Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Decision Consortium - Does Choice Lie in the Eyes of the Beholder? Implications of a Choice Mindset for Cognition, Emotion, Motivation, and Policy (March 5, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48578 48578-11254278@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 5, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Extensive research in psychology has shown that providing people with objective choices in a task can increase their motivation on the task. I propose that even in the same objective circumstances, people can perceive themselves and others as either merely engaging in a series of actions (a neutral action mindset) or making a series of choices (a choice mindset). Going beyond the benefits of actual choices for task-specific motivation, my research shows that activating the choice mindset can have a broad range of downstream consequences in diverse unrelated domains. When judging others, people in a choice mindset put responsibility on the individual rather than on contextual factors, thus becoming more susceptible to the fundamental attribution error and being more likely to blame the victim. People in a choice mindset put responsibility for societal problems, such as wealth inequality, primarily on individuals (e.g., “rich people make good choices, poor people made bad choices”) rather than on the context (e.g., such as regressive tax systems). People in a choice mindset think more analytically rather than holistically, focusing on the parts of a phenomenon rather than the whole. The choice mindset helps people cope with distressing events, helping them positively reappraise the situation through the lens of choice and thus experience lower negative emotions. A field experiment found that a chronic choice mindset can improve people's everyday decision making: students’ time allocation decisions suffered as they approached the end of the semester, but a five week choice mindset intervention arrested this decline, helping students allocate their time in a more optimal manner.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:33:14 -0500 2018-03-05T15:30:00-05:00 2018-03-05T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Savani
Race and Attitudes toward First Ladies from Hillary Clinton to Michelle Obama (March 14, 2018 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50898 50898-11896448@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

First ladies are understudied political actors in American politics. Though their role is informal, citizens develop trong attitudes toward them. In the case of Michelle Obama, the first black First Lady, there is strong evidence to suggest that racial attitudes informed citizen perceptions of Mrs. Obama in ways that would not have been applicable to other first ladies. This presentation will explore this question using an original dataset which asked detailed approval questions of first ladies Hillary Clinton, Laura Bush and Michelle Obama (as well as prospective questions about Melania Trump).

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:10:09 -0500 2018-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2018-03-14T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
Decision Consortium - The Problem of Political Misperceptions (March 19, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48579 48579-11254279@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 19, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Journalists and fact-checkers devote extensive resources to combating political misperceptions yet significant percentages of the public remain misinformed about politics. Understanding why people hold misperceptions is critical if we hope to limit their political influence. In this talk I highlight several key factors that contribute to false beliefs about politics. First, I demonstrate that partisan media facilitate inaccurate political beliefs but that this effect is not due to partisan echo chambers. Instead, I suggest partisan media outlets might increase misperceptions by offering news consumers cues regarding the legitimacy of the evidence surrounding these claims. Second, I illustrate how both distinct emotions and political intuition, not simply partisan bias, facilitate acceptance of political falsehoods.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:36:08 -0500 2018-03-19T15:30:00-04:00 2018-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Weeks
Decision Consortium - The Knowledge Illusion (March 26, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48580 48580-11254280@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 26, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Humans have built hugely complex societies and technologies, but most of us don’t even know how a pen or a toilet works. How have we achieved so much despite understanding so little? The answer is that we survive and thrive despite our mental shortcomings because we live in a rich community of knowledge. The key to our intelligence lies in the people and things around us. We’re constantly drawing on information and expertise stored outside our heads: in our bodies, our environment, our possessions, and the community with which we interact—and usually we don’t even realize we’re doing it. The human mind is both brilliant and pathetic. We have mastered fire, created democratic institutions, stood on the moon, and sequenced our genome. And yet each of us is error prone, sometimes irrational, and often ignorant. The fundamentally communal nature of intelligence and knowledge explains why we often assume we know more than we really do, why political opinions and false beliefs are so hard to change, and why individually oriented approaches to education and management frequently fail. But our collaborative minds also enable us to do amazing things; true genius can be found in the ways we create intelligence using the world around us. The talk will highlight research aimed at improving public discourse around divisive issues in light of individual ignorance and distributed knowledge.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:36:38 -0500 2018-03-26T15:30:00-04:00 2018-03-26T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion fern
Decision Consortium - TBD (April 2, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48582 48582-11254281@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 2, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:37:02 -0500 2018-04-02T15:30:00-04:00 2018-04-02T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion earl
Home Sweet HomeLab: Studying Daily Life in Context (April 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51475 51475-12112608@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Perspectives presents Richard Gonzalez, Director of Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD), as the next speaker in the "Getting to Know ISR" series.

Gonzalez will discuss ground-breaking research conducted at ISR's HomeLab, a fully functional mock apartment where researchers use personal observation, cameras, microphones, and wearable sensors to record data as participants perform ordinary daily living activities. They can also collect and analyze biomarker data from blood and saliva.

An important potential for HomeLab, a collaboration involving several U-M units - including ISR and BioSocial Methods - is studying how health and health care can be better managed at home for seniors.

Richard Gonzalez is Director of RCGD and the BioSocial Methods Collaborative; Professor of Psychology, and Marketing; and Research Professor at ISR and the Center for Human Growth and Development.

His interests include methodology and judgment/decision making, mathematical models for psychological processes in decision making, and mathematical models that integrate intra-individual processes that span multiple levels of analysis from biological to psychological to cultural.

Refreshments provided!

All Welcome. Hosted by the ISR Perspectives Committee.

If you need accommodations to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 29 Mar 2018 12:44:05 -0400 2018-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Home Sweet HomeLab
Home Sweet HomeLab: Studying Daily Life in Context (April 5, 2018 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/51646 51646-12182150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 5, 2018 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

ISR Perspectives presents Richard Gonzalez, Director of Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD), as the next speaker in the "Getting to Know ISR" series.

Gonzalez will discuss ground-breaking research conducted at ISR's HomeLab, a fully functional mock apartment where researchers use personal observation, cameras, microphones, and wearable sensors to record data as participants perform ordinary daily living activities. They can also collect and analyze biomarker data from blood and saliva.

An important potential for HomeLab, a collaboration involving several U-M units - including ISR and BioSocial Methods - is studying how health and health care can be better managed at home for seniors.

Richard Gonzalez is Director of RCGD and the BioSocial Methods Collaborative; Professor of Psychology, and Marketing; and Research Professor at ISR and the Center for Human Growth and Development.

His interests include methodology and judgment/decision making, mathematical models for psychological processes in decision making, and mathematical models that integrate intra-individual processes that span multiple levels of analysis from biological to psychological to cultural.

Refreshments provided!

All Welcome. Hosted by the ISR Perspectives Committee.

If you need accommodations to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 03 Apr 2018 12:23:51 -0400 2018-04-05T14:00:00-04:00 2018-04-05T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion Gonzalez
Decision Consortium - The Illusion of Public Reason (April 9, 2018 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/48583 48583-11254283@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 9, 2018 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 08 Mar 2018 14:38:23 -0500 2018-04-09T15:30:00-04:00 2018-04-09T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Lecture / Discussion ditto
Changing Cleavages and Coalitions in American Politics 1972-2016: The Rise of Polarization and Populism (April 12, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/50610 50610-11816523@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 12, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

What are the dimensions of political contestation in American politics today?  How has party-sorting and party activism contributed to political polarization and populism?  

During the 1950’s and 1960’s, American politics reflected the difference between the Democratic and Republican parties on economic issues (the “New Deal” cleavage) with an overlay, mostly within the Democratic Party, of differences on race (the “North-South” cleavage).  A mini-realignment among African American voters started in the 1930s in the northern cities, and it was accelerated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 which extended the realignment to the countryside and the South so that African Americans switched to the Democrats from the Party of Lincoln and Southern whites switched to the Republican Party. The between-party New Deal economic policy cleavage was highly correlated with income, occupation, and union membership. Religion did not play a major role in American politics as white evangelicals had few overtly political interests, and they identified with both the Republican and Democratic parties. 

Starting in the 1970s with the Supreme Court's Roe vs. Wade (1973) decision and with the playing out of the consequences of the Civil Rights Acts of the mid 1960s, a two-dimensional cleavage structure arose comprising the traditional New Deal economic cleavage based upon income and occupation and a new social issues cleavage between the parties based upon religious attendance and moral conservatism. Although African Americans voted reliably for Democrats and many whites in the south began to vote for Republicans, the racial cleavage seemed largely submerged beneath the economic and social issues dimensions. Unlike economic policy where budgetary compromises were possible, concerns with social issues such as abortion, prayer in the schools, and gay rights presented problems where compromise was very difficult if not impossible.  In addition, conservatives sorted into the Republican Party and liberals into the Democratic Party. The result was an increasingly polarized politics.

Has this structure changed once again?   Are we now witnessing the emergence of a new dimension in American politics based upon xenophobia, racism, and nationalist sentiments? Was this dimension always there but obscured by other issues such as economics and moral conservatism? How does this dimension relate to the New Deal dimension and to social issues? How does it relate to America's long-term struggle with its legacy of slavery?

Using American National Election Studies and other data from the 1970s and earlier, this talk examines spatial diagrams over time to map out the changing coalitional structure of the parties, to investigate the possible emergence of a new xenophobic dimension, and to better understand populism and polarization in American politics.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 02 Mar 2018 13:10:52 -0500 2018-04-12T16:00:00-04:00 2018-04-12T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Henry Brady
Total Survey Error: A Framework for High Quality Survey Design (October 23, 2018 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56450 56450-13905914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 23, 2018 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Instructors Brady T. West and Paul Schulz are kicking off the new PDHP workshop series with an overview of the Total Survey Error framework and its implications for survey research. This half-day workshop is geared toward survey researchers of all types and experience levels, and will cover the design, implementation, and monitoring of survey data collections using the TSE paradigm as a guiding set of principles. The workshop will use a mix of conceptual discussions and team exercises to explore both the underlying theory and real world applications of the TSE paradigm in survey research.

RSVP Required. https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

Topics include:

Sources of survey error
Quantifying and evaluating TSE in a data collection
Implications of TSE for study design
TSE reduction strategies
Linking TSE and Responsive / Adaptive Survey Design

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 12 Oct 2018 11:35:37 -0400 2018-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 2018-10-23T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar flyer for Total Survey Error
Networks of Interdependence, International Organizations and the Global Political System (October 25, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/53195 53195-13280700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 25, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

The Harold Jacobson Lecture was established in 2002 to honor Harold Jacobson, former director of the Center for Political Studies. "Jake" was best known for his work in international law and cooperation. The Harold Jacobson Lecture is an annual event to celebrate Jake’s contribution to the Center for Political Studies and to the study of international organization, international law, foreign policy, and the environment. Harold Jacobson lecturers have included Edith Brown Weiss, Kathryn Sikkink, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Charlotte Ku, and David Kay.

The lecture occurs every other year in the fall. The Harold Jacobson Lecture is co-sponsored by the Center for Political Studies and the Department of Political Science.

Paul Diehl is the Associate Provost and Director, Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Texas at Dallas.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:37:00 -0400 2018-10-25T16:00:00-04:00 2018-10-25T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Paul Diehl
2020 Census: Citizenship, Science, Politics, and Privacy (October 31, 2018 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/56065 56065-13823433@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Preparations for the 2020 Census are underway, amidst conversations, controversy, and lawsuits over the possible addition of a citizenship question to the decennial survey. Join us as we bring together Census officials, stakeholders and scholars to discuss what's at stake in 2020. 

Event will also be live streamed: http://bit.ly/ISRCensusStream

Speakers:

Keynote: Al Fontenot, Associate Director, Decennial Census Program, U.S. Census Bureau

Panel 1: Citizenship and Politics

Opening remarks by U.S. Senator Gary Peters, Michigan

Barbara Anderson, former chair of the U.S. Census Scientific Advisory Committee, Ronald A. Freedman Collegiate Professor of Sociology and Population Studies, University of Michigan

James House, Angus Campbell Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of Survey Research, Public Policy, and Sociology, University of Michigan

Angela Ocampo, LSA Collegiate Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Michigan

Kurt Metzger, Mayor, City of Pleasant Ridge, MI | Founder and Director Emeritus,
Data Driven Detroit (D3)

Panel 2: Data Privacy and Science

John Eltinge, Assistant Director for Research and Methodology, U.S. Census Bureau

David Johnson, Director of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, Research Professor, Survey Research Center at ISR

Joelle Abramowitz, Director of the Michigan Research Data Center, ISR

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 29 Oct 2018 12:17:31 -0400 2018-10-31T08:30:00-04:00 2018-10-31T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Census event flyer
Election 2018: A Round Table Discussion (November 1, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56411 56411-13896808@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 1, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Ashley Jardina, Stuart Soroka, and Brendan Nyhan will engage in a roundtable discussion about the upcoming 2018 midterm elections.

This event will be live-streamed https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/isr/pre-election.html

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Presentation Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:44:28 -0400 2018-11-01T16:00:00-04:00 2018-11-01T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Presentation Election 2018: A Round Table Discussion
Election 2018: What Happened? (November 13, 2018 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/56438 56438-13903626@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Ken Goldstein, Walter Mebane, and Vince Hutchings will engage in a roundtable discussion about the results of the 2018 midterm elections.

This event will be live-streamed https://ummedia01.umnet.umich.edu/isr/post-election.html

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Presentation Tue, 16 Oct 2018 09:49:23 -0400 2018-11-13T16:00:00-05:00 2018-11-13T17:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Presentation Election 2018: What Happened?
“Evaluating the lasting, economic effects of the War on Poverty” (December 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58251 58251-14450644@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Population Studies Center

Please join us at our one-day research conference, “Evaluating the lasting, economic effects of the War on Poverty,” on Friday, December 14th, 9-5, at 6050 ISR-Thompson (426 Thompson St).

As we approach the 55th anniversary of the War on Poverty, this conference program will feature new research using the restricted linked Census-NUMIDENT data regarding the lasting human capital and productivity effects of Head Start, Food Stamps, Community Health Centers, and family planning programs. Keynote speaker, Hilary Hoynes, will present “Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program” at 1:10pm. The conference is generously supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation, the Institute of Social Research, the Population Studies Center, and the economic history and labor economics seminars.

Please RSVP here to help us plan. Please contact WOPconference@umich.edu with any questions.

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 06 Dec 2018 09:58:40 -0500 2018-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Population Studies Center Conference / Symposium
The War on Poverty Project: Evaluating the lasting, economic effects of the War on Poverty (December 14, 2018 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58180 58180-14435497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 14, 2018 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Friday, December 14

9:00-9:20am Martha Bailey: Welcome and introductions
9:20-10:00am Chloe Gibbs: “Breaking the Cycle? Intergenerational Effects of an Anti-Poverty Program in Early Childhood” (with Andrew Barr)
10:00-10:40am Douglas Miller: “Selection into Identification in Fixed Effects Models, with Application to Head Start”

10:40am Break

10:50-11:30am Martha Bailey: “Prep School for Poor Kids’: The Long-Run Impact of Head Start on Human Capital and Productivity” (with Shuqiao Sun and Brenden Timpe)

11:30am-1:10pm Lunch Break

1:10-2:00pm Hilary Hoynes: “Is the Social Safety Net a Long-Term Investment? Large-Scale Evidence from the Food Stamps Program,” a joint presentation of Economic History and Labor Economics Seminars
2:00-2:40pm Valentina Duque: “The Long-Term Health and Economic Benefits of Community Health Centers” (with Martha Bailey and Andrew Goodman-Bacon)

2:40pm Break

2:50-3:30pm Olga Malkova: “Does Parents’ Access to Family Planning Increase Children’s Opportunities? Evidence from the War on Poverty and the Early Years of Title X” (with Martha Bailey and Zoe McLaren)
3:30-5:00pm
Short talks (~15 min each):

Jacob Bastian: “The Rise of Working Mothers and the 1975 Earned Income Tax Credit”
Andrew Goodman-Bacon: “A Strong Start: Short- and Long-Run Effects from Medicaid’s Introduction”
Jamein Cunningham: “Legal Services and the Civilian Perspective”
Rob Gillezeau: “The Community Action Program and the 1960s Uprisings”
Nic Duquette: “Beethoven, Baumol and Bloat: The Establishment of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Professionalization of American Orchestras” (with Mirae Kim)
Bryan Stuart: “The Economic Impact of a High National Minimum Wage: Evidence from the 1966 Fair Labor Standards Act” (with Martha Bailey and John DiNardo)

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:37:00 -0500 2018-12-14T09:00:00-05:00 2018-12-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59260 59260-14719684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, January 14, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Discriminatory Stressors and Cardiovascular Disease in African-American Women: Moving Beyond Experiences.”

By Tené T. Lewis, PhD
Associate Professor, Emory University
Rollins School of Public Health

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Jan 2019 17:10:41 -0500 2019-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Winter 2019 Group Dynamics Seminar Series: Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 14, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59472 59472-14745539@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 14, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Psychology

Discriminatory Stressors and Cardiovascular Disease in African-American Women: Moving Beyond Experiences"
Monday, January 14, 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.

ISR Building, Room 1430

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Presentation Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:08:47 -0500 2019-01-14T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-14T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Psychology Presentation tene
Unravel Injustice: Taking Action (January 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58725 58725-14544830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society.

2019 University of Michigan MLK Symposium

Monday, January 21, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm, ISR Thompson Rm 1430

Keynote: Transforming ourselves to build an inclusive society
By: john a. powell, Director Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley

Panel discussion with noted citizen activists to follow keynote:
Moderator: Neda Ulaby, National Public Radio
-Nick Licata, Founding Chair, Local Progress (Seattle, WA), @NickJLicata
-Rosalie Lochner, Founder, Michigan Support Circle
-Jessyca Matthews, MI English Teacher of the Year, Carmen-Ainsworth High School (Flint, MI)
-Kayla Reed, Founder, St. Louis Action Council, @iKaylaReed

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:01:08 -0500 2019-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (January 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58198 58198-14441905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Discourses of White nationalism & racism today" by Alexandra Stern, Professor & Chair
Dept of American Culture, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:37:59 -0500 2019-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (January 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60058 60058-14814824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:13:21 -0500 2019-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Population Studies Center Brown Bag (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58257 58257-14450650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Population Studies Center

2018-19 Population Studies Center Brown Bag series

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Presentation Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:09:10 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Population Studies Center Presentation
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series, 2018-2019 (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59182 59182-14694668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies.

Monday, January 28, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Paul Fleming, University of Michigan, Health Behavior & Health Education

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:24:49 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 28, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59556 59556-14752317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, January 28, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“A Culture of Racism: Conceptual and Methodological Innovations.”

By Courtney Cogburn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Columbia University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:29:57 -0500 2019-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (February 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60059 60059-14814825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:14:22 -0500 2019-02-01T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58199 58199-14441906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:42:58 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59559 59559-14752318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 4, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Racialized Costs of ‘Traditional’ Banking in Segregated America.”

By Terri L. Friedline, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:35:12 -0500 2019-02-04T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59561 59561-14752320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 11, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Politics of Personal Responsibility and the Health Consequences for Black Americans of Working Twice as Hard to Get By.”

By Darrick Hamilton, PhD
Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:18:41 -0500 2019-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (February 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (February 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-02-12T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (February 13, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Unravel Injustice: Taking Action (February 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58726 58726-14544831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society.

2019 University of Michigan MLK Symposium

Friday, February 15, 2019, 1:00-3:00pm, ISR Thompson Rm 1430

Keynote: The promise and peril of evidence-based activism
By: William Darity
Professor, School of Public Policy, Duke University

Round table discussions with noted scholar activists to follow keynote:
-Kristie Dotson, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @DrBlkFeminist
-Alexes Harris, Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Washington, @AlexesHarris ‏
-Mary Romero, Professor, Dept of Sociology, Arizona State University
-Kyle Whyte, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @kylepowyswhyte
-Camille Wilson, Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan

After the keynote and brief panel presentations, each of the speakers will lead a round table discussion, facilitated by ISR's RacismLab members, on how we can integrate action for equality into our roles as researchers and educators. Round table discussion participation is limited and available through sign up. If you would like to participate, please sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/46rQzoLYni48V0h62

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:13:46 -0500 2019-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (February 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60060 60060-14814826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:15:45 -0500 2019-02-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59562 59562-14752321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 18, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Perinatal Mental Health: racial disparities and rural mental health needs.”

By Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
University of Illinois

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:26 -0500 2019-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (February 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (February 20, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-02-20T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (February 22, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60061 60061-14814827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:17:38 -0500 2019-02-22T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting