September 2015
Speaker: Adam Berinksy, MIT
Speaker: Adam Berinksy, MIT 214 Candler Hall Friday, September 11 from 3:30 - 5:00 pm
Find out more »MPA Information Session
Presenter: Aaron Redman, MPA Career Services and Recruitment Coordinator Looking for a career in government or non-profit? Earn your Master of Public Administration (MPA) at UGA and become a leader in public service.
Find out more »Research Presentation: Prof. George Krause, University of Pittsburgh
• 1:30 – 2:30 pm – Workshop for Graduate Students: “Cultivating A Scholarly Research Program” 214 Candler Hall • 3:30 – 5:00 pm – Presentation: “Why Regional Convergence? Unbundling the Causal Dynamics of Partisan Competition in Legislatures and Economic Performance in the American States” – 214 Candler Hall
Find out more »October 2015
Career Presentation: Jason O’Rouke
Presenter: Jason O’Rouke Mr. O'Rouke works with COMM360 clients running for statewide office in Georgia and Alabama, as well as a number of independent expenditures on behalf of candidates for federal office. He combines his experience in both policy analysis and campaign politics to bring a unique approach to both public and private sector clients. O'Rouke's perspective is that a client should always pursue the right policy first, and design a strategy around the politics second.
Find out more »Practice Job Talk with Karen Bodnaruk Jazayeri
Practice Job Talk with PhD Candidate Karen Bodnaruk Jazayeri “A Multidimensional Measure of De Facto Judicial Independence: Assessing Variation in Judicial Independence.”
Find out more »Graduate Students Workshop by Krista E. Wiegand, University of Tennessee
Graduate Students Workshop by Krista E. Wiegand, University of Tennessee “What I Wish I Knew When I Was in Graduate School” • 4:00 – 6:00 pm in Candler 214 Graduate students are welcome to join.
Find out more »Research Presentation by Krista E. Wiegand, University of Tennessee
Research Presentation by by Krista E. Wiegand, University of Tennessee “Is Peacemaking Good Politics? Investigating the Relationship Between Border Settlement and Leader Turnover” • 3:30 – 5:30 pm in Candler 214 Graduate students and faculty are welcome to join. Light snacks will be provided.
Find out more »November 2015
Guest Speaker: Professor Johan Galtung
At the invitation of Professor Han Park, Professor Johan Galtung will be visiting UGA on Tuesday, 11/17 from 9:30-11:00AM. He will give a presentation related to peace and conflict studies in 214 Candler. The presentation is open to all faculty and students. Dr. Galtung is a principal founder of the discipline of peace and conflict studies and the creator of the Journal of Peace Research. He is currently based in Kuala Lumpur, where he is the Tun Mahathir Professor of…
Find out more »February 2016
Speaker: Marc Hetherington, Vanderbilt University
Speaker: Marc Hetherington of Vanderbilt University 1:30pm Workshop for Graduate Students: “General Q&A on Navigating the Discipline” 214 Candler Hall 3:30pm Presentation: “Why Washington Won't Work” 214 Candler Hall
Find out more »Go Government Webinar: Maximizing Your Summer Opportunities
Students - are you interested in a career in the federal government? Federal agencies are still hiring! Discover which agencies are looking for interns and full-time positions, as well as how to maximize summer opportunities in the first of this three-part series on finding employment with the federal government. Go Government Webinar Series Session 1: Maximizing Your Summer Opportunities Thursday, February 11 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. 214 Candler Hall
Find out more »Talk by Dimitri Landa, “Policy Unbundling and Special Interest Politics”
Talk by Dimitri Landa, New York University "Policy Unbundling and Special Interest Politics"
Find out more »March 2016
Talk by Matt Hauer, “The Socioeconomic Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the Continental United States”
Talk by Matt Hauer, Carl Vinson Institute of Government "The Socioeconomic Impacts of Sea Level Rise in the Continental United States" The paper associated with this talk can be found here.
Find out more »Talk by Christopher J. Fariss, “Enhancing Validity in Observational Settings When Replication…”
Talk by Christopher J. Fariss, Penn State University "Enhancing Validity in Observational Settings When Replication Is Not Possible" The paper associated with this talk can be found here.
Find out more »April 2016
Talk by Sara Mitchell, University of Iowa
Talk by Sara Mitchell, University of Iowa Title of talk - TBD
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