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Anna Skarpelis (Harvard University)
March 26, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
Race in Parentheses What do we talk about when we don’t talk about race? France famously eschews mention of race or ethnicity in official statistics; Germany confines race talk to the Nazi dictatorship; and Japan has trouble officially accounting for the...

Avinash Moorthy (Harvard Kennedy School)
April 11, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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WJH 450
Hybrid
The Defender on the Move: Black Newspapers and the Great Migration Fifty years after emancipation, nearly 90 percent of the U.S. Black population lived in the South. I test whether information on southern conditions and northern life sparked northern...

Benjamin Shestakofsky (University of Pennsylvania)
October 16, 2020
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
Venture Capitalism: Startups, Technology, and the Future of Work Social scientists have countered deterministic narratives about the future of work by demonstrating that the implementation and effects of algorithmic systems are likely to vary along with...

Brandon Terry (Harvard University)
November 22, 2024
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
Hybrid
The Idea of Black-on-Black Crime: Explanation, Normativity, and Ideology Social scientists and other commentators have moved from rhetoric of “black-on-black crime” to the rhetoric of “community violence.” This shift is motivated by an analytical claim...

Ching Kwan Lee, UCLA
October 28, 2022
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
Was Hong Kong 2019 A “Revolution of Our Times”? Was Hong Kong 2019 a “Revolution of Our Times”? What was “revolutionary” about the anti-extradition movement? Turning its aspirational and stirring slogan into an empirical question, this talk assesses the...

Chris Muller (UC Berkeley)
April 9, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
The Political Economy of Incarceration in the Cotton South, 1910-1925 Chris Muller is an assistant professor at UC Berkeley Sociology Department Please email jviator@fas.harvard.edu for the Zoom link. You can also join the mailing list to automatically...

Chuncheng Liu (Northeastern University)
November 21, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
Hybrid
Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System Numbers have become the universal language of modern governance. What happens when an authoritarian state attempts to quantify the moral worth of its citizens? Drawing from my...

Cierra Robson (Harvard University)
November 17, 2023
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
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WJH 1550
In Person
Risk Roulette: How Lawyers Make Pretrial Risk Assessment Tools Matter in Criminal Court To date, jurisdictions in all but 4 states have begun using pretrial risk assessment tools (RATs) to help judges determine which defendants should be incarcerated as...

Cresa Pugh (Harvard University)
October 22, 2021
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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Zoom
Virtual
‘Guardians of Beautiful Things’?: The Politics of Postcolonial Cultural Theft, Refusal and Repair This paper examines the politics of cultural theft under imperialism, specifically thinking through how social movements surrounding artifacts looted from...

Danilo Mandić (Harvard University)
February 12, 2021
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12:00PM - 2:00PM EST
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Zoom
Virtual
Please join us for the book launch of Danilo Mandić's Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Mafias, Separatists, and Torn States in a Globalized World. This will be a discussion featuring Randall Collins from UPENN, Miguel Centeno from Princeton, and will be...