Tuesdays • 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT
Fall 2022 Seminars will be hosted online via Zoom and on-campus
Fall 2022 |Spring 2022 | Fall 2021 | Spring 2021 | Fall 2020
Fall 2022
*september 20
*october 4
october 18
november 1
*november 15
december 6
Spring 2022
february 1
february 22
march 8
march 17
The Political Economics of Green Transitions
Torsten Persson, Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies
april 22
april 26
Fall 2021
september 28
The Return of Pachamama
James A. Robinson, University of Chicago, Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts and Harris School of Public Policy
october 12
Global Mobile Inventors
Dany Bahar, Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
october 26
Understanding the causal impact of climate on human conflict
Marshall Burke, Stanford University - Department of Earth System Science and Center on Food Security and the Environment
november 2
Activism from Exile: How Activists Abroad Influence Politics Back Home
Elizabeth Nugent, Yale University – Department of Political Science
november 16
Prevalence, Predictors and Treatment of Mental Health Problems in Syrian Refugee Children
Michael Pluess, Queen Mary University of London - Department of Biological and Experimental Psychology at the School of Biological and Chemical Sciences
december 7
When does Migration Law Discriminate against Women?
Catherine Briddick, University of Oxford - Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development
Spring 2021
March 2
Prison or Sanctuary? An Evaluation of Camps for Syrian Refugees
Thomas Ginn, Center for Global Development
march 16
Refugee-led Responses to Overlapping Precarity: Views from North Lebanon
Elena Fiddian-Qasmiyeh, University College London – Migration Research Unit
april 13
Growing up Under Forced Displacement: Evidence from Bangladesh and Jordan
Sarah Baird and Jennifer Seager, George Washington University – Department of Global Health
april 27
The Causes and Consequences of Ethnic Violence in Myanmar
Paula López Peña, Yale University – Refugee Program and Department of Economics
May 4
Impacts of a Refugee Shelter Program: Experimental Evidence from the Syrian Refugee Life Survey
Edward Miguel, University of California, Berkeley – Department of Economics and Center for Effective Global Action
Fall 2020
SEPTEMBER 29
Creating Coexistence: Intergroup Contact and Soccer in Post-ISIS Iraq
Salma Mousa, Stanford University – Immigration Policy Lab and Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
OCTOBER 13
Outsourcing Otherness: Race and Belonging in the Morocco-EU Border
Leslie Gross-Wyrtzen, Yale University – Council for African Studies
OCTOBER 27
A Market for Work Permits
Martin Ravallion, Georgetown University – Department of Economics
NOVEMBER 3
Family-Based Mental Health Promotion for Somali Bantu and Bhutanese Refugees: Results of a Feasibility and Acceptability Trial
Theresa Betancourt, Boston University – School of Social Work, and Harvard Medical School
and Bhuwan Gautam, Bhutanese Society of Western Massachusetts
NOVEMBER 17
Gang Rule: Understanding and Countering Criminal Governance
Chris Blattman, University of Chicago – Pearson Institute and Harris Public School
DECEMBER 1
Brothers or Invaders? How Crisis-Driven Migrants Shape Voting Behavior
Sandra Rozo, University of Southern California – Marshall School of Business