Week of April 15, 2024

Chiara Pierobon gave a presentation on "Analyzing resilience through the lens of relationality and community integration: the case of Ukrainian refugees in Germany and the UK" in the Panel "‘Community of Relations’ under Threat: understanding societal resilience in theory and practice across the post-Soviet space" at the ISA Annual convention in San Francisco.

The following papers were presented by UW Political Science graduate students and faculty at the recent annual conference of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 3-6, 2024.

• Jihyeon Bae. “Motives behind the legalization of Authoritarian Intergovernmental Organization” 
• Jihyeon Bae and Don Moon. “Regime type and institutional design of dispute settlement mechanism” 
• Ji Hyeon Chung. "Do external ties between international actors and the state affect insurgent group's engagement in human trafficking?" 
• Ji Hyeon Chung. " Restriction Spillovers: The impact of restrictive NGO laws on anti-trafficking ratings" 
• Jana Foxe. "Humanitarian advocacy and public support for climate reparations" 
• Jana Foxe. "Substantive engagement or performative ‘homocolonialism’? Humanitarian NGO involvement with LGBTQIA+ discourses" 
• Kayla Morton. "Climate change beyond emissions: An analysis of Conference of Party decisions, 1995-2022" 
• Kayla Morton, Nives Dolsak, and Aseem Prakash. "Climate Progress impacts, Environmental Protection, and National Security: Exploring Environmental NGOs’ Support for Deep-Sea Mining" 
• Inhwan Ko, Nives Dolsak, Asli Cansunar, and Aseem Prakash. "Does size and surrounding landscape influence rural support for wind energy projects?" 

Tony Gill presented a talk entitled "Political Economy, Social Norms, and Civil Society" at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs on Thursday, April 4 and handed out smiley buttons to the ~50 folks in attendance. This marks the 30^th consecutive year with at least one invited talk at another university. Tony also gave a lecture in a microeconomics class about the economics of tipping. 

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, 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 – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Waleed Saleem (University of Washington), a chapter from his dissertation. Friday, April 19th, Gowen– 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- Olson 1A: 1:30-3:00pm 

UWISC, JSIS and the China Studies Program present: Thomas Christensen, Professor, Columbia University, "Thomas Shelling, the United States and China’s Rise,” Monday, April 29, 2024, at 3:30-4:50 in Thomson 317.   

Note:  Thomas Christensen serves as a Senior Advisor to the Office of China Coordination at the U.S. Department of State.  All opinions expressed in this talk and in the discussion that follows are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government. This talk is under Chatham House Rules.

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Tao Lin (University of Washington), “Code-showcasing 'Relation: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives' by Ash et al. (2024)”. Thursday, May 2^nd, Gowen – Olson 1A, 3:00-4:00 pm.  

Center for Environmental Politics presents Mahalet Fikru (Missouri University of Science and Technology), “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador”. Friday, May 10th, Gowen – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm.

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Rutger Ceballos (University of Washington), “Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation,”. Thursday, May 16^th, Gowen - Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Zhaowen Guo (University of Washington), “Fine-tuning a Pre-trained Language Model Using PyTorch”. Thursday, May 16^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm.  

WISIR hosts a Lunch Workshare for Jose Jorge Mendoza (UW Philosophy), "Latinx, Whiteness, and American Democracy”. Friday, May 17^th, Gowen- Olson 1A, 12:30–1:30pm  

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Lauren Collins (University of Washington), Title TBA . Thursday, May 23rd, Gowen- Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Nela Mrchkovska (Vienna University of Economics and Business), “Fine-tuning a Topic Classification Model with Sermons Data”. Thursday, May 30^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm. 

UW Sustainability Office is hosting a webinar on "Reducing Air Travel” featuring Jamie Mayerfeld (UW) and others. Tuesday, April 16, 12 to 1 pm. RSVP here 

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 

REECAS presents Nargis Kassenova (Director of the Program on Central Asia at Davis Center), “Central Asia in the Shadow of Russia’s War”. Tuesday, April 23rd: 11:00-12:30pm RSVP here 

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 

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