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Past Seminars and Talks
Spring Quarter 2009
April 17: UWISC seminar
Ian Hurd (Northwestern University)
"States and Rules: Strategic Behavior in International Society"
Associate Professor, Northwestern University
Department of Political Science
Discussant: TBA, Ph.D. student, UW
April 17-18: University Conference co-sponsored by the Department of
Political Science
"Global Justice in the 21st Century"
May 1: UWISC seminar
Will Reno (Northwestern University)
“Why does armed opposition fail in Africa?”
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Northwestern University
Discussant: Andrew Cockrell, Ph.D. student, UW
May 21: 2009 Severyns-Ravenholt Lecture
Jingjing Zhang (Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims in China)
"Law and the Environmental Movement in China" (click for PDF)
Thursday, May 21, 2009, 7:00pm in 110 Kane Hall
May 22: UWISC seminar
"Transnational Actors and the Boundaries of Civil Wars"
Jeffrey T. Checkel
Professor, School for International Studies, Simon Frazer University, Vancouver, BC
Discussant: Stephan Hamberg, Ph.D. student, UW
June 5: UWISC seminar
"Explaining the Frequency and Depth of Civilian Targeting in Warfare"
Ashley Thirkill-Mackelprang
Ph.D. student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
Discussant: TBA, Ph.D. student, UW
Winter Quarter 2009
February 6: UWISC seminar
Fiona Adamson (the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London)
"Long-Distance Conflicts: Diaspora Mobilization and International Security"
Senior Lecturer in International Studies, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Discussant: Ashley Thirkill-Mackelprang, Ph.D. student, UW
February 27: UWISC seminar
Lynn Eden (Stanford University)
"Organizational Theory and Homeland Security"
Acting Co-director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University
Discussant: Kristan Seibel, Ph.D. student, UW
March 6: UWISC seminar
Yoav Gortzak (Arizona State University)
"Indispensable Allies: Indigenous forces and Counterinsurgency Operations"
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Arizona State University
Discussant: TBA, Ph.D. student, UW
Fall Quarter 2008
October 1: CSSS Seminar
Matt Barreto (UW-Political Science), "Do Campaigns Ads
Really Work? The Effectiveness of Targeted Ads in the 2008 Presidential
Election: A Controlled Experiment,12:30-1:20,Denny 401.
October 1: CCCE and CAPPP Election 2008 Brown Bag Lecture Series
Lance Bennett UW-Political Science/Communication) and Valerie Manusov
UW-Communication), "Digital Media, Viral Video, and Coverage of the
Personal Behavior of Candidates," 12:00-1:30, Communications 126.
October 6: CCCE and CAPPP Election 2008 Brown Bag Lecture Series:
Regina Lawrence (Louisiana State University, and the holder of a 1997 Ph.D. from UW) and Melody Rose (Portland State University, "No One Knew How to Run a Woman as Leader of the Free World: Hillary Clinton's Gender Strategy in Campaign 2008," 3:30-5:00, Communication 126.
October 10: CAPP and Department of Political Science
Frank Baumgartner (Penn State University), "Lobbying and Policy Change in Washington, DC," 1:30-3:00, Gowen 1A.
October 14: WISER Distinguished Lecture
Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia), "Democracy's Reconstruction: W.E.B. DuBois and the Politics of Memory," 12 noon, Petersen Room, Allen Library.
October 16: CCCE and CAPPP Election 2008 Brown Bag Lecture Series
John Gastil (UW), "The Debates and the Dynamics of Campaign 2008,"Gowen 1A, 12:00-1:30.
October 17: CLASS and the Political Theory Colloquium
Thomas Dumm (AmherstCollege), "Who is an Executable Subject?: Human Animality and the Problem of Injustice," 12pm, Gowen 1A.
October 17: UWISC
Stephen Majeski
“Explaining US Foreign Policy Continuity: Theory and Some Evidence"
Discussant: Adam Forman (UW)
12-1:30pm in Smith 40A
October 21: CAPP and Department of Political Science Seminar
Todd Donovan (Western Washington University), "Populism, Institutions, and Policy," 1:30-3:00 in Gowen 1A.
October 26: CLASS/LSJ seminar
David Johnson (University of Hawaii), 12:30-2:00.
October 28: CCCE and CAPPP Election 2008 Brown Bag Lecture Series
Ralina Joseph (UW-Communication) and Chris Parker (UW-Political Science), "Barack Obama and the Electoral Politics of Race," 12:00-1:30, Gowen 1A.
November 5: CCCE and CAPPP Election 2008 Brown Bag Lecture Series
Matt Barreto (UW-Political Science), "Election 2008: What Happened and Why,12:00-1:30, Communications 126.
November 14: UWISC
Peter Andreas (Brown University)
“Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo”
Discussant: John Buchanan, Ph.D. student, UW
12-1:30pm in Gowen 1A
November 14
Idean Salehyan (Univ of North Texas)
"Rebel Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics"
1:30-3pm, GWN 1A
November 18
Victor Menaldo (Stanford Univ)
"Banking on Redistribution: Financial Institutions and
Redistributive Policy under Latin America Democracy"
3:30-5pm, GWN 1A
November 21
Claire Adida (Stanford Univ)
"Too Close for Comfort? Immigrant Exclusion in Africa"
2:30-4pm, GWN 1A
November 25
David S. Siroky (Duke University)
Talk Title: "Secession and Survival"
3:30-5pm, GWN 1A
December 2
Zeynep Somer-Topcu (UC-Davis)
Talk Title: "Timely Decisions: The Effects of Past Elections on Party
Policy Change"
3:30-5pm, GWN 1A
December 5
Conor O'Dwyer (University of Florida)
"The Advantages of Underdevelopment? The Politics of
Second-Generation Economic Reform in the 'New' Europe"
3:30-5pm, GWN 1A
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