Faculty Leader: Helen Milner
Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 12:00-1:20PM
Location: 001 Robertson (Fall)/ 127 Corwin (Spring)
Papers are due 12:00PM on Friday before each seminar and will be posted immediately afterwards. Members of the department may download them by clicking the presentation title in the table below.
2022-2023 Schedule of Presentations
Fall 2022
| Date | Presenter | Title/Paper | Discussant(s) | Type | Year |
| Week 1 - September 6, 2022 | Professor Helen Milner | Introduction | |||
| Week 2 - September 13,2022 | Lauren Konken | Choosing not to conclude: mapping Canadian and American PTA negotiation attempts | Practice Job Talk | ||
| Week 3 - September 20, 2022 | Sayumi Miyano |
Regime Complexity and Overlapping Information: The Case of Energy Projections |
Practice Job Talk | ||
| Week 4 - September 27, 2022 | Zeno Chan |
Affluence without Influence? The Inducement Dilemma in Economic Statecraft |
Practice Job Talk | ||
| Week 5 - October 4, 2022 | Xuancheng Qian |
Christian Baehr |
Dissertation Chapter | ||
| Week 6 - October 11, 2022 | Jim Qian | Alexander F. Gazmararian | Dissertation Chapter | ||
| Week 7 - October 25, 2022 | Sojun Park |
The Politics of Compulsory, Licensing: Electoral Accountability and Regulatory Threat |
Jim Qian | Dissertation Chapter | |
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Week 8 - November 1, 2022 |
Grace Zeng | Vincent Heddesheimer | Dissertation Chapter | ||
| Week 10 - November 15, 2022 | Maria Valverde |
The role of civil society in the Inter-American Human Rights System |
Elliot Ji | Dissertation Chapter | |
| Week 11 - November 29, 2022 | Dahyun Choi |
Teaming up with the Enemy: Firms and the Information Enviroment of Climate Regime |
Harshal Zalke | Dissertation Chapter | |
| Week 12 - December 6, 2022 | Ze Han |
Political Responses to the Economic Benefits of Globalization |
Gavin Medina-Hall | Dissertation Chapter |
spring 2023
| Date | Presenter | Title/Paper | Discussant(s) | Type | Year |
| Week 1 - January 31, 2023 | Joseph Ruggiero | What Makes a World War? Economic Networks and Distributions of Power | Elizabeth Bachman | Dissertation Chapter | 5 |
| Week 2 - February 7, 2023 | Heather Penatzer | Territoriality Without Exclusivity: International Rule Since 1815 | Joseph Ruggiero | Dissertation Chapter | 4 |
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Week 3 - February 14, 2023 |
Aurora Sun | COVID-19 Diplomacy and Authoritarian Ambitions | Lauren Konken | Dissertation Chapter | 4 |
| Week 4 - February 21, 2023 | Jeongmin Park | Recruited Men, Breadwinning Women and 'Re-gendering' of Postwar Societies | Esther Robinson | Dissertation Chapter | 4 |
| Week 5 - February 28, 2023 | Alexander F. Gazmararian | Sources of Partisan Change: Evidence from Unmanaged Energy Transitions in American Coal Country* | Dahyun Choi | Prospectus | 3 |
| Week 6 - March 7, 2023 | Harshal Zalke | Designing an Investment Screening Regime | Sojun Park | Prospectus/Dissertation | 3+6 |
| Break | Break Week | ||||
| Week 7 - March 21, 2023 | Manasi Bose & Elliot Ji |
International Engagement and Rebel Governance
Anti-Statist Features in China's Military Research and Development Ecosystem |
Rikio Inouye & Heather Penatzer | Prospectus | 3 |
| Week 8 - March 28, 2023 | Kyle Evanoff & Rikio Inouye |
Toward an Ecological Theory of Modern Order
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Aurora Sun & Charlotte Fitzek | Prospectus | 3 |
| Week 9 - April 4, 2023 | Vincent Heddesheimer & Gavin Medina-Hall |
Economic Shocks and Social Policy Preferences
Framing the Climate: Nationalism, Status, and Renewable Energy Investment Preferences |
Ze Han & Fiona Bare | Prospectus/591 | 2 |
| Week 10 - April 11, 2023 | Fiona Bare & Charlotte Fitzek |
Governing the Commons in the Face of Climate Variability∗
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Kyle Evanoff & Rachel Li | 591/Paper | 2 |
| Week 11 - April 18, 2023 | Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe & Elizabeth Bachman |
The African Development Bank and the Bretton Woods institutions: Does Africa align with Washington?
Comparative Vaccine Diplomacy: How COVID-19 Vaccine Donations Sway Foreign Public Opinion |
Jeongmin Park & Hiroto Sawada | 591/Paper | 2 |
| Week 12 - April 25, 2023 | Christian Baehr & Sun Shen |
Dreams & Nightmares: The Impact of Fracking on the Resource Curse in Oil-Rich States
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Heather Penatzer & Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe | 591/Paper | 2+1 |
| Week 13 - May 2, 2023 | Yueyi Li & Hiroto Sawada |
Censorship Diffusion: How the International Neighborhood Influences Domestic Digital Repression
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Manasi Bose & Sun Shen | 591/Paper | 1 |