2025 Spring Schedule

• VWAR 103 (January 27) - Jordan Gans-Morse (Northwestern University), "Changing Hearts and Minds? The Effects of International Exchange Programs on Political Attitudes"
• Discussants: Naima Green-Riley (Princeton University), Georgiy Syunyaev (Vanderbilt University), and Nils Weidmann (University of Konstanz)
• VWAR 104 (February 10) - Timothy Frye (Columbia University), Henry Hale (George Washington University), Ora John Reuter (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee) and Bryn Rosenfeld (Cornell University), "How Do Autocrats Rally Support for War? Evidence from a War-Spanning Panel Survey in Russia"
• Discussants: Haifeng Huang (The Ohio State University), Katerina Tertytchnaya (University of Oxford), Joshua Tucker (New York University), and Daniel Treisman (UCLA)
• VWAR 105 (February 24) - Alexander Libman (Free University Berlin), Daniil Romanov (Oxford University), and Alexei Zakharov (Yale University), "Why Do Dictators Use Newspeak?"
• Discussants: Sasha De Vogel (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill), Pearce Edwards (Louisiana State University), Kyle Marquardt (University of Bergen), and Jeremy Wallace (Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies),
• VWAR 106 (March 3) - Ruilin Lai (Washington University in St. Louis), "Judicial Repression and Opposition to Autocracy: Evidence from Hong Kong"
• Discussants: Jane Esberg (University of Pennsylvania), Stan Hok-Wui Wong (University of St. Thomas), and Fiona Shen Bayh (University of Maryland)
• VWAR 107 (March 17) - Rex Weiye Deng (Washington University in St. Louis), "Screened Realities: How Entertainment Fosters Political Compliance in China"
• Discussants: Brett Carter (University of Southern California), Daniel Mattingly (Yale), and Xiaoxiao Shen (Princeton University)
• VWAR 108 (March 31) - Sasha De Vogel (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill), "Authoritarian Governors, Performance Incentives, and Excessive Repression"
• Discussants: Alexander Libman (Free University Berlin), Gulnaz Sharafutdinova (King's College London), and Victor Shih (University of California, San Diego)
• VWAR 109(April 14) - Valeria Umanets (University of Pittsburgh), "Who Fills the Seats? Publicly Employed Women in Russian Municipal Politics"
• Discussants: TBD