Event Archive
The Impact of Moving to Opportunity on Voting
Tali Mendelberg
Princeton University
March 9, 2020 12:00PM E53-482
Economists, Philosophers, and the Revival of Social Contract Theory, 1955-1975
Joel Isaac
University of Chicago
March 6, 2020 3:00PM E53-482
Governments as Borrowers and Regulators
Timm Betz
Texas A&M University
March 6, 2020 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
The Revolution That Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold War
Brendan Green
University of Cincinnati
March 4, 2020 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
When and Why Did Wars Make States? A Revised Bellicose Theory of State Formation with Evidence from Around the World, 1800-2000
Andreas Wimmer
Columbia University
March 3, 2020 12:00PM E53-482
Non-Partisan Ideologies: How the American Voter is Exchanging Party Loyalty for Ideological Purity
Lucas de Abreu Maia
MIT Political Science Predoctoral Fellow, UCSD PhD Candidate
March 2, 2020 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
Civil War, State Consolidation, and the Spread of Mass Education
Agustina Paglayan
UC-San Diego
February 25, 2020 12:00PM E53-482
Fighting for Tyranny: How State Repression Shapes Military Performance (co-authored work with Arturas Rozenas and Roya Talibova)
Yuri M. Zhukov
University of Michigan
February 12, 2020 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
“The Political Logic of Cultural Revival: Ethnic Visibility and Electoral Politics in Malawi”
Amanda Robinson
Ohio State University
February 11, 2020 12:00PM E53-482
Image as Data: Automated Content Analysis for Political Images
Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld
UCLA
February 10, 2020 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
The Effectiveness of a Quasi-Voluntary Regime: Cybersecurity for U.S. Critical Infrastructure
Chappell Lawson
February 5, 2020 12:00PM E40-496 (Pye Room)
Citizenship 2.0: Dual Nationality as a Global Asset
Yossi Harpaz
Harvard/ Tel-Aviv University
February 4, 2020 12:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
Impeachment: The impeachment of President Trump-A discussion with MIT Legal Studies faculty
Chris Capozzola, Malick Ghachem, Justin Steil, Charles Stewart, Susan Silbey
January 21, 2020 12:30PM E51-149
Cybersecurity preparations for the 2020 election and recent election reform
Michelle Tassinari
Director, Massachusetts Division of Elections
December 12, 2019 5:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
The State from Below: Policing Narratives in Five American Cities
Vesla Weaver
Johns Hopkins University
December 9, 2019 12:00PM E53-482
Urgency Without Emergency? Emergency Politics and its Alternatives
Jennifer Rubenstein
University of Virginia
December 6, 2019 3:00PM E53-482
Relational Database for Big Data Research
Professor In Song Kim and Rémi Cura
December 6, 2019 2:00PM E53-482, The Millikan Room
Manipulate my fear: How new forms of (mis)information and processes of political subjection contribute to the erosion of democracy in Brazil
Jean Wyllys de Matos Santos
December 6, 2019 11:30AM E40-496 (Pye Room)