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 2020

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

  • 16 April: Cyanne Loyle, Penn State 
  • 11 May: Roger MacGinty, Durham University 
  • 14 May: Emil Soulemainov, Charles University 

Speaker Series Autumn 2019

  • 5 September: Oliver Kaplan, University of Denver
  • 17 October: Helga Malmin Binningsbø, PRIO
  • 13 November: Christine Cheng, King's College London
  • 28 November: Staffan Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
  • 12 December: Michael Weintraub, Universidad de los Andes
  • 12 December: Sebastian Schutte, PRIO

Speaker Series Spring 2019

  • 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

Speaker Series Autumn 2018

  • 6 September: Mai Hassan, University of Michigan
  • 4 Oktober: Govinda Clayton, ETH Zurich

Speaker Series Spring 2018

  • 22 March: Enzo Nussio, ETH Zurich
  • 19 April: Alexandra Hartman, UCL (rescheduled from HT17)
  • 3 May: Megan Stewart, American University
  • 14 June: Reed Wood, Arizona State University

Speaker Series Autumn 2017

  • 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

Speaker Series Spring 2017

  • 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

Speaker Series Autumn 2016

  • 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

Speaker Series Spring 2016

  • 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

Speaker Series Autumn 2015

  • 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

Speaker Series Spring 2015

  • 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

Speaker Series Spring 2014

  • 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

Speaker Series Autumn 2013

  • 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

Speaker Series Spring 2013

  • 7 February: Nikolay Marinov, Assistant Professor, Yale University
  • 7 March: Luis de la Calle Robles, Junior Researcher, Juan March Institute
  • 21 March: Jacob N. Shapiro, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
  • 2 May: Jacqueline DeMeritt, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
  • 16 May: Paul Staniland, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Speaker Series Autumn 2012

  • 20 September: Catherine Boone, Professor, University of Texas
  • 4 October: Anthony Wanis-St. John, Assistant Professor, American University
  • 18 October: Paul Huth, Professor, University of Maryland
  • 1 November: Sabine Carey, Professor, University of Mannheim
  • 15 November: Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor, Yale University
  • 29 November: Janet Lewis, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Speaker Series Spring 2012

  • 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

Speaker Series Autumn 2011

  • 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