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
Past Events
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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 |