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Colloquium and Seminar Series
2005-2006
Featuring noted researchers from many universities


(Unless otherwise indicated, all events are in the Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824.)
Date Title Speaker
10/13/05
4:00 p.m.
Fair Division of Complex Goods Peter Tannenbaum
Professor of Mathematics, California State University, Fresno
11/10/05
4:00 p.m.
Divided Houses: Partisanship and Protest in Fragile Democracies Kathleen Bruhn
Professor of Political Science
UCSB
12/01/05
4:00 p.m.
Note Date Change
Nonverbal Cues in Candidate Perception: The Case of Facial Similarity Shanto Iyengar
Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
1/12/06
4:00 p.m.
Genetics and Politics John Hibbing
Professor of Political Science
University of Nebraska, Lincoln
1/26/06
4:00 p.m.
Why Is There No Recognized Field of Environmental Politics? Oran Young
Professor, Bren School of Environmental Management, UCSB
2/2/06
4:00 p.m.
McCune Room
When Affirmative Action Was White Ira Katznelson
Professor of Political Science, Columbia University & President, APSA
2/3/06
12:00 noon
The IMF and Poor Countries: Towards a More Fulfilling Relationship Graham Bird, Professor of Economics & Director, Surrey Centre for International Economic Studies, University of Surrey, U.K.
2/16/06
12:30 p.m.
North Hall 2208
Is It Better to Be First or Last?
Estimation of the Ballot Order Effect (QMSS Presentation)
R. Michael Alvarez and Betsy Sinclair, California Institute of Technology
2/16/06
3:30 p.m.
(Note time change)
The Floating Loonie: Canada and the Politics of Exchange Rate Regimes Eric Helleiner, Associate Professor of Political Science, Waterloo University, Canada
2/23/06
12:30 p.m.
North Hall 2208
Interpolation vs. Exterpolation: Evaluating the Model Dependency of Counterfactuals Using R (QMSS Presentation) Heather Stoll, Assistant Professor of Political Science, UCSB
3/2/06
5:30 p.m.
Buchanan 1910
Evolution of Social Norms
(Bren School presentation)
Elinor Ostrom
Professor of Political Science,
Indiana University and former President, APSA
3/21/06
11:00 a.m.
Humanities 4020
Memoirs of War, Contemporary Japan, and its Asian Neighbors The Hon. Kazuhiko Togo
Japan's former Ambassador to Holland and Chief of the European Asian Bureau
4/6/06
4:00 p.m.
Aging, Generations, and the Development of Partisan Polarization in the United States Laura Stoker
Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
4/11/06
4:00 p.m.
The Semi Independent Press: The Battle for Public Information in the U.S. from Iraq to Hurricane Katrina W. Lance Bennett
Professor of Political Science and Lawrence Professor of Communication, University of Washington
4/13/06
12:00 noon
Work-in-Progress:
The Role of Media in Early Assessments of Presidential Honeymoons
Laura Frey
Graduate Student in Political Science, UCSB
4/27/06
12:00 noon
Devolution of Wildlife Property Rights to Local Communities in Kenya and Tanzania Ngeta Kabiri
Ph.D. candidate in Political Science, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
5/4/06
4:00 p.m.
The Deliberation Effect -- With Observations on the USA Patriot Act Paul Quirk
Professor of Political Science and Phil Lind Chair in U.S. Politics & Representation, University of British Columbia
5/11/06
12:00 noon
Work-in-Progress:
A Panel on Recent Research in American Politics
Professors Weatherford, Glasgow, Woolley, and Jennings, Political Science Department, UCSB
5/18/06
12:00 noon
Work-in-Progress:
A Panel on Recent Research in Political Theory and Comparative Politics
Peter Digeser, Thomas Hughes, and Ning Zhang, Political Science Department, UCSB
6/2/06
12:00 noon
Work-in-Progress:
A Panel on Recent Research in Comparative Politics
Heather Stoll, Andrea Haupt, and Sabrina Pinnell, Political Science Department, UCSB