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Seminar Series

DONDENA SEMINAR SERIES - FALL 2025
All seminars will take place in hybrid mode from 12:45 to 2:00PM (CET) at Bocconi University Room 3.B3.SR01 via Röntgen 1, Milano

FOR INFORMATION
Carlo F. Dondena Center for Research on Social Dynamics and Public Policy
tel. +39 025836.6620 dondenaresearch@unibocconi.it www.dondena.unibocconi.it

8 SEPTEMBER
SEXUAL HARASSMENT AT THE WORKPLACE: THE ROLE OF FIRM POLICIES AND MANAGERS
Ingo Isphording Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

15 SEPTEMBER
THE PRIMACY OF PLACE OVER CLASS IN THE VOLCANIC WINTERS OF EARLY MODERN JAPAN
Fabian Drixler Yale University

29 SEPTEMBER
POLITICIZED SCIENTISTS: CREDIBILITY COST OF POLITICAL EXPRESSION ON TWITTER
Eleonora Alabrese University of Bath

6 OCTOBER
THE ELEPHANT IN THE FAMILY POLICY ROOM: HOW CARE CULTURE INFLUENCES THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC CHILDCARE ON WOMEN’S LABOR MARKET PARTICIPATION IN EUROPE
Emmanuele Pavolini University of Milan

13 OCTOBER
FLORA, COSMOS, SALVATIO: PRE-MODERN ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS AND THE SPREAD OF IDEAS
David de la Croix UC Louvain 

20 OCTOBER
SECRECY & KLEPTOCRACY
Brooke Harrington Dartmouth College

27 OCTOBER
A BAYESIAN VIEW OF ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY BRAIN IMAGING
Donatello Telesca UCLA

3 NOVEMBER
UNDERSTANDING THE LONG‑RUN DETERMINANTS OF INEQUALITY AND SOCIAL MOBILITY: A DEMOGRAPHIC PERSPECTIVE FROM HISTORICAL CATALONIA
Gabriel Brea-Martinez Lund University

10 NOVEMBER
TBD

17 NOVEMBER
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, GREATER COMPLEXITY: AN INTERSECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF GENDER, RACE, AND PARENTHOOD IN DOMESTIC ATTRIBUTION
Lea Pessin European University Institute 

24 NOVEMBER
REPRESENTATION FROM BELOW: THE GRASSROOTS ORIGINS OF WOMEN’S POLITICAL POWER
Tanushree Goyal Princeton University 

1 DECEMBER
TBD
Alexandra Scacco WZB

15 DECEMBER
ASSURANCE AND SELF-ASSURANCE UNDER POWER IMBALANCE
Alexandre Debs Yale University


                 

Erasmus University
PILAR GOMEZ
Gender and Performance in Collaborative Research: Evidence From Student Teams
University College London
FRANCESCA BORGONOVI
A brief review of computer-based assessments in education and an application to the study of test taking strategies of videogamers
Bocconi University
DONDENA RESEARCH MEETING
Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
CHRISTOPHER CARLETON
The surprising impact of climate change on conflict in Europe during the 2nd Millennium and its implications for our understanding of long-term climate-conflict dynamics
Institute For Advanced Study in Toulouse
MANVIR SINGH
The deep origins of sedentism, inequality, and large groups
University of Gothenburg
STAFFAN I. LINDBERG
Autocratization Accelerates: Trends for Democracy and Autocracy in a Covid-19 World
Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad
CHINMAY TUMBE
The Age of Pandemics, 1817-1920: How they shaped India and the World
Institute for Economic and Social History
MARKUS LAMPE
Deliberate Surrender? The Impact of Interwar Indian Protection
University of Wisconsin - Madison
MARCY CARLSON & PETER FALLESEN
Longer lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark
University of Pennsylvania
JULIA C. GRAY
Forming Preference on International Cooperation: Uncertainty, Control, and Shocks to Leadership in the 1919 US Senate Debate on the League of Nations