friday, May 10th, Gowen – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Rutger Ceballos (University of Washington), “Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation,”. Thursday, May 16^th, Gowen - Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Zhaowen Guo (University of Washington), “Fine-tuning a Pre-trained Language Model Using PyTorch”. Thursday, May 16^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm.  

WISIR hosts a Lunch Workshare for Jose Jorge Mendoza (UW Philosophy). Friday, May 17^th, Gowen- 1A, 12:30–1:30pm  

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Lauren Collins (University of Washington), Title TBA . Thursday, May 23rd, Gowen- Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Nela Mrchkovska (Vienna University of Economics and Business), “Fine-tuning a Topic Classification Model with Sermons Data”. Thursday, May 30^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm. 

CSSS presents Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher (Microsoft Research), “Data science with communities in the loop”. Wednesday, April 10th, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm 

CSSS presents Lynette Shaw, Lead Data Scientist (Knowable, Inc.) & Stephanie Lee (Databricks)-  Discussion on transitioning from academia to industry. Wednesday, April 17th, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm 

CSSS presents Irini Moustaki, Professor of Statistics (London School of Economics & Political Science)-   

A latent Markov model with two parallel processes for modeling inter-generational exchanges. Wednesday, April 24th, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm

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