Comparative Politics Colloquium

The Comparative Politics Colloquium (CPC) is the intellectual forum for comparativists of all areas and methods to meet and discuss current work.  In addition to featuring faculty papers and occasional outside speakers, the CPC is an integral part of graduate training in the department of political science, serving as a place for students to present papers as well as dissertation prospectuses, grant proposals, dissertation chapters and practice job talks.  The general format is for papers to be made available on our website a week in advance, and there is an expectation that colloquium participants will have read the papers in advance.  The CPC meets weekly during the academic year.  For fall 2009, we will meet on Mondays from 1:30-2:45, and in spring 2010 we will meet on Wednesdays at 1:30-2:45.  All meetings will be in the Ogg room (# 422) in North Hall unless otherwise noted on the schedule.  The CPC is a great opportunity to get to know fellow comparativists as well as to learn about and advance each others' scholarship.  Please contact Jeffrey Paller (paller@wisc.edu) for additional information about the CPC or to be added to its mailing list.

Fall 2009 Schedule

October 5: Organizational Meeting

October 12: Sanja Badanjak, "Dynamics and change within and across party groups in the European Parliament" and Peter Nasuti, "A policy issue in a patronage-democracy: The lawyers' movement in Pakistan."

October 19: Lauren McCarthy. "Trafficking (In)justice: Russian Law Enforcement's Response to Human Trafficking." (Discussant: Evgeny Finkel)

October 26: Adam Auerbach, "Cooperation in Uncertainty: Migration, Ethnicity, and Community Governance in India’s Urban Slums" and Jennifer Petersen, "The Local Politics of Post-Conflict Rebuilding in Rwanda and Burundi." (Discussants: Peter Nasuti and Brandon Kendhammer)

November 2: Brandon Kendhammer. Dissertation Chapter 4. "Framing Sharia Law and Democracy (I): The Media and Public Discourse." (Discussant: Howard Schweber)

November 9: Alice Kang. Practice Job Talk. Meets in Social Socience 8417. "Bargaining with Islam: Of Rule, Religion, and Women in Niger."

November 16: Jeffrey Paller, "Empty Threats, Empty Promises: African Slums." (Discussant: Barry Driscoll)

November 23. Evgeny Finkel. "An Unpredictable Past: Constructing Genocides." (Discussant: Lauren McCarthy)

December 1: David Samuels. University of Minnesota. "Inequality and Democratization: A Contractarian Approach." (Discussant: Ed Friedman)

December 7: Scott Straus and Charles Taylor, "Democratization and Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa." (Discussant: Michael Schatzberg)

December 14: Comparative Politics Article