Events
In collaboration with the Department of Social Sciences and the Figuerola Institute – all at Carlos III University – the Max Weber Lectures feature renowned researchers whose work is of general interest in the Social Sciences, beyond the usual disciplinary boundaries of sociology, political science and economics.
In Spring 2024 there will be three sessions:
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20 June: Steven Levitsky (David Rockefeller Professor of Latin American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Harvard University). “Democracy’s Surprising Resilience”
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26 September: Jean Laurent Rosenthal (Rea A. and Lela G. Axline Professor of Business Economics; Director Ronald and Maxine Linde Institute of Economic and Management Sciences, CalTech) “Capital’s Capital: Wealth and Inequality in Paris 1807-2023”.
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14 November: Margaret Levi (Professor of Political Science and Senior Fellow of the Centre for Democracy, Development and Rule of Law -CDDRL- del Freman Spogli Institute -FSI, Stanford University). This will be announced on the web.
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Lectures are open to the whole academic community.
Events
Internal seminars are one of the basic pillars of the research activity developed by the IC3JM fellows. They are usually interspersed with the Permanent Seminars, and they are open to all fellows (both members and visiting) of the Institute.
Fall 2024
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13 September: Adrian J. Shin (College of Arts and Sciences, University of Colorado -Boulder), “Industry Representatives: How Deindustrialization Shapes Elite Messaging on Immigration”
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27 September: Pau Vall-Prat (IC3JM). TBA |
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11 October: Sergio Galaz (IC3JM). TBA.
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15 November: Ignacio Sánchez-Cuenca (IC3JM). TBA.
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Spring 2024
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16 February: Sebastián Lavezzolo and Ilona Lahdelma (both IC3JM), “Education and Attitudes Towards Europe: Correcting for Social Desirability Bias”
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1 March: Harris Mylonas (George Washington University), “Comparing Theories and Causal Identification Practices: Valuating Methods and Evidence in Political Science” |
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19 April: Fernando Mello (IC3JM), “Polarization and Perceptions of Status Gain AND Loss: The Case of Brazil”
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10 May: Gabriel Negretto (IC3JM), “Constitutional Renewals: The Lineage of Democratizing Constitutions”
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The Permanent Seminar, organized by the Academic Secretariat of the IC3JM, Amuitz Garmendia, is held on Fridays at 12:30 p.m. and is announced here.
Fall 2024
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20 September: Sam Friedman (London School of Economics), “Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite”
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4 October: Agustina Giraudy (American University), “Digging Deeper: The Multi-Level Political Drivers of Chinese Extractive Investment in Latin America”
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25 October: Felipe González (Queen Mary University of London), “Government Support in Times of Crisis: Evidence from Chile’s Road to Socialism”
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8 November: Sirus Dehdari (Stockholm University), “Individual versus Contextual Economic Factors: Exploring Support for the Radical Right”
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22 November: Sunshine Hillygus (Duke University), “Polling and Polarization in the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election”
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29 November: Ariadna Ripoll (Paris Lodron University Salzburg), “(De)politicising Migration Policies in the European Union”
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Spring 2024
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9 February: Anita R. Gohdes (Hertie School), “Civilian Behavior on Social Media During Civil War”
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23 February: Jenna Bednar (University of Michigan), “The ‘Double Security’ of Democracy: Federalism’s Effect on Democratic Robustness”
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8 March: Andrea Ruggeri (University of Oxford), The Violence of Legacies on Contentious Politics. Italy and the Years of Lead 1969-1988”
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15 March: Arthur Spirling (Princeton University), “Extensions to Embedding Regression: Models for Context-Specific Description and Inference”
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22 March: Rachel Bernhard (University of Oxford), “A Rich Woman’s World? Wealth and Gendered Paths to Office”
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12 April: Miguel Pereira (London School of Economics), “Why Parties Can Benefit from Promoting Occupational Diversity in Legislatures: Experimental Evidence from Three Countries”
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26 April: Agustina Paglayan (University of California, San Diego), “When Does Education Promote Political Participation? The Role of Curriculum Reforms”
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Events
On 13 and 14 June 2024 the IC3JM biannual lecture took place on the UC3M campus.
Events
On June 27th and 28th, 2024 the second workshop for Master students in social sciences organized by the University of Barcelona (IPERG, IEB and the Economic History and Development Research Group) together with the Carlos III-Juan March Institute was held at the University of Barcelona. This is an academic workshop in which eight Master’s students (four from each institution) presented the research projects they are working on for their Master’s thesis. The event was organized by Sandra León y Sebastián Lavezzolo representing the Master in Social Science (IC3JM) and Pilar Sorribas and Francesc Amat representing the Master in Institutions and Political Economy (UB).
