UPCOMING SEMINARS

  • The Seminar Series for the 2025/2026 academic course will be announced shortly

PAST SEMINARS

10
Jun
 Gemma Dipoppa (Columbia): The Logic of State Surveillance
2:30pm
04
Jun
 Deniz Aksoy (UWSTL): Judicial Involvement and Public Reactions to Repression
2:30pm
28
May
 Zeynep Bulutgil (UCL): When Secular Parties Win: Religious Organizational Infrastructure and Secular Alternatives
2:30pm
14
May
 Paula Rettl (Harvard): Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil
2:30pm
30
Apr
 David Carter (UWSTL): Associational Membership, Ethnicity and Social Trust in Mali
2:30pm
22
Apr
 Bastian Becker (Humboldt): Dark Demands: How Sunlight Drives the Seasonal Politics of Redistribution
2:30pm
12
Mar
 Gabriel Leon-Ablan (King’s College): Geopolitics and institutional change: the Napoleonic wars and the abolition of the British slave trade
2:30pm
05
Mar
 Alexandra Scacco (WZB): Intergroup Contact, Empathy Education, and Refugee-Native Integration: Evidence from a Field Experiment in Lebanon
2:30pm
26
Feb
 Lucas Leemann (Zurich): Parties and the People: Why Do Parties Support Direct Democracy?
2:30pm
29
Jan
 Francisco Villamil (UC3M): The consequences of grassroots human rights: Mass grave exhumations in Spain
2:30pm
15
Jan
 Olle Folke (Uppsala): The Seniority Ceiling: Why Some Immigrants Struggle to Rise in Political Office
2:30pm
04
Dec
 Francisco Garfias (Duke): Fiscal Legibility and State Development
2:30pm
20
Nov
 Piero Stanig (Bocconi): You Are Fired, My Lord! Experimental Evidence on Deferential Narratives and Democratic Accountability
2:30pm
23
Oct
 Dominic Rohner (Geneva Graduate Institute): Who wins wars
2:30pm
16
Oct
 Roundtable on the State of Democracies Today: Challenges and Paths Forward, with Susan Stokes, Massimo Morelli and Carles Boix
12:00pm
09
Oct
 Jean Lacroix (Paris-Saclay): Des nôtres? The Political Effects of Hosting Internal Evacuees
2:30pm
12
Jun
 Gloria Gennaro (UCL): Worker Shortages and Immigration Support
2:30pm
29
May
 Paula Rettl (Harvard): SEMINAR CANCELLED!
2:30pm
22
May
 John Ahlquist (UC San Diego): Welfare Capitalism on the Cheap? employee hardship funds, corporate culture, and workplace solidarity
2:30pm
15
May
 Charlotte Cavaillé (UMich): Women’s Suffrage: Explaining the French Exception
2:30pm

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