The Innovative and Critical Perspectives in the Social Sciences (ICPSS) Colloquium returns for the 2026-27 academic year. Through five virtual speaker events, the ICPSS will expose students and faculty to cutting-edge research in the social sciences.
2026-27 Schedule
- Oct. 23, 10-11 a.m., featuring Elizabeth Adetiba, PhD, assistant professor at the University of Rochester. Her work investigates how historical constructions of Blackness shape scientific thinking across a range of social domains. Register for the event.
- Nov. 20, 10-11 a.m., featuring Tania Aparicio, PhD, assistant professor at Teachers College Columbia University. Her work explores systems of inequality in arts and culture. Aparicio is finishing "Contract to Taste," a book about how curatorial working conditions and resources shape taste-making. Register for the event.
- Jan. 8, 10-11 a.m., featuring Amy Zhou, PhD, assistant professor at Barnard College, Columbia University. She researches health inequalities, development and humanitarianism, and emergent technologies. Zhou's book, "Unequal Worlds of Care: The Politics of Global Health in Malawi," follows policymakers providers, and patients as they respond to global health programs that target certain issues but not others. This event is offered in a hybrid format. Register for the event.
- March 12, 10-11 a.m., featuring Erin Johnson, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at University of Southern Indiana. She studies how stigma affects access to care in both reproductive health social movements and sexual and reproductive health care experiences. Johnson's research explores the effects of our construction of the "female" body as fertile on policy making, medical practice, and bodily experience. Register for the event.
- April 23, 10-11 a.m., featuring Liat Ben-Moshe, PhD, associate professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. She is an activist-scholar-educator-researcher working at the intersection of incarceration, decarceration, abolition, and disability/madness. Register for the event.
The ICPSS is hosted by the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Emancipatory Sciences Lab. Contact [email protected] or [email protected] with questions.