Recruitment Job Talk with Ami Pedahzur DateMay 7, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Ami Pedahzur, University of Texas at AustinTitle: "Bureaucratic Commandos: The Rise of Israel’s Special Operations Forces"About the Speaker:Ami Pedahzur is Professor of Government -- and Arnold S. Chaplik Professor in Israel and Diaspora Studies -- […]
E. Victor Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture DateMay 5, 2016 Time6:00pm Location Charles E. Young Grand SalonKerckhoff Hall Contact The Wolfenstein Memorial Lecture brings a leading scholar to UCLA each year to speak on a subject in one of Professor Wolfenstein’s many fields of research, which included African-American thought and politics, Ancient Greek political theory, psychoanalysis and […]
Courts After Conflict DateMay 9, 2014 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Can legal institutions maintain impartiality in the face of violent ethnic conflict? Can a steep decline in the intensity of violence help restore impartiality to ethnically biased courts? How persistent are the effects of violence? Given the ubiquity of ethnic conflicts […]
Ecochella! DateMay 6, 2016 Time3:30pm to 9:00pm Location Contact Ecochella is a student-run, bike-powered music and sustainability festival at UCLA that aims to educate and engage students on current strides in green innovation. Join us on May 6th for music, biking, yoga, food, free goodies and more! First 200 attendees will get a free Tender […]
REP Workshop - Hahrie Han DateMay 6, 2016 Time4:00pm to 5:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
Explaining the Rapidity of Social Change DateMay 12, 2014 Time5:00am to 6:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Social change, for example, public support of same-sex marriage, often has the following dynamic: existing behavior or norms persist for a long time, and then change to the new normal very rapidly. This rapidity is not easily explained […]
American Politics Workshop with Seth Masket DateMay 11, 2015 Time12:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter:Seth Masket, University of DenverTitle:“Do Voters and Activists Nominate the Same Sort of Candidates? A Look at Legislative Vacancy Appointments in Illinois and Colorado”Abstract: In Colorado and Illinois, local partisan vacancy committees are charged with appointing […]
AP Workshop - Christopher Warshaw, MIT DateMay 8, 2017 Time12:30pm to 2:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Abstract:There is a large literature on economic voting in the United States, which shows that the economy matters in presidential and congressional elections. Puzzlingly, however, the state politics literature has failed to find clear evidence for economic voting […]
30th Annual Bollens-Ries-Hoffenberg Lecture DateMay 10, 2017 Time7:00pm Location Charles E. Young Grand SalonKerckhoff HallUCLA Campus Contact About the SpeakerSheila Kuehl, Los Angeles County Supervisor, District 3"Too Many Governments: How Local, State and Federal Jurisdictions Can Clash or Collaborate"Click here to learn more about Sheila KuehlAbout the SeriesThe annual series' aim is to bring together the […]
REP Workshop with Lisa Garcia Bedolla DateMay 14, 2015 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Contact Information Belinda SunnuPhone bsunnu@polisci.ucla.edu Presenter: Lisa Garcia Bedolla, UC BerkeleyTitle: "Latino Political Engagement and the Future of U.S. Politics”Abstract: After the 2012 election, there was much talk about the importance of the Latino vote for both major U.S. […]
