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

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 
in Brazil		Job Talk
11/4/2025Vincent Heddesheimer        Ivan Tubio Sanles    
11/11/2025Narrelle Gilchrist Yining Sun
11/18/2025Hannah Kazis-Taylor Angela Odermatt
11/25/2025 No Meeting  
12/2/2025Yousuf Abdelfatah Konrat Pekkip
12/9/2025Laura Howells Emily Sallenback
12/16/2025   
12/23/2025   

SPRING 2026

DatePresenter(s)Title/PaperDiscussant(s)
01/27/2026Viivi Jarvi  
02/03/2026Yingjie Fan  
02/10/2026Marco Castradori  
02/17/2026Florian Sichart  
02/24/2026Laura H. Howells  
03/03/2026   
03/10/2026Spring Break
03/17/2026 Grad Student Visit  
03/24/2026   
03/31/2026   
04/7/2026   
04/14/2026   
04/21/2026   
04/28/2026    
05/05/2026