2024-2025 Schedule

MacMillan International Relations Seminar Series - AY 2024-25

Fall 2024

September

11th: Robin Wang (Yale University), “Embedded State-Building: How Economic Openness Increased Fiscal Capacity in Contemporary China” *** To be held in RKZ 005

25th: Maryum Alam (Yale University), “For as Long as It Takes? Time Horizons and Foreign Policy Termination” *** To be held in RKZ 005

October

2nd: Ashley Leeds (Rice University), “A Separate Peace? Withdrawal Bargains and Civil War Intervention” *** To be held in RKZ 005

9th: Michael-David Mangini (Yale University) “Economic Interdependence in the Global Economy with Gravity” *** To be held in RKZ 005

23rd: Roya Talibova (Harvard University), “#Stoprussia: Weaponizing Social Media for Foreign Support”   *** To be held in RKZ 005

30th: Massimiliano Onorato (University of Bologna), “Borders and Conflict in Europe, 1000-1800” *** To be held in LUCE 202

December

4th: Zuhad Hai (New York University), “Adjusting to Obsolescence: Deindustrialization and Economic Nationalism in Colonial South Asia”  *** To be held in ISPS A002 (joint with Leitner)

Spring 2025

January

15th: Josh Kertzer (Harvard University), “How Hawks Win: Dispositions and Advisory Influence in Foreign Policy Decision-Making”   *** To be held in RKZ 005 

29th: Nereal Cal (Yale University)  “Educating the Guardians: U.S. Foreign Military Education and the Socialization of Democratic Norms”  and Sean Nossek (Yale University)  “Labor Market Concentration and the Political Effects of Trade Shocks”  *** To be held in RKZ 005

February

5th: Didac Queralt (Yale University ),  “Her Majesty’s Aid: A Principal—Agent Analysis of Development Assistance in the Late British Empire”   *** To be held in RKZ 005

12th: Rick Da (Yale University )“Judicial Remedies, Political Questions, and the National Security State”   *** To be held in RKZ 005 

March

5th: Soyoung Lee (Yale University),  “Teaching the Past, Informing the Present? The Impact of School History Education on International Attitudes”   *** To be held in RKZ 005

April

2nd: Kelebogile Zvobgo (William & Mary),  “Violence and Punishment: Framing Public Attitudes in Death Penalty Democracies”   *** To be held in RKZ 005

9th: Susan Hyde (UC Berkeley), TBD (joint with Leitner)

16th: Austin Carson (University of Chicago),  TBD

30th: Rachel Myrick (Duke University),  TBD