Past Schedules
FALL 2023
September 9: Introductions
September 23: "In-Progress" Presentations
Priyadarshi Amar (Political Science, UW-Madison), "The Effect of Ballot Access Laws on Representation: Evidence from Fertility Limits in India"
Priyadarshi Amar and Rikhil Bhavnani (Political Science, UW-Madison), "Do Direct Elections Improve Representation and Redistribution? Evidence from Natural Experiment in India"
September 30: Experimental Politics Workshop (EPW)
X Zhang, "Balance of Suffering: harm, intentionality, and morality as causes of revenge motive"
Jonathan Renshon, "Identity and Reputations in World Politics"
October 5: Gary King (Government, Harvard)
Title: "Statistically Valid Inferences from Privacy Protected Data"
Co-sponsor: La Follette School of Public Affairs, American Politics Workshop
Talk is held on WEDNESDAY (12:30pm-1:45pm, Pyle Center Room 335)
October 13: Diana Kim (School of Foreign Service, Georgetown)
Title: "Untouchability in the 21st Century"
Discussant: Marika Olijar
Co-sponsor: Comparative Politics Colloquium
Talk is held on THURSDAY (12:00-1:15pm, Ogg Room)
Note: Diana Kim is delivering two talks--one on Oct 13, and another on Oct 14.
October 14: Diana Kim (School of Foreign Service, Georgetown)
Co-sponsor: Comparative Politics Colloquium
October 21: Marcy Shieh (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Practice job talk, "Effects of Campaign Finance Regulations on State Supreme Court Signaling."
October 28: Matan Harel (Mathematics, Northeastern)
Title: "Rational Groupthink"
November 4: Laia Balcells Ventura (Government, Georgetown)
Title: "Past conflict, media, and polarization in Spain" (co-authored with Francisco Villamil and Juan Tellez)
Discussant: Ethan vanderWilden
Co-sponsor: European Studies, Political Economy Colloquium, Comparative Politics Colloquium, International Relations Colloquium
November 9: Xiao-li Meng (Statistics, Harvard)
Title: "Privacy, Data Privacy, and Differential Privacy"
Co-sponsor: Statistics (UW-Madison)
Talk is held on WEDNESDAY (4-5pm, B102 Van Vleck)
November 11: EPW Pilot Grant Recap
Oliver Lang
Marko Kljajic
Hohyun Yoon
December 2: Evan Rosenman (Data Science Initiative, Harvard)
Title: "Recalibration of Predicted Probabilities Using the 'Logit Shift': Why does it work, and when can it be expected to work well?"
December 9: Experimental Politics Workshop (EPW)
Nadav Shelef and Ethan vanderWilden: "Re-evaluating the impact of collective victimhood on conflict attitudes: A Meta-analysis and Quasi-experiments using Holocaust Memorial Day in Israel"
Ryan Powers, Michael Masterson, and Chagai Weiss (Virtual): "Local battle deaths and support for war."
SPRING 2024
January 27: Experimental Politics Workshop (EPW)
Marko Kljajic and Nadav Shelef (Political Science, UW-Madison): "The impact of social housing on inter-group attitudes and conflict in Yugoslavia: Initial data and pre-analysis plan."
February 3: Valeriia Umanets (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Title: "Exploring Political Participation of Women in the Soviet Union and Russia thorugh archival documents: From State Sponsored Feminism to Putin's Machismo"
Discussant: Marika Olijar
February 10: Emma Rodman (Political Science, University of Massachusetts Lowell)
Title: "On Political Theory and Large Language Models"
Discussant: Rebecca Anderson
Co-sponsor: Political Theory Workshop
Talk is held on FRIDAY (12:00-1:15pm, Ogg Room)
February 17: Saad Gulzar (Political Science, Princeton)
Title: "The Administration of Pollution: Evidence from Crop Burning in South Asia" (with Gemma Dipoppa, Brown University)
Discussant: Priyadarshi Amar
Co-sponsor: Political Economy Colloquium
February 24: Nate Atkinson (Law School, UW-Madison)
Title: "Type I and Type II Errors in Preference Aggregation"
March 3: Pia Raffler (Government, Harvard)
Title: "Access to Social Media and Support for Dominant Incumbents: Natural and Field Experimental Evidence from Uganda"
Discussant: Oliver Lang
Co-sponsor: Political Economy Colloquium
March 10: Steven Brooke (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Title: "Tribal Voting in New Democracies: Evidence from 6 Million Tunisian Voter Records" (with Oliver Lang, Gabriel Koehler-Derrick, and Alex Blackman)
March 24: EPW Grant Proposals
April 21: Khasan Redjaboev (Political Science, UW-Madison)
Title: "Building Responsive Local Governance in Authoritarian Environment: Evidence from Mayoral Survey in Uzbekistan"
May 5: Santiago Olivella (Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Title: "Local Communities of Labor Interests and Collaboration in Congress"
Discussant: Matthew Kim
Co-sponsor: American Politics Workshop