IBS Speaker Series: Sarah Klassen
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Mapping Cambodia's Ancient Cities: Lidar, Radar, and AI Insights into Ancient Settlements Abstract: In tropical regions, now lush with dense vegetation, technologies such as lasers, radar, and artificial intelligence have uncovered compelling evidence of extensive preindustrial settlements. In this talk, Klassen will ... Read more
14th Annual IGSS Conference
Integrating Genetics and the Social Sciences 2023 Keynote Speaker: Emily R. Klancher Merchant
IBS Speaker Series: Pam Buckley, Christine Steeger, Charleen Gust
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Evidence-Based Behavioral Programs for Youth – What are they? Are they inclusive of diverse populations? Do they build a more equitable future for all youth, families and communities? Abstract: Evidence-based programs (EBPs) for youth are structured preventive interventions that have been developed ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: CUPC Flash Talks
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Jani Little, Rocky Mountain Research Data Center- “The Rocky Mountain RDC and Expanding Opportunities with Restricted Data” Brian Cadena, Economics, University of Colorado Boulder - “US-Mexico Migration Networks: New Data and New Questions” Ryan Masters, Sociology, University of Colorado Boulder - “Understanding Recent ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Suzanne Tegen
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: When we can’t say Climate Justice: the importance of the messenger and the context in the energy transition Abstract: Suzanne Tegen will talk about her work with rural coal communities and how building trust can take more time and more listening than ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Sandra Ristovska
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Seeing Human Rights: Video Activism as a Proxy Profession Abstract: As video becomes an important tool to expose injustice, I discuss how human rights organizations seek to professionalize video activism through video production, verification standards, and training. The result, I argue, is a ... Read more
CUPC/IBS Speaker Series: Andrea Tilstra
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Indirect Consequences of Mortality Crises Abstract: The immediate, direct effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on mortality are felt worldwide. Yetthis is not the only mortality crisis the world has witnessed in recent decades. In the US, theopioid epidemic, increased automobile deaths ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Jeremiah Osborne-Gowey
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Exploring The Effects Of Social Capital And Migration On Agricultural Practices Among Farmers In Sri Lanka And Bangladesh (and a small sampling of other projects) Abstract: Agriculture is a small but key economic sector globally, providing food security and livelihoods for millions, ... Read more
Panel Discussion: What is Climate Justice and Why Does it Matter in Our Work at CU and Beyond?
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP Join a panel discussion hosted by Amanda Carrico, Katie Clifford, Jasmin Barco, Emily Yeh, and James Rattling Leaf of CU Boulder.
IBS Speaker Series: Meg Shannon
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Peacekeeping Complexity and Contributions to United Nations Missions Abstract: United Nations peacekeeping is an important instrument for maintaining international peace, but the mandates that peacekeeping operations (PKOs) are expected to implement have become increasingly complex as a result of UN Security Council ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Katherine LeMasters
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, CORecording: Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Epidemiology of Health Equity for Those Impacted by Mass Incarceration Abstract: Mass incarceration is a system of social and racial control in the United States that arrests, convicts, incarcerates, and supervises racial and ethnic minority populations through probation and parole. Mass ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: IBS Flash Talks
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, CORecording: https://youtu.be/WGnKAlGI1B4 Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Jaroslav Tir (PID): Does Terror Threat Alone Engender the Rally Around the Flag Effect? Amir Behzadan (E&S): Humans, Disasters, and the Thing Called Artificial Intelligence! Tania Barham (H&S): Improving the Early Childhood Environment: Long-term and Intergenerational Effects on Human Capital and ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Malini Rama Ranganathan
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Long Climate Crisis: Global Political Ecologies of Caste, Race, and Migration Abstract: This talk argues that to bolster our understanding of the long climate crisis, we turn to the interplay of caste and race, labor migration, and ecological and economic extraction ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Srinivas “Chinnu” Parinandi
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Legislative Capacity and Regulatory Compliance: Evidence from the Opioid Epidemic (paper joint with David Fortunato, University of California at San Diego) Abstract: We argue that endowing legislatures with greater resources for policy design and oversight can improve regulatory compliance. The argument is ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Chloe East
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Safety Net and Job Loss: How Much Insurance Do Public Programs Provide? Abstract: An extensive literature documents large and persistent declines in earnings following job loss. We comprehensively study the role of the public safety net in mitigating lost income from ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Merlin Chowkwanyun
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: When All Health Politics Was Local Abstract: This talk argues that one cannot understand the origins of health problems -- and the success of solutions to address them -- without analyzing the local context that surrounds them. We'll examine battles over pollution caused by industrial giants, coal ... Read more
IBS/Environment and Society Program Climate Justice Series: Marccus D. Hendricks
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Murky Waters and Environmental Risks: A Community-Driven Approach to Evaluate Exposures from Sanitary Sewer Overflows and Basement Backups Abstract: Past studies in public health have demonstrated an association between disease and poor sanitation, such as waterborne illnesses and exposure to sewage-laden waters. ... Read more
IBS/Environment and Society Program Speaker Series: Sabina Ribeiro
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve (CMER), A Pocket of Hope in Facing Increasing threats in the Brazilian Amazon Abstract: Extractive Reserves (Resex) are a sustainable use conservation unit in which the maintenance of social, cultural and economic aspects of traditional peoples are ... Read more
IBS/CU Population Center Speaker Series: James Raymer
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Modelling migration to understand demographic change Abstract: Flows of international migration are needed around the world to understand the patterns and corresponding effects on demographic, social and economic change across sending and receiving countries. A major challenge to this understanding is that ... Read more
IBS/Program on International Development Speaker Series: Calla Hummel
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Do Remittances Increase Support for LGBTQ+ Rights? Abstract: People who have migrated to new countries send billions of dollars in remittances to family members each year. Research shows that receiving remittances influences the recipient’s voting, political engagement, and beliefs. Our project asks: ... Read more
IBS/Prevention Science Program Speaker Series: Nadine Finigan-Carr
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: The Syndemic of Injustice Impacting Black Youth Abstract: Sex trafficking of children and youth is receiving significant attention from practitioners, researchers, and policymakers. Recognition that sex trafficking constitutes a form of child abuse has increased; however, there is still a need for ... Read more
IBS/Program on International Development Speaker Series: Alex Siegel
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Co-optation and Coercion of Online Influencers: Evidence from Saudi Wikipedia Abstract: How do authoritarian regimes use co-optation and coercion of influential internet users to control online information? This paper explores how the Saudi regime co-opted prominent Wikipedia administrators to alter content on sensitive domestic and foreign political topics. ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Amy Javernick-Will
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Enhancing the sustainability and resiliency of infrastructure: Collaboratively strengthening systems Abstract: Dr. Javernick-Will’s research group, Global Projects and Organizations, studies pathways to sustainable and resilient communities and infrastructure systems, often in resource-limited and multi-hazard contexts. Dr. Javernick-Will’s work takes a systems perspective ... Read more
PSP Guest Talk: Dr. Brittany Cooper
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COTitle: Promoting a Healthy and Equitable Society through Research-Policy-Practice Partnerships: New Horizons in Prevention Science. Abstract: As President of the national Society for Prevention Research, Dr. Cooper will speak to the current state of the prevention science field and her predictions for the field over the next decade. Bio: Dr. Brittany Cooper's program of research ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Regina Bateson
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COTitle: Human Rights or Criminals' Rights? How Crime Undermines Support for Human Rights in Central America Abstract: Amidst iron-fisted policing, state repression, and political violence, human rights advocacy remains critically important in Central America. Yet human rights are a contested concept in the region. Across multiple years of ethnographic research in Guatemala, we have often ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Teresa Wroe
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COhttps://youtu.be/b7ZX22dv-H8 Title: Addressing Microaggressions Abstract: Microaggressions are everyday interactions that signal someone is being seen through the lens of a stereotype. While they are often subtle and brief, the cumulative impact is not. This interactive session provides skills for effectively addressing and repairing the harm of microaggressions. Bio: Teresa Wroe is currently the Assistant Vice ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: IBS Flash Talks
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Robert Wyrod (PID): Global China & Africa Scott Ortman (E&S): What the archaeological record reveals about inequality Sharon DeWitte (H&S): Migrant health in medieval London Karl Hill (PSP): Addressing suicide prevention through upstream universal childhood intervention Lori Hunter, Tania Barham, Elizabeth Montoya (POP): Migration, ... Read more
IBS/Center for the Collaborative Synthesis in Archaeology Speaker Series: Luis Bettencourt
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COLink to recording: https://youtu.be/y6y8S83kji8 Join in person or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Urban science and its implications: from large societal transformations to changes in behavior and cognition Abstract: Cities are some of the most spectacular and pervasive manifestation of our human capacity for ultrasociality. New evidence throughout history and from ... Read more
IBS/CUPC Speaker Series: Laura Sochas
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Critical and quantitative? Squaring the circle in health and population studies. Abstract: While qualitative research presents obvious strengths for critical population studies, quantification is also essential to critical social science’s emancipatory aim. In this talk, I take feminist critiques ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Leigh Senderowicz
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: I was obligated to accept: Measurement of coercion and autonomy in global family planning programs Bio: Dr. Leigh Senderowicz (she/her) is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights, race, ... Read more
Book Reading by Gary Machlis
Boulder Public Library - Canyon Theatre 1000 Canyon Blvd., Boulder, Colorado, United StatesJoin Gary Machlis in a book reading and discussion of his new book, Sustainability for the Forgotten. The event will take place at the Boulder Public Library's Canyon Theatre. Machlis will also be a visiting lecturer at IBS on Monday, September 9. Sustainability for the Forgotten: Bringing the oft-forgotten into the core of the sustainability ... Read more
IBS Lecture & Conversation: Gary Machlis
IBS 155 Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Sustainability for the Forgotten: Bringing the oft-forgotten into the core of the sustainability movement. Abstract: Opening with the extraordinary story of a young French priest working in 1968 amongst impoverished villages of northeast Brazil, struggling to bring sustenance, sustainability, and ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Alex Siegel
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Co-optation and Coercion of Online Influencers: Evidence from Saudi Wikipedia Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: TBD
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
Fundraiser for Breast Cancer Support
Valmont Bike Park 3160 Airport Rd, Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United StatesJoin us to honor Denise Porchetta’s contributions to IBS — and to support breast cancer patients and research! Walk or ride scenic loops that circumnavigate Boulder, a dream that Denise sadly left unfulfilled. The walk kicks off at 10 am, Saturday, September 28, 2024, at Valmont Bike Park, 3160 Airport Rd, Boulder, CO 80301. As chosen by ... Read more
IBS Speaker Series: Shane Singh
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Do Emotions Drive the Link Between Winning and Satisfaction with Democracy? Leveraging the Super Bowl, the World Cup, and The Lion King Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: James Densley
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series Jessor Lecture: Alex Ezeh
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: Abby Cordova
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: IBS Flash Talks
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: TBD
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series & CNAIS: Roundtable Discussion on Conservation and Indigenous Peoples
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: Michelangelo Landgrave
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: Sharon DeWitte
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: Childhood nutritional stress and later-life health outcomes in medieval England: evidence from incremental dentine analysis Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD
IBS Speaker Series: IBS Flash Talks
IBS 155A Institute of Behavioral Science 1440 15th Street, Boulder, COJoin in person at IBS 155 or via Zoom, email ibs-contact@colorado.edu for the password.*Light lunch served at 11:45, please RSVP. Title: TBD Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD