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This archive contains events prior to November 2024. For more recent events, please see our new Events Calendar.
Past Events
- WISIR & Political Science, The 2024 Election: A Conversation on Race, Gender, and Democracy - October 14, 2024
- UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Dr. Susan McWilliams Pomona College, Professor of Politics - January 16, 2025
- Becca Peach, UW, Ph.C. in Political Science: UW Colloquium in Political Theory: "Mediating Democracy: How Conservative Elites Turned Religious Freedom into a Wall of Separation between Citizen and State" - December 13, 2024
- Center for Environmental Politics: Dale Jamieson, New York University, “Am I responsible for Climate Change?” - November 15, 2024
- UW Colloquium in Political Theory: Prof. Chip Turner, "Die Your Own Death: Walt Whitman's Existential Democracy" - November 14, 2024
- Department of Political Science, Democracy Discussions: The 2024 Election: What Just Happened and What Happens Next? - November 12, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Minji Jeong, University of Washington - November 1, 2024
- Democracy in Focus Lecture Series: Who Votes and Why Voting Matters - October 29, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Christianna Parr, "Public Support for Environmental NGOs: A Conjoint Experiment in Southeast Asia" - October 18, 2024
- Center for Environmental Politics: Madalina Vlasceanu, Stanford University, “How Can the Behavioral Sciences Inform the Climate Crisis Response?” - October 4, 2024
- Democracy in Focus Lecture Series: Polarization, Persuasion, and Talking Across Difference - October 1, 2024
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Dark Visions for Society: The Spread of Extremist Ideas” - May 24, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: Lauren Collins, Ph.D. Student - May 23, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: "Replacing the Welfare State As We Know It: Neoliberal Welfare Policy & Development of the Religious Right’s Institutional Capacity Under Charitable Choice" - May 16, 2024
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador” - May 10, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - May 3, 2024
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Does it Matter if Peacekeepers Follow their Mandates?” - April 26, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: Guest Speaker - Dr. Melvin Rogers, Brown University, "The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy, and Freedom in African American Political Thought" - April 26, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Waleed Saleem, "Judicial Agency in Transition Politics" - April 19, 2024
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “The Imperative Challenges of Sustainability for the Forgotten” - April 19, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Prof. Devon Joshi, "Stumbling Upon the Way: Daoist Political Thought in Comparative Perspective" - April 12, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: Becca Peach, "Replacing Welfare as We Know It: Crisis Pregnancy Centers & State Funding of Faith-Based Institutions" - April 11, 2024
- Dr. Robert Bullard: The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice - April 9, 2024
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy” - April 5, 2024
- WISIR Talk: Juliet Hooker, Professor, Brown University, Political Science - March 26, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: Rutger Ceballos, "Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation" - March 14, 2024
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights” - March 8, 2024
- WISIR Talk: Dara Strolovitch, Professor, Yale University, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies,& Political Science - March 8, 2024
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “Higher Education and Sustainability” - March 1, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: Dr. Kevin Duong, Associate Professor of Politics: "Psychotherapy for the People: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic, 1946-1958" - February 29, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 23, 2024
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Better than the Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation” - February 16, 2024
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “How Good Norms Do Harm: Insights from the Justice Gap in Global Forest Governance” - February 16, 2024
- Jeannine Bell: WISIR Talk: Jeannine Bell, Professor, Loyola University Chicago, School of Law - February 16, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: "Feeling Like a Feminist in the Cinema of Experience" - February 8, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 2, 2024
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Commitments and Follow-Through: Implementing Justice Provisions in Peace Agreements” - January 26, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium: "Quantifying the Homeland: Metrics, Race, and Bureaucracy in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security" - January 25, 2024
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - January 19, 2024
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “The Consequences of Environmental Protest in Global Perspective” - January 19, 2024
- Political Theory Colloquium:"Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation" - January 11, 2024
- Job Talk: Hanjie Wang, "Do Urban Preferences Shape Climate Policies? Cross-National Variations in Electric Vehicle Import Tariffs, 2012-2022" - December 4, 2023
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “In the Chief’s Confidence: Leaders, Advisors and the Making of (in)Accurate Judgments in War” - December 1, 2023
- Rutger Ceballos: WISIR: Rutger Ceballos Job Talk, "Managing Emancipation: Land, Labor and the Reconstruction of the American State" - November 29, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Ramses Llobet, "Labor Union Solidarity, Risk-dependent Altruism, and Demand for Redistribution in Europe" - November 17, 2023
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “The Extent and Impact of Water Injustice in the United States” - November 17, 2023
- University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC): “Bringing Information Back in: Russia and the Pursuit of Limited Aims” - November 3, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - October 27, 2023
- Political Theory Colloquium: "Death and Fascism: An Existentialist Marxist Analysis" - October 26, 2023
- Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - October 13, 2023
- Center for Environmental Politics, The Duck Family Colloquium Series: “How Climate Change Will Reshape Politics” - October 13, 2023
- WISIR Talk: Dara Strolovitch, Yale Women's Gender, and Sexuality Studies, American Studies, and Political Science - May 12, 2023
- Center for Environmental Politics: Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, “Forest Fires in California’s New Climate Reality: There is Hope” - May 5, 2023
- Spring 2023 Faculty Panel, May 1st: “From Globalization to Deglobalization?” - May 1, 2023
- WISIR Talk: Abbye Atkinson, UC Berkeley School of Law - March 31, 2023
- Center for Environmental Politics: Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool, Earth and Environment, Boston University, “Rethinking Energy Poverty and Best Practices for the Governance of Distributed Renewable Energy Access” - February 28, 2023
- Winter 2023 Faculty Panel, February 27th: The Politics of Artificial Intelligence - February 27, 2023
- Center for Environmental Politics: Sikina Jinnah, Environmental Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz, "Climate Engineering: A proposal for immediate governance” - February 10, 2023
- Deep Climate Conversations: Multi-disciplinarity in Climate Social and Behavioral Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities - February 1, 2023
- Center for Environmental Politics: Dana R. Fisher, Sociology, University of Maryland, "Service, Strategy, and Sustainability in the Climate Movement” - January 13, 2023
- Prof. John Wilkerson: Autumn Faculty Panel: Assessing the 2022 Midterm Election Results With Implications for the Next Two Years and for 2024 - November 14, 2022
- Center for Environmental Politics: Stephanie Pincetl, Director of the Center for Sustainable Communities, UCLA, “The Contentious Question of Urban Water Conservation in Southern California” - November 4, 2022
- Prof. Jake Grumbach Talk, "Democracy and the 2022 Midterm Elections, Part I" - November 2, 2022
- Professor Joseph Nevins, Department of Geography, Vassar College: The Climate Crisis and the Ethics of Flying - October 25, 2022
- Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz, UC Berkeley Sociology: WISIR Talk - October 21, 2022
- WISIR Talk: "Book Club" discussion of Saidiya Hartman's Wayward Lives. - October 14, 2022
- Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University: Ugly Freedoms - October 12, 2022
- Prof. Leaf Van Boven: Center for Environmental Politics: Psychological Barriers to Addressing Climate Change and COVD—And How to Overcome Them - October 7, 2022
- Adom Getchew (Chicago, Political Science): WISIR Talk: Adom Getachew, Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago - May 27, 2022
- Gernot Wagner, Columbia Business School: Center for Environmental Politics: “Ukraine Invasion and the future of Climate Policy” - May 27, 2022
- Destin Jenkins (Stanford, History): WISIR Talk: Destin Jenkins, Stanford University - May 20, 2022
- Moderator- Chip Turner: WISIR Webinar: Race & Democracy - April 29, 2022
- Masha Gessen: Spring Speaker Event: Masha Gessen - April 28, 2022
- Moderator-Jake Grumbach (Political Science UW Seattle): WISIR Webinar: Voting Rights Under Attack - January 21, 2022
- Lorena Gonzalez and Bruce Harrell: CEP Talk: A Climate Conversation with Seattle Mayoral Candidates - October 22, 2021
- Spring Faculty Panel: Biden Faces the World: American Foreign Policy in a Post-Trump Era - May 6, 2021
- Prof. Darren Davis (Notre Dame): POSTPONED:: WISIR Talk: Racial Resentment in the Political Mind - April 9, 2021
- Jack Turner: WISIR Brownbag with Prof. Jack Turner - March 11, 2021
- Zoom link: WISIR Brownbag with Prof. Becca Thorpe - March 5, 2021
- Marisa Abrajano (UCSD): WISIR Talk: (Mis)Informed: What Americans Know About Social Groups and Why it Matters for Politics - February 26, 2021
- Winter 2021 PoliSci Faculty Panel: The Biden Agenda: Promises and Prospects - February 22, 2021
- Prof. Jake Grumbach: 2020-2021 WISIR Series: Panel 3: COVID-19 & Racial Inequities - January 22, 2021
- Luis Cabrera, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia: Guest Lecture: "Toward Cosmopolitan Political Humility: Insights from B.R Ambedkar and Present-Day Dalit Activists" - November 20, 2020
- Prof. Christopher Parker: 2020-2021 WISIR Series:Panel 2: Race & the 2020 Election - November 6, 2020
- Prof. Megan Ming Francis: Protests for the Soul of a Nation: COVID-19, Black Lives Matter, and Election 2020 - October 21, 2020
- Profs. Mark A. Smith & James Long: Faculty Panel -- Election 2020: A Turning Point? Session 2: Will Your Vote Matter? - October 14, 2020
- Prof. Simone Chambers of the UC, Irvine: Lecture on democracy in a time of crisis - October 9, 2020
- Prof. Christopher Parker: 2020-2021 WISIR Series: Panel 1: Social Movements & Racial Justice - October 7, 2020
- Profs. Aseem Prakash & Susan Whiting: Faculty Panel -- Election 2020: A Turning Point? Session 1: Climate Change & China Relations - October 1, 2020
- Megan Erickson: UWISC: Variation in Pro-Government Militia Devolution - May 29, 2020
- Aaron Erlich, McGill University: Severyns Ravenholt Talk - May 22, 2020
- Morgan Wack: UWISC: ICT, Crime, and Perceptions of Crime in Africa - May 15, 2020
- Yusri Supiyan, UW Ph.D Candidate: Severyns Ravenholt Talk - May 1, 2020
- Francis Abugbilla: UWISC: The Effect of Post-Conflict Peace-Building Mechanisms on Reconciliation in Africa: The Case of Côte d'Ivoire - April 24, 2020
- Taisu Zhang, Yale University (Yale Law): Severyns Ravenholt Talk - April 17, 2020
- Kimberly Carlson: CEP Talk: Do corporate commitments to zero-deforestation reduce forest loss? Modeling and mapping voluntary sustainability initiatives in tropical commodity supply chains - April 10, 2020
- Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania: Severyns Ravenholt Talk - March 13, 2020
- Sikina Jinnah: CEP Talk: Climate Engineering: A proposal for immediate governance - March 6, 2020
- Shihao Han: UWISC: Deterioration from Inside: Facing a Revisionist Hegemon Within the International Order - February 28, 2020
- L. Bennett, M. Powers, M. Smith, B. Thorpe: Winter Faculty Panel Feb. 25th: Communication Breakdown: The Crisis of Public (Dis)Information - February 25, 2020
- Drs. Loren Collingwood and Benjamin Gonzalez-O'Brien: Guest Speakers Special Event: Sanctuary Cities, The Politics of Refuge - February 20, 2020
- Jonathan C. Beck, UW Ph.D Candidate: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Citizen’s Right, Fundamental Right, Human Right, or Privilege? Human Rights and the German Movement Against Tuition Fees - February 14, 2020
- Prof. Michael Kaeding, University of Duisburg-Essen: Political Equality Without Social Equality? Social Distortion of Low Voter Turnout in the European Elections 2019 Across Nine European Capitals - February 11, 2020
- Trina Hamilton Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo: CEP Talk: Sustainable cities need more than parks, cafes and a riverwalk: Environmental cleanup and industrial retention in Greenpoint, Brooklyn - February 7, 2020
- Professor Melanye Price, Prairie View A&M University: WISIR Event: Mountaintop Removal: MLK, Trump, and the Racial Mountain - January 30, 2020
- Whitney Tome, The Raben Group: CEP Event: Diversity in Environmental Organizations - January 28, 2020
- Professor David Bachman, Kai Ping (Brian) Leung, Anna Cheung, Clovis Wong: Hong Kong Protests: Plateaus and Prospects - January 18, 2020
- Ellen Lust, University of Gothenburg, Sweden: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Poverty and Clientelism: Do the Poor Embrace Handouts? - January 17, 2020
- Ozgur Ozkan: UWISC: Turkey's Enduring Diversity Dilemma: Military Reform and Army-Regime Relations Under Erdogan After the 2016 Botched Coup - January 10, 2020
- Edward B. Barbier Department of Economics, Colorado State University: CEP Talk: The Fall and Rise of the Green New Deal - January 10, 2020
- Shatema Threadcraft, Dartmouth College: WISIR Talk: Redistributing Narrative Capital: Lynching, Rape, and Stories of Black Peoplehood - December 13, 2019
- Christopher Colligan: UWISC: Identity and Innovation: The Influence of Emotion on Receptivity to New Information - December 6, 2019
- Calla Hummel, University of Miami: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Why Do Informal Workers Organize? Street Vendors, Contentious Politics, and the State - November 22, 2019
- Prof. Suzanne Mettler: Democracy Under Siege, Monday, November 18 - November 18, 2019
- Prof. Barry Naughton, University of California, San Diego: Committee on China-U.S. Dialogue:Insurmountable? China's Industrial Policy in U.S.-China Economic Dispute - November 8, 2019
- Matthew Turner, Department of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison: CEP Talk: Climate proofing the Sahel: The Knowledge Politics Surrounding the Causation of Impoverishment - November 8, 2019
- Abel Rodriguez, UC Santa Cruz: CSSS Presents:Spherical Factor Analysis for Binary Data: A Look at the Conservative Revolt in the US House of Representatives - November 6, 2019
- Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Labor’s Struggle Against Investment Privatization - November 1, 2019
- Peter A. Morrison, Ph.D., President, Morrison & Associates, Inc.: Redistricting and the US Census - November 1, 2019
- Jean Comaroff, Harvard University; Philip Mirowski, University of Notre Dame: Neoliberalism and the (Dis)integration of the Political - October 24, 2019
- Rose Kapolczynski, Glen Bolger: Election 2020: Will the Candidate or the Strategy Win the Day? - October 22, 2019
- Jake Grumbach, Assistant Professor, UW Political Science : Labor Studies Workshare Series: Labor Unions and White Racial Politics - October 18, 2019
- Ezra Vogel & Ken Pyle: The UW Committee on China-U.S. Dialogues: Insights into the Dynamics of China-Japan Relations - October 17, 2019
- James Conca: Center for Environmental Politics Presents: The Climate Challenge: Is it time to go Nuclear? - October 15, 2019
- Paul Musgrave, University of Massachusetts Amherst: Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Developing the Resource Purse: State Formation, Resource Politics, and Regime Outcomes - October 11, 2019
- Deborah Sunter, Tufts, School of Engineering: Race to Solar: Disparities in Rooftop Photovoltaics Deployment in the United States by Race, Ethnicity, and Income - October 4, 2019
- Joel Migdal, International Studies Program, to mark UW retirement with public lecture, workshop - October 3, 2019
- Aimée Fox from King's College London: University of Washington International Security Colloquium - "A Race Against the Clock. Innovation, Learning, and the Politics of Command in the British Army: Then and Now" - May 31, 2019
- Dr. Majid Sharifi, Eastern Washington University: ASUW Middle Eastern Student Commission Presents: Why is there insecurity in the Middle East? - May 28, 2019
- Prof. Niko Switek: May 28th: Trade Deficit, NATO Dues, Refugee Policies – Partner and Ally Germany in the Spotlight of Trump's Criticism - May 28, 2019
- Andrew March, University of Massachusetts, Amherst: The Caliphate of Man: The Invention of Popular Sovereignty in Modern Islamic Thought - May 16, 2019
- Prof. Nancy Fraser: Is Capitalism Necessarily Racist? - May 9, 2019
- Prof. Nancy Fraser: What Should Socialism Mean in the 21st Century? - May 8, 2019
- Christopher Colligan, UW PhD student from Department of Political Science : University of Washington International Security Colloquium - "Identity and Innovation" - May 3, 2019
- Matthew Gentzkow, Professor of Economics, Stanford University: 2019 Biennial Endowed Milliman Lecture in Economics: This is your brain off Facebook: New evidence on the welfare effects of social media - May 2, 2019
- Karen Litfin, Jamie Mayerfeld, Aseem Prakash: May 1st, Political Science Spring Faculty Panel: Environmental Justice: Political Implications in the Face of a Rapidly Changing Climate - May 1, 2019
- Sarah Parkinson from Johns Hopkins University: University of Washington International Security Colloquium - Talk Title TBD - April 19, 2019
- Dr. Lyle Goldstein, U.S. Naval War College: UW Committee on China-U.S. Dialogues: Meeting China Halfway: How to Defuse the Emerging US-China Rivalry - April 8, 2019
- Bree Bang-Jensen, UW PhD student from Department of Political Science : University of Washington International Security Colloquium - Talk Title TBD - March 8, 2019
- Prof. Douglas Kriner, Cornell University: Legislative-Executive Relations in the Age of Trump - February 22, 2019
- Prof. Anthony Gill: Tipping Points, An Economic Defense of Gratuities - February 22, 2019
- Dr. Shi Yinhong: Event Re-scheduled for Feb. 19th: Recent Past, Present and Future of China-U.S. Rivalry - February 19, 2019
- Aila Matanock from UC Berkeley: University of Washington International Security Colloquium - "Inviting Intervention: Statebuilding by Delegating Security" - February 15, 2019
- James Long, Susan Whiting, John Wilkerson: Winter Political Science Faculty Panel, Feb. 6th: Corruption in Comparative Perspective - February 6, 2019
- Prof. Dave Hebert. Dept. of Economics. Aquinas College: The Political Economy of Love, Dating, and Marriage - January 25, 2019
- Craig Parsons from University of Oregon: University of Washington International Security Colloquium - "Polanyian Muscles in Hayekian Brussels: The European Union's Economic Authority in Comparative Perspective" - January 25, 2019
- Dr. Nicholas R. Lardy, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow of Peterson Institute for International Economics: State Resurgence: End of Reform? - January 24, 2019
- Former Sec. of the Interior, Sally Jewell: Greening Businesses: Opportunities and Challenges - January 22, 2019
- Former Sec. of the Interior, Sally Jewell: Doug and Maggie Walker Environmental Conversations: Greening Businesses: Opportunities and Challenges - January 22, 2019
- Niko Switek: Germany After Merkel - January 16, 2019
- Quansheng Zhao: SHIFTING: The Pacific Triangle - December 3, 2018
- Dr. Robert Sutter, George Washington University: Pushback: The China Challenge - November 19, 2018
- Michael Horowitz from University of Pennsylvania: University of Washington International Security Colloquium - Talk Title TBD - November 16, 2018
- Brendan Nyhan: Selective Exposure to Misinformation: Evidence from the consumption of fake news during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign - November 14, 2018
- Mark Alan Smith, Christopher S. Parker, Sophia Jordán Wallace : Political Science Autumn 2018 Faculty Panel: The 2018 Midterms and their Consequences - November 1, 2018
- Former Sec. of the Interior, Sally Jewell: Conversations with Sally Jewell: Federal Government and Environmental Policy - October 30, 2018
- Dominic Tierney from Swarthmore College : University of Washington International Security Colloquium - "The Negativity Bias in International Politics" - October 26, 2018
- Anna Zelenz, UW PhD student from Department of Political Science : University of Washington International Security Colloquium - Talk Title TBD - October 12, 2018
- Professor Siri Gloppen: Law, Societies and Justice talk: "The Drivers, Dynamics and Effects of Sexual and Reproductive Lawfare: Cross Regional Perspectives" - October 10, 2018
- Scott Lemieux and David Watkins: Is Judicial Review Compatible with Democracy? Discussion on Oct. 4 - October 4, 2018
- Sophia Wallace and Geoff Wallace, Political Science: PSGS: Getting to PhC: Overcoming Common Hurdles - June 1, 2018
- Tracy Sulkin, University of Illinois CU: Legislative Style - May 31, 2018
- Charles W. Millis., City University of New York., Program in Philosophy, The Graduate Center.: Capitalism and Comparitive Racialization: A John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparitive Study of Cultures - May 16, 2018
- Jim Caporaso, Susan Whiting, and Caitlin Ainsley: Spring Faculty Panel: Trump, Trade, Tariffs - May 3, 2018
- Shireen Hassim., University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa., Department of Political Studies.: Capitalism and Comparitive Racialization: A John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparitive Study of Cultures - May 2, 2018
- Tianna S. Paschel., University of California, Berkeley., Department of African American Studies.: Capitalism and Comparitive Racialization: A John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparitive Study of Cultures - April 10, 2018
- Halifa Sallah is a member of the National Assembly of The Republic of The Gambia: "The Impasse": Lessons from the Frontlines of Election Crises and Strengthening Democracy in Africa - March 1, 2018
- Professionalization Series for Graduate Students - The Ins and Outs of Conferences - February 23, 2018
- Neferti Tadiar., Barnard College., Department of Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies.: Capitalism and Comparative Racialization: A John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures - February 21, 2018
- Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh: Political Theory for the Real World - January 30, 2018
- Jodi Melamed., Marquette University., Department of English.: Capitalism and Comparative Racialization: A John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures - December 7, 2017
- Cliff Mass, UW: Explaining Extreme Weather Events: Challenges in Climate Communication - December 1, 2017
- Professionalization Series for Graduate Students - Time and Workload Management: The Short and the Long View - November 17, 2017
- Robin D. G. Kelley., University of California, Los Angeles., Department of History.: Capitalism and Comparative Racialization: A John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures - November 7, 2017
- Bryan Jones, University of Texas/Austin: The Great Broadening and the Transformation of American Politics - October 19, 2017
- Brad Epperly (University of South Carolina) : Rule By Violence, Rule By Law: Lynching and the Evolution of Voter Suppression in the U.S. South - May 8, 2017
- Efrén Pérez (Vanderbilt University): E Pluribum Unum: Clariying When and How Elites (Dis-)Incline Immigrants Toward a Political Ideal - April 21, 2017
- Christopher S. Parker (Moderator), Christopher Adolph, Frank Wendler, Bradley Murg: The Rise of the Right Across Western Democracies - April 17, 2017
- Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate - April 6, 2017
- Arbella Bet-Shlimon, Kazumi Hasegawa, Geoffrey Wallace, Susan Whiting, Glennys Young, Laurie Marhoefer: Global Perspectives on Authoritarianism & Fascism - April 6, 2017
- Lance Bennett : Building the Next System: Solutions for Government, Business, and Citizens - March 7, 2017
- Sean Theriault (UT-Austin): Congress, Polarization and Party Warfare - March 6, 2017
- Christopher Parker, Susan Whiting, & James Long : Winter Faculty Panel: President Trump & Politics beyond the United States - March 1, 2017
- David Domke and Christopher Sebastian Parker: Gaslighting in Government - February 27, 2017
- Lance Bennett : Environment vs. Economy - February 21, 2017
- Lance Bennett : The Best Democracy That Money Can Buy - February 7, 2017
- Lance Bennett : Can Capitalism Be Fixed? - January 31, 2017
- Düzen Tekkal: Film Screening: Hawar - My Journey to Genocide - January 30, 2017
- Dorothy Kronick, University of Pennsylvannia : SR-SCP: The Arbitrage Lobby: Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of Dual Exchange Rates - January 27, 2017
- Mark Smith (UW) & Andra Gillespie (Emory University): In _________ We Trust. Finding Where Division Ends and Where Unity Begins - January 26, 2017
- Lance Bennett: System Breakdown: Economy and Democracy in Crisis - January 17, 2017
- Filiz Kahraman : Practice Job Talk: A New Era for Labor Activism? Strategic Mobilization of Human Rights against Blacklisting - January 17, 2017
- Michael Hardt, Duke University Literature Program: Where Have all the Leaders Gone? - December 7, 2016
- Aziz Rana (Cornell University): American Political Development Speaker Series: The Rise of the Constitution - December 5, 2016
- Mark Smith, Becca Thorpe, Sophia Jordán Wallace, John Wilkerson: The 2016 Election: What Now? - November 16, 2016
- Mark Smith, Becca Thorpe, John Wilkerson: Making Sense of the U.S. Elections - November 2, 2016
- Prof. Mark Smith & Colleagues: Approaches to Religious Violence, Radicalism, and Deradicalization: Perspectives from the US and Indonesia - October 18, 2016
- Paige Sechrest, PhD student, University of Washington Department of Political Science : Violence by the People, for the People: Torture and Police Brutality in Democracies - September 30, 2016
- Christopher Parker, Mark A. Smith, Margaret O’Mara, Rick Shenkman,: 2016 Election: How Did We Get Here? - September 27, 2016
- Robert Vitalis, Professor, Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania: A Mongrel-American Social Science: International Relations - June 3, 2016
- Wendy Pearlman, Associate Professor, Political Science at Northwestern University : Narratives of Protest in Syria - May 27, 2016
- Xiao Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Washington: Bargained Authoritarianism: Bureaucratic Competition and Government Investment in China - May 20, 2016
- Kirstine Taylor, Political Science, UW: The Alchemy of Racial Innocence - May 18, 2016
- James Long & Others: In Motion TEDxUofW Conference - May 15, 2016
- Krister Andersson, University of Colorado at Boulder: Decentralization and Deforestation - May 13, 2016
- Prof. Phil Magness, George Mason University: The Empirical Evidence of Inequality in Piketty and Beyond - May 6, 2016
- Cecilia Martinez-Gallardo, UNC Chapel Hill : What Moves Consumer Sentiment? Economics, Politics, and the Information Environment - April 29, 2016
- Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant & Various Others: Next System Teach-In - April 25, 2016
- Fotini Christia, Associate Professor, Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Networks of Sectarianism: Experimental Evidence on Access to Services in Baghdad - April 22, 2016
- Spring Political Science Faculty Panel: Police, Prisons & Protest - April 19, 2016
- David G. Victor, University of California, San Diego: After Paris: Will Nations Actually Do Something about Global Climate Change? - April 15, 2016
- Nahomi Ichino, University of Michigan: Segregation, Diversity, and Intra-Party Competition in Ghana - April 8, 2016
- Anna Zelenz, PhD student, University of Washington, Department of Political Science : Dynamics of Insurgency: Historical Process and Alliance Formation - April 1, 2016
- Public Forum on Dispersing Prosperity Within Limits of Environment - March 7, 2016
- Michael D. McGinnis, Indiana University, Bloomington: Polycentricity in Global Governance: A Question of Constitutional Fit? - March 4, 2016
- David Lopez: Legitimacy, Corruption, and Preferences for Redistribution in the Developing World - February 26, 2016
- Ramzi Kassem: What is the Future of Guantanamo and Torture? - February 19, 2016
- Carolyn Finney, University of Kentucky: Radical Presence: Black Faces, White Spaces & Other Stories of Possibility - February 19, 2016
- Prof. Boris Shor, Georgetown University: New Research on the Predictors of State Legislative Extremism - February 18, 2016
- Evan Osnos: Public Lecture on: “Truth, Faith and Fortune in China” - February 17, 2016
- Vanessa Quince, PhD Student, University of Washington, Political Science Department: In & Out of Bounds: Black State Membership in Regional Organizations - February 12, 2016
- Frank Foley, Lecturer, King's College London: Keeping the Gloves On? Anti-Torture Norms and British Counterterrorism from the IRA to Al Qaeda - February 5, 2016
- Scott Gehlbach, University of Wisconsin: Tocqueville's Warning: Reform and Rebellion in Autocratic States - January 29, 2016
- Debra Javeline (University of Notre Dame): What Will Homeowners Do? Responses to Tropical Cyclones, Rising Seas, and Other Climate Risks - January 22, 2016
- Geoffrey Wallace (Rutgers University): Benevolent Democrats? The Domestic Sources of Wartime Conduct - January 13, 2016
- Filiz Kahraman (PhD Candidate, Political Science): A New Era for Labor Activism? Strategic Mobilization of Human Rights against Blacklistings - January 8, 2016
- Kate O'Neill (UC Berkeley): Seeing Across Scales: The New Role of Visualization Tools in Environmental Politics and Governance - December 4, 2015
- Autumn Quarter Political Science Panel on the Global Refugee Crisis - December 3, 2015
- Spencer Piston (Assistant Professor, Syracus University): Sympathy for the Poor, Resentment of the Rich, and their Effects on Candidate Evaluations - December 2, 2015
- Jonathan Kirshner (Cornell University): UWISC: Classical Realism in World Politics - November 20, 2015
- Prof. Brad Dillman, Chair of the International Political Economy Department at the University of Puget Sound: ISIS: who are those guys? - November 18, 2015
- Nikhar Gaikwad (PhD Candidate, Yale University): East India Companies and Long-Term Economic Change in India - November 16, 2015
- Scott Clifford (Assistant Professor, University of Houston): The Moral Foundations of Politics - November 13, 2015
- David Szakonyi (PhD Candidate, Columbia University): Elected Public Office and Private Benefit: Firm-level Returns from Businesspeople Becoming Politicians in Russia - November 9, 2015
- Sophia Jordán Wallace (Assistant Professor, Rutgers University): Time, Space, and Activism: The Impact of Protests on Latina/o Identities and Political Attitudes - November 6, 2015
- Cary Coglianese (University of Pennsylvania): The Voluntary Partnership Model: Reflections on EPA’s Performance Track and OSHA’s VPP - November 6, 2015
- Kevin Mazur (PhD Candidate, Politics, Princeton University): Ordering violence: identity boundaries and coalition building in the Syrian uprising - November 2, 2015
- Christopher Ojeda (Postdoctoral Research Associate, Stanford University): The Whisper of the Poor, the Roar of the Rich - October 30, 2015
- Armando Razo, Indiana University: Political competition and social spending in Mexico's municipalities: Spatial dimensions of social policies after political and economic liberalization - October 30, 2015
- Economics Professor Richard Wolff (University of Massachusetts - Amherst, New School University): Discussion on "Economic Justice, Sustainability and Transition Beyond Capitalism" - October 27, 2015
- Christopher Parker, Hannah Walker, Elizabeth Chrun: Equality Initiative in PoliSci Roundtable: Race in Academia - October 23, 2015
- Justice Edwin Cameron, LLB: Constitutionalism and the Rule of Law in South Africa - Problems and Perils at 21 - October 12, 2015
- Arun Agrawal, University of Michigan: Governing Natural Resources: Incentives, Information, Institutions - October 9, 2015
- Jonathan Kirshner, Cornell College: Classical Realism in World Politics - May 29, 2015
- Aaron Erlich, UW Political Science: Do Pre-Election Polls Changes Citizens Beliefs or Behavior?: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment in the Country of Georgia - May 15, 2015
- Gabriel Gallardo, Aseem Prakash, and Sergio Garcia: Equality Initiative in Political Science Spring Roundtable - May 8, 2015
- Tiffany Grobelski, UW Geography: Workshare: Reconciling the Biophysical and the Legal: The Promise and Peril of Polish Environmental Organizations' Use of Procedureal Rights Claims - May 8, 2015
- Edmund Malesky, Duke University: Does the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention Reduce Bribery? An Empirical Analysis Using the Unmatched Count Technique - May 8, 2015
- Kimberly Marten, Barnard College: UWISC Talk: What if NATO Hadn't Expanded ? A Counterfactual Analysis of Russia and the West - May 1, 2015
- Nita Rudra, Georgetown University: Poor Democracies in a Conundrum? International Trade and Government Revenues in Developing Countries - April 24, 2015
- Heather Evans, UW Sociology: Workshare: Legal Consciousness and "Invisible" Disability - April 24, 2015
- Taylor Fravel, MIT: Active Defense: Explaining the Evolution of China's Military Strategy - April 17, 2015
- Julie Guthman, UC Santa Cruz: Killing Life to Make Life: The Biopolitics of Soil Fumigant - April 10, 2015
- Aseem Prakash, Lance Bennett, Karen Litfin, Christine Di Stefano, UW Political Science: Politics of Global Climate Change Panel - April 8, 2015
- Nahomi Ichino (University of Michigan): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - April 3, 2015
- Patricia Martinkova, UW Statistics - March 11, 2015
- Michael Albertus, University of Chicago: Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - March 6, 2015
- Jeff Gill, Washington University Political Science - March 4, 2015
- Kathryn Harrison, University of British Columbia: The Comparative Politics of Carbon Taxation - February 27, 2015
- Bryce Newell, UW Information School: Workshare: Visibility, Reciprocity, and Resistance: The Role of Wearable Cameras and Public Disclosure in Re-crafting the Image of Policing - February 27, 2015
- Kate Starbird, UW Human Centered Design and Engineering - February 25, 2015
- Yoav Duman, UW Political Science: Bolstering the National Project: Competitive Nation Building and Immigration in Israel and Quebec - February 20, 2015
- Alicia Carriquiry, Iowa State University - February 18, 2015
- Kristin Bakke, University College London: From War-Making to State-Making in the post-Soviet de facto States - February 13, 2015
- Nicholas Foti, UW Statistics - February 11, 2015
- Angelian Godoy, UW Center for Human Rights: Workshare: Making Meaning of Violence: Human Rights and Historical Memory - February 6, 2015
- Phil Hurvitz, UW Urban Design - February 4, 2015
- John Buchanan, UW Political Science: The Resource-Conflict Nexus: Opium and Insurgency in the Shan State of Burma - January 30, 2015
- Robert Keohane, Princeton University: The Global Politics of Climate Change: Challenges for Political Science - January 26, 2015
- Megan Francis, UW Political Science: Workshare: The Price of Brown v. Board: The Garland Fund, the NAACP, and the Erasure of Criminal Justice - January 23, 2015
- Linxiu Zhang (Chinese Academy of Sciences/REAP-China): Human Capital Inequality and China's Future Development Challenge - January 23, 2015
- Meredith Loken, Political Science Ph.D. Student, University of Washington: Gender and Political Violence - January 16, 2015
- Brian Rathbun, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California: Variation in Rationality in Foreign Policy Decision-Making - November 21, 2014
- Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University): Guns, Gavels, and Bribes: Firm Strategies for Securing Property Rights in Contemporary Russia - November 14, 2014
- Emily Gade, Political Science Ph.D. Student, University of Washington: Civilian Side Choosing in Insurgency - October 31, 2014
- Yu Sasaki (University of Washington): State Is Not What Makes Nation: Testing the Historical Legacy of State-building on Nation-building Onset fir Contemporary European Ethnic Groups, 1400-2000 - October 24, 2014
- Mia Bloom, Lecturer, Professor of Security Studies, University of Massachusetts Lowell: ISLL and gender based violence in the caliphate: is there a sexul jihad? - October 10, 2014
- Milan Svolik (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Deliver the Vote! Micromotives and Macrobehavior in Electoral Fraud - October 3, 2014
- Milli Lake (University of Washington): Violence by Other Means: Reproducing Violent Practice Through Post-Conflict Human Rights Trials - June 6, 2014
- Jennifer Lind, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College: Geography, Maritime Power, and the Pacific Rivalry - May 23, 2014
- Christopher Blattman (Columbia): Can Employment Reduce Lawlessness and Rebellion? Experimental Evidence from an Agricultural Intervention in a Fragile State - May 7, 2014
- Jared Rubin (Chapman): Endogenous Political Legitimacy: The English Reformation and the Institutional Foundation of Limited Government - April 18, 2014
- Todd Hall, Lecturer, St. Anne's College, Department of Politics and International Relations: Affected Actors: Theorizing Affective Politics after 9/11 - April 11, 2014
- Kendra Dupuy (University of Washington): Community Development Requirements in Mining Laws, 1993-2012 - March 14, 2014
- John Owen, Professor, Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics, University of Virginia: Springs and Their Offspring: The International Consequences of Domestic Uprisings - March 7, 2014
- David Leblang (UVA): Harnessing the Diaspora: The Political Economy of Migrant Dual Citizenship - February 21, 2014
- Matthew Nelson, Reader, Department of Politics and International Studies, School of African and Oriental Studies (London, UK): Islamic States and the Securitization of the Muslim Self - February 14, 2014
- Saadia Pekkanen, Job & Gertrud Tamaki Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington: Asian Designs: Risen Powers and the Struggle for International Governance - January 17, 2014
- Carolina Johnson (University of Washington): Engaging Democracy: Information & Agendas in Participatory Budgeting Reforms - December 6, 2013
- Jesse Driscoll (UC San Diego): Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics after the Post-Soviet Wars - November 22, 2013
- Crystal Pryor, UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department: Strategic Export Controls: Explaining Divergence among Similar Countries on Similar Strategic Goods - November 15, 2013
- He Weifang (Peking University): The Chongqing Story and the Rule of Law in China - November 15, 2013
- Stephan Hamberg, UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department: Electoral Violence in New Democracies: Institutionalizing Peaceful Transitions - November 1, 2013
- Tanisha Fazal, Associate Professor at the University of Notre Dame: Secessionism and Civilian Targeting - October 18, 2013
- Zhu Tianbiao (Peking University): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - May 17, 2013
- Jennifer Noveck (UW): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - May 10, 2013
- William d’Ambruoso (UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department): Norms and Torture - May 3, 2013
- Teri Caraway (Minnesota): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - April 19, 2013
- Emily Gade, UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department: Why and Under What Conditions Do Civilians Oppose Groups Who Brutalize Them? - March 8, 2013
- Melanie Manion (Wisconsin): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - March 1, 2013
- Kristan Seibel (UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department): Verification Mechanisms in International Agreements - February 8, 2013
- Amanda Fulmer (UW): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - February 1, 2013
- Friends Under Fire: Blame Attributions in the Fog of War - January 18, 2013
- Catherine Boone (UT Austin) : Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - January 11, 2013
- Will Murg (University of Washington) : Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - December 7, 2012
- Steven Zech (UW Ph.D. student, Political Science Department): Evangelicals and Insurgents: Narratives and Violence in the Peruvian Civil War - November 30, 2012
- Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) : Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - November 16, 2012
- Christopher Jones (UW Professor, Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies): The Collapse of Soviet Deterrence Theory, 1979-1989 - November 2, 2012
- Matthew E. Goldman (UW Ph.D. student, Near and Middle East Studies): Development of Democracy in the Middle East - October 12, 2012
- Dan Slater (Chicago) : The Strength to Concede: Ruling Parties and Democratization in Developmental Asia - October 5, 2012
- Adrian Sinkler (Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Washington): Land Without Opportunity: State-Peasant Relations and Land Privatization in Mexico - June 1, 2012
- Isabela Mares (Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University): From 'Open-Secrets' to the Secret Ballot: The Economic & Political Determinants of Secret Ballot Reform - May 18, 2012
- Patrick Johnston, Associate Political Scientist, RAND Coorporation: Aid Under Fire: How Development Projects Impact Civil Conflict - May 11, 2012
- Yuen Foong Khong (Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford): International Politics: The Rules of the Game - April 27, 2012
- Barry Buzan (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science): Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics/UWISC Lecture on Regional Security in Asia - April 6, 2012
- Joshua Eastin, UW Political Science Ph.D student: Natural disasters and civil conflict - March 9, 2012
- Stephan Hamberg, UW Political Science Ph.D student: Electoral Violence in New Democracies: Institutionalizing Peaceful Transitions - February 3, 2012
- David Kang (Professor of International Relations & Business, University of Southern California): Power & Authority in International Relations: Evidence from a Non-Western Case - January 13, 2012
- Charli Carpenter, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts at Amherst: Explaining the Transnational Advocacy Agenda: Insights from Human Security Practitioners - November 18, 2011
- Charles Glaser, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University: Reframing Energy Security: How Oil Dependence Influences U.S. National Security - October 28, 2011
- Madame Yang Lan (Chairwoman, Sun Culture Foundation) : The Development of Philanthropy in Contemporary China - May 31, 2011
- Stacie Goddard, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Wellesley College: The Rhetoric of Power Politics: Hitler’s Legitimation Strategies, British Policies, & World War II - May 20, 2011
- David Bachman, Professor, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington: Types of Security Threats and National Strategies: An Exploratory Case of China under Mao - May 13, 2011
- Halvard Buhaug, Senior Researcher at the Center for the Study of Civil War, Peace Research Institute Oslo: Climate Wars? Security Implications of Climate Change - April 29, 2011
- Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale: Dynamic Deterrence in Civil War: Evidence from (Simulated) Airstrikes in Afghanistan - April 15, 2011
- Scott Radnitz, Assistant Professor of International Studies,Jackson School, University of Washington: Don't Stop Thinking about Yesterday: An Experiment with Conflict Narratives in the Caucasus (or “Let ‘baijans be ‘baijans”) - March 4, 2011
- Alan Kuperman, Associate Professor of Government, University of Texas, Austin: The Puzzle of Rwanda's Genocide - February 11, 2011
- Peacekeeping and the Security Dilemma - December 3, 2010
- Keren Yarhi-Milo, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Princeton: Assessing Intentions in International Politics - November 12, 2010
- Ron Hassner, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley: War and the Religious Calendar - October 15, 2010
- Nicolas Jabko, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies and Research, Sciences Po: The Social Construction of Strategy - April 30, 2010
- Scott Sagan, Co‐director, Center for International Security and Cooperation, and Professor, Department of Political Science, Stanford University: Nuclear Power without Nuclear Proliferation? - April 16, 2010
- Stephan Hamberg, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington: Democratic Transitions and Violence - March 5, 2010
- David Welch, CIGI Chair of Global Security, Balsillie School of International Affairs, and Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Waterloo: UWISC Talk - February 5, 2010
- Jessica Weeks, Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Cornell University: Authoritarian Regimes, Domestic Politics, and Conflict Outcomes - January 22, 2010
- Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General : Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - October 26, 2009
- Jingjing Zhang (Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims in China): Law & the Environmental Movement in China - May 21, 2009
- Anwar Ibrahim, President, Anwar Ibrahim & Associates, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and former Minister of Finance: Democracy, Human Rights, and the Destiny of Southeast Asia - October 10, 2006
- Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia: Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - October 14, 2004
- Long Yongtu, Secretary-General, Bo'Ao Forum for Asia, former Vice Minister of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation of the People's Republic of China, Former Chief Trade Representative: Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - June 8, 2003
- Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Winner: Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - October 8, 2001
- Frank Ching, Senior Editor, Far Eastern Economic Review : Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics - May 16, 2000