2026 Spring Schedule

VWAR 117 (January 21) - Jennifer Pan (Stanford University) and Matt DeButts (Stanford University), "Media Patronage and Infiltration: How Authoritarian Regimes Exploit Media Competition to Shape Global Information"

Discussants: Dana Moss (University of Notre Dame), Rory Truex (Princeton University), and Tony Zurai Yang (Emory University)

VWAR 118 (February 4) - Huseyin Emre Ceyhun (Princeton University), "Autocratization in an Age of Digitalization"

Discussants: TBD

VWAR 119 (February 18) - Sebastián Cortesi (Johns Hopkins University), "Democracy Unleashed: Eligibility, Selection, and Redistribution in Argentina"

Discussants: TBD

VWAR 120 (March 4) - Johanna Reyes Ortega (University of California, Berkeley), "Between Elite Strategy and Mass Mobilization: Women's Political Empowerment in Anti-Colonial Social Revolutions"

Discussants: TBD

VWAR 121 (March 11) - Matthew Koo (Yale University), "Who Stays Loyal? Security Personnel Support in a Dominant-Party Regime"

Discussants: TBD

VWAR 122 (March 25) - Tongtong Zhang (American University) and Amy Dunphy (Independent Researcher), "Censorship Outside the Great Firewall: Using Pornography for Political Suppression"

Discussants: TBD

VWAR 123 (April 8) - Ozlem Tuncel (Georgia State University) and Elif Sari Genc (Independent Researcher), "Removal of Elected Opposition Mayors: Evidence from Turkey's Trusteeship Interventions"

Discussants: TBD

VWAR 125 (April 15) - Edward Goldring (University of Melbourne) and Austin S. Matthews (East Carolina University), "A Faustian Bargain: Military Purges and Authoritarian Leader Survival"

Discussants: TBD