Past Colloquia

Spring 2024

January 16, 12pm ET: "LGBTQ Visibility Online Measured Consistently and Persistently from 2012 through 2023" 

• Author: Jason Jeffrey Jones & Irissa Cisternino  (Stony Brook University)

• Discussants:  Sarah Shugars (Rutgers University) & Brian Weeks (University of Michigan)

Fall 2023

October 11, 12pm ET: "Variations in Countermovements: Cause Diversity and Consistency in the “Lives Matter” claim"

• Authors: Basak Taraktas, Cihan Duran, Suzan Uskudarli (Bogazici University), and Orkun Irsoy (Carnegie Mellon University) 

• Discussants: Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis) & Sang Jung Kim (University of Iowa)

October 25, 12pm ET: "Combining clusters from network analysis with structural topic modelling: a late-fusion approach" 

• Authors: Rafael Mesquita & Antonio Henrique Pires dos Santos (Federal University of Pernambuco)

• Discussants: Corinna Coupette (Max Planck Institute for Informatics) & Jeffery Shih-Chieh Wang (Indiana University Bloomington)

November 8, 12pm ET: "To Discuss or Not to Discuss? How Selective Exposure to Political Discussion Conditions Experimental Findings on Polarization" 

• Authors: Erin Rossiter (University of Notre Dame) & Taylor Carlson (Washington University in St. Louis)

• Discussants: Ethan Busby & Lisa Argyle (Brigham Young University)

November 29, 12pm ET: "Mapping Rebellion: Networks of civilian and state violence during civil conflicts"  

• Authors: Jared Edgerton (University of Texas at Dallas) & Gary Uzonyi (University of Tennessee)

• Discussants: Cassy Dorff (Vanderbilt University) & Dotan Haim (Florida State University)

Spring 2023

• March 30, 12pm EDT: "Competition over Constituency and Territory: A Network Analysis of Militant Group Cooperation and Infighting."

  • Author: Ilayda B. Onder (Penn State University)

  • Discussants: Margaret Foster (University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill) and Elizabeth Menninga (University of Iowa)

• April 18, 12pm EDT: "What Makes a Leader? A Role Analysis of Latent Policy Diffusion Networks"

  • Authors: Scott LaCombe (Smith College) and Tracee Saunders (University of Iowa) 

  • Discussants: Bruce Desmarais (Penn State University) and Joshua Jansa (Oklahoma State University)

• May 10, 12pm EDT: "Elite Family Networks and the 1891 Civil War in Chile"

  • Author: John Londregan (Princeton University)

  • Discussants: Justin Gross (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) and Naoki Egami (Columbia University)

• May 23, 12pm EDT: "Using Network Theory as an Alternative Approach to Better Understand and Evaluate Interview Samples"

  • Author: Josef Woldense (University of Minnesota)

  • Discussants: Jennifer Larson (Vanderbilt University) and Janet Lewis (George Washington University)

• June 13, 12pm EDT: "Who Follows Whom on Twitter? An Analysis of Homophily Patterns"

  • Author: Alexi Quintana Mathé (Northeastern University)

  • Discussants: Pablo Barberá (University of Southern California) and Lauren Ratliff Santoro (University of Texas—Dallas)

• July 3, 12pm EDT: "Network of Telegram Channels"

  • Author: Daria Kuznetsova (University of Iowa)

  • Discussants: Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld (University of California—Los Angeles) and Mónika Simon (University of Amsterdam)