Hi everyone,

There will be no PSAC this Friday, 9 September. Jeremy Ladd's talk will be rescheduled for another time.

PSAC will continue next week on 13 September (a Tuesday) with a talk from Jonas Pontusson of the University of Geneva entitled "Inequality, Income Growth and Preferences for Redistribution in Contemporary Europe." The paper associated with the talk can be found here.

Please note that PSAC on 13 September will take place in Rockefeller 112 from 12:30-2pm. Lunch will be available from noon outside of Rockefeller 112.

We look forward to seeing you next week!

Best,
Mike (on behalf of Alex, Isabel, and Oumar)
 

Upcoming PSAC Schedule

September 22 (**Thursday, at 12:30 PM, Kahin Center, 630 Stewart Avenue**) – Nick Kuipers (National University of Singapore), “Meritocracy Reconsidered: Bureaucratic Selection and Nation-Building in Indonesia,” with SEAP Gatty

September 23 – Sarah Greenberg (Cornell, practice job talk), “Disobedient Interpretation: Democratic Moments in the Biblical Monarchy with and Against Spinoza”

September 30 – Samantha Majic (John Jay College, CUNY), “Studying Sex Work & Online Platforms”

October 7 – Fall Break (No PSAC)

October 14 – Lindsey Pruett (Cornell, practice job talk),"Resisting the Blood Tax: Coercive Capacity, Railroads and Draft Evasion in Colonial West Africa" 

October 21 – TBD 

October 27 (**Thursday, at 12:30PM, Kahin Center, 630 Stewart Avenue**) – Eddy Malesky (Duke), “Who Wants to Learn about Globalization? A Field Experiment in Vietnam,” with SEAP Gatty

October 28 – EGAP Workshop (No PSAC)

November 4 – Marwa Shalaby (University of Wisconsin-Madison), “Ask and You Shall Receive: Executive Compliance with Parliamentary Queries in Jordan's Authoritarian Regime”                                
November 11 – Anton Jäger (KU Leuven), “The Political Theory of American Populism”

November 18 – Niloufer Siddiqui (University at Albany, SUNY), “Misinformation and Anti-Minority Vigilantism: An Experiment in India and Pakistan”

November 25 – Thanksgiving (No PSAC) 

December 2 – Arturas Rozenas (NYU), “Oligarchy Through Representation: The Political Origins of Chinese Democracy”

December 5 (**Monday, 1:15-2:45 PM**) – Chloe Thurston (Northwestern), with Brooks

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Mike Kriner is a PhD Candidate in Government at Cornell University and a 2022-23 USIP-Minerva Peace and Security Scholar

mk2537@cornell.edu

You don’t want to miss the Cornell University Government Department 2022 APSA Reception that we are hosting this year in Montreal! A special highlight, will be a brief celebration of Cornell University Press Roger Haydon, one of the most celebrated political scientist editors of our time. Open Bar is back and we kept the popular later start time so more folks can join us. We hope you can make it!

Event: 2022 Cornell University GOVT Dept. APSA Reception
Date: Friday, September 16, 2022
Time: 8:30pm-9:30pm
Location: Vieux-Port Steakhouse, Mont-Royal Hall (3rd Floor)
Address: 39 Rue Saint Paul Est, Montréal
Did we mention: Open Bar & hors d’oeuvres

Here is the website for the Vieux-Port Steakhouse: https://vieuxportsteakhouse.com/en/. This reception venue is around a 5/6 minute cab ride or 10/11 minute walk from Palais de congrés de Montreal or Le Westin Montreal (APSA Meeting locations). For easy directions, go here. For any questions, please contact Dinnie Sloman at rds28@cornell.edu.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Jill Frank
Robert J. Katz Chair of Government
Cornell University

My name is Sam Rosenblum, and I will be serving as the graduate student coordinator of the Cornell Political Theory Workshop this year. I am excited to announce our 2022-2023 schedule below. Please feel free to reach out to me (smr335@cornell.edu) with any questions or to request that someone be added to this mailing list.

This year’s workshops will be held on Thursdays in A.D. White House, Room 201, from 4:45pm to 6:15pm (unless otherwise noted). Papers will be pre-circulated at least one week prior to each workshop, with the expectation that all attendees familiarize themselves with them in advance.

Fall 2022

• September 22 – Ari-Elmeri Hyvönen (University of Helsinki)
• October 6 – Michaele Ferguson (University of Colorado-Boulder)
• October 20 – Aziz Rana (Cornell University)
• November 3 – Sarah Greenberg (Cornell University)
• November 17 – Lawrie Balfour (University of Virginia)
• December 1 – Glen Coulthard (University of British Columbia)

Spring 2023

• February 2 – Kevin Duong (University of Virginia)
• February 16 – Mie Inouye (Bard College)
• March 2 – Adom Getachew (University of Chicago)
• March 30 – Kyong-Min Son (University of Delaware)
• April 20 – Ella Street (Cornell University)
• May 4 – Murad Idris (University of Michigan)

Thank you to our many friends and co-sponsors for helping to make this series possible, and we look forward to seeing you throughout the year!

For the 2022-23 academic year, the Political Theory Workshop is generously supported (thus far) by the Africana Studies and Research Center, the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program, the American Studies Program, the Department of Asian Studies, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Institute for Comparative Modernities, the Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, the Department of German Studies, the Department of Government, the Department of History, the Society for the Humanities, the Jewish Studies Program, the Latina/o Studies Program, the Department of Literatures in English, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Sage School of Philosophy, the Department of Romance Studies, and the Department of Science and Technology Studies.

Best regards,

Sam Rosenblum
Graduate Student Coordinator
Cornell Political Theory Workshop, 2022-2023

**SAVE THE DATE**
Department of Government Fall Picnic
Where: Stewart Park Small “Tea” Pavilion – Ithaca, NY
When: Friday, September 23rd from 3:30-6:30pm!

Please save the date for our annual Fall picnic on scenic Cayuga Lake. This event is family friendly, so please include them as well. We look forward to having you join us for some good food and fun times this Fall!

More details to come! Please mark your calendar!

Additional Government events can be found here.