2016-2017 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, November 3rd | Thomas Oatley, Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill “Banker for the World: Global Capital and American Financialization.” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, December 1st | Faisal Z. Ahmed, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Princeton University “Geopolitics and the Aiding of Political Violence” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, January 19th, INTS 1128 | Cheol-Sung Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago “When Solidarity Works : Labor-civic Networks and Welfare States in the Market Reform Era.” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty |
| Thursday, February 9th | William R. Clark, Charles Puryear Professor of Liberal Arts and Professor of Political Science, Texas A&M University “Does Partisan Bias at the Fed Explain the ‘Republican Advantage’?” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, February 16th | Jason Beckfield, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University “Evaluating Welfare-State Convergence with Dyadic Analysis: Social Policies are Increasingly Similar, but Only in the EU” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society and UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty |
| Thursday, May 11th, College Building South | Nina Bandelj, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Irvine. “The Moral and Political Economy of Parenting” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
Seminars sponsored by the Departments of Political Science and Sociology