C-SoDA Conference - New Faces in Political Methodology XI
When |
Apr 27, 2019
from 08:30 AM to 05:00 PM |
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Where | B001 Sparks - The Databasement |
Contact Name | Jodi Guy |
Contact Phone | 867-2720 |
Attendees |
All interested members of the Penn State community are welcome to attend. All are welcome, but for planning purposes, we request that you RSVP through the eventbrite site here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-faces-in-political-methodology-conference-xi-tickets-60406005990 |
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On April 27, 2019, C-SoDA will be pleased to present New Faces in Political Methodology XI.
Since 2008, Penn State has been proud to host New Faces in Political Methodology, a conference that invites an eclectic group of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to come together and discuss their methodology and methodology-adjacent work with each other and with the multi-disciplinary social science methodology and social data analytics communities at Penn State.
In total, 92 early career scholars from 33 different graduate programs have been featured as "New Faces." Please visit the New Faces in Political Methodology page to learn more about them.
New Faces in Political Methodology XI will feature 8 early career scholars:
- 9:00 - 9:15 Opening remarks
- 9:15 - 10:00 Sarah Shugars (Northeastern University) "The Structure of Reasoning: Inferring Conceptual Networks from Free Response Text."
- 10:00 - 10:45 Pedro Rodríguez (New York University) "Word Embeddings: What Works, What Doesn’t, and How to Tell the Difference for Applied Research."
- 10:45 - 11:00 Coffee break
- 11:00 - 11:45 Erin Rossiter (Washington University in St. Louis) "Measuring Agenda-Setting Power in Political Discourse."
- 11:45 - 12:30 Markus Neumann (Pennsylvania State University) "Hooked With Phonetics: The Strategic Use of Style-Shifting in Political Rhetoric."
- 12:30 - 1:30 Lunch
- 1:30 - 2:15 Therese Anders (University of Southern California) "Territorial Control in Civil Wars: Theory and Measurement Using Machine Learning."
- 2:15 - 3:00 Rachael McLellan (Princeton University) "Local Control: How Opposition Support Constrains Non-Democratic Incumbents."
- 3:00 - 3:15 Coffee break
- 3:15 - 4:00 Desmond Wallace (University of Iowa) "The Diffusion of Representation: How Policy Interdependence Influences Policy Responsiveness."
- 4:00 - 4:45 Max Goplerud (Harvard University) "Modelling Heterogeneity Using Complex Sparsity."
All are welcome, but for planning purposes, we request that you RSVP through the eventbrite site here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/new-faces-in-political-methodology-conference-xi-tickets-60406005990