Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop
Welcome to the website of the Models, Experiments, and Data workshop (MEAD) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This workshop invites outside speakers, faculty members, and graduate students to present their work and receive feedback. If you’re interested in presenting at MEAD in the 2024-2025 academic school year, please contact the graduate student coordinator. If you would like to be added to the MEAD email list, please contact the graduate student coordinator.
Unless otherwise noted, our meetings are held in person (422 North Hall) on Fridays from 1:30 to 2:45pm.
Our workshop will be actively discussing the presentations and general methods research on the MEAD Slack workspace! If you submit a request to be added to the MEAD listserv, you will be invited to the MEAD Slack as well.
2024-2025 SCHEDULE
Faculty Directors
Jonathan Renshon (renshon@wisc.edu)
Graduate Student Coordinators
Yehzee Ryoo (yehzee.ryoo@wisc.edu)
MEAD Calendar
What Styles of Presentations Do We Have?
(1) Practice Job Talks: 30-40 minutes presentation, followed by Q&A for 15 min, followed by feedback.
(2) Presentations:
“The Classic”: Similar to invited talks, presenters circulate a working paper and present a more detailed 30-40 minute talk after which there is audience Q&A. Discussants may be requested with enough advance notice.
“The In-Progress”: Designed to support in progress work – such as prospectuses or exploratory phases of projects, these do not require circulating work ahead of time, but are 20-30 minute presentations prefaced with specific requests on the types of feedback that would be most helpful to move the work forward. Q&A to follow.
“The EPW style”: This is primarily meant to support feedback for experimental designs. Presenters circulate a ~5 pg write up prior to the meeting, which attendees are expected to read and prepare comments for the author(s). No formal presentation expected. EPW-style sessions can host two presenters.
(3) Invited Speakers: 30-40 minutes presentation, followed by discussant comments, followed by Q&A.
FALL 2024
September 13: Introductions + Valeria Umanets, Yulia Khalikova, Marcy Shieh, and Alisher Juzgenbayev
2024-2025 MEAD mugs will be distributed to regular attendees at the workshop
September 20: Marty Davidson (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Title: "Strategic Point Processes"
(Thursday 12pm) September 26: Yiqing Xu (Political Science, Stanford)
Title: "Factorial Difference-in-Differences"
Discussant: Mingcong Pan
Co-sponsor: CPC
September 27: Priyadarshi Amar (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Co-sponsor: DEJP
(Wednesday) October 2: Tian Zheng (Statistics, Columbia)
133 Service Memorial Institute, 4 - 5 pm
Title: "Scalable Community Detection in Massive Networks using Aggregated Relational Data"
Co-sponsor: Statistics department
(Wednesday) October 2: Brandon Stewart (Sociology, Princeton)
Sterling Hall, conference room 1328, 12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Co-sponsor: La Follette School of Public Affairs
(Thursday) October 3: Sven-Oliver Proksch (Political Science, University of Cologne)
Title: "Rise of the Radical Right and Government Formation: A Survey Experiment of Voters' Coalition Preferences"
Discussant: Ethan vanderWilden
Co-sponsor: CEU and CPC
October 4: Ethan vanderWilden, Saloni Boghale (Political Science, UW-Madison)
October 11: Matthew Blackwell (Government, Harvard)
Title: Assumption Smuggling in Intermediate Outcome Tests of Causal Mechanisms
Co-sponsor: Statistics and EPW
(Thursday) October 17: Nicholas Kuipers (Politics, Princeton)
Title:
Discussant:
Co-sponsor: CPC and PEC
October 18: EPW Fall Pilot Grant Recap
October 25
November 1: Job talk
November 8: Job talk
November 22: Job talk
November 29: Thanksgiving
(Thursday) December 5: Amanda Robinson (Political Science, Ohio State University)
Title: "Gender, Deliberation, and Natural Resource Governance: Experimental Evidence from Malawi"
Discussant: TBD
Co-sponsor: CPC, PEC, and DEJP
December 6: MEAD end of semester poster-session + party
Spring 2025
January 24: Cory McCartan
Co-sponsor: Statistics department
January 31: Ethan VanderWilden
February 7: Sameer Deshpande
February 11: Tyler Pratt
Co-sponsor: IRC
February 14
February 21: Austin Wright
Co-sponsor: PEC and CPC
February 27: Vicky Fouka
Co-sponsor: PEC and CPC
March 7
March 14: EPW pilot grant competition
March 21, 28: Spring break
April 4
April 11: Jasper Tjaden
April 17: John Alquist
Co-sponsor: IRP and CPC
April 24: Yang Yang Zhou
Co-sponsor: PEC
May 2: Florian Foos
Co-sponsor: CES
We are part of a rich network of workshops and colloquia: American Politics Workshop (APW), International Relations Colloquium (IRC), Comparative Politics Colloquium (CPC), Political Theory Workshop (PTW), Political Economy Colloquium (PEC), Experimental Politics Workshop (EPW), European Politics Workshop, Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP), and Latin American Colloquium (LAC).