Spring Term 2021
All events take place on Zoom. Please register here to receive the link and password to the online meeting. For more information, please follow the links bellow.
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A Political Esperanto, or False Friends? – 'Left' and 'Right' in Different Political Contexts Speaker: Jesper Lindqvist (University College Dublin), with Jos Elkink Wednesday, January 27, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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Fifteen Seconds of Fame: TikTok and the Democratization of Mobile Video on Social Media Speaker: Kevin Munger (Penn State University) Wednesday, February 10, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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What Do Online Experiments Tell Us About Political Fake News Recognition and Trust? Speaker: Olessia Koltsova (HSE University) Wednesday, February 24, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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Speaker: Sandra González-Bailón (University of Pennsylvania) Wednesday, March 24, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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Online and Offline Responses to Protest in Electoral Autocracies Speaker: Anita Gohdes (Hertie School), with Katerina Tertytchnaya Wednesday, April 7, 14:00–15:00 (GMT+1) |
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The Double-edged Sword of Online Politics Speaker: Taha Yasseri (University College Dublin) Wednesday, April 21, 14:00–15:00 (GMT+1) |
Past events
Autumn Term 2020
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Reproducible Research with Git and GitHub Instructor: Stefan Mūller (UCD). 10:00-12:00 Friday, October 16. 12:00–14:00: Wednesday, November 11 |
Competing and Competitive Legislatures and the Policy-Opinion Link Speaker: Miriam Sorace (University of Kent). 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, September 23. |
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Creating and Hosting an Academic Personal Website Using Hugo and GitHub Instructor: Stefan Mūller (UCD) and Natalia Umansky (UCD). 10:00-12:30 Friday, November 13. |
Similar Citizen Portrayals? Exclusionary Media Populism in Tabloids and Broadsheets Speaker: Zoltan Fazekas (Copenhagen Business School) (with Stefanie Walter). 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, October 7. |
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Speaker: Lena Masch (University of Düsseldorf) (with Maaike D. Homan and Oul Han). 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, October 21. |
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Speaker: Christian Rauh (WZB Berlin). 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, November 11. |
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Ambiguity as Strategy of Radical Left Party Leaders in Western Europe Speaker: Sarah Wagner (University of Essex). 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, November 25. |
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Reputational Mainstreaming of Radical Right Parties Speaker: Frederik Hjorth (University of Copenhagen) (with Theresa Gessler and Fabrizio Gilardi). 14:00-15:00 Wednesday, December 9. |
Summer Trimester 2020
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Causal Inference with a Graphical Approach Instructor: Akisato Suzuki (UCD) 15:00 - 17:00 Monday, June 22 |
Agent Based Models of Social Life: Breaking the Schelling Segregation Model Speaker: Michael Laver (New York University) Wednesday, May 20, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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But Is She Married? Gender Bias and Users' Gendered Interest in Politicians on Wikipedia Speaker: Theresa Gessler (University of Zurich) Wednesday, June 3, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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Interrogating the Opposition? The Use of Blue-Card Questions in the European Parliament Speaker: Verena Kunz (University of Mannheim) Wednesday, June 10, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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Why Keep Arguing? Predicting Engagement in Political Conversations Online Speaker: Sarah Shugars (Northeastern University) Wednesday, June 24, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
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Exogenous Shocks, Policy Responses and Legislative Debates Speaker: Jens Wäckerle (University of Cologne), with Sven-Oliver Proksch and Jan Schwalbach Wednesday, July 8, 14:00–15:00 (GMT) |
Spring Trimester 2020
Autumn Trimester 2019
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Opportunities and Challenges in Economic Policy Communications Workshop 17 January 2020 Central Bank of Ireland |
Speaker: Georgiana Ifrim (UCD) 27 November 2019 |
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Quantitative Text Analysis Dublin (QTA-DUB) Workshop 18-19 June 2019 UCD University Club |
Seminar: Explorying the link between ethnic segregation and spatial patterns of attitudes Speaker: Thomas Feliciani (UCD) 13 November 2019 |
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Seminar: Social identity and political polarization Speaker: Chris Bail (Duke University) 30 October 2019 |
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Seminar: What the rich and poor consider important and how this matters for representation Speaker: Denise Traber (University of Lucerne) 16 October 2019 |
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Seminar: Why do politicians get emotional? Speaker: Gijs Schumacher 9 october 2019 |
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