Schedule Fall 2026
Fall 2026 meetings will be held on Wednesdays at 11:00am (ET), beginning October 28. The Zoom link will be shared via the listserv on the day of each meeting.
Oct. 28 - Juan Acevedo (Short Talk)
- Title: Better a big fish in a small pond: The Interaction Between Local and Global International Status
- Discussant: Zikun Yang
Nov. 18 - Sloan Lansdale (Job Talk)
- Title: Divided, Not Silent: Preference Variance and UNSC Response to Mass Atrocities
- Discussant: Sabrina B. Arias
Dec. 2 - Enock Bulime (Short Talk)
- Title: Price Shocks and Sovereign Debt Governance: Evidence from the IMF-World Bank Debt Sustainability Framework
- Discussant: TBD
Dec. 16 - Yaqi Ma (Short Talk)
- Title: Climate Governance and WTO Law: The Palm Oil Precedent and the Evolving Framework for Environmental Regulation
- Discussant: TBD
Past Presentations
Spring 2026
Feb. 11 (Wednesday, 10am) - Giovanny Alvarez (Short Talk)
- Title: Pacifying Elites, Endangering Communities: A Dual-Arena Theory of Post-Conflict Violence
- Discussant: Geoff Dancy
Feb. 26 - Sky Kunkel (Professionalization Workshop)
- Topics:
- Distinction between fellowship-based vs. project-based postdocs
- Cover letters and interviews
- Managing research pipeline during postdoc (individual projects vs. team project)
- Fieldwork experience
Mar. 12 - Myung Jung Kim (Short Talk)
- Title: The Double Bind of International Justice: Shorter Wars or Fewer Casualties?
- Discussant: Jessica Stanton
Apr. 2 - Myung Jung Kim and Do Young Gong (Professionalization Workshop)
Apr. 16 - Richard Yifan Zhou (Short Talk)
- Title: The Digital Reconstruction of U.S. Financial Dominance: Challenge and Governance of Non-Sovereign Digital Assets
- Discussant: Nicola Nones
Apr. 30 - Uzair Khan (Short Talk)
Fall 2025
Sep. 24 — Shing Hon Lam (Job Talk)
- Title: Backtracking Under Scrutiny: Evidence and Regulation in the WTO
- Discussant: Lauren Peritz
Oct. 8 — Stephen Chaudoin & Taegyun Lim (Short Talk)
- Title: Persuasion and Backlash from International Law in Global Swing States
- Discussant: Jonathan Chu
Oct. 22 — Akshita Aggarwal (Short Talk)
- Title: Between Delegation and Evasion: Coercive Inaction in Regional Organizations
- Discussant: Sabrina Arias
Nov. 5 — Dagmar Heintze (Short Talk)
- Title: (Semi)independent Human Rights Advocates: National Prevention Mechanisms and Human Rights Monitoring and Reporting
- Discussant: Rachel Schoner
Nov. 19 — Amaan Charaniya (Job Talk)
- Title: War and Peace: Territorial Disputes and Public Opinion in India
- Discussant: Omer Solodoch