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.

Fall 2016 Schedule

September 7

Welcome Back Party!

September 14

Javier Osorio of John Jay College, presenting “Multi-Actor Conflict and Violence in Colombia”

September 21

Zachariah Mampilly of Vassar University, presenting “Civilian Resistance to Rebel Rule: Oppositional Agency and the Tamil Tigers”

September 28

Severine Autesserre of Barnard College and Columbia University, presenting “International Peacebuilding and Local Success: Assumptions, Myths, and Reality”

October 5

Michael Sharpe of York College, presenting “Selecting by Ethnicity and Unemployment in the Liberal Democratic State: Remigration Policies in The Netherlands and Japan”

October 19

Emma Jacobs of the Graduate Center, presenting “Storm Troopers: Securitization, Climate Change, and US Foreign Policy”

October 26

Jessica Mahlbacher of the Graduate Center, presenting “Pushing the Boundaries: Nation-Expanding and Nation-Refining Mobilization in the Kremlin’s Discourse”

November 2

Anh Tran of the Graduate Center, presenting “Terror as State-Builder”

November 9

Dipali Mukhopadhyay of Columbia University, presenting “Building a ‘Good’ Rebellion in Syria”

November 16

Alper Yildiz of the Graduate Center, presenting “Historical Interpretation of Democracy in Turkey and Ecuador”