(last updated 2018-01-22)

1. The Government department organizes a weekly colloquium, featuring presentations by a mix of our own faculty and external speakers. Unless otherwise specified, these colloquiua take place in the Tyler Hall conference room (322 Tyler) at noon on Fridays.
   

   Papers associated with the talk, if available, are stored in a Box folder to which department and associated faculty have access. Anyone else who wishes to attend a talk and read the paper beforehand should contact the organizer to request a copy. For more information about speakers or schedules, contact Maurits van der Veen.

2. The Economics department's visiting speaker series is listed with dates in blue below. These also take place on Fridays in 322 Tyler, at 3pm. For questions about this series, contact Brian Beach

3. The College also has an International Development seminar series. Like the Economics talks, these also take place on Fridays in 322 Tyler, at 3pm. They appear with the dates in green below. For more information on this series, contact Ariel BenYishay or S.P. Harish.

4. Finally, the schedule below may list a few additional talks of interest to Tyler Hall faculty. These appear with the dates in red below.

• Jan. 19 (Government) at 3pm
  Mia Bloom (Georgia State).
  Weaponizing the weak: The role of children in terrorist groups.

• Feb. 2 (Government)
  Dan Maliniak (W & M).
  "Epistemic Communities and Public Support for Climate Cooperation".

• Feb. 9 (Government)
  Lillian Frost (GWU).
  "Unequal Citizens: State Resistance to Removing Discrimination toward Women from Nationality Laws".

• Feb. 16 (Government)
  Nura Hossainzadeh (Princeton).
  "A 'living' Shari'a: Khomeini on how to interpret the divine law and who is to interpret it".

• Feb. 23 (Development)
  Kelsey Jack (Tufts).
  "Seasonal liquidity, rural labor markets and agricultural production: Evidence from Zambia".

• Mar. 2 (Economics)
  Alex Trew (St. Andrews).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Mar. 16 (Government) in 217 Tyler
  Drew Engelhardt (Vanderbilt, formerly W&M/SNaPP lab).
  Racial Attitudes through a Partisan Lens.

• Mar. 21 (Wednesday!) (Government) in 322 Tyler
  Taylor Carlson (UCSD, formerly W&M/SNaPP lab).
  "Through the Grapevine: Informational Consequences of the Two-Step Flow of Political Communication".

• Mar. 23 (Government)
  Todd Sechser (UVA).
  "Public opinion and the use of nuclear weapons" (with Abigail Post).

• Mar. 23 (Economics)
  Tommy Leung (Wake Forest).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Mar. 30 (Economics)
  Mark Anderson (Montana State).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Apr. 13 (Government) in 217 Tyler
  Michal Onderco (Erasmus).
  "Building a nuclear knowledge network: PPNN and the 1995 NPT RevCon."

• Apr. 13 (Development) in 219 Tyler
  Susanna Campbell (American University).
  Buying influence: A survey experiment on the logic of aid allocation in conflict-affected countries" (with Gabriele Spilker).

• Apr. 20 (Government)
  David Rousseau (Albany).
  "Does war increase or decrease political and civil rights?"

• Apr. 27 (Economics)
  James Feigenbaum (Boston University).
  "From the bargaining table to the ballot box: Political effects of right-to-work laws" (with Alexander Hertel-Fernandez & Vanessa Williamson).

• Date TBD (Government)
  Hongyu Zhang (W&M).
  "Why North Korea should keep the bomb but not the ICMB" (with Kevin Wang).

• Date TBD (Economics)
  Jenny Ho (U.S. Department of Justice).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Sep. 8 (Government)
  Maurits van der Veen (W & M). "Framing the EU: The British press, the European Union, and immigration."

• Sep. 15 (Economics)
  Nick Papageorge (Johns Hopkins).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Sep. 22 (Government)
  Tana Johnson (Duke).
  "Contemporary dynamics among industrialized and developing countries: Textual analysis using machine learning."

• Sep. 22 (Development)
  Shareen Joshi (Georgetown).
  "Can Environmental Policy Reduce Infant Mortality? Evidence from the Ganga Pollution Cases."

• Sep. 29 (Government) at 3pm, in 217 Tyler.
  David Leblang (Virginia).
  Political economy of migration.

• Oct. 6 (Government) at 3pm.
  Taka Masaki and Brad Parks (AidData).
  When do performance assessments influence policy behavior? Micro-evidence from the 2014 Reform Efforts Survey.

• Oct. 13 (Economics)
  Rodrigo Pinto (UCLA).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Oct. 20 (Economics)
  Mario Crucini (Vanderbilt).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Oct. 27 (Economics)
  Price Fishback (Arizona).
  "The New Deal and Agricultural Investment in Machinery and Work Animals: Cotton Farms During the Great Depression."

• Nov. 3 (Development)
  Molly Lipscomb (Virginia).
  Pricing people into the market: targeting through mechanism design.

• Nov. 10 (Government)
  Claire McKinney (W & M).
  The Good Abortion is a Tragic Abortion: Eugenics, Motherhood, and Reproductive Rights.

• Nov. 10 (Economics) 114 Tyler.
  Olivier Coibion (Texas).
  Cyclical sensitivity in estimates of potential output..

• Nov. 17 (Government)
  Ainsley LeSure (Occidental College).
  Racism is in the World: A Shift from the Unconscious to the Intersubjective..

• Nov. 17 (Development)
  Yuhki Tajima (Georgetown).
  Paying for Peace: The Distribution of Postwar Rents to Former Insurgents in Aceh, Indonesia.

• Dec. 1 (Economics)
  Martin Saavedra (Oberlin).
  Topic/title TBD.

• Dec. 1 (Government) (3pm, 219 Tyler).
  Justin de Benedictis-Kessner (Boston Area Research Initiative).
  Electoral incentives and strategic municipal government communication.

• Dec. 8 (Government)
  Sean Burns.
  Revolts and the military in the Arab Spring.

• Dec. 8 (Development)
  Jan Pierskalla (OSU). Topic/title TBD.