Computational Social Science Workshop

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The Computational Social Science Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar series featuring speakers of broad appeal in the social sciences who use computational techniques to analayze big data for research into human behavior. 

The series is co-sponsored by ISPS, the Yale Department of Sociology, and Yale School of Management, with support from the Initiative for Leadership and Organization at SOM.

The workshop typically meets on selected Mondays from noon to 1:15 PM at Evans Hall at 165 Whitney Ave. Please check the schedule for room numbers.

It is open to the Yale community only.

Faculty Organizers: Balázs Kovács and Daniel Karell

Staff Coordinator and Contact: Laurel Mahler

2026-27 Schedule

Date Speaker Location
Sept. 28

Brendan Nyhan

James O. Freedman Presidential Professor; Professor of Government, Dartmouth College

“Outlet Choice and Topical Attention Limit the Reach of Content Challenging Election Fraud Claims”

Evans Hall

165 Whitney Ave.

2210 Allison Classroom

Oct. 19

Patrick Park

Assistant Professor, Software and Societal Systems, Carnegie Mellon University

Evans Hall

165 Whitney Ave.

4230 Atwood Classroom

Nov. 16

Elliott Ash

Associate Professor of Law, Economics, and Data Science, ETH Zurich’s Center for Law & Economics

Evans Hall

165 Whitney Ave.

2210 Allison Classroom

March 12

Melissa Sands

Associate Professor of Government, Cornell University

Evans Hall

165 Whitney Ave.

April 12

Christopher Barrie

Assistant Professor of Sociology, New York University

Evans Hall

165 Whitney Ave.

April 26

Tessa Charlesworth

Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations, Northwestern University

Evans Hall

165 Whitney Ave.