The first major conference by the new Institute for Social Sciences at the University of California, Davis, will showcase leading-edge research in the social sciences and highlight opportunities for interdisciplinary work. Scholars and participants will explore a number of topics across the social sciences, including video gaming and virtual experiences, the cultural politics of food, the design of online markets,and the social network of gangster Al Capone.
The conference series, 鈥淟eading Research in the Social Sciences Today,鈥 takes place on three Fridays, April 24, May 1 and May 8, at 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis. It will include 40 top faculty from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis and other institutions from across the country in the social sciences as well as food science and technology, viticulture and enology, human ecology, statistics, environmental science, computer science, neuroscience and veterinary medicine.
鈥溞掳拿帕喜誓谀恍畔 Davis is home to an incredible array of researchers who embrace and embody interdisciplinary opportunities, which ISS was in part established to foster and advance,鈥 said George R. Mangun, dean of the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Division of Social Sciences.
鈥淭he conference topics and talks reflect what we believe to be the leading edge of social sciences research,鈥 said Joseph Dumit, director of the institute, which was founded last fall. 鈥淚t is a wonderful opportunity to get a real taste of the range of insights being generated today across disciplines.鈥
Keynote speakers include Amy Cuddy from Harvard Business School, James Fowler from 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 San Diego and Matthew Jackson from Stanford University.
- April 24, 鈥淧erception is Reality鈥: Media and perception, the construction of personal and organizational identity, the experience of taste in wine and the cultural politics of good food.
- May 1, 鈥淪ociety Counts鈥: Big data, communications between politicians and the public, technology and culture, and the flipped classroom.
- May 8, 鈥淪ocial Networks in Decision Making鈥: Human networks, the primate origins of human decision making, online marketplaces, the dynamics of influence and opinion, and the social network of Al Capone.
鈥淣ew technology and innovative collaborations across our many colleges, divisions and units have already begun to accelerate inquiry into how we think about people, groups and societies, and importantly, the many ills we must face together,鈥 Mangun said.
The conference series is co-sponsored by the Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Science, the Davis Humanities Institute and the Center for Regional Change.
About the Institute for Social Sciences
The Institute for Social Sciences stimulates collaborative research projects between 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis social scientists campuswide that ask new questions or work on questions that had previously been unanswerable. As an incubator of new ideas, ISS supports work that reaches across culture, class, social norms, politics, mobility, economics, values, technology, language, communication and history. ISS was founded in 2014 by the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Office of the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor in recognition of the critical role of the researchers in the Division of Social Sciences to the 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis campus mission of service to society. As the largest division in the College of Letters and Science, the division is home to more than 200 faculty members who serve 6,600 undergraduate majors and 500 graduate students.
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Jeffrey Day, Arts, humanities and social sciences, 530-219-8258, jaaday@ucdavis.edu
Victoria Austin, 新澳门六合彩内幕信息 Davis Institute for Social Sciences, (530) 752-1751 , vsaustin@ucdavis.edu