Week of March 11, 2024

This will be the last bulletin for this quarter. More bulletins to come in the Spring quarter. Have a good Spring break! 

WISIR Speaker Series presents Juliet Hooker (Brown University) "Black Grief/White Grievance: The Politics of Loss." Tuesday, March 26th, Gowen Hall – Olson 1A, 1:30pm–3:00pm. 

Political Theory Colloquium presents Rutger Ceballos (University of Washington), “Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation”. Thursday, March 28th, Gowen Hall – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

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 

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. 

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 

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 

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 

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 

Tony Gill leapt into action with a presentation called "Bullshit: Lessons from Rodney Stark's Character for Contemporary Scholarship." This was part of Starkschrift, held at Chapman University, celebrating the life and writings of former UW Sociology professor Rod Stark who passed away last year. 

Tony Gill gave his last presentation for the Association of Religion, Economics, and Society, of which he was a founding member, entitled "Transaction Costs and the Origins of Religion" at Chapman University (Orange, CA). As usual, few people showed up. 

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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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