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Colloquium and Seminar Series
2006-2007
Featuring noted researchers from many universities


(Unless otherwise indicated, all events are in the Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824.)
Date Title Speaker
10/12/06
12:30 p.m.
Works in Progress:
Presentations from the 2006 APSA Annual Meeting
Robert Rauchhaus, Asst. Professor of Political Science
and Rebecca Glazier,
Poltical Science Graduate Student
10/19/06
12:00 noon
North Hall 2208
"Instability in Political Preferences Due to Ambivalence: A Reconsideration of Some Recent Evidence"
(QMSS Presentation)
Garrett Glasgow
Assoc. Professor of Political Science, UCSB
10/26/06
4:00 p.m.
Gathering Voices: Political Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet Union Cynthia Kaplan
Professor of Political Science, UCSB and Henry Brady
Professor of Political Science, UC Berkeley
11/1/06
4:00 p.m.
Humanities 6020
America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
(co-sponsored presentation)
Robert Vitalis
Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania
12/7/06
12:00 noon
"Cutural Repertoire: Only the Weapon of the Powerless?
A Study of Political Entrepreneurship in Contemporary China"
Ning Zhang
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science, UCSB
1/23/07
4:00 p.m.
Non-Assimilation in the National Interest
Edwina Barvosa-Carter
Assoc. Professor, Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB
2/1/07
12:00 noon
Where is the Military in the Metaphor of Man?
Terrell Carver
Professor of Political Theory, Bristol University, UK
2/1/07
4:00 p.m.
Familiarity Breeds Trust: Collective Action in a Policy Domain
Mark Lubell
Associate Professor, Environmental Science & Policy, UC Davis
2/8/07
12:30 p.m.
North Hall 2208
Using Spatial Techniques to Improve Causal Inference
(QMSS Presentation)
Iris Hui, Doctoral Candidate
Political Science, UC Berkeley
2/15/07
12:30 p.m.
Works in Progress:
Recent Papers Presented by Faculty & Graduate Students
Kathleen Bruhn, Associate Professor of Political Science
and Andrea Haupt,
Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science
2/15/07
4:00 p.m.
Transnationalism and Political Participation: The Role of Homeland Socialization Context and Transnational Political Concerns Pei-te Lien, Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Utah
2/15/07
5 p.m.
Humanities
6020
The "Theological" and the "Political" in Giovanni Gentile and Carl Schmitt
(Co-sponsored presentation)
Simon Levis-Sullam
Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellow and Visiting Lecturer,
UC Berkeley Italian Studies
2/22/07
3:00 p.m.
Note date & time change
Works in Progress:
Recent Papers Presented by Faculty & Graduate Students
Aaron Belkin, Associate Professor of Political Science
and David Weaver,
Political Science Graduate Student
3/5/07
1:00 p.m.
M C C Theater
Between Revolution and Empire
(co-sponsored presentation)
Adeeb Khalid
Professor of history
Carelton College
4/19/07
12:00 noon
The APSR Editorial Process: An Insider's Perspective Kirstie McClure
Associate Professor of Political Science, UCLA
5/3/07
4:00 p.m.
Is Evolution Relevant to Political Science? Aaron Sell, Ph.D.
Center for Evolutionary Psychology, UCSB
5/10/07
4:00 p.m.
Mental Illness and Presidential Performance: The Case of Calvin Coolidge Robert Gilbert
Professor of Political Science
Northeastern University
5/17/07
12:00 noon
Mobilization and Political Interactions of the Brazilian Landless Workers' Movement (MST) Patricia Rodriguez
Ph.D. Candidate
Notre Dame University
5/24/07
4:00 p.m.
Cultural Diversity, European Identity, and the Legitimacy of the European Union Hans Dieter Klingemann
Director Emeritus, Social Science Research Center, Berlin
5/31/07
3:00 p.m.
Student Resource Builiding 2154
Race, Immigration, and Identity in United States Politics
(co-sponsored presentation)
Taeku Lee
Associate Professor of Political Science
U C Berkeley
6/1/07
12:00 noon
Humanities Building 2252
China, the United States, and the Power Transition Theory
(co-sponsored presentation)
Steve Chan
Professor of Political Science
University of Colorado