Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences

Upcoming Seminars

Kevin Grieco, State-building and the Social Contract in Dual Polities, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 12, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Alberto Acerbi (University of Trento), The cultural ecology of social media, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 16, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 5 (Second floor - TSE Building).

Jesse Fenneman, An intermediate representational framework to foster interdisciplinary communication: Discussing a future research line, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 19, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Silvia Sonderegger (Nottingham University), Divided We Act: The Role of Social Sanctions in a Polarized World, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 23, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor- TSE Building).

Past Seminars

Rebecca Saxe (MIT), What people learn from punishment, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 9, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 3 (Ground floor - TSE Building).

Catherine Molho, Punishment in relational context: evidence from 60 societies, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, June 5, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 5 (Second floor - TSE Building).

Luseadra Joy McKerracher (Aarhus University), Food insecurity and changing food preferences in times of compounding crisis: A new evaluation of the insurance hypothesis, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, May 26, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 5 (Second Floor - TSE Building).

Laurenz Guenther, Do Political Representation Gaps Cause Populism? Evidence from the 2025 German Election, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, May 22, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Mark Koyama (George Mason University), Rents and Reformation, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, May 19, 2026, 11:30–12:00, room Auditorium 5 (Second floor - TSE Building).

Andrew Little (Berkeley University), Does Partisanship or Arguing Activate Political Motivated Reasoning?, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, May 12, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Juan D. Carrillo (University of Southern California), Dynamic Coordination with Local Information: How Networks Learn, Mislearn, and Converge, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, April 17, 2026, 11:45–12:45, room Auditorium 6 ( ground floor - TSE building).

Aina Gallego (Universitat de Barcelona, Spain), What if you see it? Workers’ perceptions of and reactions to Generative AI, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, April 14, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).

Cameron Curtin, Institutions and the cultural evolution of cooperation: Insights from Oaxaca, Mexico, IAST Lunch Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, April 10, 2026, 12:45–13:45, room Auditorium 4 (first floor -TSE building).

Diego Alburez-Gutierrez (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research ), Bereavement Multipliers: Levels and Sources of Crossnational Differences in Losing Close Family, IAST General Seminar, Toulouse: IAST, April 7, 2026, 11:30–12:30, room Auditorium 4 (First floor - TSE Building).