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)

• October 1: Cesi Cruz (University of Michigan)

• October 8: Nadav Shelef (UW–Madison)

• October 15: Marika Olijar (UW–Madison)

• October 22: Second-year Ph.D. Students' Presentations

• October 29: Zhanyang Liu and Marwa Shalaby (UW–Madison)

• November 5: TBD

• 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: Job Talk

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)