Week of April 1, 2024

 With Cherry blossoms in full swing and Spring quarter starting, Rachel Cichowski (our new Department Chair), shares a few key updates and reminders in her “Spring Quarter Greetings” email. Check your UW email for more information on this. 

Political Theory Colloquium presents Noga Rotem (University of Washington), “Puppets and Marionettes: Arendt’s Rahel Varnhagen, Freud’s Daniel Schreber, and the Strange Promise of Paranoia.” Thursday, April 4th, Thompson 317: 12:00-1:30pm  

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Brian Leung (University of Washington), “Zero-shot classification with Hugging Face & Transformers”. Thursday, April 4th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm. 

TownHall Seattle presents Maxwell Stearns (University of Maryland) explaining the need for radical reform affecting our electoral system and system of executive accountability with Mark Smith as discussant. Thursday, April 4^th, Townhall Seattle, 7:30-8:45pm 

The Department of Political Science will host a peer-to-peer teaching forum where faculty, TAs and graduate students can exchange strategies to improve student engagement. Friday, April 5, Gowen Hall- Olson 1A: 12:00-1:00pm. 

UW International Security Colloquium presents Sheena Chestnut Greitens (UT Austin), “Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy”. Friday, April 5th, Gowen Hall- Olson 1A: 1:30-3:00pm 

Center for Environmental Politics presents Dr. Robert Bullard (Texas Southern University), “The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice”. Tuesday, April 9th, Town Hall Seattle: 6:30pm 

Political Theory Colloquium presents Becca Peach (University of Washington), “Replacing Welfare as we Know it: Crisis Pregnancy Centers & State Funding of Faith Based Institutions”. Thursday, April 11th, Gowen Hall – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Jihyeon Bae (University of Washington), “Limitations of BERT and GloVe: Using UN General Debate Data”. Thursday, April 18th, Gowen Hall – Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm. 

Center for Environmental Politics presents Gary Machlis (Clemson University), “The Imperative Challenges of Sustainability for the Forgotten”. Friday, April 19th, Gowen Hall – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Devin Joshi (Singapore Management University), “Stumbling Upon the Way: Daoist Political Thought in Comparative Perspective". Friday, April 12th, Gowen Hall – Olson 1A: 3:30-5:00pm 

Political Theory Colloquium presents Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University), “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy and Freedom in African American Political Thought”. Friday, April 26th, Suzzallo Library- Smith Room: 12:00-1:30pm 

UW International Security Colloquium presents Rob Blair (Brown University), “Does it Matter if Peacekeepers Follow their Mandates?”. Friday, April 26th, Gowen Hall- Olson 1A: 1:30-3:00pm 

CSSS presents Elizabeth Hirsh, Professor of Sociology (University of British Columbia), “Can we change “ideal worker” norms? The impact of workplace policies, composition, and post-pandemic culture”. Wednesday, April 3^rd, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm  

CSSS presents Madeleine Daepp, Senior Researcher (Microsoft Research), “Data science with communities in the loop”. Wednesday, April 10th, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm 

CSSS presents Lynette Shaw, Lead Data Scientist (Knowable, Inc.) & Stephanie Lee (Databricks)-  Discussion on transitioning from academia to industry. Wednesday, April 17th, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm 

CSSS presents Irini Moustaki, Professor of Statistics (London School of Economics & Political Science)-   

A latent Markov model with two parallel processes for modeling inter-generational exchanges. Wednesday, April 24th, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm 

Holy Public Choosing, Batman! Tony Gill presented two talks at the recent Public Choice annual meeting in Dallas, TX (March 14-16). This included "Transaction Costs and the Origins of Religion" and "Public Choice and the Study of Religion." He also chaired another panel on "Religion, Family, and Civil Society."  

After being informed that he wrote one of the best peer reviews for the journal Public Choice, Peter Leeson invited Tony Gill to join the editorial board of that esteemed journal. 

On February 29, Tony Gill presented "Bullshit: Lessons from Rodney Stark's Character for Contemporary Scholarship" at Chapman University's "Starkschrift," a gathering to honor the recent passing of former UW sociologist Rodney Stark. Prof. Stark's son was in attendance and liked the presentation. 

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F 8am-12pm and 1pm-4:45pm 

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M-F 7:30am-9:00pm; closed weekends and holidays 

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