Faculty Leader: Christopher Blair

Meeting Day/Time: Tuesdays, 12:00-1:20PM
Location: Robertson 001

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.

2023-2024 Schedule of Presentations

Fall 2023

Date Presenter Title/Paper Discussant(s)

Week 1 - September 19, 2023

Jeongmin Park

"Teaching Hate? Effect of School History Education on Foreign Policy Attitudes".

Charlotte Fitzek

Week 2 - September 26,2023

Sojun Park

“The Politics of Compulsory Licensing: Democracy and Regulatory Threat”

 

Week 3 - October 3, 2023

Jing Qian

“Treaty Shopping, Race to the Bottom, and Treaty Cascades”

 

Week 4 - October 10, 2023

Joseph Ruggiero

"What Makes a World War? Economic Networks and Distributions of Power"

 

Week 5 - October 24, 2023

Xuancheng Qian

“The Madman Choice: Delegation in Reputational Bargaining”

Hiroto Sawada

Week 6 - October 31, 2023

María José Urzúa Valverde

"When do International Organizations Criticize? NGOs as Information Suppliers for Norm Enforcement"

Manasi Bose

Week 7 - November 7, 2023

Heather Penatzer

“International Mismanagement”

Jeongmin Park

Week 8 - November 14, 2023

Harshal Zalke

“Investment Strategies in the Shadow of War”

Yueyi Li

Week 9 - November 28, 2023

Rikio Inouye

"Identity Considerations Drive American Sympathies toward Israelis and Palestinians"

Sun Shen

Week 10 - December 5, 2023

 

Niehaus postdoctoral fellows host a professionalization panel

 

 

SPRING 2024

 

Date

Presenter

Title/Paper

Discussant(s)

Week 1 - January 30, 2024

Kyle Evanoff

"The Science of Exclusion: Technocratic Authority and Modern Territorial Order”

Elizabeth Bachman

Week 2 - February 6, 2024

Jeongmin Park

Ze Han

 

 

“How US Legislators Respond to Chinese Ownership of American Land”

Hye Min Yi

Daniel Lyng

Week 3 - February 13, 2024

Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe

 

Alex Gazmararian 

“African Participation in International Organisations”

 

“Seeing is Believing: Voters’ Attributions of Causality and the Impact of Visibility”

Fiona Bare

 

Gavin Medina-Hall

Week 4 - February 20, 2024

Grace Zeng

Charlotte Fitzek

 

Ze Han

Rikio Inouye

Week 5 - February 27, 2024

Elizabeth Bachman

Shangzuo Chen

 

"Signaling Under Domestic and Global Risk: Evidence from Global Firms"

Elliot Ji

Christian Baehr

Week 6 - March 5, 2024

Fiona Bare

 

Steven Han

Week 7 - March 19, 2024

Christian Baehr

The Impact of Fracking on the Resource Curse in Oil-Rich States

Alex Gazmararian

Week 8 - March 26, 2024

Gavin Medina-Hall

Yueyi Li

 

Harshal Zalke

Sandy Jingzhi Xu

Week 9 - April 2, 2024

Manasi Bose

 

Heather Penatzer

Week 10 - April 9, 2024

Sun Shen

 

Quincy Kumfert

Week 11 - April 16, 2024

Hiroto Sawada

 

Xuancheng Qian

Week 12 - April 23, 2024

Daniel Lyng

 

Jeongmin Park

Week 13- April 30, 2024

Zoe Gorman

Harshal Zalke

 

Tetsekela Anyiam-Osigwe

Richard Yarrow

Week 14 - May 7, 2024 Mehdi Isse   Yining Sun