Faculty Leader: Nicholas Kuipers
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays 11:50 AM -1:10 PM
Location: 127 Corwin Hall

Papers are posted the Friday afternoon before each presentation. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.

Co-Sponsored by Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, Bobst Center for Peace and Justice, Princeton School of International Affairs, and Ogden Fund for Development of Global Civil Society and Democracy

2025-2026 Schedule of Presentations

FALL 2025

FALL 2025
DatePresenterTitle/PaperDiscussant(s)
09/02/2025 Introductory Meeting  
9/09/2025Shourya SenThe Pull of the Center: Mobilization, States, and Rural Transformation in Communist RevolutionJob Talk
9/16/2025Yuhan ZhengBeliefs, Values, and the Geography of Redistribution Preferences                                                   Job Talk
9/23/2025Nancy TangRightful Repurposing: Seizing the Pro-Natalist Turn for Non-Heteronormative Reproduction in ChinaJob Talk
9/30/2025Emre CeyhunAutocratization in an Age of DigitalizationJob talk
10/07/2025Hani WarithSelective Secondary School Construction and Political Cleavages in Postcolonial Asia and Africa: The Case of Tunisia (1881-2024)  
10/14/2025 No Meeting - Fall Recess 
10/21/2025Isabelle DeSistoPast Repression, Present Solidarity: Mnemonic Opportunities in Eastern EuropeLeonardo Dantas
10/28/2025Mishella Romo RivasJudicializing Democracy and Executive Aggrandizement: A View from the Proactive Bench 
Brazil study abroad information		Job Talk
11/4/2025Vincent Heddesheimer   Housing Politics as a Time-Inconsistency ProblemIvan Tubio Sanles
11/11/2025Narrelle GilchristRepeating the Mistakes of the Past: A History Education Field Experiment in Nigerian SchoolsYining Sun
11/18/2025Hannah Kazis-Taylor

"The Effect of Age on Support for Negotiated Settlement"

"A Learning Process: Age and Support for Negotiated Settlements to Conflict."

Angela Odermatt
11/25/2025 No Meeting  
12/2/2025Yousuf AbdelfatahPrisons as Ecologies of Contention: An Agent Based Model of Porosity and Political Mobilization.Konrat Pekkip
12/9/2025Laura HowellsThe Core Group Constraint: How Dominant Groups Shape the Process of Nation-BuildingEmily Sallenback  
12/16/2025   
12/23/2025   

SPRING 2026

SPRING 2026
DatePresenter(s)Title/PaperDiscussant(s)
01/27/2026Viivi JarviAutocratic Ancestry, Democratic Dilemmas: Tracing Successor Party Trajectories (Draft Theory Chapter)Felix Beilin 
02/03/2026Yingjie FanPre-Analysis Plan: The Politics of Economic Nationalism in China’s Auto IndustryReda Tamtam
02/10/2026Marco CastradoriSignaling, Recognition, and the Politics of Representation in NigeriaMartin Pimentel 
02/17/2026Florian SichartVoting Against Growth: Commuting, Spillovers, and Local Backlash to Economic DevelopmentMo Gasmi 
02/24/2026 No Meeting  
03/03/2026Felix Beilin A Tale of Two Villages: Political Causes and Consequences of Within-Rural InequalityCheryl Cosslett
03/10/2026Spring BreakNo Meeting 
03/17/2026 Lingyun Zhang

Life and Death in the Party-State: Political Incentives and Capital Punishment in China

Grad Student Visit

Fatima Al-Sammak
03/24/2026Etienne GagnonDepopulation and Electorally Optimal Redistribution: The Consequences of Demographic Change for Incumbent SupportAngus Lam 
03/31/2026Yining Sun Prospectus: Land, State-Building, and Criminal Governance in Rural Latin AmericaHolly Harris
04/7/2026

Angela Odermatt

Konrat Pekkip

Leonardo Feitosa Danta

Second year 591

Florian Sichart

Vincent Heddesheimer

04/14/2026

Iván Tubío Sanles

Nathan Cao

Second year 591Emre Ceyhun
04/21/2026

Reda Tamtam

Emily Sallenback

Holly Harris

Second year 591

Narrelle Gilchrist

Laura Howells

04/28/2026 

Winston Wee

Mo Gasmi

Anindya Tomar

Second year 591

Hani Abdel-Warith

Shourya Sen