Comparative Politics Colloquium

Fall 2026

• September 3:  No meeting (APSA)

• September 10:  Jérémie Langlois (UW–Madison)

  • Paper title: “The Long Reach of Social Peace: Housing Distribution and the Parochialization of Algeriaʼs Hirak” 

• September 15: Paul Staniland (University of Chicago), co-sponsored with IRC

  • Paper title: "Under Pressure: Why Some Swing States Can Navigate Major Power Competition, and Others are Torn Apart" 

  • Discussant: Sloane Ward

• September 24: Evgeniia Mitrokhina (UW–Madison)

  • Paper title: “Transparency Defanged: How Autocrats Enforce Freedom of Information” 

• October 1: Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan)

  • Paper title: “From Correction to Connection: Relational Approaches to Countering Misinformation”

  • Discussant: Monica Komer

• October 8: Nadav Shelef (UW–Madison)

  • Paper title: "An Empirical Overview of Global Changes in the Ascriptiveness of National Membership" 

• October 15: Job Talk

• October 22: Marika Olijar (UW–Madison)

  • Paper title: "From Co-optation to Traditionalist Campaigns: Authoritarian Responses to Non-state Religious Actors" 

• November 5: Zhanyang Liu and Marwa Shalaby (UW–Madison), co-sponsored with DEJP

  • Paper title: "Intersection of Identity and Legislative Behavior under Competitive Authoritarianism: Evidence from Jordan” 

• November 12: Volha Charnysh (MIT), co-sponsored with the Jean Monnet European Union Center of Excellence and PEC

  • Paper title: "From Nazi Camps to Communist Collaboration: Patriot Priests in Poland"

  • Discussant: Nastya Andreeva

• November 19: Nicholas Barnes (St. Andrews)

  • Paper title: "Denouncing Criminalized Groups in Rio de Janeiro"

  • Discussant: Tatiana Cruz

• December 3: Second-year presentations

Spring 2027

• January 21: Salma Mousa (UCLA)

• January 28: Tatiana Cruz (UW–Madison)

• February 4: Natália Bueno (Emory)

• February 11: Søren Henn (UW–Madison)

• February 18: Christopher Blair (Princeton), co-sponsored with IRC 

• February 25: Nhu Truong (UW–Madison)

• March 4: Sabrina Karim (Cornell), co-sponsored with IRC

• March 11: Aili Tripp (UW–Madison)

• March 18:  Ken Opalo (Georgetown), co-sponsored with ASP

• March 30: Elisabeth Wood (Yale), co-sponsored with IRC

• April 8: Jason Lyall (Dartmouth), co-sponsored with CREECA

• April 15: David Laitin (Stanford)

• April 22: Melissa Lee (UPenn)

• April 29: Hillel Soifer (Berkeley)