Seminars and Working Groups

Demography Seminar (DemSem)

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

• Center for Demography and Ecology
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Demography Training Seminar

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

• Demography Training Seminar
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FemSem

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.

• FemSem
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Havens-Wright Center

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.

• Havens-Wright Center

The Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies

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.

• The Robert F. and Jean E. Holtz Center for Science & Technology Studies
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Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP)

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.

• IRP
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Interdisciplinary Training Program in Education Sciences (ITP)

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.

• ITP in Ed Sciences
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Qualitative Methods Workshop

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.

• Qualitative Methods Workshop
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Politics, Culture, and Society Working Group (PCS)

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.

• PCS
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Race & Ethnicity (R&E)

The Race & Ethnicity (“R&E”) 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.

• Race and Ethnicity
• Calendar

Sociology of Economic Change and Development Training Seminar (SECD)

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.

Social Psychology and Microsociology (SPAM)

The Social Psychology and Microsociology (SPAM) training seminar is a group of scholars who share an interest in social psychological topics and/or a micro-level sociological lens.

Colloquia dates and speakers for spring 2023:

March 22: Debra Umberson, UT Austin
April 5: Hyunjoon Park, University of Pennsylvania
April 21: Michal Engelman, UW-Madison, Sewell Lecture
April 26: Natasha Warikoo, Tufts