Monthly Archives: October 2014

James Fearon, Nov. 5th.

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Please join us on Wednesday, November 5th, for:

“Does Contemporary Armed Conflict Have
‘Deep Historical Roots’?”
James Fearon
Stanford University

The workshop meets at the Wilder House (5811 South Kenwood Avenue) from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All papers will be distributed to the workshop email list in advance, and many will also be available at the workshop blog.To be added to the email list, please contact the workshop coordinator, Mark Deming at jmdeming [at] uchicago [dot] edu. Please contact Mark should you have questions or require assistance.

Jeremy Wallace, Oct. 29th.

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Please join us on Wednesday, October 29th, for:

“Information Politics: China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign in Context”
Jeremy Wallace
The Ohio State University

The workshop meets at the Wilder House (5811 South Kenwood Avenue) from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All papers will be distributed to the workshop email list in advance, and many will also be available at the workshop blog. Professor Wallace has distributed two papers. These papers are no longer available at the workshop blog. Please contact the workshop coordinator, Mark Deming, if you would like to receive copies of the workshop papers (jmdeming [at] uchicago [dot] edu).

Rohit Goel, Oct. 22nd.

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Please join us on Wednesday, October 22nd, for:

“War and Peace in Lebanon”
Rohit Goel
PhD Candidate
Department of Political Science, University of Chicago

The workshop meets at the Wilder House (5811 South Kenwood Avenue) from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All papers will be distributed to the workshop email list in advance, and many will also be available at the workshop blog. To download Rohit Goel’s paper, please click here.To be added to the email list, please contact the workshop coordinator, Mark Deming at: jmdeming [at] uchicago [dot] edu. Please contact Mark should you have questions or require assistance.

Anna Grzymala-Busse, Oct. 15th.

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Please join us on October 15th as we host Anna Grzymala-Busse! Anna Grzymala-Busse is the Ronald and Eileen Weiser Professor of European and Eurasian Studies at the University of Michigan. She will be presenting a paper entitled “Weapons of the Meek: How Churches Influence Policy.” Bogdan Popescu will serve as discussant.

The paper is no longer available at the workshop blog. For a brief summary of Anna Gryzmala-Busse’s work, please view her profile at the University of Michigan’s Political Science Department (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~abusse/). If you would like to regularly receive the workshop papers, please contact the workshop coordinator, Mark Deming, in order to be added to the workshop email list. Mark can be reached at jmdeming@uchicago.edu.

The workshop meets on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All workshop meetings are in the seminar room of the Wilder House (5811 South Kenwood Avenue). Please contact Mark Deming (jmdeming@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or require assistance.

Robert Woodberry, Oct. 8th.

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Please join us for our first meeting of the 2014-2015 academic year! Robert Woodberry is associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore and current visiting fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies. He will be presenting a paper entitled “Aid that Works: Missionaries, Economic Development and the ‘Reversal of Fortunes.'” Yeonju Lee will serve as discussant. Please come prepared for lively discussion and light refreshments.

The paper is no longer available on this blog. If you would like to regularly receive the workshop papers, please contact the workshop coordinator, Mark Deming, in order to be added to the workshop email list. Mark can be reached at jmdeming@uchicago.edu.

The workshop meets on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 7:00 pm. All workshop meetings are in the seminar room of the Wilder House (5811 South Kenwood Avenue). Please contact Mark Deming (jmdeming@uchicago.edu) if you have any questions or require assistance.