2017-2018 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 3:30 PM–5:00 PM in HUMANITIES 1500, unless otherwise noted.
Schedule |
Speaker |
|---|---|
| Thursday, October 26th | David A. Steinberg, Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University “The Mass Political Economy of Capital Controls” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Friday, February 2nd | In Song Kim, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology “Democracy and Industry-varying Liberalization: Evidence from a New Tariff-line Dataset” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, February 15th | Arthur S. Alderson, Allen D. and Polly S. Grimshaw Professor of Sociology, Indiana University “Urban Development and the World City System: Inter-City Relations and the Fate of U.S. Cities” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, March 1st | Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Professor of Sociology, University of Massachusetts-Amherst “Producing Inequalities: An examination of the workplace generation of earnings inequalities in eleven high income countries” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Blum Initiative on Global and Regional Poverty and UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, May 3rd 3:10-5:00pm Humanities 1500 |
David H. Bearce, Professor of Political Science / International Affairs, University of Colorado at Boulder “Why does the Mass Public Not Believe in Free Trade?” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, May 10th 3:10-5:00pm Humanities 1500 |
Hye Young You, Assistant Professor, the Wilf Family Department of Politics at New York University “Legislative Capture? Career Concerns,Revolving Doors, and Policy Biases” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |
| Thursday, May 31st 3:10-5:00pm Humanities 1500 |
Marion Fourcade, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley “The Type and the Grade: On the Institutional Scaffolding of the Judgment of Taste” Co-Sponsored by the UCR Center for Ideas and Society |