Each year, the CCSS annual lecture brings eminent thinkers to Cornell to address the campus and Ithaca community on pressing social issues.
CCSS Distinguished Lecture in the Social Sciences
This popular event, which is open to the Ithaca community as well as the campus audience, generally draws an overflow audience and is followed by a reception.
Save the Date!
Raj Chetty, Economics, Harvard University
On April 18, 2022, Raj Chetty (Economics, Harvard University) will join the Cornell campus and local community to discuss Big Data and how it relates to inequality. Stay tuned for details!
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Monday, April 18, 2022
Our Racial Moment of Truth
Isabel Wilkerson
CCSS Annual Lecture in Partnership with Cornell Migrations
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns and Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
This virtual event is free and open to Cornell and the greater Ithaca Community. Learn more about this lecture and register here.
Co-sponsors: Cornell Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge and Office of Faculty Development and Diversity
Check out Chronicle coverage of the event here!
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October 21 at 6:30pm
Democracy, Today: Fake News, Social Networks and Algorithms
David Lazer, Northeastern University
Distinguished Professor of Political Science and Computer and Information Science
Check out the video recording here.
Co-sponsors: Communication, Computer Science, Information Science
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Thursday, October 24, 2019
Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People
Mahzarin Banaji, Harvard University
Richard Clark Cabot Professor of Social Ethics and Chair in the Department of Psychology
Co-sponsors: Office of Faculty Development and Diversity, Department of Psychology, Center of Bright Beams
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Monday, February 11, 2019
Racism and the New Racial Science
Dorothy Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights
Co-sponsors: Cornell Law School, African Studies and Research Center
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond, Princeton University
Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology
Co-sponsor: Center for the Study of Inequality
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Wednesday, November 16, 2016
The CCSS is committed to providing universal access to all of our events and facilities. For disability accommodations (e.g, sign language interpreters, alternative formats) please contact Katie Anderson at socialsciences@cornell.edu or 607-255-3408 as soon as possible.