Experimental Politics Workshop
Welcome to the website of the Experimental Politics Workshop (EPW) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This workshop invites outside speakers, faculty members, and graduate students to present their work and receive feedback. If you’re interested in presenting at EPW in the 2020-2021 academic school year please contact the graduate student coordinator.
Due to COVID-19, Spring 2021 meetings will be held virtually. Unless otherwise noted, our meetings are held on Fridays from 12 to 1:15pm.
- 2020-2021 SCHEDULE
Faculty Directors
Graduate Student Coordinators
SPRING 2021
February 12: Marcy Shieh and Levi Bankston (UW-Madison)
February 26: Frederick Chen and Mingcong Pan (UW-Madison)
April 7 at 4pm CST: Erin Hartman (UCLA)
Co-sponsored with MAD and Statistics department
April 9: Experiments Pilot Grant presentations
April 16: Anton Shirikov and Adeline Lo, Jonathan Renshon and Lotem Bassan-Nygate (UW-Madison)
April 23: Teppei Yamamoto (MIT)
Co-sponsored with MAD
FALL 2020
September 4: Adeline Lo/ Reed Lei (UW-Madison)
September 18: Dan Mattingly (Yale)
"How Propaganda Manipulates Emotion to Fuel Nationalism: Experimental Evidence from China."
Discussant: Kaiping Chen (UW-Madison)
Co-sponsored with La Follette School of Public Affairs
September 25: Anton Shirikov and Hohyun Yoon (UW-Madison)
October 2: Marcy Shieh and Blake Reynolds (UW-Madison)
October 23: Rafael Chu (NYU)
"Reelection Backfire: Electoral Accountability and Security Under-provision in Mexico."
November 10: Melissa Lee (Princeton)
Co-sponsored with IRC and PEC
November 20: Jeremy Kedziora (UW-Madison)
"The Logic of War Aims and Resolve."
Discussant: Jon Pevehouse (UW-Madison)
Co-sponsored with IRC
We are part of a rich network of workshops and colloquia: American Politics Workshop (APW), International Relations Colloquium (IRC), Comparative Politics Colloquium (CPC), Political Theory Workshop (PTW), Methods and Data (MAD), Political Economy Colloquium (PEC), European Politics Workshop, and Latin American Colloquium (LAC).