Upcoming Events
February 2020
Tariq Thachil: Migrants and Machines: How Political Networks Emerge in Urbanizing India
4:30pm, February 27th, 2020
Bush House South East Wing 2.03
What are the political consequences of rapid urbanization across the global south? We argue one consequence has been the rapid formation of political machines, which have been studied in cities ranging from Buenos Aires to Accra to Chicago. Yet we still lack a systematic understanding of how party machines form, and how these formative processes affect how they function. Migrants and Machines seeks to fill this gap.
March 2020
Waverly Duck (University of Pittsburgh)
4:30pm, March 10th, 2020
Location TBA
Waverly Duck is an urban sociologist and Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of No Way Out: Precarious Living in the Shadow of Poverty and Drug Dealing (University of Chicago Press 2015), which was a finalist for the American Sociological Association’s 2016 C. Wright Mills Book Award.
James C. Scott (Yale)
6:30pm, March 17th, 2020
Location TBA
James C. Scott is the Sterling Professor of Political Science, Professor of Anthropology and co-Director of the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University. His research concerns political economy, comparative agrarian societies, theories of hegemony and resistance, peasant politics, revolution, Southeast Asia, theories of class relations and anarchism.
Barak Richman (Duke): Stateless Commerce: Questions Answered and Questions Remaining
4:30pm, March 26th, 2020
Bush House North East Wing 2.03
Barak Richman is the Edgar P. and Elizabeth C. Bartlett Professor of Law and Professor of Business Administration at Duke University. His primary research interests include the economics of contracting, new institutional economics, antitrust, and healthcare policy.
May 2020
Cristina Bicchieri Public Lecture
6:30pm, May 7th, 2020
Location TBA
Cristina Bicchieri is the S.J.P. Harvie Professor of Social Thought and Comparative Ethics in the Philosophy and Psychology Departments at the University of Pennsylvania, professor of Legal Studies in the Wharton School, and director of the Philosophy, Politics and Economics program. She is a leader in the field of behavioral ethics and is the director of the Behavioral Ethics Lab (BeLab) at the University of Pennsylvania.
Jeffrey Friedman (Berkeley)
4:30pm, May 21st, 2020
Bush House South East Wing 2.04
Jeffrey Friedman is a visiting scholar in the Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley and the Max Weber Fellow of the Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences at Boston University. He is the founder and editor of Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society.
June 2020
Ian Shapiro (Yale)
4:30pm, June 2nd, 2020
Location TBA
Ian Shapiro is Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. He has written widely and influentially on democracy, justice, and the methods of social inquiry. A native of South Africa, he received his J.D. from the Yale Law School and his Ph.D from the Yale Political Science Department where he has taught since 1984 and served as chair from 1999 to 2004.
Melani Cammett (Harvard)
4:30pm, June 9th, 2020
Melani Cammett is Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs in the Department of Government and chair of the Harvard Academy of International and Area Studies at Harvard. She also holds a secondary faculty appointment in the Harvard Chan School of Public Health. Cammett’s books include Compassionate Communalism: Welfare and Sectarianism in Lebanon (Cornell University Press 2014).