Spring 2012 IRC Schedule:

The IRC schedules include guest speakers, discussion of important or interesting recent work in the field of international relations from assorted books and journals, and dissertation brainstorming for graduate students.

 

January 24, 2012
Organizational Meeting
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

January 30, 2012 - note: Monday
Job Talk
10:45am, 422 North Hall

 

January 31, 2012
Jason Yackee (website)
Assistant Professor of Law
UW Madison
Title: Research Note: The Effects of Democracy on the Foreign Direct Investment Policy Environment
Discussant: Bugrahan Budak
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

 

February 6, 2012 - note: Monday (joint with APW)
Will Howell (website)
Professor of Political Science
University of Chicago
Title: Inter-Branch Bargaining over Policies with Multiple Outcomes (co-authored with Saul Jackman)
Discussant: APW
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

 

February 7, 2012
Jason Wittenberg (website)
Associate Professor of Political Science
UC Berkeley
Title: Intimate Violence: Anti-Jewish Pogroms in the Shadow of the Holocaust, ch. 1 & 4 (with Jeffrey Kopstein)
Discussant: Inken von Borzyskowski
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

 

February 14, 2012 - no meeting

 

February 21, 2012
Patrick Kearney (website)
Title: Has the GATT/WTO Increased Trade? A Monadic Matching Approach (with Inken von Borzyskowski, Dave Ohls and Ryan Powers)
Discussant: Jon Pevehouse
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

February 28, 2012
Discussion of Biglaiser and Lektzian 2011
Title: The Effect of Sanctions on U.S. Foreign Direct Investment (IO 65)
Discussant: TBD
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

March 6, 2012
Katja Favretto (website)
Title: Does Ethnicity Affect Peace? Ethnic Politics and Mediation in International Crises (with Jennifer De Maio)
Discussant: Andy Kydd
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

March 13, 2012
Todd Sechser (website)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Virginia
Title: Reputations and Coercion
Discussant: Dave Ohls
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

 

March 20, 2012 - note: time change
Joe Conti (website)
Assistant Professor of Sociology and Law
UW Madison
Title: The Social Origins of the Legalization of Trade: the Iterative Negotiation of law from GATT to WTO
Discussant: Jess Clayton
12:30pm, 422 North Hall

 

March 28, 2012 - note: Wednesday and time change (joint with CPC)
Cliff Carrubba (website)
Associate Professor of Political Science
Emory University
Title: TBD
Discussant: CPC
1:30pm, 422 North Hall

April 3, 2012 - Spring Break

April 10, 2012
Jon Caverley (website)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
Northwestern University
Title: The Political Economy of Democratic Militarism: Evidence from Public Opinion
Discussant: Derek Pankratz
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

April 17, 2012
Jeff Colgan (website)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
American University
Title: The Emperor Has No Clothes: The Limits of OPEC in the Global Oil Market
Discussant: Roseanne McManus
12:00pm, 422 North Hall

April 24, 2012
Laura Sjoberg (website)
Assistant Professor of Political Science
University of Florida
Title: The Arab Spring for Women? Gender, Representation, and Middle East Politics in 2011 (with Jonathon Whooley)
Discussant: Helen Kinsella
12:00pm, 422 North Hall


May 1, 2012
Dave Ohls (website)
Title: Trade, Conflict, and the Strategic Incentives of Indirect Economic Interdependence
Discussant: TBD
12:00pm, 422 North Hall