Comparative Politics Workshop
The Comparative Politics Workshop is a venue for comparativists—faculty, students, and alumni—to workshop conference papers, peer-reviewed articles, or book chapters. Our goal is to provide a relaxed, informal, and collegial environment to share and develop our work. This workshop is a student-run initiative that relies on the support and energy of the GC comparative politics faculty, students, and alumni.
The Comparative Politics Workshop at the Graduate Center is held in the Political Science Thesis Room (Room 5200.07) every Wednesday from 4:15-6:15pm, unless otherwise stated. Papers will be circulated approximately one week ahead of each meeting via the CUNY CP Google Group. If you are not a member of the Google Group, you may email gccomparative@gmail.com for each week’s paper.
If you are interested in presenting your work, please email: gccomparative@gmail.com. The workshop’s website is: gccomparative.wordpress.com.
Spring 2026
The Spring 2026 Comparative Politics Workshop meets on Thursdays, 6:30pm-8:00pm, in the Political Science Thesis Room, 5200.07 (365 Fifth Ave).
February 11 (Wednesday meeting, 4:15pm) – Michelle Weitzel: Sound Politics: Affective Governance and the State
February 19 – Yan Sun: Authoritarian and Majoritarian Pathways to Ethnonationalist Consolidation: Governing Uyghurs in China and Muslims in India
April 16 – Regina Bateson: Vigilantism as Contentious Politics
April 30 – Andrés Besserer Rayas, Andrea Peña-Vasquez, and Aala Abdelgadir: Migrant Regularization with Adjectives. An Exploration of the Concept of Regularization in an Age of Migration Restrictionism
May 14 – Javier Padilla, Aline Van Neutgem, and Ryan Hitch: The Durability of Privilege: How Parental Strategy During Transition Affected the Survival Rates of Political Dynasties in Spain and Brazil