The Watson Seminar Series

The seminar series provide a forum for faculty and advanced graduate students to present their research at various stages of completion. The series are intended as a setting where researchers can share ideas and comment on each other's work. In addition, there will be several research reading weeks where participants read and discuss topics of general interest. The seminars will be held every Friday, from at 12:30p in Harkness 329. Lunch will be catered. The seminar series schedule for the 2004-2005 academic year is listed below.

October 1 – Stephen Gent

Title: “Issues and International Intervention: A Game Theoretic and Statistical Analysis”

October 8 - Giacomo Chiozzo ( Duke University)

Title:

October 29 – Mark Fey

Title: “Engineering Peace Through Institutional Design: Uncertainty, Efficiency, and Mechanism Design” (with Kris Ramsay)

November 5 – Seok-ju Cho

Title: “Retrospective Voting and Political Representation: A Model of Electoral Accountability and Legislative Voting”

November 12 – Elena Plaxina

Title: “Inducing Independence: A Strategic Model of Lending and Legal Reform” (with Gretchen Helmke)

March 18 – Curt Signorino, G. Bingham Powell, John Duggan, and Songying Fang

Title: “How to Get a Job in Political Science”

March 25 – Jeong Hun Han

Title: "Multi-level Representation, European Citizens' Electoral Choice and MEPs' Voting Behaivor"

April 15 – Jim Johnson

Title: “The Arithmetic of Compassion: Rethinking the Politics of Photography”

April 22 – Muhammet Bas

Title: TBA

April 29 - Songying Fang

Title: TBA

May 6 – Taehee Whang

Title: TBA

May 13 – Randy Stone and Stephen Gent

Title: TBA