Comparative Politics Colloquium

Spring 2024

• February 1:  Cancelled

• February 8: TBD

• February 15: Mingcong Pan (UW-Madison)

  • Working Paper on Public Opinion and Authoritarianism

  • Discussant: Marko Kljajic (UW-Madison)

• February 22: Mark Dincecco (University of Michigan)

  • "The Columbian Exchange and Conflict in Asia"

  • Discussant: Junda Li (UW-Madison)

  • Co-Sponsored by the Political Economy Colloquium

• February 29:  Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University)

  • "Risk Attitudes and Political Participation under Authoritarian Rule"

  • Discussant: Valeria Umanets (UW-Madison)

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

  • Co-Sponsored by the Political Economy Colloquium

• March 7: Ivan Ermakoff (UW-Madison, Sociology)

  • Discussant: Marika Olijar (UW-Madison)

• March 14: Marika Olijar (UW-Madison)* &  Jérémie Langlois (UW-Madison)**

  • Draft Prospectus Presentations

  • Discussants: 

    • Discussant: Marko Kljajic (UW-Madison)*

    • Monica Komer (UW-Madison)**

• March 21: Priya Mukherjee (UW-Madison, Agricultural & Applied Economics)

  • “Are Female Leaders Always Good for Women? Evidence from India"

  • Discussant: Priyadarshi Amar  (UW-Madison)

  • Co-Sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power (DEJP) lecture series

• March 28: No meeting, Spring Break

• April 4: No meeting, ISA/MPSA 

• April 11: Elliott Green (London School of Economics)

  • Book Talk: Industrialization and Assimilation: Understanding Ethnic Change in the Modern World (2022)

  • Discussant: Norah-Frida Tebid (UW-Madison)

  • Co-Sponsored by the African Studies Program

• April 12: Yang Yao (Peking University)

  • Co-sponsored by the Models, Experiments, and Data Workshop, the Political Economy Colloquium, the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics, the Center for East Asian Studies, and the East Asian Legal Studies Center

• April 18: Marwa Shalaby (UW-Madison)

  • "How Opposition Movements Use Legislative Powers in Authoritarian Regimes"

  • Discussant: Ilia Nadporozhskii (UW-Madison)

• April 25: Yue Hou (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)

  • "Not So Powerless: How Chinese Criminal Defense Lawyers Encourage Judge-Prosecutor Disagreement"

  • Discussant: Oliver Lang (UW-Madison)

  • Co-Sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Center and the Center for East Asian Studies

• May 2: Cancelled and To Be Rescheduled for Fall 2024 Jennifer Gandhi (Yale University)

Fall 2023

• September 7: Introductory Session

• September 14: Alisha Holland (Harvard University)

  • 'Expertise Capture: How Business Advances Its Interests in Technocratic States'

  • Co-Sponsored by the Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program (LACIS) Nave Visiting Scholar Program

  • Discussant: Saloni Bhogale

• September 21: Rachel Tan (UW-Madison)

  • Second Year Presentation

  • '(Trans)national Techno-Science and Divergent Indigenous Politics in Mexico'

  • Co-Sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power (DEJP) lecture series

  • Discussant: Valeria Umanets

• September 28: Daniel Corstange (Columbia University)

  • 'Source Cues, Foreign Vaccines, and the Halo Effect'

  • Co-Sponsored by the Middle East Studies Program (MESP)

  • Discussant: Oliver Lang

• October 5: Denia Garcia (UW-Madison)

  • 'The Million-Dollar Question: Participatory Budgeting and Inclusivity'

  • Co-Sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power (DEJP) lecture series

  • Discussant: Rachel Tan

• October 12: Valeria Umanets (UW-Madison)

  • Practice Job Talk Presentation

  • Co-Sponsored with the Diversity, Equity, Justice, and Power (DEJP) lecture series

• October 19: Debra Javeline (Notre Dame)

  • 'Coastal Homeowners in a Changing Climate'

  • Co-Sponsored by the Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia (CREECA) and the American Politics Workshop

• October 26: No Meeting

• November 2: Rikhil Bhavnani (UW-Madison)

  • Discussant: Priyadarshi Amar

  • Co-Sponsored by the Diversity, Equity, Justice and Power (DEJP) lecture series

• November 9: Ethan vanderWilden (UW-Madison)

  • Dissertation Chapter Presentation

  • Discussant: Ned Littlefield (UW-Madison)

• November 16: No Meeting

• November 23: No Meeting, Thanksgiving Holiday

• November 30: Kaiping Chen (UW-Madison, Life Sciences Communication)

  • 'Revealed Geographies: How China’s IP Address De-anonymization Policy on Weibo Influences Nationalism Discourse during the COVID-19 Pandemic'

  • Discussant: Elohim Monard Rivas (UW-Madison)

• December 7: No Meeting