Social Sciences Research Seminars
Time: 12:15–1:30 PM
Location: Powdermaker Hall, Room 333
The traditional pizza from the one and only Gino’s of Kissena will be served.
🔍 Upcoming Schedule: Spring 2026
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Speaker: Yinxian Zhang (QC Sociology)
Topic: “Parallel Politics: Chinese Diaspora on YouTube and the 2024 U.S. Election”
Monday, April 13, 2026
Speaker: Nerve Macaspac (QC School of Information)
Topic: “Peace Zones and Unarmed Civilian Protection”
Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Discussion Panel: Learning Outcomes in On-Line Classes
Wednesday, March 11, 2026
School-Wide Faculty Meeting
Monday, February 23, 2026
Speaker: Elissa Bemporad (QC History)
Topic: “Anti-Jewish Violence in the Aftermath of the Great War and the Bolshevik Revolution”
In the wake of the Great War, an estimated 150,000 Jews were killed amid some 2,000 documented pogroms marked by systematic looting, destruction of property, and widespread sexual violence. As extreme nationalism and revolutionary upheaval reshaped the western borderlands of the collapsing Romanov Empire, Jewish communities became
targets of unprecedented brutality as competing military forces fought to assert territorial and political control
