Seminars / Reading Group
PACS Seminar Series
The Spring 2023 PACS seminar series is co-sponsored by the Gender and Security Sector Lab. We will meet online and in-person in Uris G-08 from 11:25 AM-12:40 PM on Thursdays.
Authors will lead a discussion of their works by delivering a formal talk followed by Q&A. There will be a pre-circulated reading, which will be sent to participants upon registration. The authors and readings for this term will focus on linking graduate students to their interests as well as focus on political violence broadly speaking.
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Spring 2023
January 26
Dr. Eugene Fishel, George Mason University; Dr. Yaropolk T. Kulchyckyj; Dr. Bryn Rosenfeld, Cornell University
Russia’s Ongoing War in Ukraine: a reflection on U.S. policy decision-making and the provision of lethal aid between 2014-2017
Virtual
Co-sponsored by the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs
February 2
Abby Córdova, University of Notre Dame
Gendering the Police: Evaluating the Effects of Women’s Police Stations
Virtual
Co-sponsored by the Feminist, Gender, & Sexuality Studies Program
February 9
Regina Bateson, University of Ottawa
Vigilantism as Contentious Politics
In-Person | Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, G155
February 16
Shannon Philip, University of East Anglia
A City of Men? Masculinities and Everyday Gendered Violences in Urban India
Virtual
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Program
February 23
Austin Strange, The University of Hong Kong
Chinese Global Infrastructure
Virtual
Co-sponsored by the East Asia Program
March 9
Mary Barton, U.S. government
Counterterrorism Between the Wars: An International History, 1919-1937
Virtual
Co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies
March 23
Nazmul Sultan, University of British Columbia
Waiting for the People: The Idea of Democracy in Indian Anticolonial Thought
Virtual
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Program
March 30
Sean Fear, University of Leeds
Assessing Saigon’s “Year of Sand”: The 1968 Tet Offensive and Rise and Fall of South Vietnam’s Second Republic 1967-1975
Virtual
Co-sponsored by the Southeast Asia Program
April 13
Christopher Blair, Princeton University
Border Fortification and Legibility: Evidence from Afghanistan
In-Person | Uris Hall, G08
Co-sponsored by the South Asia Program
April 20
Carla Martínez Machain, University at Buffalo
Beyond the Wire: US Military Deployments and Host Country Public Opinion
In-Person | Uris Hall, G08
Co-sponsored by the American Studies Program
April 27
Solving the Peace Puzzle: Hackathon Presentations
In-Person | Uris Hall, G08
May 4
Solving the Peace Puzzle: Hackathon Presentations
In-Person | Uris Hall, G08
Fall 2022
The full schedule for the Fall 2022 Seminar Series is available for download here.
Spring 2022
The full schedule for the Spring 2022 Seminar Series is available for download here.
Fall 2021
This semester's seminar series was jointly presented by the Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies and the Gender and Security Sector Lab. The themes related to the focus of the GSS Lab: policing, the military, and peacekeeping/peacemaking.
The full schedule for the Fall 2021 Seminar Series is available for download here.
Spring 2021
This seminar series was organized as a reading group. We met met online from 11:25 AM-12:40 PM on Thursdays. Authors joined us for a discussion of their works, but did not deliver formal talks; instead, we spend most of our time discussing pre-circulated reading.
The authors and readings for this term focused on four key issues: authoritarianism, racism, gender, and cybersecurity.
The full schedule for the Spring 2021 Reading Group Series is available here.