Comparative Politics Colloquium

Fall 2025

• September 4: Mingcong Pan (UW-Madison)

  • Paper title: “Personalization and Its Governance Consequences”

• September 11: TBD

• September 18: Steven Wilson (Brandeis University)

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant:  TBD

  • Cosponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA )

• September 25: Ethan van der Wilden (UW-Madison)

  • Paper title: “Authoritarian nostalgia and linked party success”

• October 2: Saloni Bhogale (UW-Madison)

  • Paper title: TBD

• October 9: Khasan Redjaboev (UW-Madison)

  • Paper title: TBD

• October 16: Hanno Hilbig (University of California, Davis)

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant: TBD

  • Co-sponsored by the European Studies

• October 23: Oliver Lang (UW-Madison)

  • Paper title: “Propaganda and the logic of competition in autocratic media markets”

• October 30:  Anna Grzymala-Busse (Stanford)

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant: TBD

  • Co-sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA )

• November 6: Gemma Dipoppa (Columbia)

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant: TBD

  • Co-Sponsored by the Political Economy Colloquium (PEC)

• November 13: Second-year Ph.D. students' Presentations

• November 20: Second-year Ph.D. students' Presentations

• December 4: Marika Olijar (UW-Madison)

  • Paper title: “Choosing Religious Nationalism”

  • Discussant: TBD

spring 2026

• January 22:  TBD

• January 29:  TBD

• February 5: TBD

• February 12: TBD

• February 19: Elisabeth Wood (Yale)

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant: TBD

  • Co-Sponsored by the International Relations Colloquium (IRC) 

• February 26: Lihi Ben Shitrit (NYU)

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant: TBD

• March 5: TBD

• March 12: TBD

• March 19: Catherine Boone (LSE)  

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant: TBD

• March 26: TBD

• April 9: TBD

• April 16: TBD

• April 23: TBD

• April 30: Bingham Powell (Rochester)

  • Paper title: TBD

  • Discussant: TBD