Seminar Series

Tuesdays • 2:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Ave., New Haven, CT 
Fall 2023 Seminars will be hosted online via Zoom and on-campus

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Fall 2023

september 26*
David Lönnberg and Sarah Rosengaertner, Global Centre for Climate Mobility 
*4:00pm - 5:15pm
october 26*
Raphaela Schweiger, Yale University - World Fellow 
*4:00pm - 5:15pm
november 7
Anees Chagpar, Yale University - School of Medicine  
2:30pm - 3:45pm
november 28*
Farha Ternikar, Le Moyne College - Department of Sociology and Gender and Women’s Studies Program 
*4:00pm - 5:15pm
december 5
Nicholas Sambanis, Yale University, Department of Political Sciences 
2:30pm - 3:45pm
 
 

Spring 2023

february 7
Jasmina Besirevic Regan, Yale University - Departments of Sociology and Ethnicity, Race, and Migration 
2:30pm - 3:45pm
february 21
Solomon Hsiang, University of California, Berkeley - Goldman School of Public Policy 
2:30pm - 3:45pm
march 7
Yang-Yang Zhou, University of British Columbia - Political Science Department and Harvard Academy Scholar
2:30pm - 3:45pm
march 28 
Claire Greene, Columbia University - Mailman School of Public Health
2:30pm - 3:45pm
april 18
Elisa Cavatorta, King’s College London - Department of Political Economy 
2:30pm - 3:45pm
 
april 24
Shigeru Ban, Shigeru Ban Architects and Keio University - Faculty of Environment and Information Studies   
*6:00pm - 7:30pm
 
 

Fall 2022

september 20
Heba Gowayed, Boston University - Department of Sociology
*4:00pm - 5:15pm
october 4 
Oksana Mikheieva, European University Viadrina (Frankfurt) and Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv) - Departments of Sociology
*12:30pm - 1:45pm
october 18
Bhanubhatra “Kaan” Jittiang, Chulalongkorn University - Department of International Relations
november 1
Carole McGranahan, University of Colorado Boulder - Departments of Anthropology and History
november 15
Sarah Walker, University of New South Wales - School of Economics
*4:00pm - 5:15pm
december 6
Kaveh Khoshnood, Yale University - School of Public Health
 
 

Spring 2022

february 1
Wendy Pearlman, Northwestern University - Department of Political Science
february 22
María Micaela Sviatschi, Princeton University - Department of Economics 
march 8
Andrés Moya, Universidad de Los Andes - Department of Economics; and Harvard University - David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies
march 17

The Political Economics of Green Transitions 
Torsten Persson, Stockholm University - Institute for International Economic Studies

april 22
Catherine Panter-Brick, Yale University - Professor of Anthropology, Health, and Global Affairs
 
april 26
Scott R. Williamson, Università Bocconi - Department of Social and Political Sciences
 
 
 

Fall 2021

september 28

The Return of Pachamama
James A. RobinsonUniversity 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