Winter 2026 CSDE Seminar Schedule Now Available
Posted: 12/31/2025 (CSDE Seminar Series)
Happy New Year! Winter 2026 CSDE seminars will resume this Friday, January 9, 2026. Seminar posters are available here or can be picked up during seminar. You can also subscribe to our Trumba Events to receive regular announcements about CSDE-sponsored events.
CSDE Affiliate Andrew Messamore (Sociology) will kick off the quarter on January 9 with a talk on “The Emergence of Ownership Opacity in Landed Capitalism: Consolidation, Adaptation, Evasion.” See more below. Then on January 16, a panel on gun violence will feature CSDE Affiliates Avanti Adhia (Child, Family, and Population Health Nursing & Epidemiology) and Ali Rowhani-Rahbar. On January 23, Sarah Komisarow (Public Policy & Economics, Duke University) will present evidence from North Carolina on school-based support for children’s mental health. On January 30, Bussarawan “Puk” Teerawichitchainan (Sociology & Population Studies, National University of Singapore) will present “Aging with Limited Kin: Childlessness and Care Arrangements in Singapore and Thailand.” On February 6, Michael Schultz (Public Policy & Governance) will discuss “Occupations, Careers, and Opportunity: A Structural Approach to Studying Economic Mobility over the Life Course.” On February 13, Kristin Perkins (Sociology & Public Affairs, Georgetown University) will present “The Hidden Private Safety Net: Shared Households and Older Adults’ Housing Costs.” On February 20, CSDE Affiliate Gabriella Levy (Political Science) will speak on “Gendered Dissent and Social Threat: Attitudes Towards Protest Repression in Colombia.” On February 27, Robert Crosnoe (Sociology, University of Texas at Austin) will discuss the journey into adulthood in uncertain times. Jake Watson (UCSD) will deliver the final CSDE seminar of Winter quarter on March 13, speaking on “Infrastructures of Resettlement: How Bureaucratic Legacies Shaped Racial Disparities in Post-Cold War Refugee Selection. In addition, the CSDE Winter 2026 Lightning Talks & Poster Session will take place in Raitt Hall 221 on March 6.