Welcome to the website of the International Relations Colloquium (IRC) 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 IRC in the 2025-2026 academic school year or would like to be added to the IRC email list, please contact one of the graduate student coordinators below.
Our meetings are held on Tuesdays from 12 to 1:15 pm. In person meetings will take place at the Ogg room in North Hall.
Faculty Director
Genevieve (genevieve.bates@wisc.edu)
If you’re interested in presenting at IRC in the 2025-2026 academic school year or would like to be added to the IRC email list, please contact one of the graduate student coordinators below.
A list of past speakers can be found here.
A guide to serving as a discussant, authored by Jonathan Renshon and Adeline Lo, can be found here.
Graduate Student Coordinators
Sloane Ward (skward3@wisc.edu)
Monica Ochoa (mochoa4@wisc.edu)
Fall 2025
September 9th: Welcome Session
September 16th: Open
September 23rd: Open
September 30th: Open
October 7th: Xunchao Zhang (Stanford University/UW-Madison)
Practice Job Talk (Virtual)
October 14th: Open
October 21st: Daniel Krcmaric (Northwestern University)
"Manhunts"
Discussant: Sloane Ward
October 28th: Gino Pauselli (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
"TBD"
Discussant: TBD
November 4th: Open
November 11th: Open
November 18th: Open
November 25th: Open
December 2nd: Richard Clark (University of Notre Dame)
"TBD"
Discussant: John Hicks
Co-sponsored with PEC
December 9th: No IRC (Last Week of Classes)
Spring 2026
January 20th: No IRC (First week of classes)
January 27th : Open
February 3rd : Open
February 10th : Alexandra Chinchilla (Texas A&M University)
"TBD"
Discussant: TBD
February 19th : Elizabeth Wood (Yale University)
"TBD"
Discussant: TBD
Co-sponsored with CPC
February 24th : Open
March 3rd: Open
March 10th: Alexander Thompson (The Ohio State University)
"TBD"
Discussant: Andrew T. Fairley
March 17th: Open
March 24th: No IRC (ISA)
March 31st: No IRC (Spring Break)
April 7th : Open
April 14th: Terrence Chapman (University of Texas-Austin)
"TBD"
Discussant: TBD
April 21st: Open
April 28th: No IRC (Last week of classes)