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Office of Communications » Munroe Center for Social Inquiry / MCSI

Munroe Center for Social Inquiry / MCSI

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MCSI Lecture: Shannon Spaulding: How We Understand Others

MCSI Lecture: Shannon SpauldingIn this MCSI lecture, speaker Shannon Spaulding talks about mindreading and the ability to make sense of what people are thinking.
December 5, 2018
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MCSI Lecture: Elizabeth A. Phelps: “Race and the brain: Insights from the neural systems of emotion and decisions”

MSCI Lecture: Elizabeth A. PhelpsIn this talk, Harvard Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience Elizabeth Phelps provides an overview of research on the neuroscience of race and emotion, focusing on implicit race attitudes that are expressed without conscious effort and control.
November 6, 2018
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MCSI Lecture: Kristen Andrews: “Normative Cognition in Great Apes”

MCSI Lecture: Kristen AndrewsDrawing on primate and infant research, animal researcher Kristen Andrews offers another approach to examining the question of moral cognition in the great apes by examining the cognitive capacities required for normative thinking.
October 16, 2018
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MCSI Lecture: Jody Armour: “Unconscious Bias: The Social Construction of Black Criminals”

MCSI Video: Jody David ArmourIn this talk, USC Professor of Law Jody David Armour explores how social perceptions of wrongdoers—especially their race, gender, and class—determine how decision makers view their moral culpability and just desserts.
October 9, 2018
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MCSI Lecture: Siva Vaidhyanathan: “Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy”

iva VaidhyanathanIn Antisocial Media, Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook devolved from an innocent social site hacked together by Harvard students into a force that, while it may make personal life just a little more pleasurable, makes democracy a lot more challenging. It’s an account of the hubris of good intentions, a missionary spirit, and an ideology that sees computer code as the universal solvent for all human problems.
September 17, 2018
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Pitzer College 2018-19 Lecture Series Explores Social Perception

Pitzer College’s Munroe Center for Social Inquiry (MCSI) 2018 speakers series, “Perception in a Social World: Sensing Others and Seeing Ourselves,” will illuminate what it means to be social and sentient in today’s world. Throughout the semester, prominent speakers from a range of disciplines will explore our evolving understanding of social perception.
August 30, 2018
In the News Professor of Philosophy Brian Keeley

Professor Brian Keeley discusses the crisis-actor conspiracy theory in Splinter news article “The ‘Crisis Actor’ Conspiracy Theory Is a New Twist on an Old American Delusion.”

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Investigating Conspiracy Theories

MCSI Speaker Matthew DentithAuthor and podcaster Matthew Dentith examines the case for treating conspiracy theories seriously and investigating them.
November 28, 2017
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If Everyone is a Conspiracy Theorist, is Anyone?

MCSI Speaker Jack BratichRutgers University Professor Jack Bratich takes a critical approach to conspiracy theories at the crossroads of popular and political culture.
November 14, 2017
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What’s Love Got to Do With It?

John Jackson, Jr.University of Pennsylvania Professor John L. Jackson, Jr. examines racial and class-based differences in contemporary urban environments.
November 7, 2017

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The Participant Fall 2017

  • President’s Message: Melvin L. Oliver
  • Pitzer Pathfinder: Philip K. Frykman ’90
  • Class of 2021
  • Pathfinding Trustees Align Endowment with Values
  • Around The Mounds
  • Pitzer’s Charter Class of 1968
  • Juan Downey: Radiant Nature
  • Professor Jesse Lerner’s PST: LA/LA exhibition on Latin America and Disney
  • Written in the Stars: Meet Keck Dean Ulysses Sofia
  • Pitzer Field Notes
  • In Memoriam: Professor Harry Senn
  • New Faculty
  • Davis World College Scholars
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  • Pitzer Participant: Louise Beaudette Thornton ’68
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Class of 2021
New Student WelcomePhotos & Video

First Days for First-Years

This August, Pitzer’s new students moved into their dorm rooms and set out on orientation adventures to kick off what President Melvin L. Oliver called “an exciting year of growth and discovery.”

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View of "Juan Downey: Radiant Nature" in Nichols Gallery.Photos

Juan Downey: Radiant Nature

This joint exhibition by Pitzer College Art Galleries and LACE opened in September as part of the Getty-led Pacific Standard Time LA/LA initiative. The exhibition explored the works of Chilean-born artist Juan Downey.

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Around the Mounds
MCSI Speaker Matthew DentithMCSI Video

Investigating Conspiracy Theories

Author and podcaster Matthew Dentith examines the case for treating conspiracy theories seriously and investigating them.

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MCSI Speaker Jack BratichMCSI Video

If Everyone is a Conspiracy Theorist, is Anyone?

Rutgers University Professor Jack Bratich takes a critical approach to conspiracy theories at the crossroads of popular and political culture.

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John Jackson, Jr.MCSI Video

What’s Love Got to Do With It?

University of Pennsylvania Professor John L. Jackson, Jr. examines racial and class-based differences in contemporary urban environments.

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Joseph UzcinskiMCSI Video

Conspiracy Theories are for Losers

University of Miami Professor Joseph Uscinski highlights his analysis of more than a hundred years of data taken from newspapers, surveys and the internet.

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Lee BashamMCSI Video

Governing by Crisis: How Toxic Truths Subvert Mainstream Investigation

University of Texas Professor Lee Basham studies the information hierarchy where a few control what most believe.

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Kathryn OlmstedMCSI Video

Just Because You’re Paranoid Doesn’t Mean They’re Not Out to Get You

Author and UC Davis Professor Kathryn Olmsted researches the influence of anticommunism on American politics and policy.

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Nick Schou and Ben CollinsMCSI Video

Contemporary and Classic Conspiracy Theories

Journalists Ben Collins of The Daily Beast and Nick Schou of the OC Weekly talk about recent conspiracy theories.

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