Fall 2009 Talks and Workshops


Friday: August 21 Commons, noon- IR worksshop
Friday August 28 Commons, 1:30- PB Workshop, Bill Franko, “Election Reform in the States: Class Bias in  the Electorate and the Adoption of Alternative Voting Methods”

Friday September 11 Commons, 1:30 - PB Workshop-
Thursday Sept 17 12:10-1:10 Commons SH James Rydberg (mock job talk), “Representation in the Presence of the Initiative”
Friday Sept 18 Commons, noon- PS Workshop Sara Mitchell and Cameron Thies , “Issue Rivalries”
Friday Sept 25 Commons- noon, PS Workshop, Fred Boehmke and Tracy Osborn, “The Initiative Process and the Election of Women in the States.”

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Friday October 2 Bose, noon IR Workshop, “What goes into a prospectus” presented by Jeff Stout (with Stephen Nemeth)

Tuesday October 6, 12:10-1:10 Commons, SH Dan Bowen (mock job talk), “District Characteristics and the Representational Relationship in American Legislatures”

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Friday Oct 9 Brian Humes, NSF, noon, Commons, SH, “Funding Opportunities for the Social Sciences at the National Science Foundation: Old and New”
Monday Oct 12- Commons, SH 11:30-12:30 Ben Knoll (mock job talk), “Understanding the 'New Nativism': Causes and Consequences for Immigration Policy Attitudes in the United States”

Wednesday Oct. 14, 11:30-12:30, Commons, SH, Stephen Nemeth (mock job talk), “A Rationalist Explanation of Terrorist Targeting”
Friday Oct 16- Journeys, http://www.saramitchell.org/journeys09.html

Wednesday October 21, Commons SH, 11:30-12:30 Chris Clark (mock job talk), “Black Descriptive Representation and Political Engagement”
Friday Oct 23- Commons, noon, Matt Winters, UIUC, “A Cross-Country Analysis of Corruption in World Bank Projects”

Wednesday October 28- Commons, 11:30-12:30, Amanda Licht (mock job talk), “Coming Into Money: The Impact of Foreign Aid on Leader Survival”

Friday Oct 30,Commons noon PB Workshop, Peter Hatemi, “An Exploration of Gene and Environment Interplay: The Influence of Major Life Events

on Political Attitudes”

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Friday Nov 6, noon-1:30, Commons, SH Ravi Bhavnani, Michigan State, “And Tango Makes Three: Control and Violence in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza”
Friday Nov 13  PS Workshop Steve Nemeth Commons, 2:30-3:30
Friday Nov 20- Commons, noon PB workshop
Friday Dec 4 Commons, noon PS workshop
Wednesday Dec 9 – IR Poster Session, Commons 2-5
Friday Dec 11-Commons 1:30 pm IR workshop