Event Archive
Safety Net or Self Reliance? U.S. Public Opinion on Government Assistance After Natural Disasters
Angie Jo and Rachael Kha
MIT Political Science PhD Student and MIT IDSS PhD Student
April 18, 2025 1:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482 and on Zoom
Divisions at Home, Divisions Abroad?
How Domestic Conditions Shape Foreign Perceptions of US Nuclear Credibility
Lauren Sukin
MIT
April 16, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
Crime, Insecurity, and Community Policing:
Experiments on Building Trust
Graeme Blair
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
April 15, 2025 12:30PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Temporal Discounting in Politics
Markus Prior
Princeton University
April 11, 2025 12:30PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Global Space Infrastructure and US Grand Strategy
Aaron Bateman
George Washington Institute
April 9, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
Democracy as Disequilibrium: An Endogenous Theory of Regime Contention and Democratic Change
Amel Ahmed and Daniel Ziblatt
UMass Amherst and Harvard University
April 4, 2025 1:30PM Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St
April 4, 2025
1:30PM
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St
Gravity's Politics
Theo Serlin
Princeton Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2025)
April 4, 2025 12:00AM Millikan Room, E53-482
The Coming Strategic Revolution of Artificial Intelligence:
The US-China Contest and the Sources of Competitive Advantage
Michael Mazarr
Rand Corporation
April 2, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
When It Comes to Manufacturing, LEGO isn't Playing Around
Carsten Rasmussen
COO of the Lego Group
March 20, 2025 3:30PM
March 20, 2025
3:30PM
To Dare Mighty Things: US Defense Strategy Since the Revolution
Michael O'Hanlon
Brookings Institution
March 19, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
Missing Data in Confounders
Naijia Liu
Harvard University
March 17, 2025 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482 and on Zoom
America's Military After Two Decades of War
Mara Karlin
Johns Hopkins University
March 12, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
WhatsApp with the State: E-Governance, E-Clientelism & Network Politics in Urban Peru
Kristin Skrabut
Tufts University
March 12, 2025 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482 or on Zoom
Class, Country, and Cleavage: Inequality, Mobility and the Transformation of Electoral Politics over the Long Run
Torben Iversen, Phillipp Rehm, and Devin Caughey
Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, and MIT.
March 7, 2025 1:30PM Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St
March 7, 2025
1:30PM
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St
Diplomatic Capacity and International Collaboration
Calvin Thrall
Columbia University
March 7, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
Voting Them All Out: Democratic Accountability and the Rise of Anti-Reelection Bias
Julie Anne Weaver
Senior Research Director at the Democratic Erosion Consortium and a Lecturer at Harvard
March 4, 2025 12:00PM
March 4, 2025
12:00PM
What is Contemporary Interstate Conflict About?
James Fearon
Stanford University
February 26, 2025 12:00PM The Pye Room E40-496
The Politics of Unspent Funds in India’s Municipal Government
Tariq Thachil
University of Pennsylvania
February 25, 2025 12:30PM Millikan Room, E53-482
Creative Construction: The Rise and Stall of Mass Infrastructure in Latin America
Alisha Holland and Noah Nathan
Harvard University and MIT
February 14, 2025 1:30PM Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St
February 14, 2025
1:30PM
Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 27 Kirkland St
Jamila Michener, Cornell University
February 14, 2025 12:30PM Millikan Room, E53-482
The Politics of Exit: Emigration, Collective Action, and Agrarian Reform in Mexico
Emily Sellars
Yale University, Visiting Professor at MIT
February 12, 2025 12:00PM Millikan Room, E53-482