
Events @ the Connected_Politics Lab
All events take place at UCD and are also live-streamed on Zoom. Please join our mailing list here to receive bi-weekly invitations to all events.
SPRING TERM 2023
SEMINARS
Perceptions of Changing Status Hierarchies in Open-Ended Survey Responses
- Speaker: Magdalena Breyer (University of Zurich)
- Wednesday, February 8, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)
How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela
- Speaker: 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: Benjamin Guinaudeau (University of Konstanz)
- Wednesday, March 8, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)
- Speaker: Christian Arnold (Cardiff University)
- Wednesday, March 29, 14:00–14:45 (Irish time)
- Speaker: 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
- Instructor: Joshua Alley (University College Dublin)
- February 2, 13:00 (SPIRe Boardroom, Newman Building
An Introduction to Webscraping Using R
- Instructor: 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: Olga Gasparyan (Hertie School)
- Wednesday, September 21, 14:00–14:45
- Speaker: Robert Kubinec (New York University Abu Dhabi)
- Wednesday, October 5, 14:00–14:45
Beyond Prediction: Identifying Latent Treatments in Images
- Speaker: Michelle Torres (Rice University)
- Wednesday, October 19, 14:00–14:45
How Exile Shapes Online Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela
- Speaker: Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado Boulder)
- Wednesday, November 2, 14:00–14:45
Gender Perspectives and Issue Attention in the Italian Digital Arena
- Speaker: 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: 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: Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna)
- Wednesday, January 19, 14:00–14:45
When Reelection Increases Legislative Cohesion: Evidence from Clientelistic Parties in Mexico
- Speaker: Lucia Motolinia (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Wednesday, February 2, 14:00–14:45
- Speaker: Markus Kollberg (University College London)
- Wednesday, February 16, 14:00–14:45
- Speaker: Toni Rodon (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
- Wednesday, March 2, 14:00–14:45
- Speaker: Andreu Casas (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- Wednesday, March 23, 14:00–14:45
- Speaker: 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: Fabienne Lind (University of Vienna)
- Wednesday, 30 March, 14:00–16:00
AUTUMN TERM 2021
SEMINARS
- Speaker: 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: Lana Bilalova (London School of Economics and Political Science)
- Wednesday, October 6, 14:00–15:00