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Randall Harp, SOCKS Co-PI, upcoming talk for Philosophy Week! How Should We Punish?
Monday, April 15th, 2024 8:00 PM to 9:00 PM
 
Venetian Soda Lounge 266 Pine Street, Suite #122 Burlington, VT, 05401 United States
 
Annual lively series of discussions, talks, tastings, and screenings, aimed at fostering thoughtful reflections on life's most meaningful questions. Continually updating with new events as they take shape, so be sure to revisit this space for the latest updates.
 
For the full schedule visit:
https://www.publicphilosophyweek.org/
https://www.publicphilosophyweek.org/2024-events/how-should-we-punish
SOCKS Speaker Series - Dr. Brooke Welles
Friday, September 20th, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
 
Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Brooke Welles. More details to follow soon.
SOCKS Speaker Series - Dr. Joshua Garland
Friday, October 18th, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
 
Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Joshua Garland. More details to follow soon.
SOCKS Speaker Series - Dr. Mirta Galesic
Friday, December 6th, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
 
Please join us for a presentation by Dr. Mirta Galesic. More details to follow soon.

2024 SOCKS All Hands Meeting
Tuesday, April 2nd, 2024 8:30 PM to 3:35 PM
 
UVM Alumni House, 61 Summit Street, Burlington VT
 
Please join us for discussions on the research behind the projects and aims for the future.
SOCKS Speaker Series - "Parler Games: Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy, and Insurrection" with Timothy Tangherlini, PhD
Friday, March 29th, 2024 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM
 
Please join us for a presentation by Timothy Tangherlini, PhD, on Friday, March 29th at 12:00 PM in the UVM Alumni House Silver Pavilion. Dr. Tangherlini will present “Parler Games: Conspiracy Theory, Conspiracy, and Insurrection.”
 
Timothy Tangherlini is Professor of Folklore at the University of California Berkeley, where he also serves as graduate advisor in the Folklore program and the associate director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science. He has developed computational approaches to stories and storytelling over the past three decades.
 
Event Video    Event Slides (PDF)
Lecture with Chris Danforth - Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Society through Social Media
Monday, November 13th, 2023 4:30 PM
 
WATERMAN MEMORIAL LOUNGE
85 South Prospect St. - Room 338
 
Professor of Mathematics & Statistics at the University of Vermont, Chris Danforth serves as the Director of the Vermont Advanced Computing Center and co-leads the Computational Story Lab research group at the Vermont Complex Systems Center. He has extensive experience in chaos theory applied to weather forecasting and current research on socio-technical systems and is the co-inventor of hedonometer.org, an instrument that measures daily happiness based on social media use. Danforth has also developed algorithms to identify predictors of depression from Instagram photos.
“Computational Narrative Understanding” with Dr. Andrew Piper, PhD
Friday, November 3rd, 2023 12:00 PM
 
Please join us for a presentation by Andrew Piper, PhD on Friday, November 3rd at 12:00 PM in the Williams Family Room of the UVM Davis Center. Dr. Piper will present “Computational Narrative Understanding.” Lunch will be provided.
 
Dr. Piper is a Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at McGill University. He completed his PhD in German Literature in 2005 at the University of Columbia and is also an Associate Member of McGill's Department of Art History and Communication Studies.
Slack Tutorial with Juniper Lovato
Wednesday, October 18th, 2023 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM
 
Attend via Zoom.
 
Tutorial on using the Slack space for SOCKS members presented by Juniper Lovato.
Event Video
2023 SOCKS Strategic Planning Meeting
Thursday, August 24th, 2023 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM
Reception 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
Friday, August 25th, 2023 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM

 
Burlington Hula Lakeside, 50 Lakeside Avenue.
 
Two day Strategic Planning Meeting for all SOCKS members.