Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics
The Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics (SR-SCP) brings together visiting speakers, faculty, and graduate students to discuss research on the forefront of comparative politics and political economy. The seminar generally meets three times a quarter, with a mix of presentations by visiting scholars and UW graduate students. All lectures are held on Fridays from 1:30-3:00 pm over Zoom, unless otherwise noted (Contact Kenya Amano via srscp@uw.edu to access the Zoom link).
For more information, please contact srscp@uw.edu.
The SR-SCP is generously sponsored by the Severyns Ravenholt endowment.
About the Severyns Ravenholt Endowment and Call for Nominations
Upcoming Events
Hanjie Wang, Ph.D. Student
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics
Amanda Clayton, Vanderbilt University
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics
Past Events
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: "Making policies matter: Voter responses to campaign promises" Cesi Cruz, University of British Columbia |
Apr 9 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Zoom Invitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: The Gender Credibility Gap: All-Male Boards and Substantive Gender Representation in Central Banking Cristina Bodea, Michigan State University |
Feb 26 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Zoom Invitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: The Price of Marriage and Women's Political Representation Ryan Goehrung, Ph.D. Student |
Feb 5 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Zoom Invitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Casting the First Stone: Understanding Attitudes towards Lynching in Brazil David Skarbek, Brown University |
Jan 15 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Zoom Invitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids Daniel M. Smith, Harvard University |
Nov 20 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Zoom Invitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Bricks, Molotov Cocktails and Engaged Bystanders: Why Violence Becomes Sustained in Popular Protests Brian Leung, PhD Student UW |
Oct 30 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Zoom Invitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar: Pay attention to this! Explaining emphasis in legislative speech using automated video analysis in the US House of Representatives Dominic Nyhuis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Oct 9 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Zoom Invitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk Aaron Erlich, McGill University |
May 22 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Location Pending |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk Yusri Supiyan, UW Ph.D Candidate |
May 1 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Zoom Invitation, Please contact Kai Ping (Brian) Leung via srscp@uw.edu to access the Zoom link. |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk Taisu Zhang, Yale University (Yale Law) |
Apr 17 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Zoom inivitation |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk Guy Grossman, University of Pennsylvania |
Mar 13 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall 1A, The Olson Room |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Citizen’s Right, Fundamental Right, Human Right, or Privilege? Human Rights and the German Movement Against Tuition Fees Jonathan C. Beck, UW Ph.D Candidate |
Feb 14 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall 1A, The Olson Room |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Poverty and Clientelism: Do the Poor Embrace Handouts? Ellen Lust, University of Gothenburg, Sweden |
Jan 17 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall 1A, The Olson Room |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Why Do Informal Workers Organize? Street Vendors, Contentious Politics, and the State Calla Hummel, University of Miami |
Nov 22 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall 1A, The Olson Room |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Labor’s Struggle Against Investment Privatization Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer |
Nov 1 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall 1A, The Olson Room |
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Severyns Ravenholt Talk: Developing the Resource Purse: State Formation, Resource Politics, and Regime Outcomes Paul Musgrave, University of Massachusetts Amherst |
Oct 11 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen 1A, The Olson Room |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD Timothy Frye, Columbia University |
May 24 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comp. Pol. - Ethnicity as an Institution and the Origins of Ethnic Orders Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University |
Apr 26 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - The Social Cost of Titling Land: Evidence from Uganda Will Gochberg, PhD Student UW |
Apr 5 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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SRSCP - Citizen Solidarity, Ethnic Rivalry, or Self-interest? Implicit & Explicit Biases During Wartime Calvin Garner, PhD Student UW |
Feb 14 | 1:30pm to 3:00pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar - "The Effects of Financial and Economic Literacy on Policy Preferences in Italy" Beatrice Magistro, University of Washington Ph.D. Candidate |
Feb 1 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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Severyns Ravenholt: Political Knowledge in Comparative Perspective Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro, Brown University |
Jan 18 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title "The Effect of Infrastructure Legacies on Innovation" Kevin Aslett, PhD Student UW |
Nov 30 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar - The Loser's Bonus: Political Geography and Minority Party Representation Jowei Chen, University of Michigan |
Nov 9 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics: The Politics of Order in Informal Markets Shelby Grossman |
Oct 19 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Gowen Hall room 1A (Olson Room) |
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The Long Shadow of History? The Impact of Colonial Labor Institutions on Economic Development in Peru Noel Maurer |
May 17 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Olson Room (Gowen 1A) |
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State Building and the Making of Education Leviathans since the 19th Century David Lopez, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW |
Apr 27 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Olson Room (Gowen 1A) |
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The Origins of Self-Determination Conflicts in the Modern World Benjamin Smith, University of Florida |
Mar 30 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Olson Room (Gowen 1A) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD Tan Zhao, Ph.D. Student, Political Science, UW |
Feb 23 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Olson Room (Gowen 1A) |
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Information, Political Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I Susan Hyde, University of California, Berkeley |
Jan 26 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Olson Room (Gowen 1A) |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics - Talk Title TBD Lisa Blaydes, Stanford University |
Jan 5 | 12:00pm to 1:30pm | Olson Room (Gowen 1A) |
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Engaging Democracy: Information & Agendas in Participatory Budgeting Reforms Carolina Johnson (University of Washington) |
Dec 6 | 12:00pm | |
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Exiting Anarchy: Militia Politics after the Post-Soviet Wars Jesse Driscoll (UC San Diego) |
Nov 22 | 12:00pm | Gowen 1A |
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The Chongqing Story and the Rule of Law in China He Weifang (Peking University) |
Nov 15 | 12:00pm | |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Zhu Tianbiao (Peking University) |
May 17 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Jennifer Noveck (UW) |
May 10 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Teri Caraway (Minnesota) |
Apr 19 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Melanie Manion (Wisconsin) |
Mar 1 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Amanda Fulmer (UW) |
Feb 1 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Catherine Boone (UT Austin) |
Jan 11 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Will Murg (University of Washington) |
Dec 7 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics Daniel Ziblatt (Harvard University) |
Nov 16 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1 A |
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The Strength to Concede: Ruling Parties and Democratization in Developmental Asia Dan Slater (Chicago) |
Oct 5 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Land Without Opportunity: State-Peasant Relations and Land Privatization in Mexico Adrian Sinkler (Post-doctoral Fellow in Political Science, University of Washington) |
Jun 1 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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From 'Open-Secrets' to the Secret Ballot: The Economic & Political Determinants of Secret Ballot Reform Isabela Mares (Associate Professor of Political Science, Columbia University) |
May 18 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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International Politics: The Rules of the Game Yuen Foong Khong (Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford) |
Apr 27 | 12:20pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics/UWISC Lecture on Regional Security in Asia Barry Buzan (Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science) |
Apr 6 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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Power & Authority in International Relations: Evidence from a Non-Western Case David Kang (Professor of International Relations & Business, University of Southern California) |
Jan 13 | 12:00pm to 1:20pm | Gowen 1A |
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The Development of Philanthropy in Contemporary China Madame Yang Lan (Chairwoman, Sun Culture Foundation) |
May 31 | 7:00pm to 8:30pm | 210 Kane Hall |
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Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations Secretary General |
Oct 26 | 7:00pm | |
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Law & the Environmental Movement in China Jingjing Zhang (Center for Legal Assistance to Pollution Victims in China) |
May 21 | 7:00pm to 8:30pm | 110 Kane Hall |
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Democracy, Human Rights, and the Destiny of Southeast Asia Anwar Ibrahim, President, Anwar Ibrahim & Associates, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia and former Minister of Finance |
Oct 10 | 8:00pm | Kane Hall 210 |
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Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Zainah Anwar, Executive Director, Sisters in Islam, Malaysia |
Oct 14 | 7:00pm | Kane Hall 210 |
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Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics 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 |
Jun 8 | 7:30pm | Kane Hall 210 |
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Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Jose Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Prize Winner |
Oct 8 | 7:00pm | Kane Hall 210 |
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Severyns Ravenholt Lecture in Comparative Politics Frank Ching, Senior Editor, Far Eastern Economic Review |
May 16 | 7:00pm | Kane Hall 210 |