Department Events
Upcoming Events
2025-2026 Lecture Series
February 2: Jim Clifford, Univ. of Saskatchewan
Cleaner Data from Joseph Banks' Archives: Benchmarking a Decade of Text Mining Historical Sources
February 9: Alexander Rosenberg, Duke Univ.
Blunt Instrument: Why Economic Theory Can't Get Any Better, Why We Need It Anyway
February 23: Andres Santos, Univ. of California, Los Angeles
One Instrument, Many Treatments: Instrumental Variables Identification of Multiple Causal Effects
March 30: Fabian Offert, Univ. of California, Santa Barbara
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April 13: Daniel Greco, Yale Univ.
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April 20: Lorenzo Magnolfi, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
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April 27: Elijah Watson, Northwestern Univ.
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September 26: Alejandro Sanchez, Assistant Professor
Bounds for Within-Household Encouragement Designs with Interference
October 31: Abhi Ananth, Assistant Professor
External Validity Under Network Interference
November 21: Nathan Gabriel, Visiting Assistant Professor
The Formation of Identity Signals in Diverse Societies
February 6: Lauren Klein, Professor
When Theory Leads: Towards a Humanities-Forward Model of Computational Research
February 27: Steph Buongiorno, Post-Doctoral Researcher
Tracing a Distinctive Feminized Democratic Lexicon, 1917-2025: New Data and Methods for Analyzing American Political Development
April 17: Jo Guldi, Professor
The Dates that Dominate Wikipedia's Telling of Global History
September 8: Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Univ. of South Australia
When Will AI Win a Pulitzer Prize for History?
September 14: Samuel Kou, Harvard Univ.
Catalytic Prior Distributions for Bayesian Inference
September 29: Roberto Molinari, Auburn Univ.
A Rashomon Algorithm for Sparse Model Sets
October 6: Victor Chernozhukov, MIT
Adventures in Demand Analysis Using AI
October 20: Jaap Saers, Emory Univ.
From Fossils to Function: Combining Deep Learning and Morphometrics to Unravel the Evolution of Human Locomotion
October 27: Peter Leonard, Stanford Univ.
Fine-tuning the Future: Embeddings and Digital Research Collections
November 3: Eric Auerbach, Northwestern Univ.
Uniform Confidence Bands for Network Structure
November 10: Elliott Sober, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Darwin's Reasoning About Common Ancestry
November 17: Anru Zhang, Duke Univ.
Recent Advances in Generative Modeling and Synthetic Biomedical Data
December 8: Jake Nebel, Princeton Univ.
Welfare Reflections: On Duality Conditions for Social Welfare Evaluation
December 15: Christopher Dancy, Penn State Univ.
A Framework for the Human in Human-AI Interaction