Week of April 22, 2024

Chiara Pierobon gave a presentation on "Crafting Individual Resilience in Times of Conflict: Ukrainian Refugees in Germany" at the 30th UW REECAS Northwest Conference. 
 
Chiara Pierobon gave a presentation on "Assessing Germany's Feminist Foreign Policy in the Wake of the Ukrainian Conflict" at the 30th UW REECAS Northwest Conference. 
 
Chiara Pierobon served as chair and discussant for the panel on “Russian Politics and Ideology” at the 30th UW REECAS Northwest Conference. 

Tony Gill was part of a team that received a grant from the Washington State legislature for a "Study to Investigate Housing Market Conditions in Tourism-Dependent Municipalities."  

Tony Gill was one of two "critics" on an Author Meets Critics panel dealing with Roger Congleton's new book Solving Social Dilemmas at the annual meeting of the Association of Private Enterprise Education (APEE) held in Las Vegas on April 9. He also presented "Transaction Costs and the Origins of Religion" at the APEE conference on April 9.  He also was a roundtable panelist with Michael Munger and Cameron Tilley exploring the topic of "New Ideas on Norms and Society.” 

Political Theory Colloquium presents Dr. Melvin Rogers (Brown University), “The Darkened Light of Faith: Race, Democracy and Freedom in African American Political Thought”. Friday, April 26th, Suzzallo Library- Smith Room: 12:00-1:30pm 

UW International Security Colloquium presents Rob Blair (Brown University), “Does it Matter if Peacekeepers Follow their Mandates?”. Friday, April 26th, Gowen- Olson 1A: 1:30-3:00pm 

UWISC, JSIS and the China Studies Program present: Thomas Christensen, Professor, Columbia University, "Thomas Shelling, the United States and China’s Rise,” Monday, April 29, 2024, at 3:30-4:50 in HUB room 334.   

Note:  Thomas Christensen serves as a Senior Advisor to the Office of China Coordination at the U.S. Department of State.  All opinions expressed in this talk and in the discussion that follows are his own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. Government. This talk is under Chatham House Rules.

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Tao Lin (University of Washington), “Code-showcasing 'Relation: Text Semantics Capture Political and Economic Narratives' by Ash et al. (2024)”. Thursday, May 2^nd, Gowen – Olson 1A, 3:00-4:00 pm.  

Center for Environmental Politics presents Mahalet Fikru (Missouri University of Science and Technology), “Economic and Environmental Impacts of Mining in Ecuador”. Friday, May 10th, Gowen – Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Rutger Ceballos (University of Washington), “Toward a Theory of Managed Emancipation,”. Thursday, May 16^th, Gowen - Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Zhaowen Guo (University of Washington), “Fine-tuning a Pre-trained Language Model Using PyTorch”. Thursday, May 16^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm.  

WISIR hosts a Lunch Workshare for Jose Jorge Mendoza (UW Philosophy), "Latinx, Whiteness, and American Democracy”. Friday, May 17^th, Gowen- Olson 1A, 12:30–1:30pm  

UW Colloquium in Political Theory presents Lauren Collins (University of Washington), Title TBA . Thursday, May 23rd, Gowen- Olson 1A: 12:00-1:30pm 

Political Document Analysis Working Group (P-DAWG) presents Nela Mrchkovska (Vienna University of Economics and Business), “Fine-tuning a Topic Classification Model with Sermons Data”. Thursday, May 30^th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm. 

REECAS presents Nargis Kassenova (Director of the Program on Central Asia at Davis Center), “Central Asia in the Shadow of Russia’s War”. Tuesday, April 23rd: 11:00-12:30pm RSVP here 

GWSS presents Chris Hanssmann (UC Davis), “Sick of It All: Care and Depathologization Activism in Trans Health.” Tuesday, April 23^rd: 3:30-4:30pm CMU 120 

CSSS presents Irini Moustaki, Professor of Statistics (London School of Economics & Political Science)-   

A latent Markov model with two parallel processes for modeling inter-generational exchanges. Wednesday, April 24th, Savery 409: 12:30–1:30 pm 

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