Spring 2020
Stuart Kaufman, "The Case for Integrative Pluralism in International Relations Theory." Wednesday, February 19, 12:15 - 1:20 PM, Sharp Lab 103
Nancy Boyer, "Building Democracy and Leading a Revolution in Culture"- POSTPONED until Fall
Annemarie Walter, (Visiting Scholar, University of Nottingham) Wednesday, May 6, 12:15 - 1:20 PM, Sharp Lab 103
Spring 2019
Richard Chasdi, "Multinational Corporation Security: a collection of
three essays" Monday, February 25, 12:15 - 1:15 PM, Gore Hall 222
Lenka Hrbková, "Polarization in the Czech multi-party system:
Towards conceptualization and measurements of societal polarization", Wednesday, March 13, 12:15 - 1:15 PM, Gore Hall 222
Dan Green, "Understanding the Origins of the New Imperialism, 1865-1880: An Order Project Approach" Wednesday, April 10, 12:15 - 1:15, Gore Hall 222
Lilliana Mason, "Uncivil Agreement: How Politics Became Our
Identity" Wednesday, April 24, 12:15 -1:15, Gore Hall 222
Joanne Miller , " Why do People Believe Conspiracy
Theories?" Wednesday, May 8, 12:15 - 1:15, Gore Hall 222
Fall 2018
Zhiyong Hu, "India's Look East Policy and Its
Influence"
Monday, September 10, 12:15-1:10pm, Ewing Hall Room
204
Ted Davis, "Politics, Race and America’s Enduring
Dilemma: How the Politics of Public Education Maintains Racial
Disparities." Wednesday, October 3, 12:30-1:30 pm, Alison Hall Room
131
Gregory Herschlag:
"Quantifying Gerrymandering: Separating Natural Bias from Partisan Bias in
Redistricting" Thursday, October 25, 12:15 - 1:10 pm, Sharp Lab Room 123
Michael Habegger and Tobias Lemke, "Russian
disinformation campaigns in the digital age: the influence of @RTenfrancais and
@sputnik_fr in the 2017 French Presidential Election" Monday, 5
November,12:15-1:10 pm, 115 Gore Hall
2018 Spring
Wednesday, April 25, 12:15 - 1:30 pm: Ted Davis (006 Willard Hall)
“Racial Disparities in Educational Outcomes”
Wednesday, April 18, 12:15 - 1:30 pm: Brian Babcock-Lumish (230 Lerner Hall)
"Uninformed, not Uniformed? American Civil-Military Relations in the 21st Century"
Wednesday, May 16, 12:15 - 1:30 pm: Flavio Hickel, Jr. (230 Lerner Hall)
"Making America Exceptional Again: Donald Trump’s Civil Religious Political Base”
2017 Fall
Monday, September 11, 12:15 - 1:15pm, Sharp Lab
116: Flavio Hickel, Jr.
"Who is Civil Religious Reconsidered"
Wednesday, October
4, from 12:15 - 1:20 pm, Sharp Lab 116: Saleem Ali
"The
Conundrum of Natural Resource Governance: Planetary Politics in a Parochial
World"
Wednesday, November 1, 2017 12:15 - 1:15 pm, Sharp Lab 116: Noelle Brigden
"The Migrant Passage: Clandestine Journeys
from Central America"
Wednesday, Nov 15, 2017 12:15 - 1:15 pm , Sharp Lab 116: Brian Babcock-Lumish
"Uninformed, not Uniformed?: American
Civil-Military Relations in the 21st Century"
2016 Fall
Wednesday September 7, 2016 : Dr. John D. Ciorciari
"Difficult Dances: Sovereignty-Sharing Arrangements in Fragile or Failing States"
Wednesday October 5, 2016 12:15-1:30 pm, Memorial Room 037: Dr. Kassra A. R. Oskooii
"Assessing the Mechanism Linking Societal & Political
Discrimination to (Dis)Engagement"
Monday October 31, 2016 12:15-1:30 pm, Memorial Room 037: Dr. David P. Redlawsk
"Social Cues and Political Information: Dynamic Studies of
Voter Decision Making"
Wednesday November 30, 2016 12:15-1:30 pm, Gore Hall Room 116: Dr. Annemarie Walter
"The Effectiveness of Negative Campaigning in a Multiparty System"
2016 Spring
Wednesday February 24, 2016 : Dr. Jason Mycoff
"Congressional Committees and Jurisdictional Change"
Wednesday April 6, 2016 : Dr. Wayne Batchis
"The Right’s First Amendment: The Politics
of Free Speech & the Return of Conservative Libertarianism"
Wednesday May 11, 2016 : Dr. Elaine Salo
"Caster Semenya - the ancients would have called her god. International sports ethics, the remaking of sex
and the art of silence"
2015 Fall
Wednesday September 30, 2015 : Dr. Benjamin Bagozzi
"The Politics of Government Responsiveness: Evidence from 900,000 Public Information Requests in
Mexico"
Wednesday October 28, 2015 : Dr. Stuart Kaufman
"Nationalist Passions"
Wednesday December 2, 2015 : Dr. Matthew Weinert
"Making Human: World Order and the Global Governance of Human Dignity"
2015 Spring
Wednesday February 25, 2015 : Dr. Mark Miller
"Old and New Worlds: Two Centuries of Transatlantic Mass Migrations and the Genesis of the
Western Conglomerate State"
Wednesday March 11, 2015 : Dr. Daniel Kinderman
"On the Politics of Corporate Accountability and Upward Regulatory Harmonization: The Case of
EU Sustainability Reporting".
Wednesday April 8, 2015 : Dr. Daniel Green and Tobias Lemke
"Civilizing Europe: The Paradoxes of a Liberal Standard of Civilization in the Mid-Nineteenth
Century"
Wednesday May 13th, 2015 : Dr. Vasabjit Banerjee – Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
"Peasant Rebels and International Capital: Britain and the Formation of the Post-1979 Zimbabwean Regime"
Fall 2014
Wednesday October 1st, 2014 : Dr. Julio Carrion and Dr. Lauren Balasco
"Citizen Insecurity in Latin America: The Impact of Crime on Support for Democracy"
Wednesday October 22nd, 2014 : Dr. Daniel Green & Tobias Lemke
"The Functioning of International Cultural Hierarchies: A Liberal Standard of Civilization in Europe, 1846-1856"
Wednesday November 5th, 2014 : Dr. Kara Ellerby
"(RE)framing Gender Equality: It's not Gender, It's Not Equality"
Wednesday December 3rd, 2014 : Dr. Jennifer Lobasz
"Somaly Mam's Lies and the 'Truth about Trafficking'"
Spring 2014
Wednesday February 26th, 2014 : Dr. Elaine Salo
"Gender Mainstreaming in African water policies: a means to equity and better access or a tale of confusion?"
Wednesday April 9th, 2014 : Dr. Muqtedar Khan
"Islam as Identity: After One Hundred Years of Islamic Revivalism"
Wednesday April 30th, 2014 : Dr. Daniel Kinderman
"POSCIR in the US after the end of the Cold War"
Fall 2013
Wednesday October 9th, 2013 : Dr. William Meyer
"Testing Theories of Labor Rights and Development"
Wednesday October 30th, 2013 : Dr. Stuart Kaufman
"Asymmetric and Hybrid Warfare"
Wednesday November 6th, 2013 : Dr. Ted Davis
"The Politics of Inclusion"
Wednesday November 30th, 2013 : Dr. Daniel Green
"Recent Attacks on Constructivism: A Reasonable Response"