Demography Seminar (DemSem)
The Center for Demography and Ecology's weekly seminar, DemSem, offers presentations of substantive work at the forefront of population sciences.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Experimental Methods
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.
Wisconsin Historical Analysis Table (WHAT)
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.
Sociology Department Colloquia
Colloquia dates and speakers for spring 2024:
February 28: Mikhail Sokolov, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 20: Jean Beaman, University of California Santa Barbara
April 3: David Grusky, Stanford University