PLSC 5000a, Foundations of Statistical Inference  Melody Huang

This course provides an intensive introduction to statistical theory for quantitative empirical inquiry in the social sciences. Topics include foundations of probability theory, statistical inference from random samples, estimation theory, linear regression, maximum likelihood estimation, and a brief introduction to identification.
MW 10:30am-12pm

PLSC 5030b / S&DS 6140b, Causal Inference  Melody Huang

This course provides an intensive introduction to the statistical theory and practice of causal inference. Topics include: the potential outcomes framework, experimental design, selection on observables, instrumental variables, difference-in-differences, and panel data. Prerequisite: PLSC 500 or equivalent. Students are expected to come in with prior knowledge about statistical inference, regression/linear models, and statistical computing in R.
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PLSC 5050b / SOCY 5750b, Qualitative Field Research  Egor Lazarev

In this seminar we discuss and practice qualitative field research methods. The course covers the basic techniques for collecting, interpreting, and analyzing ethnographic data, with an emphasis on the core ethnographic techniques of participant observation and in-depth interviewing. All participants carry out a local research project. Open to undergraduates with permission of the instructor.
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PLSC 5100a, Introduction to the Study of Politics  Didac Queralt

The course introduces students to some of the major controversies in political science. We focus on the five substantive themes that make up the Yale Initiative: Order, Conflict, and Violence; Representation and Popular Rule; Crafting and Operating Institutions; Identities, Affiliations, and Allegiances; and Distributive Politics. We divide our time between discussing readings on these subjects and conversations with different members of the faculty who specialize in them. There is also some attention to methodological controversies within the discipline. Requirements: an annotated bibliography of one of the substantive themes and a take-home final exam.
T 3:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 5110b / S&DS 6170b, Advances in Large Language Models: Theory and Applications  Jas Sekhon

This seminar explores recent advances in foundational language models (LLMs), with an emphasis on practical techniques to enhance their reasoning abilities. Students gain hands-on experience experimenting with frontier LLMs and post-inference algorithms to improve these models’ reasoning capabilities. We also cover multiple cutting-edge papers on LLMs to provide a deeper understanding of the latest research and developments in this field. It is assumed that students come with a background in machine learning. A good background would be provided by S&DS 265/565, 365/665, or equivalent, plus some experience with applications and statistical computing. Some prior experience with deep learning will be assumed. Highly motivated undergraduates are very welcome and encouraged to apply to join the course.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 5180a, Introduction to Game Theory  Adam Meirowitz

This course offers a rigorous introduction to noncooperative game theory. The course covers normal and extensive form games of perfect information and normal and extensive form games of imperfect information. We end with a brief introduction to mechanism design. Through lectures and problem sets students  gain familiarity with creating and analyzing models of political phenomena.  Applications are drawn from a broad set of topics in political science and students are pushed to think about how game theoretic analysis connects with empirical work in political science. A capstone project pushes students to create and analyze a novel model of politics in their own research area. Students are assumed to have mathematical knowledge at the level of the Political Science Math Camp.
Th 9:25am-11:15am

PLSC 5190b, Introduction to Formal Political Economy  Emily Sellars

This course surveys key applications of game theory and related methods to the study of politics and political economy. Topics include electoral competition, political accountability, special interest politics, delegation, political agency, legislative bargaining, collective action, and regime chance. Prerequisite: PLSC 518 or an equivalent course in game theory.
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PLSC 5200a, Advanced Models of Political Economy  Ian Turner

This is a second course in Ph.D.-level game theory. The course builds on skills developed in PLSC 518 and focuses on the transition from consumers to producers of theoretical models. Possible topics to be covered include comparative statics, dynamic games, mechanism design, global games, and models of information transmission and persuasion. The course consists of learning new technical skills as well as in-depth study of substantive applications in political economy. Prerequisite: PLSC 518.
T 9:25am-11:15am

PLSC 5220a / SOCY 5850a, Archival Methods and Historical Approaches in the Social Sciences  Jonny Steinberg

The aim of the course is to equip students to navigate different sorts of archives, to interpret archival material, and to survey debates in the social sciences about using historical material and theory to build arguments.
Th 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 5230b, Mixed Methods Research  Staff

This course trains students to design and critique a range of quantitative, qualitative, and experimental research methods. The course begins with a discussion of concept formation, defining quantities of interest, and the advantages and disadvantages of bringing descriptive vs. causal evidence to bear. We then analyze the strengths and weaknesses of quantitative tests, experimental designs, case-based approaches (case studies, case selections, and cross-case comparisons), and interpretive methods such as process tracing. Next, the course discusses the research design choices of two award-winning books using mixed methods research; it then evaluates the qualitative and quantitative data in isolation and in combination. The final assignment builds on the course material to produce a mixed method research design proposal.
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PLSC 5280a, Design-Based Inference for the Social Sciences  P Aronow

Introduction to design-based statistical approaches to survey sampling and causal inference. Design and analysis of complex survey samples and randomized experiments, including model-assisted approaches. Discussion of recent advances in this paradigm, including inference in network settings. Prerequisite: knowledge of statistical theory at the level of PLSC 500 is assumed, with familiarity with probability and estimation theory. Alternative prerequisite courses include S&DS 542 or ECON 550.
Th 4pm-5:50pm

PLSC 5300b / S&DS 5300a or b, Data Exploration and Analysis  Jonathan Reuning-Scherer

Survey of statistical methods: plots, transformations, regression, analysis of variance, clustering, principal components, contingency tables, and time series analysis. The R computing language and web data sources are used.
TTh 9am-10:15am

PLSC 5330a, Formal Models of International Relations  Alex Debs

This course offers a survey of game-theoretic models of international relations. Students learn how to evaluate and present existing models and how to develop their own research projects. Topics covered include nuclear deterrence theory, war duration, the democratic peace, militarization and war, mediation, and mutual optimism. Prerequisites: PLSC 5180 and PLSC 5190 or the equivalent.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 5360a, Applied Quantitative Research Design  Shiro Kuriwaki

Research designs are strategies to obtain empirical answers to theoretical questions. This class trains students with the best practices for implementing and communicating rigorous quantitative social science research. We cover econometrics techniques of causal inference, prediction, and missing data. These include fixed effects, time series, instrumental variables, survey weighting, and shrinkage. This is a hands-on, application-oriented class. Students practice programming, statistics, and data visualizations used in exemplary quantitative social science articles. Formal section enrollment is not required but highly encouraged. Prerequisite: Statistics, econometrics, or data science courses that teach ordinary least squares regression and p-values, such as S&DS 2300. Some past or concurrent experience with R/Stata/Python is also presumed. This class is designed for juniors, seniors, master’s students, and Ph.D. students. Ph.D. students in political science can join without a prerequisite.
TTh 10:30am-11:45am

PLSC 5400a and PLSC 5410b, Research and Writing  Helene Landemore-Jelaca and Emily Sellars

This is a required course for all second-year students. It meets for the first six weeks of the fall term and the first six weeks of the spring term. The fall meetings are devoted to discussion of research design as well as individual student projects. The spring meetings are devoted to discussion of drafts of student papers. The work of the spring-term seminar includes criticism of the organization, arguments, data evaluation, and writing in each student’s paper by the instructors and the other students. Using this criticism, and under the supervision of the instructors, each student conducts additional research, if necessary, rewrites the paper as required, and prepares a final paper representing the best work of which the student is capable. Students must submit a one-page outline of the proposed project for the first fall-term meeting and a complete draft of the paper at the first meeting in the spring.
T 3:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 5460b, Prospectus Writing Workshop  Alex Debs

A non-credit workshop for third-year Ph.D. students in the Political Science department, in which they develop, revise, and present their prospectus.  0 Course cr
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PLSC 5650a, Democracy and Distribution  Ian Shapiro

An examination of relations between democracy and the distribution of income and wealth. The central focus is on ways in which different groups and coalitions affect, and are affected by, democratic distributive politics. This course also examines the variation among democracies in the provision of education, social and health insurance, and policies designed to ameliorate inequalities.
W 9:25am-11:15am

PLSC 5820b, Politics and the Passions  Giulia Oskian

This seminar explores different paradigms in political psychology. Classical political theory, since Plato and Aristotle, observed that any set of political institutions needs to be supported by corresponding public ethics, and, conversely, promotes, orients, or inhibits certain emotions. What people are afraid of, angry at, indignant about, or hopeful for varies according to political circumstances so that, as Montesquieu and Tocqueville noticed, the passions of a democratic citizen are inevitably different from those of someone living in a hierarchical society. However, more recent political theory tends either to disregard the relation between shared emotions and political institutions or to view it as a social pathology. On the one hand, emotional phenomena are simply dismissed as mere deviations from the behavior expected from the highly abstract ideal of a rational citizen; on the other hand, when appreciated, the impact of emotions on political life is most often interpreted as a pathological feature of current democracies. Departing from both these strands of theory, this seminar explores the emotional foundations of public ethics, political practices, and institutions, as well as the political potential of psychological realism. Focusing on moments of political mobilization, social conflict, and institutional change, which bring to the foreground the emotional component of politics, we retrace emotional transformations together with the evolution of the psychological and moral discourses: How are our emotional experiences related to social expectations? In what way can political movements induce us to reorient our feelings and find new objects for our anger, indignation, fear, or hope? The seminar is structured in three parts. An introductory part compares different methods in the study of emotions and their political relevance. In the second part we study the psychological conditions for the emergence of authoritarianism in 1920s–1930s continental Europe. Based on readings by Theodor Adorno and Erich Fromm we discuss questions such as: Is there such a thing as an authoritarian personality? What social conditions foster its development? How can people come to desire to escape from freedom? The third part explores the emancipatory potential of psychological realism: we discuss militant texts from classical feminist (Simone de Beauvoir, Carol Gilligan) and black (James Baldwin, Audre Lorde) political thought, which relate the possibility of a deep and lasting social reform to a transformation of the emotional disposition of the citizenry.
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PLSC 5900a, Introduction to Advanced Political Theory  Ian Shapiro

This course is designed to introduce advanced students to contemporary debates in political theory. It is organized around several themes, including power, authority and legitimacy, freedom and equality, theories of justice, democracy, and republicanism. Particular emphasis is given to the ways in which the preoccupations of political theorists should be informed by and inform the empirical study of politics. Prerequisites: at least four courses in Political Science, one of which is a course in political theory or political philosophy.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 6235a, Genealogies of the Modern State  Nazmul Sultan

This seminar traces the historical and conceptual formation of the modern state, from its formative theoretical articulations in early modern Europe to its globalization in the twentieth century. The course begins by exploring how the emergence of the idea of the sovereign state in seventeenth-century Europe inaugurated a new way of thinking about the problems of political authority and legitimacy. This vision would mature over the eighteenth century, while also triggering numerous skeptical rejoinders that arguably culminated in pluralist critiques in the early twentieth century. While this story forms one strand of the seminar, its main focus is on the transformation of the modern state in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We examine how the rise of the social imbued the idea of the state with new purposes and how an expanded conception of administrative power facilitated a powerful reconceptualization of the state-society relationship. We explore these problems against the backdrop of the rise of democracy in the nineteenth century. The course also considers the globalization of the state-form in the wake of decolonization and postwar international order—asking how the modern state became the global standard, and with what tensions and contradictions. We analyze the intellectual formation of the developmental state, focusing especially on the expanded vision of executive power that propelled postcolonial founding projects across Asia and Africa. Readings include canonical texts in political thought (Hobbes, Tocqueville, Weber, Laski, Nehru), as well as more recent studies in the intellectual history of the modern state. The seminar approaches the problem of the modern state from a global perspective, engaging historiographies from both European and non-European contexts.
F 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 6400a / HIST 6610a, Advanced Topics in Modern Political Philosophy  Giulia Oskian

This seminar explores key concepts in modern political philosophy at a level appropriate for graduate students (to help prepare for the political theory field exam) and for advanced undergraduates who have completed substantial course work in intellectual history and/or political theory.
W 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 6450a, Machiavelli and Machiavellianism  Steven Smith

Machiavelli remains one of the most widely discussed and debated figures in the Western political canon. This course will explore Machiavelli's Florentine context before delving into a close reading of his two major treatises, The Prince and The Discourses on Livy. We then consider influential interpreters of Machiavelli from Montesquieu, Rousseau and Hegel to modern readers like Gramsci, Strauss, and Isaiah Berlin as well as exploring Machiavelli's influence in a wider global context.  Our aim will be to examine the extraordinary resilience and adaptability of the writings of this great Florentine.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 6670a, Domestic Politics in International Relations  Soyoung Lee

This class explores the interplay between domestic politics and international relations. We examine questions such as how does domestic politics affect the foreign policy choices of leaders and states? Who are the key domestic actors and what do the actors want? How do domestic actors form their preferences? Do domestic political institutions matter, and if so, how? Topics include rallying and diversionary conflict, war and the fate of leaders, domestic interest groups and sectoral politics, elite messaging and propaganda, democratic peace, and the rise of populism and nationalism. Students also have a chance to develop their own research skills by writing and presenting a research paper outline. Assignments also include writing practice referee reports and response papers. This class is aimed at political science Ph.D. students interested in international relations.
W 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 6720a / EMST 5210a / ENGL 6721a, Edmund Burke and the Age of Empire  David Bromwich

A partial survey of the political writings of Burke in the context of the theory of empire and of revolution. We emphasize his writings on India and France, which reveal a common theme: innovation—sudden change in a way of life—always depends on violence, whether its agents are internal or external to the society. We touch on a wider subject: the birth of modern ideology, from the demand for systematic excuses to justify empire and revolution.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 6840a / EAST 5521a, China’s International Relations  Feng Zhang

This course examines China’s international relations with a focus on both historical context and contemporary developments. Beginning with imperial China’s traditional foreign relations and the “century of humiliation,” the course traces the evolution of Chinese foreign policy through the Cold War period to the present day. Students analyze China’s relationships with major powers and regions, including the United States, Russia, Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and India, while exploring critical issues such as the Taiwan question, territorial disputes in the South China Sea, and China’s growing role in global governance. Special attention is paid to understanding the drivers of China’s recent assertive turn in foreign policy under Xi Jinping, theories of international relations as applied to China’s rise, and the implications of China’s increasing power for the international order. Through engagement with scholarly works and contemporary policy debates, the course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of China’s foreign relations and its emergence as a global power.
T 3:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 6850b / EAST 5520b, Chinese Thinking on International Relations  Feng Zhang

How have the Chinese thought about international relations and their country’s role in the world? How has such thinking influenced China’s foreign relations past and present? This advanced seminar canvasses Chinese thinking on international relations from the imperial epoch to the present, focusing on the post-1949 era of the People’s Republic of China. It is structured around three core engagements: the historical background of Chinese thinking; policy thinking of the successive PRC leaderships; and new strands of thinking at present. It examines both the evolutionary process of thinking and a body of prominent ideas and doctrines. Throughout the course, students have the opportunity to place China’s foreign policy in a broader and deeper intellectual context than is often the case.
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PLSC 6910a, Identity and Conflict Lab  Nicholas Sambanis

The Identity and Conflict Lab (ICL), led by Professor Nicholas Sambanis, is launching a new graduate-level course focusing on the politics of intergroup conflict broadly conceived. The lab’s research is motivated by major problems of our time, such as civil war, ethnic violence, racial prejudice, and religious intolerance. The lab sponsors research on all these areas, with a particular focus on identity politics: how social identities shape individual behavior, how conflict affects identities, and what interventions are effective in reducing conflict. The ICL course reviews the state of the debate on key topics in which the ICL has active research and identifies new research questions that lab affiliates can address by collecting new data and applying cutting edge analysis in a collaborative setting. The lab involves affiliated faculty at Yale and other universities, post-doctoral fellows, and students. The lab promotes an interdisciplinary, multimethod approach to the study of conflict. Students affiliated with the lab must attend workshops and meetings biweekly and are expected to complete reading assignments, comment on lab affiliates’ work in progress, and present their own work to the lab on suitable topics decided in consultation with the lab director. Students taking this course have opportunities to join ongoing lab projects depending on their interests and skills. For more information, please send inquiries to nicholas.sambanis@yale.edu. Open to graduate students only.  ½ Course cr
W 3:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 6950a, International Security  Noam Reich

This course covers the main theories and problems in international security, including the causes of war; crisis bargaining; diplomacy and coercion; war termination; and civil wars. Students acquire broad familiarity with the canonical literature in international security and learn how to identify opportunities for new research. The course is designed for Ph.D. students in political science. 
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 6980b, International Political Economy  Didac Queralt

This course examines how domestic and international politics influence the economic relations between states. It addresses the major theoretical debates in the field and introduces the chief methodological approaches used in contemporary analyses. We focus attention on four types of cross-border flows and the policies and international institutions that regulate them: the flow of goods (trade policy), the flow of capital (financial and exchange rate policy), the flow and location of production (foreign investment policy), and the flow of people (immigration policy).
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PLSC 7200a, Sexual Violence and War  Elisabeth Wood

Analysis of patterns of sexual violence in war. Assessment of how well scholars in various disciplines and policy analysts account for these patterns.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 7210b / ECON 5548b, Political Economy of Development  Rohini Pande and Gerard Padro

This course analyzes empirically and theoretically the political, institutional, and social underpinnings of economic development. We cover an array of topics ranging from power structures to corruption, state capacity, social capital, conflict, democratization, and democratic backsliding. We focus on recent advances to identify open areas for further research.
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PLSC 7340a / SOCY 6100a, Comparative Research Workshop  Rene Almeling and Alka Menon

This weekly workshop is dedicated to group discussion of work-in-progress by visiting scholars, Yale graduate students, and in-house faculty from Sociology and affiliated disciplines. Papers are distributed a week ahead of time and also posted on the website of the Center for Comparative Research (http://ccr.yale.edu). Students who are enrolled for credit are expected to present a paper-in-progress.
T 12pm-1:20pm

PLSC 7560a, The European Union  David Cameron

Origins and development of the European Community and Union over the past fifty years; ways in which the often-conflicting ambitions of its member states have shaped the EU; relations between member states and the EU's supranational institutions and politics; and economic, political, and geopolitical challenges.
Th 3:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 7770b, Comparative Politics I: Research Design  Katharine Baldwin

This course is part of a two-term course series designed to introduce students to the study of comparative politics. This half of the sequence focuses on issues related to research design and methodology in comparative politics. Although there are a handful of weeks devoted entirely to methodological debates, most of our weekly discussions are focused around one book as an exemplar of a particularly interesting or important research design. The course is helpful for students who plan to take the comparative politics field exam.
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PLSC 7780a, Comparative Politics II  Jennifer Gandhi

This survey course provides a general introduction to the field of comparative politics, with an emphasis on the most important theories and research themes. Topics include the foundations of political regimes, state formation, identity and nationalism, party development, electoral reforms, programmatic and clientelistic linkages, and social policy development. At the same time, the course seeks to strengthen students’ analytical skills in evaluating comparative research and prepare students to take the examination in comparative politics.
M 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 7830a, Democratic Backsliding  Milan Svolik

This class examines the process of democratic backsliding, including its causes and consequences. Our analysis builds on prominent contemporary and historical cases of democratic backsliding, especially Hungary, India, Poland, Russia, and Venezuela. Implications for democratic stability in the United States are considered.
F 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 8000a, Introduction to American Politics  Shiro Kuriwaki

This course is an introduction to American politics for students pursuing graduate work in political science. It surveys current research paired with several classics. Topics and approaches given consideration include institutional design, historical political development, mass attitudes, ideology, econometrics of elections, rational actors, urban politics, interest groups, and political economy. This class, PLSC 8100 (behavior, fall), and PLSC 8030 (institutions, spring) form the sequence that Ph.D. students are recommended to take for the examination in American politics.
T 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 8030b, American Politics III: Institutions  Gregory Huber

A graduate-level course, open to undergraduates, designed to introduce students to research on American political institutions. We examine different explanations for and models of the sources of institutions, discuss their internal organization and governance, and consider the effects of institutions on outcomes of interest. Topics include alternatives to institutions, agenda-setting models, influences on bureaucratic decisions, the size of government and state building, congressional organization, the presidency, policy feedback and path dependence, and interest groups. Course work includes reading and writing assignments.
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PLSC 8100a, Political Preferences and American Political Behavior  Joshua Kalla

Introduction to research methods and topics in American political behavior. Focus on decision-making from the perspective of ordinary citizens. Topics include utility theory, heuristics and biases, political participation, retrospective voting, the consequences of political ignorance, the effects of campaigns, and the ability of voters to hold politicians accountable for their actions.
W 3:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 8120a / AMST 7752a, American Progressivism and Its Critics  Stephen Skowronek

The progressive reform tradition in American politics. The tradition’s conceptual underpinnings, social supports, practical manifestations in policy and in new governmental arrangements, and conservative critics. Emphasis on the origins of progressivism in the early decades of the twentieth century, with attention to latter-day manifestations and to changes in the progressive impulse over time.
M 3:30pm-5:20pm

PLSC 8390a, Congress in the Light of History  David Mayhew

A critical investigation of the United States Congress, the primary democratic institution in the American political system. Focus on individual members of Congress, institutional features, and the role of Congress within the larger separation-of-powers system.
W 1:30pm-3:20pm

PLSC 9300a, American Politics Workshop  Staff

The course meets throughout the year in conjunction with the ISPS American Politics Workshop. It serves as a forum for graduate students in American politics to discuss current research in the field as presented by outside speakers and current graduate students. Open only to graduate students in the Political Science department. Can be taken as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
W 12pm-1:15pm

PLSC 9320a, Comparative Politics Workshop  Egor Lazarev

A forum for the presentation of ongoing research by Yale graduate students, Yale faculty, and invited external speakers in a rigorous and critical environment. The workshop’s methodological and substantive range is broad, covering the entire range of comparative politics. There are no formal presentations. Papers are read in advance by participants; a graduate student critically discusses the week’s paper, the presenter responds, and discussion ensues. Detailed information can be found at https://campuspress.yale.edu/cpworkshop. Open only to graduate students in the Political Science department. Can be taken as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
T 12pm-1:20pm

PLSC 9340a, Political Theory Workshop  Staff

An interdisciplinary forum that focuses on theoretical and philosophical approaches to the study of politics. The workshop seeks to engage with (and expose students to) a broad range of current scholarship in political theory and political philosophy, including work in the history of political thought; theoretical investigations of contemporary political phenomena; philosophical analyses of key political concepts; conceptual issues in ethics, law, and public policy; and contributions to normative political theory. The workshop features ongoing research by Yale faculty members, visiting scholars, invited guests, and advanced graduate students. Papers are distributed and read in advance, and discussions are opened by a graduate student commentator. Detailed information can be found at http://politicaltheory.yale.edu. Open only to graduate students in the Political Science department. Can be taken as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
W 4:15pm-6pm

PLSC 9380a, Leitner Political Economy Seminar Series  Staff

This seminar series engages research on the interaction between economics and politics as well as research that employs the methods of political economists to study a wide range of social phenomena. The workshop serves as a forum for graduate students and faculty to present their own work and to discuss current research in the field as presented by outside speakers, faculty, and students. Detailed information can be found at http://leitner.yale.edu/seminars. Open only to graduate students in the Political Science department. Can be taken as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
W 12pm-1:20pm

PLSC 9400a, International Relations Workshop  Soyoung Lee and Noam Reich

This workshop engages work in the fields of international security, international political economy, and international institutions. The forum attracts outside speakers, Yale faculty, and graduate students. It provides a venue to develop ideas, polish work in progress, or showcase completed projects. Typically, the speaker would prepare a 35- to 40-minute presentation, followed by a question-and-answer session. More information can be found at http://irworkshop.yale.edu. Open only to graduate students in the Political Science department. Can be taken as Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory only.
W 12pm-1:20pm

PLSC 9420a, Political Violence and Its Legacies Workshop  Staff

The MacMillan Political Violence and Its Legacies (PVL) workshop is an interdisciplinary forum for work in progress by Yale faculty and graduate students, as well as scholars from other universities. PVL is designed to foster a wide-ranging conversation at Yale and beyond about political violence and its effects that transcends narrow disciplinary and methodological divisions. The workshop’s interdisciplinary nature attracts faculty and graduate students from Anthropology, African American Studies, American Studies, History, Sociology, and Political Science, among others. There are no formal presentations. Papers are distributed one week prior to the workshop and are read in advance by attendees. A discussant introduces the manuscript and raises questions for the subsequent discussion period. To help facilitate a lively and productive discussion, we ban laptops and cellphones for the workshop’s duration. If you are affiliated with Yale University and would like to join the mailing list, please send an e-mail to julia.bleckner@yale.edu with “PVL Subscribe” in the subject line.
Th 12pm-1:30pm

PLSC 9900a or b, Directed Reading  Staff

By arrangement with individual faculty.
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