Calendar
2012-2013
Spring 2013
- “Roundabouts and Revolutions: Public Squares, Coordination, and the Diffusion of the Arab Uprisings”
- Paper by: David Patel, Cornell University
- When: Friday, February 1st, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “The professional context of accepting racial minorities as part of the French national community”
- Paper by: Rahsaan Maxwell, Univ. of Mass. Amherst
- When: Friday, February 8th, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “Does Reform Prevent Rebellion? Evidence from Russia’s Emancipation of the Serfs”
- Paper by: Scott Gehlbach, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
- When: Friday, February 15th, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “Managing Difficult Allies: Successor Leaders and the Domestic Sources of Patron Influence”
- Paper by: Giacomo Chiozza, Vanderbilt University
- When: Friday, February 22nd, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “What Exactly is a Crime Against Humanity?: The African Union, Universal Jurisdiction, and International Justice”
- Paper by: Siba Grovogui, Johns Hopkins University
- When: Friday, March 1st, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “When Bad Things Happen to Privileged People: Marginalization, Representation, and the Construction of National Crisis”
- Paper by: Dara Strolovitch, Univ. of Minnesota
- When: Friday, March 8th, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “Willing and Able: Culpability, Vulnerability and Leaders’ Sensitivity to War Outcomes”
- Paper by: Sarah Croco, University of Maryland
- When: Friday, March 15th, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “Early Registration Deadlines Disenfranchise Millions of US Voters”
- Paper by: Alex Street, Cornell University
- When: Friday, March 29th, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “You Cannot be Serious: Do Partisans Believe What They Say?”
- Paper by: Marcus Prior, Princeton University
- When: Friday, April 5th, 11:50am
- Where: 106 White Hall
- Prior’s talk will begin at 11:50am
- “Partisan News in an Age of Choice”
- Paper by: Kevin Arceneaux, Temple University
- When: Friday, April 19th, 12:10-1:30pm
- Where: 106 White Hall
- “Origins of the Developmental State: Crisis and adjustment in the non-industrialized world”
- Paper by: Don Leonard, Cornell University
- When: September 21st
- “Colonial Capitalism and the Dilemmas of Liberalism: John Locke’s Theory of Property”
- Paper by: Onur Ulas Ince, Cornell University
- When: September 28th
- “Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America”
- Paper by: Jennifer Pribble, University of Richmond
- When: October 5th
- “Is the Phone Mightier than the Sword? Cell Phones and Insurgent Violence in Iraq”
- Paper by: Jacob Shapiro, Princeton University
- When: October 12th
- “What’s Race Got to Do With It? Penal Reform and the Future of the Carceral State and American Politics”
- Paper by: Marie Gottschalk, Univ. of Pennsylvania
- When: October 19th
- “Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America’s Positive Rights”
- Paper by: Emily Zackin, Hunter College
- When: October 26th
- “Bearing No Burden: How Wars without Apparent Costs Affect Democratic Accountability”
- Paper by: Sarah Kreps, Cornell University
- When: November 2nd
- “Rethinking Religious Reasons in Public Justification”
- Paper by: Andrew March, Yale University
- When: November 9th