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 2023-2024 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.
2023-2024 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.
SPRING 2024
February 2: Virtual
February 16: Matthew Kim (Political Science, UW-Madison)
February 23:
Ryan Powers (School of Public and International Affairs, University of Georgia)
Special EPW Session on Infrastructure for Elite Experiments
Time: 9:30 - 10:45 am
Location: 422 North Hall (Ogg room)
Chad Hazlett (Political Science & Statistics, UCLA)
Title: "Sensitivity to confounding in a world of imperfect identification"
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Location: 422 North Hall (Ogg room)
March 1: Konstantin Sonin (Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies, University of Chicago)
Title: "Why Did Putin Invade Ukraine? A (formal) theory of authoritarian regimes"
Co-sponsor: Political Economy Colloquium (PEC), Comparative Political Colloquium (CPC)
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Location: 422 North Hall (Ogg room)
March 8: Amber Boydstun (Political Science, UC Davis)
Title: "The issue and the timing matter: A uniform test of the effects of news coverage on aggregate public opinion across four policy issues, 1995–2014"
Co-sponsor: American Politics Workshop (APW)
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Location: 422 North Hall (Ogg room)
April 5: MPSA (no meeting)
April 12: Yang Yao (National School of Development, Peking University)
Title: "Purifying the Leviathan: The Strategic Dilemma of the Anti-corruption Campaign Under One-Party Rule"
Co-sponsor: Comparative Political Colloquium (CPC) and Political Economy Colloquium (PEC)
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 pm
Location: 422 North Hall (Ogg room)
April 19: IV EPW Pilot Grant Competition
April 26: Tanushree Goyal (Politics and International Affairs, Princeton)
Title: "Representation from Below: The Grassroots Origins of Women's Political Power"
Co-sponsor: Political Economy Colloquium (PEC) and Diversity, Equity, Justice and Power (DEJP)
May 3: Yehzee Ryoo (Political Science, UW-Madison),
Saloni Bhogale (Political Science, UW-Madison)
FALL 2023
September 8: Introductions
September 15: Hohyun Yoon (Political Science, UW-Madison)
September 22: Molly Offer-Westort (Political Science, University of Chicago)
Title: "Battling the Coronavirus ‘Infodemic’ Among Social Media Users in Kenya and Nigeria"
Dicussant: Veronica Judson
Co-sponsor: Department of Statistics Seminar Series
September 29: Scott Clifford (Political Science, Texas A&M)
Title: "Moral Values are Uniquely Divisive"
Discussant: Ethan vanderWilden
Co-sponsor: American Politics Workshop
October 6: Ethan vanderWilden & Hohyun Yoon (Political Science, UW-Madison)
October 13: EPW Pilot Grant III Recap
Yehzee Ryoo "Public support for Reciprocal Noncompliance: Does regime type matter?
Marko Kljajic & Ethan vanderWilden "Individual and sequential effects of nationalist narratives"
Hohyun Yoon "Getting Angry, Winning Crises: Anger Expressions and Threat Credibility in International Crises"
Xunchao Zhang "The Shadow of Revenge: The Strategic Consequence of Revenge"
October 18: Kosuke Imai (Government & Statistics, Harvard) (Statistics Seminar)
Co-sponsor: MEAD
Title: "Neyman Meets Causal Machine Learning"
Time: 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Location: Seminar in 133 Service Memorial Institute (SMI)
October 20: Kosuke Imai (Government & Statistics, Harvard) (MEAD)
Co-sponsor: Department of Statistics Seminar Series
Title: "Using Algorithms to Detect Gerrymandering and Improve Legislative Redistricting"
Time: 1:30 - 2:45 PM
Location: 422 North Hall (Ogg room)
October 27: Valeriia Umanets (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Practice job talk
November 3: Priyadarshi Amar (Political Science, UW-Madison)
In-progress work
November 10: Shanthi Manian (School of Economic Sciences and Paul G. Allen School for Global Health, Washington State University)
Co-sponsor: Diversity, Equity, Justice and Power (DEJP) Lecture Series
November 17: Cigdem Sirin (Political Science, University of Texas at El Paso)
Co-sponsor: Diversity, Equity, Justice and Power (DEJP) Lecture Series
Title: "Outgroup Empathy and Opposition to Restrictive Voting Laws"
December 1: Saloni Boghale (Political Science, UW-Madison)
In-progress work
December 8: MEAD end of semester poster-session
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, and Latin American Colloquium (LAC).