Each year, the CCSS co-sponsors the lecture with different units on campus in order to build bridges across diverse research communities. The annual lecture series brings eminent thinkers to Cornell to address the broad campus 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.
Our Racial Moment of Truth
Isabel Wilkerson
Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Warmth of Other Suns, 2020-2021
Co-sponsors: Cornell Migrations: A Global Grand Challenge and Office of Faculty Development and Diversity
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Wednesday, October 21, 2020
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. Please contact socialsciences@cornell.edu to request disability accommodations. Advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility needs.