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MONDAY Schedule of Speakers (Spring 2012)

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

Past sessions will be moved to Archives.


Date
Speaker
Paper Title

Jan 23

Dr. Daniel H. Cole, Professor of Law and of Public and Environmental Affairs; Affiliated Faculty, Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis

Toward A Political Economy of Cost-Benefit Analysis

Jan 30

Dr. Yanna Krupnikov, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, IUB (Paper joint project with Adam Seth Levine, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Cornell University)  

Topic vs. Population: When Will “College Sophomores” Be Better Experimental Subjects than Adults?

Feb 6

Professor J. B. Ruhl, David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair in Law, Vanderbilt University Law School

 

Robust Yet Fragile

Feb 13

David Bender, graduate student, Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition (CRCC), IUB

Topic Modeling for Unstructured Textual Data: A Case Study from the IFRI Database

Feb 20

Jorge Contreras, Visiting Associate Professor of Law, American University Washington School of Law 

Wait for It … Commons, Copyright and the Private Ordering of Scientific Publishing

Feb 27

Dr. Shahzeen Attari, Assistant Professor, SPEA, IUB 

Human behavior and energy consumption – Perceptions, biases, and motivations

March 5

Andreas Thiel,  assistant professor at the Division of Resource Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany and short-term visiting scholar at the Workshop

The scalar reorganization of natural resource governance in Europe: Comparing and theorizing about the transformation of Water and Marine Goverance in Spain, Portugal and Germany

March 12

No colloquium -- Spring Break

 

March 19

Johan Brosché, doctoral student, Dept. of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala Universitet, and visiting scholar at the Center on International Cooperation at New York University

Conflicts over the Commons- Communal Conflicts in Darfur and Eastern Sudan

March 26

Governance in Muslim Societies mini-series

Ahmed Khanani, graduate student, Department of Political Science, IUB  

The Many Meanings of dimuqratiyyah: Moroccan Islamiyun and the Recoding of Democracy

April 2
 

 

Governance in Muslim Societies mini-series

Dr. Anas Malik, Associate Professor, Political Science/Sociology; Associate Professor, International Studies Program, Xavier University, and visiting scholar at the Workshop

Polycentric Governance in Pakistan: Rules-in-Use and a Contested Constitutional Metanorm

April 9

Governance in Muslim Societies mini-series

Dr. Nazif Shahrani,Visiting Scholar at the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis (academic year 2011-2012) & Professor Depts. of Anthropology, CEUS & NELC-Indiana University-Bloomington  

Approaching Study of Political Culture in Afghanistan with the IAD & SES Frameworks

April 16

Professor Bernice Pescosolido, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology; and Director, Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, Schuessler Institute for Social Research, IUB  

Connecting Complexities: Examining Issues in Mental Illness through a Focus on Networks

April 23

Dr. Maria Carmen Lemos, Associate Professor, School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor  

Building Adaptive Capacity to Climate Change in Less Developed Countries