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 Belin 
02/03/2026Yingjie Fan Reda Tamtam
02/10/2026Marco Castradori Martin Pimentel 
02/17/2026Florian Sichart Mo Gasmi 
02/24/2026 No Meeting  
03/03/2026Felix Belin Third year prospectusCheryl Cosslett
03/10/2026Spring BreakNo class 
03/17/2026 Lingyun Zhang

Third year prospectus

Grad Student Visit

Fatima Al-Sammak
03/24/2026Etienne GagnonThird year prospectusAngus Lam 
03/31/2026Yining Sun Second year 591Holly Harris
04/7/2026

Angela Odermatt

Konrat Pekkip

Second year 591Florian Sichart
04/14/2026

Ivan Tubio Sanles

Nathan Cao

Second year 591Vincent Heddesheimer
04/21/2026

Reda Tamtam

Emily Sallenback

Second year 591Narrelle Gilchrist
04/28/2026 

Holly Harris

Leonardo Feitosa Dantas

Second year 591Laura Howells
05/05/2026 Mo GasmiSecond year 591Emre Ceyhun