Events

BOLLENS-RIES-HOFFENBERG LECTURE DateOctober 10, 2017 Time6:00pm to 9:00pm Location California NanoSystems Institute (CNSI)UCLA Campus Contact CollegeEvents@support.ucla.edu  Barbara GeddesChair and Professor, UCLA Department of Political Scienceinvites you to attend the 31st AnnualBOLLENS-RIES-HOFFENBERG LECTURE Fiction When Truth is Stranger Than Fiction: Hollywood in The Trump Era featuring Franklin LeonardFilm Executive and Founder, The Black List with introduction by Lynn VavreckProfessor of Political Science, UCLA Tuesday, October 10, […]

Political Theory Workshop with Megan Gallagher DateOctober 17, 2014 Time4:00pm Location Bunche 4357   Contact Title: "In Excess: Emotional Regimes in Montesquieu's Lettres Persanes"Presenter: Megan Gallagher Respondent: Anna-Elisabeth ScheidtAbstract: In this paper, I read Montesquieu’s Lettres persanes as an attempt to theorize a virtuous, republican alternative to despotic rule. As Montesquieu argues in the Esprit des lois, fear - specifically […]

Juliet Hooker, UT Austin - PT Workshop DateOctober 14, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Party Activists as Campaign Advertisers: Why the Ground Campaign Can't Move to the Middle DateOctober 21, 2013 Time5:00am to 6:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Recent Presidential campaigns have emphasized recruiting workers to engage in direct voter contact. We develop a model of direct contact as a principal-agent problem. Unlike other political activists, workers engaged […]

International Relations Workshop with Brian Rathbun DateOctober 20, 2014 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location Bunche 4357 Contact Presenter:Brian Rathbun, University of Southern CaliforniaTitle: "Variation in Strategic Rationality"Click here for information on the presenter. Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

Sarah Anzia, UC Berkeley - AP Workshop DateOctober 17, 2016 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall  Contact Abstract:The idea that public policy is biased in favor of groups of citizens who vote at high rates is central to scholarship on American politics, but few studies have actually tested it. In this paper, I carry […]

James Lo DateOctober 16, 2017 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone 3102067558bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:

2nd Annual Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture DateOctober 23, 2014 Time4:30pm Location Faculty CenterCalifornia RoomUCLA CampusParking available for $12 in Structure 2 Contact Contact Information Kelli A O'LearyPhone 310-825-4038koleary@support.ucla.edu  E. Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture “Fugitives’ Democracy: The Political Worlds of Toni Morrison’s Essays and Fiction”Presented byKatharine Lawrence Balfour, Professor of Politics, University of VirginiaThis lecture will be streamed live […]

American Politics Workshop with Larry Bartels DateOctober 24, 2014 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Larry Bartels, Vanderbilt UniversityTitle: "Democracy for Realists"Overview:Prof. Bartels’ presentation will address the promise and pitfalls of "retrospective voting," in which voters reward or punish incumbents for past performance. While the approach sounds appealing, findings detailed in his upcoming book […]

Political Theory Workshop DateOctober 23, 2015 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location Bunche Hall 4357 (Conference Room) Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here: