PSAC is a workshop of the Cornell Department of Government for research primarily in American politics, comparative politics, and international relations. PSAC seminars feature papers from department graduate students and faculty and from scholars at other universities. These sessions allow students, faculty, and guests to engage in lively debate and discussion on diverse topics from different subfields of political science.
All are welcome. Interested graduate students and faculty in any field are encouraged to join us. The workshop meets in-person on most Fridays, from 12:15 - 1:30pm in White Hall 106, unless otherwise noted below.
For questions regarding the 2026-2027 PSAC talks, please contact Dayra Lascano (dal348@cornell.edu). To join the PSAC mailing list, please click here.
2026-2027 PSAC speaker series
Fall
- September 11 – Erin Cikanek (Cornell)
- September 18 - Ewa Nizalowska (Cornell)
- September 25 - Avishai Melamed (Cornell)
- October 2 - Amelia Arsenault (Cornell)
- October 16 - Minju Kim (Syracuse University)
- October 23 - Egor Lazarev (Yale)
- November 6 - James Fahey (University of Memphis)
- November 13 - Luis Schenoni (University College London)
- December 4 - Alice Xu (University of Pennsylvania)
Spring
- January 22 - Tara Slough (NYU)
- January 29 - Ruoyu Li (Colgate)
- February 5 - Tali Mendelberg (Princeton)
- February 12 - Stephanie Ternullo (Harvard)
- February 26 - Aala Abdelgadir (University of Pittsburgh)
- March 5 - Kate Baldwin (Yale)
- March 12 - Adam Glynn (Emory)
- March 19 - Isabella Bellezza (Northwestern)
- April 9 - Guadalupe Tuñón (Princeton)
- April 16 - Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
- April 23 - Dustin Tingley (Harvard)
- April 30 - Allison Carnegie (Columbia)