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Wednesdays@NICO Seminar | Durable Feminist Fields: The Persistence of Structure and Culture in New York City and Chicago | Laura Nelson, Northwestern University
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level Chambers Hall
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Wednesdays@NICO
Durable Feminist Fields: The Persistence of Structure and Culture in New York City and Chicago
Much of the research on U.S. women's movements suggests that the first wave “woman suffrage– movement remained almost exclusively in the political realm, while the second wave feminist movement was unique in its emphasis on the social, cultural, and personal spheres. My research challenges this account, showing that the so-called “between-wave– distinction existed, but it existed between cities within each wave. For instance, I show that what historians call second-wave feminism—the feminism that focused on cultural and personal issues—was actually New York City-style feminism that stretched all the way back to the first wave. To identify these patterns I use network and computational text analyses to measure the different structures and underlying cultural assumptions of the feminist fields in New York City and Chicago between 1865 and 1975. I detail three mechanisms producing this within-city persistence, each contributing to a city's unique “rolling inertia.– This research points to the importance of the institutionalization of city-based political cultures in shaping social movement fields. I suggest that computational methods, including automated text analysis, can open up new avenues for measuring (latent) cultural institutions and can lead to new ways of conducting formal comparative-historical social science.
Laura Nelson
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Management & Organizations, Kellogg School of Management
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
Northwestern University
Laura Nelson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, and is a research affiliate at the Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. She uses open source tools and computational methods to research social movements, institutions, culture, and gender.
Time
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level Chambers Hall Map
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WED@NICO SEMINAR: Lightning Talks w/ Northwestern Scholars!
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speakers:
Yessica Herrera, Visiting Scholar, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Talk Title: The Body Speaks: Visual Patterns of Psychological Stress
Aakriti Kumar, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems
Talk Title: Evaluating Elements of Empathic Communication with Experts, Crowds, and Large Language Models
Tingyu "Mark" Zhao, PhD Student, Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences
Talk Title: Noise Filtering in Complex Networks
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Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/95387714084
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, May 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
WED@NICO SEMINAR: Rosemary Braun, Northwestern University "The Scale of Life"
Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)
12:00 PM
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Lower Level, Chambers Hall
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Speaker:
Rosemary Braun, Associate Professor, Department of Molecular Biosciences, Northwestern University
Title:
The Scale of Life
Abstract:
Living systems exhibit surprising and beautiful self-organization at all scales. At the atomic level, proteins self-assemble into macromolecular complexes. The function of these machines is orchestrated within the cell by regulatory networks, whose activity is in turn dictated by, and coordinated with, the cells environment. This coordination takes place across large spans of space and time: the size and lifetime of organisms as large as the blue whale. Populations and ecosystems of many organisms in turn exhibit remarkable emergent dynamics. Today, advances in single-cell assays enable us to probe the molecular state of every cell in a sample in high-dimensional detail. But is this the correct scale at which to probe living systems? What can we learn from this data, and how can we abstract from the microscopic details to macroscopic phenotypes? In this talk, I will discuss some of our recent work bridging the cell and tissue/organism scales, and discuss some challenges and opportunities for the future.
Speaker Bio:
Rosemary Braun is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biosciences, Applied Mathematics [ESAM], and Physics at Northwestern University. A theoretical physicist by training, she earned her PhD in Physics from the University of Illinois, followed by a Masters in Biostatistics from Johns Hopkins University. She completed her postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute (NIH) before joining Northwestern as a faculty member. Today, she works at the intersection of statistics, mathematics, and biology to develop computational tools for analyzing high-dimensional data. In addition to her Northwestern affiliations, she is also Associate Director of the National Institute for Theory and Mathematics in Biology, as well as external faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.
Location:
In person: Chambers Hall, 600 Foster Street, Lower Level
Remote option: https://northwestern.zoom.us/j/97015976754
Passcode: NICO25
About the Speaker Series:
Wednesdays@NICO is a vibrant weekly seminar series focusing broadly on the topics of complex systems, data science and network science. It brings together attendees ranging from graduate students to senior faculty who span all of the schools across Northwestern, from applied math to sociology to biology and every discipline in-between. Please visit: https://bit.ly/WedatNICO for information on future speakers.
Time
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Lower Level, Chambers Hall Map
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Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)