Submitted by Stephen Dunne on September 29, 2023 - 4:10pm
Schedule for the 2023-2024 University of Washington International Security Colloquium (UWISC). The https://sites.uw.edu/uwisc/current-seminars/ features a wide range of international relations and international security topics, including some exciting work on peace agreements, human rights and grand strategy. We have five external speakers, and three PhD students from the UW Political Science Department:
Nov. 3, Bobby Maxwell, PhD student, University of Washington
“Bringing Information Back in: Russia and the Pursuit of Limited Aims”
Discussant: Kayla Morton, PhD student, Political Science
Location: Gowen Hall 1A, 3:30-5:00pm
Dec. 1, Wendy He, PhD student, Nanyang Technological University/UW
“In the Chief’s Confidence: Leaders, Advisors & the Making of (in)Accurate Judgments in War”
Discussant: Megan Erickson, PhD candidate, Political Science
Location: Gowen Hall 1A, 3:30-5:00pm
Jan. 26, Genevieve Bates, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Commitments and Follow-Through: Implementing Justice Provisions in Peace Agreements”
Discussant: Ian Callison, PhD candidate, Political Science
Location: Gowen Hall 1A, 1:30-3:00pm
Feb. 16, Kelly Greenhill, Professor, Tufts University
“Better than the Truth: Extra-factual Sources of Threat Conception and Proliferation”
Discussant: Jessica Sciarone, PhD candidate, Political Science
Location: Gowen 1A, 1:30-3:00pm
Mar. 8, Rochelle Terman, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
“Auditing Localized Google Search Results for Human Rights”
Discussant: Bobby Maxwell, PhD student, Political Science
Location: Gowen 1A, 1:30-3:00pm
Apr. 5, Sheena Chestnut Greitens, Associate Professor, UT Austin
“Internal Security and Chinese Grand Strategy”
Discussant: Brian Leung, PhD candidate, Political Science
Location: Gowen 1A, 1:30-3:00pm
Apr. 26, Rob Blair, Associate Professor, Brown University
“Does it Matter if Peacekeepers Follow their Mandates?”
Discussant: Jana Foxe, PhD student, Political Science
Location: Gowen 1A, 1:30-3:00pm
May 24. Jessica Sciarone, PhD candidate, University of Washington
“Dark Visions for Society: The Spread of Extremist Ideas”
Discussant: Jihyeon Bae, PhD student, Political Science
Location: Gowen 1A, 1:30-3:00pm
Please note that we will be hosting our first seminar at 3:30pm on Friday November 3 in Gowen 1A. Our first speaker will be Bobby Maxwell, PhD student at the UW Political Science Department. I will circulate a copy of his paper, “Bringing Information Back in: Russia and the Pursuit of Limited Aims" one week in advance of the seminar to subscribers to the International Security email distribution list.
To subscribe to the International Security distribution list, go to https://mailman.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/polmajors_intlsec/. Note that only UW email addresses may subscribe to this list.
We are very thankful to our sponsors, the Severyns-Ravenholt Endowment, the Richard B. Wesley Graduate Student Fund for International Relations, the UW Department of Political Science, and the Center for Global Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Their continued support makes UWISC possible.
