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February 2023
Thursday, February 2nd, 2023
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Online Event
ARTIST TALK WITH KEARRA GOPEE
Kearra Gopee,
Anti-disciplinary Visual Artist,
Friday, February 3rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
What Purpose Do Corporations Purport? Evidence from Letters to Shareholders
Luigi Zingales,
Robert C. McCormack Distinguished Service Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the George G. Rinder Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business; Moore Distinguished Scholar, Division of the Humanities & Social Sciences, Caltech,
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023
12:00pm
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2:00pm
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Thursday, February 9th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Why did Pierre Bayle believe in Virtuous Atheists?: A Critique of Pure Reason Avant la Lettre
Dmitri Levitin,
Fifty-Pound Fellow, All Souls College, University of Oxford; Visiting Associate in the Humanities, Caltech,
Monday, February 13th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Conscience as Craft: Michael of Northgate's Experimental Temper
Jennifer A. Jahner,
Professor of English,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Liquidity and Risk in OTC Markets: A Theory of Asset Pricing and Portfolio Flows
Mahyar Kargar,
Assistant Professor of Finance,
Gies College of Business,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Tuesday, February 14th, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Artistic Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence
Jessica Helfand,
Artist, Designer, and Writer (Winter 2020 Artist in Residence),
Joanne Jang,
Product Lead,
DALL·E,
- Public Event
Thursday, February 16th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Economics Job Talk
Posterior Implementability in an N-Person Decision Problem
Axel Niemeyer,
PhD student in Economics,
University of Bonn,
Friday, February 17th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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William & Myrtle Harris Distinguished Lectureship in Science and Civilization
From Fukushima to Hiroshima: Comparative and Transnational Perspectives on Eight Decades of Living with Nuclear Technology
- Public Event
Tuesday, February 21st, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Social Sciences History Seminar
The Evolution of the Chinese Firm: Contracts, Hierarchical Management, and Corporate Personality in Shanxi Merchant Enterprises
Matthew Lowenstein,
Hoover Fellow,
Stanford University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
Almost Inhuman
Caitlin Berrigan,
Winter 2023 Artist in Residence,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
- Public Event
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Wiersma Visiting Professor Lecture: Christof Koch
Building and Operating Brain Observatories – What Have We Learned?
Wednesday, February 22nd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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Humanities Brown Bag Seminar
Tanit Talismans: Image and Gender in a 10th Century Arabic Grimoire
Margaret E. Gaida,
Postdoctoral Instructor in Early Modern Natural Philosophy,
Caltech,
- Internal Event
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
12:00pm
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1:00pm
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HSS Graduate Students Third-Year Presentations
A Repulsive Bounded-Confidence Model of Opinion Dynamics in Polarized Communities
Claudia Kann,
Graduate Student,
Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Caltech,
2:30pm
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4:00pm
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Visual Culture Seminar
ARTIST TALK WITH ERIN JOHNSON
Erin Johnson,
Filmmaker, visual artist, and Chair of the Department of Film and Video at the Maryland Institute College of Art,
4:00pm
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5:30pm
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Seminar on History and Philosophy of Science
Pinocchio's Ancestry: a Social and Cultural History of Automata in the North Italian Renaissance
Cristiano Zanetti,
Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in the History of Science,
Caltech,
Friday, February 24th, 2023
9:30am
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2/25
4:00pm
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Tuesday, February 28th, 2023
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Literary Dimensions Seminar
Image Machines/Computation's Womb
Sarah Pourciau,
Assistant Professor of German,
Duke University,
4:00pm
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5:00pm
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Ulric B. and Evelyn L. Bray Social Sciences Seminar
Using Big Data and Machine Learning to Uncover How Players Choose Mixed Strategies
Michihiro Kandori,
Professor of Economics,
Graduate School of Economics,
University of Tokyo,