[Poscgrad] Upcoming Social Sciences Lab Brown Bag Seminar: Feb 26, 11-12 @INTS1113

[Jieun Lee]

This is a reminder about the upcoming seminar on *February 26* from 11am to
12pm in INTS 1113.

Mirya Homan (Professor in Public Policy, University of Houston) will
present a paper titled "*Identity Claims in Political Speech*." Additional
details are provided below. Please register for the event here
<https://forms.gle/KQrTxp3aivz3iwLL7> if you are interested! Lunch will be
provided.

On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 1:43 PM Jieun Lee <jlee1433 at ucr.edu> wrote:

> Dear POSC grad students,
>
> The Social Sciences Laboratory's next Brown Bag Seminar will take place on *February
> 26* from 11am to 12pm in INTS 1113.
>
> Mirya Homan (Professor in Public Policy, University of Houston) will
> present a paper titled "*Identity Claims in Political Speech*."
> Additional details are provided below. Please register for the event here
> <https://forms.gle/KQrTxp3aivz3iwLL7> if you are interested! Lunch will
> be provided.
>
> We are also planning to hold three to four talks by faculty across social
> science disciplines during the Spring quarter. Please stay tuned for more
> information!
>
> *Title*: Identity Claims in Political Speech
> *Abstract*:
> Social identities are central to political discussions and decisions. But
> how do people deploy identities that are not visibly apparent? We argue
> that people use identity claims to establish themselves as members of
> socially desirable and situationally relevant groups and to draw attention
> to their political communications. We evaluate the use of these *identity
> claims* across five datasets: elite communications in newsletters,
> biographies, and on social media and in public comment periods in 200,000+
> school board and city council meetings to show that people use
> situationally relevant and socially deserving identities. We then test our
> argument causally through a unique survey experiment where participants
> rate and rank public comments. Finally, we use public comments in a single
> school board to evaluate changes in vocal pitch to establish that identity
> claims preface heightened emotions.
>
>
> --
> Jieun Lee
> *Ph.D. Candidate*, Department of Political Science,
> *Lab Manager, *Social Sciences Laboratory,
> University of California, Riverside
>
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