*New* Allen School Distinguished Lecture Series: What we see and what we value: AI with a human perspective (1/18/24)
Join UW’s Allen School for a seminar by Fei-Fei Li (Stanford University), titled “What we see and what we value: AI with a human perspective”. The seminar will take place on Thursday, Jan. 18th at 3:30 PM in the Amazon Auditorium of the Gates Center. The talk will also be streamed live on the Allen School’s YouTube channel [link will be available 1 hour before talk]. Read more about the talk here.
*New* Seminar by Center for Environmental Politics: The consequences of Environmental Protest in Global Perspective (1/19/24)
The Center for Environmental Politics presents Evan Schofer and Ann Hironaka (professors of Sociology, University of California-Irvine), “The consequences of Environmental Protest in Global Perspective”. The seminar will take place on January 19th in Gowen Hall, 1A from 12:00-1:30pm. No RSVP is required. Learn more about the talk here.
Ann Hironaka is an Associate Professor of Sociology at University of California, Irvine. She studies environmental sociology, politics, and war from a global perspective. Her book, Greening the Globe: World Society and Environmental Change examines the historical emergence of the global environmental regime and its impact on national policy and environmental practices around the world. Evan Schofer is a Professor of Sociology at University of California, Irvine. He researches globalization, political participation, education, environmentalism, economic growth, and economic inequality.
*New* CSDE Computational Demography Working Group (CDWG) Hosts Anissa Tanweer on Integrating Ethics into Data-Intensive Research (01/17/2024)
On January 17th from 3-4pm, Anissa Tanweer, a Senior Social Scientist at the eScience Institute and CSDE Affiliate, will present at the CDWG. Dr. Tanweer conducts ethnographic research on the practice and culture of computationally-mediated science and directs the UW Data Science for Social Good summer internship. At the CDWG, she will discuss her work on integrating ethics into practice of data-intensive research and provide an overview of the Data Science for Social Good program. CDWG Will be Hybrid in Winter Quarter 2024. Attend in-person in 223 Raitt Hall (The Demography lab) or on Zoom (register here).
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Sociology
Apply for Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship
Apply for the Steinbrueck-Thonn Award for Pike Place Market Research
Apply for Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowship (Due 1/15/24)
The Social Science Research Council is pleased to announce a new fellowship program with support from Arnold Ventures, the Arnold Ventures Criminal Justice Innovation Fellowships. This program will provide generous and unrestricted support to post-doctoral fellows working to innovate and evaluate more effective and equitable criminal justice policy solutions. The program will support five post-doctoral fellows pursuing policy-relevant causal research for up to 3 years, beginning in September 2024. Fellows may reside in a location of their choosing. Fellows will receive salaries/stipends of $120,000 with full benefits and annual salary increases. Learn more here.
Call for Applications: The Steinbrueck-Thonn Award for Pike Place Market Research (Due 1/15/24)
The Friends of the Market (FOM) has initiated the Fall 2023-2024 round of the Steinbrueck-Thonn Award for Pike Place Market Research, an academic research award available to current college students and recent graduates. The Steinbrueck-Thonn Award is intended to encourage a broad range of cross-disciplinary and community-engaged scholarship related to the Pike Place Market; research that will serve as a catalyst for greater understanding of and appreciation for this treasured public resource.
The Friends of the Market Board of Directors has committed to funding this program to a maximum of $4,000 this round. Please visit the Friends of the Market webpage to learn more about the program and view/print information regarding the Call for Applications.
The Fall 2023 program uses a straightforward and simple application format and submittal process. The deadline for all submissions is January 15, 2024 (11:59pm Pacific). The Friends look forward to sharing the products of the 2023-2024 award via various public formats and/or programs in late 2024 and 2025.
A member of the FOM Board would be happy to meet with you about the program. Please contact Kate Krafft, FOM Education Committee Chair, Krafft2@comcast.net with any questions or to schedule a meeting.
CSDE Seminar – Relational One Health: A More-than-biomedical Approach to More-than-human Health
Join CSDE on Friday, Jan. 12th from 12:30-1:30 for a seminar by CSDE Affiliate Dr. Julianne Meisner. This seminar is co-hosted by the Population Health Initiative and will take place in 101 HRC and on Zoom (register here). Dr. Meisner is an Assistant Professor in the UW Department of Global Health and the UW Department of Epidemiology, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS). A veterinarian with a PhD in Epidemiology, Dr. Meisner’s work focuses on the intersection of human, animal and environmental health.
Dr. Meisner’s current research focuses on the human and environmental health implications of livestock-keeping, and the application of methods drawn from causal inference and spatial epidemiology to tackle methodological challenges unique to One Health studies. She is also interested in political and social forces that influence multispecies collectives, particularly the influence of land rights and institutional distrust on human-animal contact networks.