Understanding Ethnic Cooperation: Evidence from Experiments in Kenya and Tanzania DateNovember 1, 2013 Time7:00am to 8:30am Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact We employ lab experiment data from Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to document the extent of ethnic divisions, and to test whether - and how - ethnic divisions can be rendered less […]
Banu Bargu, New School for Social Research DateOctober 28, 2016 Time4:00pm to 6:00pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Link to full paper can be found hereTo recieve an email copy of the paper, contact Michelle Rose: mklrose@ucla.edu Event Details: Parking | Directions Please register here:
International Relations Workshop with Benjamin Graham DateNovember 3, 2014 Time12:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Benjamin Graham, University of Southern CaliforniaTitle: "Political Risk and New Firm Entry”Abstract:This paper examines how political risk affects the type of multinational firms that enter a given country via foreign direct investment. It first distinguishes between three distinct types of political […]
Charles Taylor Lectures DateNovember 1, 2016 Time5:00pm to 6:30pm Location Charles E. Young Research Library, Conference Room 11360 Contact Discussant: Anthony Pagden (UCLA Political Science)In two lectures at UCLA, Charles Taylor will discuss his most recent book, The Language Animal: The Full Shape of the Human Linguistic Capacity (Harvard University Press, 2016), as well as his ongoing inquiries into the […]
Recruitment Job Talk with Nicholas Valentino DateNovember 6, 2014 Time12:00pm to 1:30pm Location 4357 Bunche Hall Contact Presenter:Nicholas Valentino, University of MichiganTitle: "News Mediated Threat, Group Empathy, and Racial Gaps in Public Opinion”Abstract:To explain group differences in reactions to mass mediated political threats, we develop Group Empathy Theory. The theory posits empathy felt by members of […]