Spring 2018 Schedule
Location: All sessions will meet in the Institute of International Studies, Moses Hall 223 (lunch is provided on a first-come, first-served basis).
Time: Thursdays, 12:30PM – 2:00PM
Faculty Convener: Alison Post
January 25
Alberto Díaz-Cayeros, Stanford University
Public Good Provision and Traditional Governance in Indigenous Communities in Oaxaca, Mexico
Faculty Chair: Ruth Collier
Student Discussant: Fiona Shen-Bayh
February 1 (co-sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies)
Eleonora Pasotti, UC Santa Cruz
Protest & Development in Aspiring Global Cities
Faculty Chair: Michael Shalev
Student Discussant: Justine Davis
February 8
Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley
Becoming Black Political Subjects: The Multicultural Alignment
Faculty Chair: Thad Dunning
Student Discussant: Mathias Poertner
February 22
Tasha Fairfield, CASBS/ LSE
A Dialogue with the Data: The Methodological Foundations of Iterative Research
Political Analysis article for additional background on the Bayesian approach
Faculty Chair: Christopher Ansell
Student Discussant: Konrad Posch
March 1
Gareth Nellis & Nicholas Kuipers, UC Berkeley
Faculty Chair: Cecilia Mo
Student Discussant: Tanu Kumar
March 8
Maya Tudor, UC Berkeley/ Oxford University
Faculty Chair: Lowell Dittmer
Student Discussant: Rahul Verma
March 15
Mai Hassan, University of Michigan
Chapter 1: Bringing Bureaucrats Back In
Faculty Chair: Leonardo Arriola
Student Discussant: Catlan Reardon
March 22
Jeremy Weinstein, Stanford University
Piercing the Veil of Sovereignty in Africa
Faculty Chair: Andrew Little
Student Discussant: David Dow
April 12
Tarek Masoud, Harvard University
Faculty Chair: Steve Fish
Student Discussant: Melissa Samarin
April 19
Rory Truex, Princeton University
Implicit Attitudes Toward An Authoritarian Regime
Faculty Chair: Kevin O’Brien
Student Discussant: Jiali Li
The colloquium is co-sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Department of Political Science and the Center on the Politics of Development.