Welcome to ICOS

ICOS, or the Interdisciplinary Committee on Organizational Studies, has the single goal of enhancing the University of Michigan’s strength as a world center for interdisciplinary research and scholarship on organizations. We seek to enrich the intellectual environment of Ph.D. students and faculty interested in organization studies, by increasing the quality, breadth, depth, and usefulness of organizational research.


Emily Erikson, Yale University

Specialization, the Division of Labor, and Explorations in Property Distribution

Emily Erikson, Yale University

Speaker(s)

Emily Erikson: Joseph C. Fox Academic Director of the Fox International Fellowship Professor of Sociology and, by courtesy, School of Management; Chair, Department of Sociology

Lecture Time:

Friday, January 23, 2026 @ 1:30 pm

Lecture Location:

R2240, Ross building

Christoph Riedl, Northeastern University

AI and Collective Intelligence

Christoph Riedl, Northeastern University

Speaker(s)

Christoph Riedl: Professor, Supply Chain and Information Management; D'Amore-McKim Humanics Leader

Lecture Time:

Friday, January 30, 2026 @ 1:30 pm

Lecture Location:

R2240, Ross building

Moira Zellner, Northeastern University

Realizing the potential of community-led, science-driven participatory modeling: A case in green infrastructure planning

Moira Zellner, Northeastern University

Speaker(s)

Moira Zellner: Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs; Director of Participatory Modeling and Data Science; Director, MS in Urban Informatics Program; Co-Director of NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science

Lecture Time:

Friday, February 6, 2026 @ 1:30 pm

Lecture Location:

R2240, Ross building

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