Spring 2005 Duke Comparative Politics Workshop

The Comparative workshop fosters a community of graduate students and faculty interested in comparative politics through regular bi-weekly meetings at which we read and discuss each other's work as well as the work from the best scholars from other universities. The workshop aims to cover a broad range of methodological approaches and topics. Approximately two-thirds of the sessions will involve scholars from other universities, with the remaining sessions devoted to the presentation and discussion of work and proposals from Duke faculty and graduate students. Papers will be distributed in advance of the sessions. Speakers do not deliver formal presentations; instead, at each meeting a Duke graduate student introduces the paper's argument and comments on its strengths, weaknesses, and possible extensions before the group as a whole moves on to a more extended discussion with the paper's author. Workshop meetings finish with a dinner off campus at which the discussion can continue more informally.

Speakers

(All meetings in 204 Breedlove Room from 5:00-6:30 pm on Mondays, unless specified otherwise*).