Previous Speaker series

Previous Speaker Series held at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research are listed below, sorted by year and semester.

Speaker Series Spring 2023

9 March Ursula Daxecker, University of Amsterdam
20 April, Niloufer Siddiqui, University at Albany-State University of New York (SUNY)
4 May, Elton Skendaj, Georgetown University

All the planned talks for spring 2020 were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

24 January: Hannah Smidt, Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
7 February: Costantin Ruhe, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt
4 April: Peter Krause, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston College
2 May: Belén González, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Mannheim
16 May: Courtenay Conrad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California-Merced
5 June: Atsushi Tago, Profesor of Political Science, Waseda University

1 September: Alexandra Hartman, Assistant Professor in Political Science and Public Policy, University College of London
30 November: Dr. Omar Garcia-Ponce, Assistant Professor, UC-Davis

9 February: Henry Thomson, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
23 March: Anita Gohdes, Asst. Professor of International Relations, University of Zurich
20 April: Evgeny Finkel, Asst. Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
4 May: Zoe Marks, Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
18 May: Susanna Campbell, Asst. Professor at the School of International Service, American University

8 September: Cassy Dorff, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico
22 September: Jack Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University
6 October: Geoff Dancy, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Tulane University
3 November: Nils Weidmann, Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz
17 November: Regina Bateson, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1 December: Yuri Zhukov, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

11 February: Michaela Mattes, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
7 April: Jesse Driscoll, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
21 April: Sarah Parkinson, Asst. Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of
Minnesota
19 May: Katherine Barbieri, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina

17 September: Evan Perkoski, Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
15 October: Kanisha De Ann Bond, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland
12 November: Abbey Steele, Asst. Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University
26 November: Burcu Savun, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

16 January: Chandra Lekha Sriram, Professor of International Law and International Relations, University of East London
5 March: Lise Morjé Howard, Assoc. Professor of Government, Georgetown University
19 March: Amanda Robinson, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
16 April: Benjamin Valentino, Assoc. Professor of Government, Dartmouth University
28 May: Chris Fariss, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Penn State University

18 September: Kyle Beardsley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University
2 October: Rose McDermott, Professor of Political Science and President of the International Society of Political Psychology, Brown University
16 October: Hein Goemans, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
13 November: Adria Lawrence Assistant Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
27 November: Aila Matanock, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

5 September: David Laitin, James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
19 September: David A. Lake, Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California-San Diego
3 October: Jessica Weeks, Assistant Professor of Government, University of Wisconsin
17 October: Livia Isabella Schubiger PhD Candidate, University of Zurich
14 November: William Reno, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
28 November: Jean-Paul Azam, Professor of Economics, University Toulouse

26 January: Will H. Moore, Professor, Florida State University
9 February: Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth University
23 February: Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Yale University
22 March: Christopher Sullivan, PhD candidate, University of Notre Dame
3 May: Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
24 May: Barbara Walter, Professor of Political Science, University of California-San Diego
31 May: Leonardo Arriola, Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley

8 September: Branislav Slantchev, Assoc. Professor, University of California, San Diego
6 October: Ragnhild Nordås, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO)
20 October: Christian Davenport, Professor, University of Notre Dame
3 November: Laia Balcells, Researcher, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC (Spain)
14 December: Séverine Autesserre, Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University