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International Relations Speaker Series "Sending a Signal of Prowess? Nuclear Tests and Technological Spillover"

Event Start: May 10, 2013 07:00 PM

Event End: May 10, 2013 07:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Christopher Sprecher, Visiting Professor, UCSB

Talk: Exceptionalism Revisited: American Political Development in Comparative Perspective. President, Congress, and Parties

Event Start: January 10, 2014 12:00 AM

Event End: January 10, 2014 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Axel Hadenius, Visiting Researcher in the Department of Political Science at UCSB

Meredith Conroy Accepts Professorship

Dr. Meredith Conroy has accepted a tenure track position at CSU San Bernardino. She completed her PhD in 2010, with a dissertation on political communication in American politics. Since then she has been teaching at Occidental College. She will start her new position on the Political Science faculty in Fall of 2013.

Professor Cohen's latest book published

Benjamin J. Cohen, the Louis Lancaster Proessor of International Political Economy, has had another book published, which was released in the Fall of 2013.  The book entitled Power in a Changing World Economy: Lessons from East Asia was co-edited by Professor Cohen and Eric Chiu.

"The Paranoid Style Revisited: Support for the Tea Party and Contemporary American Politics"

Event Start: February 27, 2013 12:00 AM

Event End: February 27, 2013 12:00 AM

Event Location: Ellison Hall

Speaker:
Christopher Parker, Stuart A. Scheingold Professor of Social Justice and Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle

Prof. Chris Parker will speak on his new book, The Paranoid Style Revisited: Support for the Tea Party and Contemporary American Politics (with Matt Barreto).

Identity Speaker Series "Does Democracy Help Maintain Ethnic Identity? The Case of Estonia"

Event Start: October 17, 2013 11:00 PM

Event End: October 17, 2013 11:00 PM

Event Location: Ellison Hall 3824

Speaker:
Lilia Sokolinskaja, former Parliamentary Reporter, Radio 4 Tallinn, Estonia

Only fair is lovely: candidate skin color and voter evaluation in an Indian election

Event Start: April 21, 2014 11:00 PM

Event End: April 21, 2014 11:00 PM

Event Location: Lane Room

Speaker:
Amit Ahuja, Assistant Professor, UCSB Department of Political Science

Assistant Professor Amit Ahuja will give a talk as both the Identity Speaker Series and Faculty Lecture Series.

Congratulations to Karen Pitakdumrongkit

Dr. Karen Pitakdumrongkit, who finished her PhD under the guidance of Prof. Benjamin Cohen in January, has just been appointed a "research fellow" at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her appointment, which includes teaching responsibilities, will begin on December 3rd.