Welcome to the Comparative Politics Workshop (CPW) at the University of Chicago!

CPW provides an opportunity for graduate students, faculty members and outside speakers to present their work and receive feedback. The workshop meets in person every Monday from 10:20 AM to 11:50 AM in CISSR Conference Room. Copies of the paper will be distributed by email one week in advance.

To learn more about the workshop, click here. To be added to our mailing list, click here. To access calendars from previous academic years, click here. If you have any questions, please contact the CPW student coordinators.

We are proud to present the Winter 2026 Schedule. To access a PDF of the schedule, click here.

JAN 5         Yang Yao
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics

JAN 12       Junyan Jiang
Columbia University

JAN 26       John Reuter
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

FEB 2         Rana Khoury
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

FEB 9         Laia Balcells
Georgetown University

FEB 16       Ben Yoel
Michigan State University

FEB 23       Mai Hassan
MIT

MAR 2        Ya-Wen Lei
Harvard University