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• Latest Research Policy Updates with COSSA & COGR

  • When
    July 28, 2025
  •  
    2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  

  From the Consortium of Social Science Associations:

  Latest Research Policy Updates with COSSA & COGR

  July 28, 2025 | 2:00 pm-3:00 pm EDT | Virtual

  On July 28, join COSSA for the next installment in the Headlines Webinar series. This month’s meeting will feature a discussion with research policy experts from COGR on topics like indirect costs, research compliance, and other timely developments impacting the social and behavioral science community. Come join the conversation.

  Note: This event is for member associations and universities; DCSS is not a member of COSSA.

  Read the complete announcement and register on the COSSA website

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• Mapping Urban History training

  • When
    July 29, 2025
  •  
    10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Virtual

  

  Upcoming trainings on digitizing historical census geography using public resources and open-source GIS software. The training is hosted by The Mark Fosset Lab, which is currently creating 1940 enumeration district boundaries and sharing resources to engage others at all experience levels in this work.
  

  • Session 1 (July 29, 10:00-11:30 PDT): Key preparations for mapping enumeration districts
  • Session 2 (July 31, 10:00-11:30 PDT): Working in QGIS to draw boundary maps

  See more information and register online.

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• Profs & Pints DC: Understanding Immigration

  • When
    July 29, 2025
  •  
    6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    Penn Social, Washington DC

  Profs & Pints DC: Understanding Immigration

  Tue, Jul 29th, 2025, 6:00 - 8:30 PM EDT
  Penn Social, Washington, DC

  Profs and Pints DC presents: “Understanding Immigration,” a deep and nuanced examination of today’s immigration realities, trends, and challenges, with Ernesto Castañeda, professor of sociology and director of the Immigration Lab and the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University. 

  Get more details and purchase tickets through TicketLeap.

  Professor Castañeda was the 2023 recipient of the DCSS Rosenberg Award for Outstanding Sociological Achievement.

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• A Cognitive View of Policing

  • When
    July 30, 2025
  •  
    3:00 PM
  • Location
    Virtual

  From the Social Science Research Council:

  A Cognitive View of Policing:
  Leveraging Behavioral Science to Improve Officer Training

  A talk by:
  Oeindrila Dube, University of Chicago

  Wednesday, July 30, 2025
  3:00 - 4:00 p.m. Eastern

  "What if the key to police reform isn't changing policies or removing "bad actors," but understanding how good officers make decisions under pressure? Professor Dube argues that prevailing approaches to police reform overlook a fundamental reality: officers must make decisions under intense stress and time pressure—cognitive conditions that lead even well-intentioned officers to rely on mental shortcuts and default assumptions. Drawing on insights from behavioral economics, Professor Dube designed a new training approach that addresses these cognitive realities. Through a sustained partnership with the Chicago Police Department, she tested whether changing how officers think could transform how they act. This seminar will present the results from this collaboration, demonstrating how behavioral science offers a promising new pathway for police reform that works with, rather than against, human psychology."

  See complete information and register on Zoom.

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• Building Solidarity and Insurgency in the Academy and Beyond

  • When
    August 11, 2025
  •  
    1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Chicago, IL

  From the SSSP:

  

  Building Solidarity and Insurgency in the Academy and Beyond

  THE CALL TO ACTION
  
  In this period of attack and resistance, the present moment is critical for us to theorize, build, fight, unite. Faculty, students, fighters, thinkers, community, union members, all committed to social transformation must build together.

  JOIN US to theorize, strategize, organize and take action.

  WHERE: Chicago Teachers Union Foundation,
  1901 W. Carroll Ave., Chicago, Illinois 60612

  WHEN: August 11, 2025, 1:00-3:00 pm, Level 1, Building C, 125 Classroom.

  Contact:  Rose M. Brewer, PhD
  Scholar/Activist, 2024-2025 President SSSP
  E-mail: brewe001@umn.edu

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