Coming up this month:

Can Bipartisanship still occur in US foreign policy?

Thursday, November 20, 11am, UMBC Library Gallery

A special talk hosted by
University of Maryland Baltimore County Political Science

Featuring Professor Jordan Tama, American University

Coming up Monday, November 10:

The 47th Annual W.E.B. DuBois Lecture

11/10, 6pm, UC Ballroom

Featuring Ousseina Alidou, Ph.D.,
Rutgers University-New Brunswick

“Ecological Thoughts in Sahel West African Women’s Literary and Cultural Narratives”

Read it here: www.baltimoresun.com/2025/10/13/m...

Congratulations, Dr. Mair!

Last week, CS3 Director Eric Stokan hosted a workshop where students and faculty across each of the University of Maryland Baltimore County colleges joined to learn more about computational social science and use R to call Large Language Models.

Next week:
Social Science Forum- Korenman Lecture
10/16 - 4pm
AOK Library Gallery
"Migrant Ecologies: Plant Worlds and the Afterlives of Empire"
Featuring Dr. Banu Subramaniam
Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies
Wellesley College
Learn more: socialscience.umbc.edu/fall-2025-ss...

Join us Wed, 9/17 at noon in the AOK Library Gallery for the annual Constitution Day lecture:

State Policy, Civil Rights, and the U.S. Constitution
Insights from Senator William C. Smith, Jr., Maryland Senate

Learn more and see the full SSF lineup here: socialscience.umbc.edu/fall-2025-ss...

A huge congratulations to Amy Barnes, Program Coordinator at The Center for Social Science Scholarship at UMBC on being awarded the UMBC 2025 Presidential Distinguished Staff Award!

Thursday:

Public Stories Lab presents A Storytelling Mini-Festival
A fun and informal festival of stories of all sorts!

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 · 11:30 AM - 1 PM

Join online - my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/publi...

Join us Wednesday for our final Social Science Forum of the semester:

Slow and Sudden Violence: Why and When Uprisings Occur
Discussion on the 10-year Anniversary of the Baltimore Uprising

Featuring Derek Hyra, Ph.D, American University

Wednesday, April 30, 2025 - 4pm
AOK Library Gallery

Join us next Thursday, April 24th, at 4:30pm in the AOK Library Gallery for the UMBC Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health (SAPH)'s annual Eckert Lecture on Health and Inequality:

Recovering from the Opioid Epidemic in Baltimore and Beyond.

Today at noon!
@iganson.bsky.social
umbc.webex.com/umbc/j.php?M...

UMBC faculty - join us today at 4pm!!
my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/...

Join us on Tuesday, April 15th at noon for this timely virtual discussion led by the Department of Political Science associate professor, @iganson.bsky.social. Register in advance for a chance to win a copy of his book, Following the Ticker (SUNY Press, 2023).
my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/...

Thrilled to see this paper presentation from Ryan Holmes, UMBC Poli Sci undergrad, on the confidence of the Supreme Court and other political institutions. You'll be able to learn more about his research at URCAD next week. His work was supported by a CS3 small research grant. Way to go, Ryan!

Next in our Social Science Forum series:

Distinguished Lecture in Psychology - Thurs, 4/3 4pm

"Making the Invisible Visible:
Reducing Disparities Via Personally Relevant Interventions"

Gordon C. Nagayama Hall, Ph.D.
Professor Emerit, University of Oregon

AOK Library & Gallery: Gallery

Join the UMBC Rotaract Club, the Rotary Club of Catonsville, and the Center for Democracy and CIvic Life are planning a screening in April for the documentary "Join or Die."

Monday, April 14

registrations.dacdb.com/Register/ind...

Next week: UMBC CAHSS New Faculty Microtalks

Wednesday, April 2, 2025 · 5 - 6:30 PM

Library and Gallery, Albin O. Kuhn : Gallery

Meet recently hired tenure-stream faculty and learn about their research interests.

my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/csss/...

Next up in the Social Science Forum: The Lipitz Lecture

"Generative AI and Higher Education: Practical Insights for Today and Tomorrow"

Featuring John G. Schumacher

Thurs, 3/27 - 5pm, AOK Library Gallery

Learn more: socialscience.umbc.edu/spring-2025-...