Week of May 28, 2024

Department of Political Science Bulletin

Political Science Department End of Year Reception, Thursday, May 30, 4:30-6:30pm, Agua Verde Marina Cantina (below the cafe on the waterfront, 1303 NE Boat St, short walk from campus). Great food, drinks and lovely waterfront location! Come join the fun and celebrate end of the year awards and accomplishments. 

As the quarter wraps up, this will be the last bulletin for this quarter and it will be restarted in Autumn. Good luck during finals week and enjoy the summer!

POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS

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, June 6th, Smith 40A, 3:00-4:00 pm.

FACULTY & GRADUATE STUDENTS' PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash. "Climate Policy: A Glass Half-Full Or Half-Empty?" Forbes.com, May 20. 

Tony Gill presented "Preachers before Politicians: Transaction Costs and the Origins of Religion" at the American Institute for Economic Research on Tuesday, May 14, near the end of his two-week writing and research mini-sabbatical in Great Barrington, MA.

MAIN OFFICE & BUILDING HOURS

Main Office Hours: 

M-TH 8am-12pm and 1pm-5pm 

F 8am-12pm and 1pm-4:45pm 

Gowen & Smith Hall hours:  

M-F 7:30am-9:00pm; closed weekends and holidays 

 

Please email polisci@uw.edu for general information.  

Please submit items to polisci@uw.edu by Thursday 12pm for an addition to the weekly bulletin.

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