Semester
Fall 2026
Location
Social Sciences Building 202
Times
Thursdays 12:30-2:00pm
Faculty conveners
Graduate student coordinator
Ph.D. Student
Schedule
September 10
Applying for Fieldwork Grants - Panel: Sarah Daniel, Kamya Yadav, Isabella Montini, Grant Durow
September 17
Katerina Linos (University of California, Berkeley) Building Europe’s Digital Superstate: Institutional Dynamics and the Rise of EU Tech Regulation
September 24
Jason Wittenberg (University of California, Berkeley) Conceding the Facts, Resisting Anyway: The Demand Side of Informational Autocracy
October 01
Gianmarco Fifi (University of California, Berkeley) Gambling on Europe: How the Left helped build and sustain European economic integration
October 08
Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania) Idle Capital: The Politics of Unspent Funds in India’s Municipal Governments *Co-Sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies
October 15
Susan Hyde (University of California, Berkeley) Women's Group Empowerment Can Increase Political Participation: Evidence from Five Coordinated Field Experiments
October 22
Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University) Who Follows the Autocrat? Evidence from a Panel Survey Spanning Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
October 29
Sebastian Etchemendy (Brown University and Universidad Torcuato Di Tella) Three Worlds of Right-Wing Populism? The Political Economy of Insurgence (with Mark Blyth) *Co-sponsored by Political Economy and the Goldman School
November 05
Nicole Wilson (Northwestern University) Seeing Like an Estate: The Paradox of Private Service Provision *Co-sponsored by Global Metropolitan Studies
November 12
Elizabeth Nugent (Princeton University) Surviving Exile: How Activism Sustains Opposition Abroad *Co-sponsored by the Institute for International Studies
November 19
No Seminar

