Events @ the Connected_Politics Lab

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SPRING TERM 2026

Seminars

POP-TEXT: Do definitions matter? LLMs, prompts and outcomes

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Jessica Di Cocco (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, January 28, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Mixed Rules, Mixed Messages: Dual Candidacy and Geographical Representation in Japan’s Mixed-Membered System

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Akitaka Matsuo (University of Essex)
• Wednesday, February 11, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Not in the Picture: Visual Descriptive Representation and Gender Gaps in Parties’ Visual Communication

• Speakers: (opens in a new window)Malo Jan , (opens in a new window)Noémie Piolat , (opens in a new window)Luis Sattelmayer (Sciences Po)
• Wednesday, February 25, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Emotions in Parliamentary Debates over Healthcare Reforms

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Vivien Fabry (Freie Universität Berlin)
• Wednesday, March 4, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Political Economy of Climate Finance: Disasters, Lobbying, and Market Responses

• Speakers: (opens in a new window)Elisa D'Amico (University College Dublin), (opens in a new window)Andreas Hoepner (University College Dublin), (opens in a new window)Diego P. Guisande (University of Sussex)
• Wednesday, April 1, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Validating Gamified Instruments for Political Behaviour Surveys

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Miriam Sorace (University of Reading)
• Wednesday, April 15, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Workshops

Introduction to Latent Semantic Scaling 

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Nikita Khokhlov   (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, February 4, 14:00–15:30 (Irish time)

AUTUMN TERM 2025

Gender, Dynastic Ties, and Representational Style in Legislatures

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Nam Pham and (opens in a new window)Daniel M. Smith (University of Pennsylvania)
• Wednesday, September 17, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Measuring and Mitigating Bias in Parliamentary Discourse Summarisation

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Eoghan Cunningham (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, October 1, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

The Trouble with Cohorts: Reconsidering Generational Differences in Democratic Deconsolidation

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Elissa Berwick (McGill University)
• Wednesday, October 22, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

How Descriptive Over- and Under-Representation Impacts Citizens Evaluations of Decision-making across Policy Domains

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Jonathan Slapin (University of Zurich)
• Wednesday, November 5, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Everything Old is New Again: Textual Recycling in UN Resolutions

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Sabrina Arias (Lehigh University)
• Wednesday, November 12, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

‘Undeserved winners’ or ‘more deserving losers’ ? Two types of societal discontent and their relation to radical right and left voting

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Delia Zollinger (University of Zurich)
• Wednesday, November 26, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

SPRING TERM 2025

Greenwashing the Future: Climate Targets and Forward-looking Discourse in Sustainability Reporting from the Fossil Fuel Industry

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Robin Rauner (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, January 22, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Public opinion can be estimated and influenced via social media platforms like X

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Przemyslaw Grabowicz (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, February 19, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Who Believes and Who Shares Fake News: Experimental Misinformation Research with LLM-based Agents

• Speaker: Linette Lim (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, March 5, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

User suspension and its consequences for online behavior

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Gloria Gennaro (University College London)
• Wednesday, March 26, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Causal Representation Learning with Generative Artificial Intelligence: Application to Images and Texts as Treatments

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Kosuke Imai (Harvard University)
• Tuesday, April 1, 13:00–14:00 (Irish time)

The social group appeal of the Greens and the PRRP in a realigned party competitive space

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Hauke Licht (University of Innsbruck)
• Wednesday, April 9, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)