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Week of November 22, 2021

Department of Political Science Bulletin, November 22, 2021

 

Today’s bulletin is also posted on our website:

https://www.polisci.washington.edu/newsletter

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

 

The University will be closed Thursday, November 25th, and Friday, November 26th, in observance of Thanksgiving.

 

Political Science COVID-19 Prevention Plan is also located on our website. If you come to campus, you are required to review the plan and take the UW General COVID-19 safety training.

 

The Department of Political Science Main Office will have adjusted office hours for Autumn 2021. The office hours are as follows:

 

Monday:          8AM-12PM, 1-5PM
Tuesday:          8AM-12PM, 1-5PM
Wednesday:    8AM-12PM, 1-3:15PM, 4:30-5PM
Thursday:        8AM-12PM, 1:45-5PM
Friday:             8AM-12PM, 1-3:15PM, 4:30-5PM

 

FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES:

 

Beatric Magistro and Morgan Wack. “Racial Bias in Fans and Officials: Evidence from the Italian Serie A”. Working paper, 18 November, 2021. To be presented at the Political Economy Forum on December 10th.

Tony Gill went full definitional and looked at AB5 in "When Does a Job Become a Job?" over at the American Institute for Economic Research. 

POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS:

 

Department Faculty Panel: Noga Rotem, Jack Turner, Jamie Mayerfeld, and Michael McCann “Is Democracy Dead?” Tuesday, November 16, 2021, 5:30-7:00PM via Zoom. RSVP at https://events.uw.edu/IsDemocracyDead

 

UWISC presents Sarah Zuckerman Daly (Columbia University), “Securing the Future: Why Bloodstained Parties Win Postwar Elections,” Friday, 19 November 2021, 12-1:30pm via Zoom. Discussant: Ian Callison (PhD Student, Political Science). Zoom invitation from Megan Erickson via uwisc@uw.edu.

 

The Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Eduardo Montero (University of Chicago).Discussant is Megan Erickson (University of Washington).  Friday, November 19, 2021, 1:30 – 3 PM in Gowen 1A (Olson Room).  https://washington.zoom.us/j/92002141818pwd=SnVmbkFVWmpreDhGTmdTWHZqYytWUT09
Meeting ID: 920 0214 1818 (Passcode: 704021)

 

The Global Law & Politics Network Workshop Wednesdays will meet virtually: Wed., December 1, 8:00-9:00am PST. Project: Marriage Unbound: State Law, Power, and Inequality in Contemporary China. Presenter: Ke Li (John Jay College CUNY). Discussant: Poulma Roychowdhury (McGill University). For zoom link and paper please register.

 

The Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Inhwan Ko (University of Washington). Discussant with Asli Cansunar (University of Washington). Friday, December 3, 2021, 1:30 – 3 PM in Gowen 1A (Olson Room). 

 

The  Graduate Studies Coordinator & Equality Initiative in Political Science (EIPS) presents “Demystifying the MA Paper”. Friday, December 3, 1:30-3pm via Zoom discussion (link forthcoming).

 

 

OTHER DEPARTMENT TALKS/SEMINARS:

 

The Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies presents “Analyzing the Israeli COVID-19 Response in Context:Social, Historical and Ethical Perspectives” with Nadav Davidovitch (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) in conversation with UW global health professor Abraham Flaxman. Thursday, November 18, 2021 at 8PM PST. This event was cosponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington, and by Americans for Ben-Gurion University. RSVP at https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/public-health-covid-19-israel-historical-perspective/ .

 

The Ellison Center for Russians, East European, and Central Asian Studies presents “Azamat Gabuev on Stalin as a Neo-Pagan Deity in Contemporary Russia” presenting Azamat Gabuev. Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at 12:00PM PST. Register at https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6BCmZteGSHaXxUamT_WjxQ.

 

 

 

Please send newsletter items to Natalie (nc9927@uw.edu) by noon on Thursday

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