Location: Milikan Room (E53-482)
Time: 12:00-1:15pm (Lunch provided)
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Past Events (2015-2024)
| Date and Location | Presenter | Title of Paper |
| Friday, March 22, 2024 Millikan Room (E53-482) 12-1:15pm | Amanda Helen Kennard Assistant Professor of Political Science Stanford University | “Climate Change and Political Mobilization: Theory and Evidence from India” |
| Friday, May 3, 2024 Millikan Room (E53-482) 12-1:15pm | Daniel Nielson Professor of Government University of Texas – Austin | “Economic Sanctions are Effective only after the Onset of War” |
| 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” |