Colloquium and Seminar Series Featuring noted researchers from many universities (Unless otherwise indicated, all events are in the Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824.) tr> Date Title Speaker 10/18/04 4:00 p.m. The Oprah Effect: How Entertainment Talk Shows Help Citizens Figure Out Who to Vote For Matt Baum Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCLA 10/26/04 12:00 noon Work-in-Progress: "Parties' Policy Programmes and the Dog That Didn't Bark: No Evidence That Proportional Systems Promote Dispersed Party Positioning" Lawrence Ezrow Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UCSB 10/27/04 12:00 noon Work-in-Progress: "What's On the Political Agenda? Cleavage Salience in Comparative Perspective" Heather Stoll Instructor in Political Science, UCSB 11/03/04 12:00 noon Turnout and Voter Choice in House of Representatives Elections: 1994-2002 Jay Dow Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Missouri, Columbia 11/08/04 4:00 p.m. The Spatial Theory of Electoral Competition Melvin Hinich Professor of Political Science, University of Texas, Austin 11/16/04 12:00 noon The Presidential Election, 2004: Results, Outcomes, Interpretation Profs. Benjamin J. Cohen, Eric Smith, John T. Woolley: Political Science Dept., UCSB 1/19/05 4:00 p.m. McCune Room, HSSB 6020 Regents' Lecture: The Challenges of Democracy in Latin America Dr. Carlos Mateo Balmelli President of the National Senate of Paraguay New date: 1/28/05 3:00 p.m. An Exclusive Country Club: GATT 1950-1992 Joanne Gowa Professor of Political Science, Princeton University 2/3/05 4:00 p.m. What's On the Political Agenda? Cleavage Salience, Dimensionality, and Party Systems in Comparative Perspective Heather Stoll Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCSB 2/17/05 4:00 p.m. War As a Commitment Problem Robert Powell Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley 2/25/05 11:00 a.m. IR Theory Today Kenneth Waltz Adjunct Professor of Political Science and Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University 3/31/05 12:00 noon Work-in-Progress: Trust Diffusion Patterns and the "Informal Political Zone" in Chinese Political Culture Ning Zhang Graduate Student in Political Science, UCSB 4/1/05 10:00 a.m. World Challenges: Is There a Way Out? Knut Vollebaek Norway's Ambassador to the United States 4/14/05 4:00 p.m. Narratives of American Politics Ron King Professor of Political Science, San Diego State University 5/2/05 4:00 p.m. Work-in-Progress: "Testing Huntington's Who Are We? Empirical Evidence Regarding the Linguistic and Political Assimilation of the New Immigrants" Jack Citrin Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley 5/19/05 4:00 p.m. Environmental Governance As a Goal of Development Assistance: Notes from the Eastern Caribbean Jonathan Rosenberg Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Alaska, Fairbanks