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Fall Quarter 2008 Schedule

Thurs, 10.02.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
Faculty Bookshelf
Student-only Discussion
Peripheral Visions: Publics, Power, and Performance in Yemen
    (Introductory Chapter)
· Professor Lisa Wedeen, University of Chicago

Thursday, 10.09.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
Dan Slater
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
· Ordering Power: Contentious Politics and Authoritarian Leviathans in Southeast Asia
· Discussant: Manuel Viedma

Thurs, 10.16.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
Mona Mehta
Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago
· The River of Consensus: Popular Participation and the Politics of Exclusion in the Narmada Dam Movement of Gujarat, India

Thurs, 10.23.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
Thomas Blom Hansen
Professor, Yale University
· TBD

Thurs, 10.30.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
Erica Simmons
Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago
· Subsistence Resources and Social Movements in Latin America: A Research Proposal

Thurs, 11.06.2008, 5:30pm, Wilder House
Scott Straus
Associate Professor , University of Wisconsin-Madison
· The Costs of Genocide: Theorizing Constraint and Negative Cases in the Study of Mass Violence

Thurs, 11.13.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
Boriana Nikolova
Ph.D Candidate, University of Chicago
· Talking About Inequality: Political Discourse and Public Perceptions of Inequality in Bulgaria

Thurs, 11.20.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
Daniel Bennett
Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
· Clean Water Makes You Dirty: Water Supply and Sanitation Behavior in the Philippines

Thurs, 12.04.2008, 5pm, Wilder House
John Padgett
Professor, University of Chicago
· Open Elite? Marriage, Family, and Social Mobility in Renaissance Florence

University of Chicago Dept. of Political Science Council for Advanced Studies