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.

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