UW International Security Colloquium (UWISC)
2009-2010 Seminar Schedule
Chaired and organized by Kristan Seibel, Department of Political Science


Click here for current UWISC 2009 - 2010 Schedule (PDF)
Click here to see a list of Past UWISC Talks: 2001 - 2009 (PDF)


Fall Quarter

October 30: UWISC Seminar
Terence Lee (National University of Singapore)
“Fractured Militaries: The Armed Forces and Transitions From Authoritarian Rule in Asia”
Discussant: TBA
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

November 13: UWISC Seminar
Steve Zech (University of Washington)
“Grass-roots Jihadist Networks, Political Entrepreneurs, and Terrorist Violence: Dynamic Networks and the 11-M Madrid Train Bombings”
Discussant: TBA
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

December 4: UWISC Seminar
Nina Tannenwald (Brown University)
“Targeted Killings: The Decline of the Norm Against Assassination?”
Discussant: William d’Ambruoso, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

Winter Quarter

January 22: UWISC Seminar
Jessica Weeks (Cornell University)
“Authoritarian Regimes, Domestic Politics, and Conflict Outcomes”
Discussant: Kendra Dupuy, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

February 5: UWISC Seminar
David Welch (University of Waterloo)
Discussant: Kristan Seibel, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

March 5: UWISC Seminar
Stephan Hamberg (University of Washington)
“Democratic Transitions and Violence”
Discussant: TBA
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

Spring Quarter

April 16: UWISC Seminar
Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
“Nuclear Power without Nuclear Proliferation?”
Discussant: Andrew Cockrell, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

April 30: UWISC Seminar
Nicolas Jabko (Sciences Po)
“The Social Construction of Strategy”
Discussant: Josh Eastin, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
12:00-1:30pm in Gowen 1A

Date: TBA
Emily Hafner-Burton (University of California, San Diego)
Discussant: TBA


** UWISC is sponsored by UW Institute for National Security Education and Research (INSER), the Center for Global Studies at the Jackson School of International Studies, and the Department of Political Science.