Seminars and Working Groups

This workshop offers a venue for participants to present the design of experimental studies prior to fielding them, and to receive feedback from faculty and graduate students at this critical stage in the development of experimental projects.

Faculty Lead: Chloe Grace Hart

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FemSem is a training seminar for those interested in the sociology of gender. Femsem encourages work at the intersections of race, class and gender and frequently speakers and events are co-sponsored with the Race & Ethnicity seminar.

Faculty Lead: Allison Daminger

See the FemSem website for more information. Click here to access the Calendar.

Politics, Culture, and Society (familiarly known as PCS) is a weekly training seminar of graduate students and faculty in the Sociology Department at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.

See the PCS website for more information.

The Qualitative Methods Workshop is a weekly training seminar for students and faculty devoted to investigating the social world through firsthand observation, interviews, and other qualitative methods.

See the WISCER website for more information.

The Race, Ethnicity, and/or Migration training seminar is a space for students, faculty, and visiting speakers to present and discuss work-in-progress that relates to the sociological study of race and ethnicity.

See the Race and Ethnicity website for more information. Click here to access the Calendar.

The SECD training seminar meets weekly to present works in progress, generally exploring questions related to global and local change, from economic development, inequality and social movements to transnational economic and political dynamics.

The Wisconsin Historical Analysis Table (WHAT) delves into cutting-edge research in comparative-historical social science by inviting external speakers each week. We explore topics such as state formation, revolutions, and economic development.

See the WHAT website for more information.

The Center for Demography and Ecology’s weekly seminar, DemSem, offers presentations of substantive work at the forefront of population sciences.

See Center for Demography and Ecology’s Events website.

The weekly Demography Training Seminar augments affiliates’ professional skills, including those related to research communication, data management, analysis, and visualization, among many others.

See Center for Demography and Ecology’s Events website.

The Havens-Wright Center for Social Justice is dedicated to promoting critical intellectual reflection and exchange, both within the academy as well as between it and the broader society.

See theHavens-Wright Center website for more information. Click here to access the Calendar.

Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies promotes innovative work and fosters interdisciplinary research, education and public outreach in humanistic and social studies of science, technology, biomedicine, engineering and the environment.

See the Holz Center website for more information. Click here to access the Calendar.

IRP researches the causes and consequences of poverty and inequality in the United States. We bring together social scientists from across research disciplines such as economics, sociology, social work, and demography.

See the IRP website for more information. Click here to access the Calendar.

The Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences (ITP) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison is one of a network of pre-doctoral training programs funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences.

See the ITP website for more information. Click here to access the Calendar.