Events @ the Connected_Politics Lab

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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)

AUTUMN TERM 2024

From Twitter to Mastodon: Platform migration as political mobilization

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Saif Shahin (Tilburg University)
• Wednesday, October 2, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

 Political DEBATE: Efficient Zero-shot and Few-shot Classifiers for Political Text

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Michael Burnham (Princeton University)
• Wednesday, October 9, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

How Central Bank Independence Shapes Monetary Policy Communication: A Large Language Model Application

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Lauren Leek (European University Institute)
• Wednesday, October 30, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

What is a good conversation? Improving the Operationalization and Measurement of Deliberative Quality by Analyzing Interactions

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Nicolai Berk (ETH Zürich)
• Wednesday, November 6, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Only Hot Air? National Parliamentary Discourse and Its Effect on Public Opinion on the European Union

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Rebecca Kittel (Free University Berlin)
• Wednesday, November 13, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

More than one agent? Authority expansion and delegation dynamics in the EU

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Anastasia  Ershova (Queen’s University Belfast)
• Wednesday, November 27, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

SPRING TERM 2024

SEMINARS

Factionalism and the Red Guards under Mao's China: Ideal Point Estimation Using Text Data

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)David Yen-Chieh Liao (University College Dublin) 
• Wednesday, January 24, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

 The Effects of Sustained Exposure to Fact-checking Information: Evidence from a Field Experiment on Twitter

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Felicia Löcherbach (University of Amsterdam)
• Wednesday, February 7, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Digital Politics and Foreign Interventions: A Natural Language Processing Approach

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Ashrakat Elshehawy (Stanford University)
• Wednesday, February 21, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

The Dissent Score: Using Events Data to Measure Dissent

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Carlisle Rainey (Florida State University)
• Wednesday, March 6, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Bringing Diversity to Parliament? How gender and party-level quotas impact the content of parliamentary speech

• Speakers: (opens in a new window)Zachary Greene (University of Strathclyde)
  (opens in a new window)Maarja Lühiste (Newcastle University)
  (opens in a new window)Christine Sylvester (University of Strathclyde)
• Wednesday, March 27, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Group Appeals Across Time and Space: An Automated Measure of Parties’ Appeals to Social Groups

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Alona Dolinsky (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Wednesday, April 10, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

WORKSHOPS

Effective Presentation

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Joshua Alley (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, February 14, 14:00 (Irish time)

Data Visualization

• Instructor: Mafalda Zúquete (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, February 28, 14:00 (Irish time)

Introduction to Bayesian Analysis

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Joshua Alley (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, April 17, 14:00 (Irish time)

AUTUMN TERM 2023

SEMINARS

Preferential Abstention in Conjoint Experiments

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Jeffrey Ziegler (Trinity College Dublin) 
• Wednesday, October 11, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

 Selective Engagement in the Online Public Discourse and Implications for Toxicity Regulation

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Lisa Oswald (Hertie School Berlin)
• Wednesday, October 25, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Dances, Duets, and Debates: Analysing elite political communication on TikTok

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Natalia Umansky (University of Zurich)
• Wednesday, November 8, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

MPs and the rural-urban debate: How the national legislature handles rural preferences

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Alberto de León (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, November 22, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Regional Labor Markets, Residential Mobility, and Anti-Immigration Attitudes

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Denis Cohen (Mannheim Centre for European Social Research)
• Wednesday, November 29, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

WORKSHOPS

Reproducible Research with Git and GitHub

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Stefan Müller (University College Dublin)
• 15 November, 14:00 (Irish time)

Webscraping Using R

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Sarah King (University College Dublin)
• 30 November, 15:00 (Irish time)

SPRING TERM 2023

SEMINARS

Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies in Open-Ended Survey Responses

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Magdalena Breyer (University of Zurich)
• Wednesday, February 8, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado Boulder) 
• Wednesday, February 22, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Personalization and Twitter: How do content recommendations respond to ideological behavior?

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Benjamin Guinaudeau (University of Konstanz)
• Wednesday, March 8, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Making the Future Feel Closer – the Politics of Manipulating the Psychological Distance through Rhetoric

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Christian Arnold (Cardiff University)
• Wednesday, March 29, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Set in stone? Exploring the role of concreteness and abstraction in committee deliberations in the Council of Ministers of the European Union

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)James Cross (University College Dublin)
• Wednesday, April 12, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

Connected_Politics Student Presentations

• Wednesday, May 3, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)

WORKSHOPS

Effective Presentation

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Joshua Alley (University College Dublin)
• February 2, 13:00 (SPIRe Boardroom, Newman Building

An Introduction to Webscraping Using R

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Sarah King (University College Dublin)
• March 23, 13:00-15:00

AUTUMN TERM 2022

WORKSHOPS

Computational Text Analysis Workshop

• Instructor: Stefan Müller (University College Dublin)
• Part 1: 10th November 14:00-16:00
• Part 2: 17th November 14:00-16:00

SEMINARS

Selling and Buying Visual Media Frames

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Olga Gasparyan (Hertie School)
• Wednesday, September 21, 14:00–14:45 

Offshore Capital and Onshore Discrimination: The Biased Effects of India's Anti-corruption Campaigns on Muslim Businesses

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Robert Kubinec (New York University Abu Dhabi)
• Wednesday, October 5, 14:00–14:45

Beyond Prediction: Identifying Latent Treatments in Images

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Michelle Torres (Rice University)
• Wednesday, October 19, 14:00–14:45 

How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado Boulder) 
• Wednesday, November 2, 14:00–14:45 

Gender Perspectives and Issue Attention in the Italian Digital Arena

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Silvia Decadri (Università degli Studi di Milano) 
• Wednesday, November 16, 14:00–14:45 

How the Rhetoric of Women in the Alt-Right Broadens the Movement’s Appeal

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Richard Nielsen (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) 
• Wednesday, November 30, 14:00–14:45

SPRING TERM 2022

SEMINARS

Building the Bridge: Topic Modeling for Comparative Research

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna)
• Wednesday, January 19, 14:00–14:45 

When Reelection Increases Legislative Cohesion: Evidence from Clientelistic Parties in Mexico

• Speaker:  (opens in a new window)Lucia Motolinia (Washington University in St. Louis)
• Wednesday, February 2, 14:00–14:45

Challenging the Establishment from Within: Analysing Challenger Party Strategies in the Parliamentary Arena 

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Markus Kollberg (University College London)
• Wednesday, February 16, 14:00–14:45 

Parliament Strikes Back: Agenda-setting and Power Voids in Early Representative Assemblies (with Tom Paskhalis) 

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Toni Rodon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) 
• Wednesday, March 2, 14:00–14:45 

The Geopolitics of Deplatforming: Which Politically-Interested Iranian Accounts get Suspended on Twitter? 

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Andreu Casas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) 
• Wednesday, March 23, 14:00–14:45 

There is No Bad Publicity? - Disentangling Different Types of Parties’ Agenda Influence on the Migration Issue 

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Sophia Hunger (WZB Berlin Social Science Center) 
• Wednesday, April 6, 14:00–14:45

WORKSHOPS

Multilingual Automated Text Analysis for Comparative Social Science Research

• Instructor: (opens in a new window)Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna)
• Wednesday, 30 March, 14:00–16:00

AUTUMN TERM 2021

SEMINARS

When Republicans See Red but Democrats Feel Blue: Why Labeler-Characteristic Bias Matters for Image Analysis

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Nora Webb Williams (University of Illinois)
• Wednesday, September 22, 14:00–15:00

What do mass media in Russia reveal about the regime’s survival strategy?

• Speaker: (opens in a new window)Lana Bilalova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
• Wednesday, October 6, 14:00–15:00