2024 Fall Schedule

• VWAR 97 (September 11) - Eddy Malesky (Duke University), Trung Anh Nguyen (Duke University), Hoang Dung Phan (Fulbright University of Vietnam), Dang Thien Khuu (Ho Chi Minh City School of Economics), and Ky Nam Nguyen (Fulbright University of Vietnam), "Civic Duty and Voting under Authoritarianism: A Randomized Experiment on the 2021 Vietnamese National Assembly Election"
• Discussants: Aram Hur (Tufts University), Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin Milwaukee), and Minh Trinh (Purdue University)
• VWAR 98 (October 2) - Vlad Surdea-Hernea (Central European University) and Aurelian Plopeanu (Alexandru Ioan Cuza University), "The Repression-Dissent Nexus in High-Threat Environments: Evidence from the Romanian Gulag"
• Discussants: Donald Grasse (Cornell University) and Roya Talibova (Harvard University)
• VWAR 99 (October 16) - Maxence Castiello (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), "Spread the Word: Mass Media, Language and Propaganda in Fascist Italy"
• Discussants: Mario Carillo (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona), Jan Pierskalla (The Ohio State University), and Tony Zirui Yang (University of Oxford)
• VWAR 100 (October 23) - Anton Shirikov (University of Kansas) and Georgiy Syunyaev (Vanderbilt University), "Learning about Bias: An Experiment on News Consumption in Russia"
• Discussants: Andy Guess (Princeton University), Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University), and Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford)
• VWAR 101 (November 13) - Semuhi Sinanoglu (German Institute of Development and Sustainability) and Michael Donnelly (University of Toronto), "Soft Propaganda and Support for Security Operations at Home and Abroad"
• Discussants: Erin Baggott Carter (University of Southern California), Hanzhang Liu (Pitzer College), and Daniel Tavana (Penn State University)
• VWAR 102 (November 20) - Nils Weidmann (University of Konstanz), Mina Rulis (University of Konstanz), and Tore Wig (University of Oslo), "International Scientific Collaboration and Political Protest"
• Discussants: Dimitar Gueorguiev (Syracuse University), Katrin Paula (Technical University of Munich), and Joseph Wright (Penn State University)