2013-2014 Seminar Schedule
For more information, or if you would like to present your work at the seminar, please contact the organizers, Jana Grittersova (jana.grittersova@ucr.edu) and Matthew C Mahutga (matthew.mahutga@ucr.edu).
The Political Economy seminar meets from 3:10 PM–5:00 PM in HUMANITIES 1500, unless otherwise noted.
Schedule |
Speaker |
|---|---|
| Thursday, October 24, 2013 | Peter Rosendorff, Professor of Politics, The Wilf Family Department of Politics, New York University. “Transparency, Protest and Political (In)Stability,” co-authored with James R. Hollyer and James Raymond Vreeland |
| Friday, November 22 | Stephan Haggard, Lawrence and Sallye Krause Distinguished Professor, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego. “Inequality, Distributive Conflict and Regime Change” Co-Sponsored by UCR Labor Studies Program |
| Thursday, December 5 | Lawrence Broz, Associate Professor, Political Science, University of California, San Diego. “The Federal Reserve as Global Lender of Last Resort, 2007-2010” |
| Thursday, January 23, 2014 | Benjamin Cohen, Louis G. Lancaster Professor of International Political Economy, Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara. “The China Question: Can the Rise of the Middle Kingdom be Accommodated?” |
| Friday, March 14 | Barry Eichengreen, George C. Pardee and Helen N. Pardee Professor of Economics and Political Science, Economics, University of California, Berkeley. “The Eurozone Crisis: The Theory of Optimum Currency Areas Bites Back?” Joint hosted with the Economics Department’s Distinguished Speaker Series. |
| Tuesday, March 18 | Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University. “Saving U.S. Capitalism the American Way: Spreading Capital Ownership.” Joint hosted with the Economics Department’s Distinguished Speaker Series |
| Monday, April 14th | Herman Schwartz, Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia. “Babies, Bonds, and Buildings: Policy Implications of the Links among Fertility Rates, Pensions, and Housing Finance Systems.” |
| Thursday, April 24 | Judith Stepan-Norris, Professor, Sociology, University of California, Irvine. “Whither the Contending Path(s)? Rival Labor Federations and Progressive Leadership in U.S. Union Mobilization.” Co-Sponsored by UCR Labor Studies Program |
| Thursday, May 8 | Gary A. Dymski, Professor, Department of Economics, University of California, Riverside. “The Eurozone Crisis as a Trilemma Forcefield: Fleming, Mundell, and Power in Finance.” |
| Thursday, May 22 | Andrew Walder, Denise O’Leary and Kent Thiry Professor, Sociology, Stanford University. “After State Socialism: Regime Change and Transformational Recessions.” |
Seminars sponsored by the Departments of Political Science and Sociology