Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

What is social justice pedagogy? How might shifting our thinking about it from a practice that needs to be decolonized to a practice that can be decolonizing help us engage in liberatory practice?

Join the RPI Department of Economics for a virtual seminar talk.

David Cesarini (NYU) will be presenting.

Join us on Zoom November 10th, 2021 from 4 PM - 5:30 PM

Please join the STS Department at the school of HASS on November 17th at 11 AM where Professor Anthony Ryan Hatch will discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic joins an already ongoing racial spectacle and system of structural gaslighting organized around “racial health disparities'' in the United States and globally.

The discussion will be via WebEx. Please REGISTER if you would like to attend.

On Friday, November 12 at 7:00 PM, join us for a virtual film screening of “Not Going Quietly” with filmmaker Nicholas Bruckman, followed by a special message by Ady Barkan and panel discussion.

RPI ECONOMICS VIRTUAL SEMINAR: Jungbin Hwang (University of Connecticut)

Join the RPI Department of Economics for a virtual seminar talk. Jungbin Hwang (University of Connecticut) will be presenting work in progress, "Finite-sample Corrected Inference for Two-step GMM in Time Series"

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2021-11-17, 4:00PM - 5:30PM

The School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences is pleased to announce the Rensselaer Orchestra's Concerto Competition for the 2021-22 school year! To be eligible, students must be enrolled in the orchestra, concert choir, chamber ensembles, or obtain special permission from Professor Tamara Dworetz. To audition, please submit a video recording of yourself performing 1 movement from a concerto or other stand-alone work for solo instrument and orchestra by January 9th, 2022. Accompaniment is not required for the video audition.

Join the RPI Department of Economics for a virtual seminar talk.

Laurent Cavenaile (University of Toronto) will be presenting work in progress, "Style Over Substance? Advertising, Innovation and Endogenous Market Structure"

Catch the meeting on Zoom on December 1st at 4:00PM.

Join the RPI Department of Economics for a virtual seminar talk.

Peter Savelyev (William and Mary) will be presenting work in progress, "Understanding the Educational Attainment Polygenic Score and Its Interactions with SES in Determining Health in Young Adulthood"

Join us on Zoom December 8th, 2021 at 4:00 PM.

Mengtai Zhang's immersive documentary Diagnosia will be featured in the New Forms Program at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival.  The New Frontiers program also includes a new work by Arts MFA alumni Kevin and Jennifer McCoy.

https://festival.sundance.org/program/#film/ntf/catalog

About Diagnosia:

The Department of Economics will be holding seven upcoming public presentations by candidates to fill two T/TT open positions beginning AY22-23.  These presentations will be held from 4:00 - 5:15pm on the following dates:

1. January 12, 2022

4:00 -5:15 pm

Candidate: Nicholas Brown

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