News

Graduate Student Panel on Identity

Event Start: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: May 09, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Geoff Allen, Natasha Bennett, and Magarita Safronova

Event Flier

Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work.

Maggie Savronova will present Does Language Matter? Instrumental Use of Language in the Russian Federation and Kazakhstan.

Failing and the Seven Seas: Somali piracy in global context

Event Start: December 03, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: December 03, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Lane Room

Political Science Alum Honored by Women in Communication

UCSB Political Science Alumna Paula Lopez was recently honored by the Santa Barbara Chapter of the Association for Women in Communications. Lopez, co-anchor of KEY News at 11 p.m. began her career at this station before heading to station KCAL in Los Angeles in 1990, where she covered the O.J. Simpson trial, southland floods, and the devastating Los Angeles riots. She received both a local area Emmy Award and a Golden Mike Award for Best News Reporting while she was there. She returned to station KEYT in 1996.

International Relations Speaker Series: Professor Patrick James

Event Start: February 08, 2013 08:00 PM

Event End: February 08, 2013 08:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
University of Southern California

Patrick James, Professor of the University of Southern California will give a talk on security.

Climate-Challenged Society

Event Start: October 10, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: October 10, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
David Schlosberg, Professor of Environmental Politics in the Department of Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney

David Schlosberg will be speaking at the Political Theory Workshop on Thursday, October 10 on his new book, Climate-Challenged Society (Oxford University Press), which is co-authored with John Dryzek and Richard Norgaard.

Beyond Executive Orders: New Data on Presidential Unilateral Action

Event Start: February 27, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: February 27, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
John Woolley, Professor of Political Science

Ahuja Receives Fellowship for Study in India

Assistant Professor of Political Science Amit Ahuja has received a senior research fellowship from the American Institute of Indian Studies for the academic year 2012-2013. It will support fieldwork for up to nine months in India for a project on how ethnic diversity is managed within India’s military. He is one of four long-term senior fellows chosen this year.

Lauren Copeland to have article published

Lauren Copeland, a graduate student, along with Professor Bruce Bimber and a colleague will have their article, “Political consumerism: Civic engagement and the social media connection” published in a forthcoming issue of New Media & Society.