May 1, 2023
Stephen Chaudoin — Elections, War, and Gender: Choose to Run, Choose to Fight
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Security Studies Seminar
The Security Studies Seminar is an academic speaker series based at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. The seminar seeks to bring a range of external scholars, primarily but not exclusively political scientists, to Brown to present innovative research on global and national security challenges. The main participants are a core group of faculty, postdocs and graduate students at Brown. The seminar is directed by Rob Blair.
Apr 24, 2023
Andrew Kydd ─ You Can’t Get There from Here: On the Gap between Realist Theory and “Realist” Foreign Policy
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 3, 2023
Justine Davis ─ Uncivic Legacies: Civil Society & Democratization in Post-Conflict Africa
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 20, 2023
Beatriz Magaloni ─ State-Evading Solutions to Violence: Organized Crime and Governance in Indigenous Mexico
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Via Zoom. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu for meeting link.
Mar 13, 2023
Amanda Kennard ─ Climate Change and Political (In)Stability
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 6, 2023
Chelsea Estancona ─ From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 28, 2022
Maria Micaela Sviatschi — Rebel Governance and Development: The Persistent Effects of Guerrillas in El Salvador
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Via Zoom. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to request the Zoom link.
Nov 14, 2022
Jonathan Renshon — The Generalizability of IR Experiments Beyond the U.S
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 31, 2022
Kathleen Powers — The Content of National Mythology: How Past Victory and Defeat Shape Contemporary Attitudes
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 24, 2022
Benjamin Lessing ─ Criminal Leviathans: How Gangs Govern from Behind Bars
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Oct 17, 2022
Tamar Mitts — Moderating Extremism: The Challenge of Combating Online Harms
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Sep 26, 2022
Postponed: Michael McKoy ─ Wildfires and Open Windows: Explaining the Conflict Propensity of Revolutionary Regimes
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 18, 2022
Sarah Kreps ─ Vaccines for Whom? Strategic Altruism in the Market for COVID-19 Vaccine Donations
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 11, 2022
Eric Mvukiyehe ─ Public Works and Intimate Partner Violence: Experimental Evidence from Egypt and Tunisia
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Virtual. Email watsonevents@brown.edu for the Zoom meeting link.
Mar 14, 2022
Kimberley McKinson ─ Metallurgical Metropolis: Excavating Metal and Memory in a Caribbean Postcolonial Securityscape
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 7, 2022
Austin Carson ─ Keeping It Professional: Language and Bureaucracy in the Cold War
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Jan 31, 2022
Alex Weisiger ─ Competitive Intervention and Great Power War
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Birkelund Board Room, 111 Thayer Street
Mar 29, 2021
Thomas Oatley ─ The Carbon Peace
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Climate Solutions Lab
Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance
Security Studies Seminar
Mar 8, 2021
Michael Woldemariam ─ From Rebelling to Ruling: Insurgent Victory and State Capture in Africa
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Mar 3, 2021
Marcus King ─ Water Stress and Climate Security
3 p.m. – 4 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Feb 22, 2021
Yang-Yang Zhou ─ Prolonged Social Contact With Internally Displaced Migrants Does Not Reduce Prejudice Among Locals in Wartime Settings
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Feb 1, 2021
Allison Carnegie ─ How Populism Reshapes Global Governance
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Nov 16, 2020
Anjali Dayal ─ The Expanding Role of the United Nations Security Council, 2000-Present
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.
Oct 28, 2020
Oct 26, 2020
Joshua Kertzer ─ Elite Misperceptions and the Domestic Politics of Conflict
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. Email WatsonEvents@brown.edu to register for the seminar.