Political Science Department Seminars and Doctoral Seminars

The Department of Political Science is proud to present the annual sequence of departmental seminars and doctoral seminars. The seminars provide the occasion for faculty, advanced, and first year PhD students to present their work.

Seminars and meetings are always held at 1:30 - 15:10 pm on Wednesdays in the Academic Year 2020/2021. For live-stream link please register at https://bit.ly/30f1cFy.

	*SPRING TERM*
Date	Department Seminar Name & Title
Apr 7	Department Meeting
Apr 14	Presentation by PhD Candidate: Eszter Farkas - Compliance behavior and norm enforcement during the COVID-19 pandemic – Comparative analysis of five European countries
Apr 20	Andras Bozoki (CEU) and Agnes Simon (Masaryk University): Rolling Stones: Dissident Intellectuals in Politics
Apr 21	Anil Duman (CEU): Closing the gaps: the positive effects of welfare inclusion on immigrants’ labor market integration *** co-organized with Political Economy Research Group (PERG)
Apr 28	Alex Blackman (Cornell University)
May 5	Department Meeting
May 12	Presentations by 1st year PhD students in the Political Economy and Comparative Politics tracks
May 19	Presentations by 1st year PhD students in the Political Theory track
Jun 10	Department Meeting

	*WINTER TERM*
Date	Department Seminar Name & Title
Jan 13	Department Meeting
Feb 3	Department Meeting
Feb 17	Avital Livny (University of Illinois): Trust and the Islamic Advantage: religious-based Movements in Turkey and the Muslim World * starts at 17.30 CET**
Feb 24	Monika Mühlböck (Universitaet Mannheim): Coping With Uncertainty in Representative Democracy
Mar 3	Sylvia Kritzinger (University of Vienna): Who would vote NOTA? Explaining a ‘None Of The Above’ choice in eight countries
Mar 10-12	Department Meeting / Thesis Writing Workshop
Mar 24	Andy Guess (Princeton): Does Social Influence Shape Online Political Expression? * starts at 15.30 CET**
Mar 31	Mariyana Angelova (CEU): Intra-Cabinet Conflict - a Heuristic for Government Policy Responsibility

	*FALL TERM*
Date	Department Seminar Name & Title
Sep 30	Alexander Bor (Aarhus University): Fact-checking videos reduce belief in but not the sharing of fake news on Twitter
Oct 7	Department Meeting
Oct 14	Gabor Simonovits (CEU): Can civil rights organizations deter discrimination?
Oct 21	Markus Wagner (University of Vienna): Affective polarization across parties: Why do people dislike some parties more than others?
Oct 28	Diana O'Brien (Rice University): Man Enough for the Job? Women as Leaders, Policy-Makers, and Awards and Symbols in the Inner Cabinet. * starts at 17:20**
Nov 4	Department Meeting
Nov 11	Arturas Rozenas (NYU): Fighting for Tyranny: How State Repression Shapes Military Performance
Nov 18	Carolina Plescia (University of Vienna): Compromising for worldly rewards? The short-term consequences of coalition agreements on voters
Nov 25	Milan Svolik (Yale): Voting Against Autocracy
Dec 2	Department Meeting
Dec 9	Michael Dorsch (CEU): History, trust in institutions, and behavior
Dec 16	Elias Dinas (EUI): The Normalization of Stigmatized Symbols

Quicklinks: Department seminars and Doctoral seminars in 2019/20, 2018/19, 2017/18, 2016/17, 2015/16, 2014/15, 2013/14, 2012/13, 2011/12, 2010/11, 2009/10, 2008/09, 2007/08, 2006/07.