Events

Location: Milikan Room (E53-482)

Time: 12:00-1:15pm (Lunch provided)

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Past Events (2015-2023)

Date and Location Presenter Title of Paper

Friday, Nov 17, 2023

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Richard Clark

Assistant Professor of Government

Cornell University

“Accountable to Whom? Public Opinion of Aid Conditionality in Recipient Countries.”

Friday, Dec 1, 2023

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Soo Yeon Kim

Associate Professor of Political Science 

National University of Singapore

"Membership and its Benefits: Vote Shares in the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank"

Feb 24, 2023

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Nita Rudra

Professor in the Department of Government 

Georgetown University 

"Do Workers in Developing Countries Love Globalization?"

Nov 18, 2022

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Stephen Chaudoin

Assistant Professor of Government 

Harvard University 

"Robots, Foreigners, and Foreign Robots: Policy Responses to Automation and Trade"

Nov 4, 2022

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Adam Dean

Assistant Professor of Political Science 

George Washington University 

"Opening up by Cracking Down"

April 1, 2022

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Didac Queralt

Assistant Professor of Political Science 

Yale University 

"State Building in the Era of International Finance"

Mar 11, 2022

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Erica Owen

Associate Professor of Public and International Affairs 

University of Pittsburgh

Low-skill products by high-skill workers: The distributive effects of trade in emerging and developing countries 

Feb 18, 2022

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Rachel Wellhausen

Associate Professor of Political Science 

University of Texas - Austin 

Global Value Chains as a Constraint on Sovereignty: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement 

Mar. 6 2020

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Timm Betz

Assistant Professer of Political Science

Texas A&M University

Governments as Borrowers and Regulators (link)

Oct. 11, 2019 

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Rebecca Perlman

Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs 

Princeton University 

For Safety or Profit? How Science Serves
the Strategic Interests of Private Actors (link)
 

Nov 1, 2019

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

David Stasavage

Dean for the Social Sciences and Julius Silver Professor of Politics 

New York University 

A Civic Culture? Common Schooling, Inequality,

and Political Participation in Antebellum New York State

Dec. 7, 2018

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Beth Simmons

Andrea Mitchell University Professor of Law, Political Science and Business Ethics

University of Pennsylvania.

Border Orientation in a Globalizing World (link)

May 4, 2018

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Jim Vreeland

Professor, School of Foreign Service and Government Department

Georgetown University

Economic Transparency and Foreign Direct Investment

Feb. 16, 2018

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Nikhar Gaikwad

Instructor, Political Science

Columbia University
 

Identity Politics and Economic Policy

Dec. 8, 2017

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Erik Voeten

Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs

Georgetown University

Ideology and Global Distributive Institutional Politics

Sept. 29, 2017

Millikan Room (E53-482)

12-1:30pm

Ryan Brutger

Assistant Professor of Political Science

University of Pennsylvania

Litigation for Sale: Private Firms and WTO Dispute Escalation (link)

May 5, 2017

Tom Pepinsky

Associate Professor of Government

Cornell University

Ethnicity as an Institution (link)

Feb. 17, 2017

Michael Findley

Associate Professor, Department of Government

 University of Texas, Austin

Electoral Institutions and Electoral Cycles in Foreign Direct Investment:
A Field Experiment on Over 3,000 U.S. Municipalities (link)

Dec. 2, 2016

Michael Bechtel

Associate Professor of Political Science

Washington University in St. Louis

Interests, Norms, and Mass Support for International Climate Policy (link)

Sept. 23, 2016

Allison Carnegie

Associate Professor of Political Economy

Columbia University

The Disclosure Dilemma: Sensitive Economic Information and International Organizations (link)
May 6, 2016

Edmund Malesky

Professor of Political Science

Duke Universiety

"Pandering Upward: Tax Incentives and Credit Claiming in Authoritarian Countries"
Feb. 5, 2016

Susan Hyde

Professor of Politcal Science

UC - Berkeley

"Faking it in International Relations: Norms, Policy Diffusion, and International Expectation"
Dec. 4, 2015

Kenneth Scheve

Professor of Political Science

Stanford University

"Taxing the Rich: A History of Fiscal Fairness in the United States and Europe"
Sept. 25, 2015

Christina Davis

Professor, Department of Politics

Princeton University

“Joining the Club: Accession to the GATT/WTO”