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Special Events
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
- 2022 Political Science Convocation: Information and Registration - June 10, 2022
- Department of Political Science, Democracy Discussions: The 2024 Election: What Just Happened and What Happens Next? - November 12, 2024
- Democracy in Focus Lecture Series: Who Votes and Why Voting Matters - October 29, 2024
- Democracy in Focus Lecture Series: Polarization, Persuasion, and Talking Across Difference - October 1, 2024
- Book Release, Stuart Streichler, "Presidential Accountability in Wartime" - May 13, 2024
- Tateuchi East Asia Library Talk: Prof. Devon Joshi, "Stumbling Upon the Way: Daoist Political Thought in Comparative Perspective" - April 11, 2024
- Dr. Robert Bullard: The Quest for Environmental and Climate Justice - April 9, 2024
- Maxwell Stearns with Mark Smith at Town Hall: Transforming America's Democracy - April 4, 2024
- WISIR Grad Student Social with Juliet Hooker - March 26, 2024
- WISIR Holiday Party - December 8, 2023
- Spring 2023 Faculty Panel, May 1st: “From Globalization to Deglobalization?” - May 1, 2023
- Deep Climate Conversations, Topic: “Climate Advocacy: What Works, and Why?” - March 1, 2023
- Winter 2023 Faculty Panel, February 27th: The Politics of Artificial Intelligence - February 27, 2023
- Deep Climate Conversations: Multi-disciplinarity in Climate Social and Behavioral Sciences: Challenges and Opportunities - February 1, 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
- 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
- Elisabeth Anker, George Washington University: Ugly Freedoms - October 12, 2022
- Center for Environmental Politics -- Duck Family Graduate Workshop 2022 - May 18, 2022 to May 20, 2022
- Masha Gessen: Spring Speaker Event: Masha Gessen - April 28, 2022
- John Wilkerson: Political Science Admitted Student Q&A Session - April 4, 2022
- Rutger Ceballos: WISIR Brownbag - March 11, 2022
- Tony Gill, Asli Cansunar, James Long: Winter 2022 Faculty Panel: The Future of Afghanistan - February 17, 2022
- Asli Cansunar, Megan Erickson, Geoffrey Wallace, Dennis Young: GSPS Workshop: The Ins and Outs of Conferences - February 4, 2022
- Lorena Gonzalez and Bruce Harrell: CEP Talk: A Climate Conversation with Seattle Mayoral Candidates - October 22, 2021
- Graduate Studies Coordinator (Rebecca Thorpe) and the Graduate Students Professionalization Series (Geoffrey Wallace), Rachel Cichowski, and Bree Bang-Jensen: Funding and Grants Workshop - October 19, 2021
- 2021 Political Science Virtual Convocation - June 10, 2021
- Apply for the Sharon Redeker Award for Public Service! Deadline: May 16th, 2021 - May 16, 2021
- Professionalization Series for Graduate Students (PSGS) “Careers Outside the Academy: A Roundtable with Former UW PhD Alumni” - May 13, 2021
- Spring Faculty Panel: Biden Faces the World: American Foreign Policy in a Post-Trump Era - May 6, 2021
- Megan Ming Francis, Associate Professor of Political Science, UW Seattle: WISIR Talk: Teaching the Movement: Reflections on Protests, Abolition, and Radical Scholarship - April 30, 2021
- Melvin L. Rogers (Brown University) and Jack Turner III (University of Washington): UW Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Event: African American Political Thought: A Collected History - February 23, 2021
- Winter 2021 PoliSci Faculty Panel: The Biden Agenda: Promises and Prospects - February 22, 2021
- Michael McCann and George Lovell : BOOK LAUNCH: Union by Law: Filipino American Labor Activists, Rights Radicalism, and Racial Capitalism - February 11, 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
- Profs. Rebecca Thorpe & Scott Lemieux: Faculty Panel -- Election 2020: A Turning Point? Session 3: Impacts for Our Democracy - October 29, 2020
- Profs. Sophia Jordán Wallace and Geoffrey Wallace: Publishing 101: Professionalization Series for Graduate Students (PSGS) - October 23, 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. 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
- Deadline to Register for the Pol S Remote Convocation, Contribute to the Student Speech Video, Submit a Photo for the Graduation Celebration Slideshow - June 1, 2020
- Deadline to Register with the Commencement Office to Have Your Name Read for Graduation Celebrations - May 19, 2020
- Submit a Photo for the Political Science Convocation Video and Slideshow! - May 19, 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
- 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
- Peter A. Morrison, Ph.D., President, Morrison & Associates, Inc.: Redistricting and the US Census - November 1, 2019
- Rose Kapolczynski, Glen Bolger: Election 2020: Will the Candidate or the Strategy Win the Day? - October 22, 2019
- Ezra Vogel & Ken Pyle: The UW Committee on China-U.S. Dialogues: Insights into the Dynamics of China-Japan Relations - October 17, 2019
- Joel Migdal, International Studies Program, to mark UW retirement with public lecture, workshop - October 3, 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
- 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
- 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
- Emily Kalah Gade, Sophia Jordán Wallace, and Geoff Wallace: Professionalization Series for Graduate Students (PSGS): “Grants and External Funding" - March 4, 2019
- Dr. Shi Yinhong: Event Re-scheduled for Feb. 19th: Recent Past, Present and Future of China-U.S. Rivalry - February 19, 2019
- Mathieu Dubeau & Riddhi Mehta-Neugebauer: Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies Workshare Series - February 8, 2019
- James Long, Susan Whiting, John Wilkerson: Winter Political Science Faculty Panel, Feb. 6th: Corruption in Comparative Perspective - February 6, 2019
- Dr. Nicholas R. Lardy, Anthony M. Solomon Senior Fellow of Peterson Institute for International Economics: State Resurgence: End of Reform? - January 24, 2019
- Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, Labor Studies Social - January 23, 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
- Dr. Robert Sutter, George Washington University: Pushback: The China Challenge - November 19, 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
- Apply to be the Pol S Convocation Student Speaker. Deadline: May 7th, 2018. - May 7, 2018
- Apply for the Redeker Public Service Award. Deadline: May 7th, 2018. - May 7, 2018
- Jim Caporaso, Susan Whiting, and Caitlin Ainsley: Spring Faculty Panel: Trump, Trade, Tariffs - May 3, 2018
- Christopher Parker and Jonas Linde: Winter Faculty Panel: Has Trumpism Gone Global? - March 6, 2018
- Michael Goodhart, University of Pittsburgh: Political Theory for the Real World - January 30, 2018
- Megan Francis, Ellis Goldberg, and Geoffrey Wallace: Fall Faculty Panel: The Politics of Terror and Terrorism - November 15, 2017
- Government Job & Internship Fair - October 26, 2017
- 2017 Political Science Convocation and Graduation Celebration - June 8, 2017
- Aseem Prakash, Geoffrey Wallace, and Christopher Adolph: Spring Faculty Panel: The U.S. and Global Policy Challenges Today - May 24, 2017
- Mark Smith, Becca Thorpe, Sophia Jordán Wallace, John Wilkerson: The 2016 Election: What Now? - November 16, 2016
- Megan Ming Francis: Race and Violence in American Politics - October 12, 2016
- Christopher Parker, Mark A. Smith, Margaret O’Mara, Rick Shenkman,: 2016 Election: How Did We Get Here? - September 27, 2016
- Public Forum on Dispersing Prosperity Within Limits of Environment - March 7, 2016
- Geoffrey Wallace (Rutgers University): Benevolent Democrats? The Domestic Sources of Wartime Conduct - January 13, 2016
- Political Science Advising Closed - December 24, 2015
- Political Science Undergraduate Advising Closed 12-5pm - December 23, 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
- 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
- CCCE Screening & Discussion of "This Changes Everything" - November 10, 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
- 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
- Autumn Political Science Major Application, due by October 11 - October 11, 2015
- Pacific and Western Disability Studies Symposium: Connecting Disability Studies, Disability Justice, and Disability Arts - May 21, 2015 to May 23, 2015
- Labor Studies Social - January 29, 2015