2023 Fall Schedule

• VWAR 83 (September 12) - Jason Douglas Todd (Duke Kundhan University) and Minh Trinh (Purdue University), "Authoritarian Elections in the Goldilocks Zone"
• Discussants: Daniela Donno (University of Oklahoma), Paul Schuler (University of Arizona), and Joseph Wright (Penn State University)
• VWAR 84 (September 27) - Eddy Yeung (Emory University), "The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings"
• Discussants: Jennifer Pan (Stanford University), Lauren Prather (University of California, San Diego), Lauren Young (University of California, San Diego)
• VWAR 85 (October 11) - Erin Baggott Carter (University of Southern California), "The 'Revolution from Below': The Voice of America and US Democracy Promotion in China"
• Discussants: Dimitar Gueorguiev (Syracuse University), Yusaku Horiuchi (Dartmouth College), and Daniel Mattingly (Yale University)
• VWAR 86 (October 24) - Handi Li (Peking University and Princeton University), "Monitoring and Manipulation: Authoritarian Transparency and Legal Resistance"
• Discussants: Fiona Shen Bayh (University of Maryland), Junyan Jiang (Columbia University), and Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University)
• VWAR 87 (November 8) - Elena Sirotkina (Hertie School), "Autocrat versus Challenger: Revealing Hidden Sympathy for Regime Change through Implicit Political Attitudes"
• Discussants: Noah Buckley (Trinity College Dublin), Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford), and Jason Wu (Indiana University)
• VWAR 88 (November 15) - Ashley Anderson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), "Authoritarian Institutions: Instruments of Control or Double-Edged Sword?"
• Discussants: Chantal Berman (Georgetown University), Marwa Shalaby (University of Wisconsin - Madison), and Daniel Tavana (Penn State University)