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WEDNESDAY Schedule of Speakers (Fall 2012)

All sessions held from 12:00-1:30pm in the Tocqueville Room unless indicated otherwise.

Date	Speaker	Paper Title
Sept 5	Ajay K. Mehrotra, Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Law, and Louis F. Niezer Faculty Fellow; Adjunct Associate Professor of History	Sharing the Burden: Law, Politics, and the Making of the Modern American Fiscal State, 1880–1930
Sept 12	Keith Taylor, visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop	Renewable Energy Policy Panacea? A Comparative Case Study of the Development Outcomes of the Ownership Model of Wind Energy
Sept 19	Graham Epstein, a student in the joint PhD program in Public Policy at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science	Towards an interdisciplinary social-ecological systems (SES) framework
Sept 26	Gabriela Landolt, Doctoral student in Social Anthropology, Universität Bern Institut für Sozialanthropologie, and short-term visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop	Alpine Common Property Institutions under Change: Conditions for Successful and Unsuccessful Collective Action of Alpine Farmers in the Canton Graubünden of Switzerland
Oct 3	Jampel Dell'Angelo, visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop	A great transformation: Resettlement policies, institutions and metabolic patterns in the Tibetan rangelands
Oct 10	Integrating Ecological Perspectives with the Social-Ecological Systems Framework working group at the Ostrom Workshop; Graham Epstein speaking, presentation based largely on work completed by Jessica Vogt and Sarah Mincey	Operationalizing the “E” in SES: Making Ecology Explicit in the Social-Ecological Systems Framework
Oct 17	No colloquium due to Ostrom Memorial
Oct 24	Sergio Villamayor Tomas is currently finishing his dissertation at IUB. Beginning January 2013, he will start a postdoctoral position in the Department of Agricultural Economics (Resource Economics division) at Humboldt University, Berlin.	Understanding robustness to disturbance through the theory of the commons: a Qualitative Comparative Analysis of responses to disturbances in five Spanish irrigation systems.
Oct 31	Timor Sharan, visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop	How could a network approach shed light on our understanding of the nature of state in post-conflict situations?
Nov 7	Robin Craig, Professor and Associate Dean in Environmental Programs, Florida State	Public Health, Private Land, and the Police Power
Nov 14	Ursula Kreitmair, joint PhD program student in Public Policy of IU's School of Public and Environmental Affairs and the Department of Political Science	Information and Common Pool Resources: An Experimental Study of Conditional Cooperation
Nov 21	Thanksgiving Break
Nov 28	Irene Iniesta, visiting scholar at the Ostrom Workshop	Barriers and Bridges for Collective Action In Mediterranean Semi-Arid Watersheds. A Network Analysis of Social-Ecological Systems.
Dec 5	Josef Woldense, PhD student in Political Science at Indiana University Bloomington	The Relational Nature of the Coup D’état