Department of Political Science Bulletin, October 26, 2020
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
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. You must fill out the COVID-19 attestation in Workday on each day you come to campus.
The Department of Communication is relaunching the Center for Communication and Civic Engagement as the Center for Journalism, Media and Democracy (CJMD). The relaunch reflects significant shifts over recent decades in media and politics and evolving efforts to understand contemporary democracy as it is being shaped by digital-era communication cultures, tools, platforms, policies and practices.
The new Center will mark its inauguration by hosting “Media and Politics in the US Presidential Election: A Virtual Roundtable,” on October 28, 2020, at Noon. Please join CJMD Co-Directors Matthew Powers & Adrienne Russell, joined by Senior Research Fellow Lance Bennett, for this public discussion.
Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/media-and-politics-in-the-us-presidential-election-a-virtual-roundtable-tickets-122632235317
FACULTY AND GRADUATE STUDENTS PAPERS, PUBLICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
What I Did on My Summer Vacation, Part IV: Tony Gill published "The Comparative Endurance and Efficiency of Religion: A Public Choice Approach." Public Choice. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-020-00842-1. This amazing feat was accomplished, with nary any revisions required, despite being informed it was a passé topic based upon graduate school reading selections.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation, Part V: Tony Gill, not content with solo projects, teamed up with Jonathan Newman (Bryan College, economics) to write "The Use of Knowledge in a Pandemic" over at the American Institute for Economic Research.
What I Did on My Summer Vacation, Part VI: Tony Gill was a faculty discussant at a two-day graduate research seminar sponsored by the Institute for Humane Studies on July 24th and 25th. In addition to being a duly dedicated discussant, Tony also presented his current research project "The Efficient Smoke of Burnt Offerings: Trust and Transaction Costs in the Gifting Economy" with a poetic angle. Additionally, Tony learned that virtual happy hours actually can be quite fun (but you have to bring your own bottle).
Associate Professor James Long was interviewed for a story on KNKX on how ballots are counted in the state of Washington.
Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash. Will the Biden Administration transform U.S. climate policy? Forbes.com, October 16.
POLITICAL SCIENCE TALKS/SEMINARS
Political Science presents a three part series UW Political Science Faculty Panel -- Election 2020: A Turning Point?. Third in the series, “Impacts for our Democracy” October 29, 2020, 6pm via zoom. Click on link above to register. Speakers: Rebecca Thorpe (UW-Political Science) “The Implications of the 2020 Election for Domestic Policy”, and Scott Lemieux (UW-Political Science) “The Supreme Court and the 2020 Election.”
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Brian Leung (Ph.D. student, UW) “Bricks, Molotov Cocktails and Engaged Bystanders: Why Violence Becomes Sustained in Popular Protests”, Friday, October 30, 2020, 1:30-3:00pm via Zoom. Discussant: Yue Hou (UPenn). Please contact Kenya Amano via srscp@uw.edu for Zoom link.
2020-21 WISIR Series – Contemporary Race & Politics in the United States: Second Panel, “Race & the 2020 Election”, November 6, 2020, 11:00am-12pm via Zoom. Moderator: Sophia Jordan Wallace (University of Washington). Panelists: Bernard Fraga (Emory University), Christina Greer (Fordham University), Jane Junn (University of Southern California), Chris Parker (University of Washington). Register here
UWISC presents Ozgur Ozkan (UW-JSIS Ph.D. Candidate), “Officers and Insurgents: Organizational Sources of the Kurdish Underrepresentation in the Turkish Military (1923-2015)”, November 6, 2020, Noon via Zoom. Discussant: Nela Mrchkovska (UW-Political Science graduate student). Contact uwisc@uw.edu for Zoom link.
Severyns Ravenholt Seminar in Comparative Politics presents Daniel M. Smith (Harvard University) “Destruction from Above: Long-Term Legacies of the Tokyo Air Raids”, Friday, November 20, 2020, 1:30-3:00pm via Zoom. Discussant: Lauren Hwayoung Lee. Please contact Kenya Amano via srscp@uw.edu for Zoom link.
OTHER DEPARTMENT TALKS/SEMINARS
UW Ctr for Journalism, Media, and Democracy presents “Conversation with Jorge Ramos: Journalism + the U.S. Presidential Election,” October 26, 2020, 9-10:30am PDT. Moderators: Matthew Powers (UW) and Sandra Vera-Sambrano (Iberoamericana). Co-sponsored by Universidad Iberoamericana. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/conversation-with-jorge-ramos-journalism-the-us-presidential-election-tickets-125054404089
UW Ctr for Journalism, Media, and Democracy presents “Public Opinion and Polls in the 2020 Presidential Election,” October 27, 2020, 12-1:30pm PDT. Moderator: Patricia Moy (UW Communication). Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/public-opinion-and-polls-in-the-2020-presidential-election-tickets-125981073783
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