Mortara Research Seminar
(Formerly known as CRITICS and GUITARS)
Coordinated by Professors Diana Kim, Pauliina Patana, Killian Clarke, and Erik Voeten
Co-sponsored by the Mortara Center for International Studies and the Government Department
The Mortara Research Seminar is a forum for sharing and discussing new research on topics of Comparative Politics and International Relations. The seminar hosts visiting scholars, as well as scholars from Georgetown, who present works-in-progress and receive feedback from the audience. It combines what was formerly the CRITICS and GUITARS seminar series. The seminar meets regularly in the Mortara Center Conference Room. Speakers present their work for approximately 30 minutes, with the remainder of the time devoted to discussant comments and Q&A. The seminar is intended for faculty, researchers, and graduate students from the Government Department and the School of Foreign Service. You may email Ruqaya Abdirahman at ra1154@georgetown.edu with questions or to be added to the email list.
Fall 2025 Schedule
- September 8 – Jonathan Slapin, University of Zurich: “How Descriptive Over- and Under-Representation Impacts Citizens Evaluations of Decision-making across Policy Domains”
- September 15 – No talk – APSA
- September 22 – Shannon Carcelli , University of Maryland: “Public Goods Provision and the Foreign Aid-Immigration Connection.”
- September 29 – TBA
- October 6 – October 6: Liesbet Hooghe and Gary Marks , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: “Why Women and Men Vote Differently: The Gender Gap on the Socio-cultural Cleavage.”
- October 20: Allison Carnegie , Columbia University: “Global Governance Under Fire: Reform and Resilience in the Age of Populism.”
- October 27: Eun A Jo , William and Mary: “Democratic Origins of Postcolonial Narratives in South Korea and Taiwan.”
- November 3: Ellen Lust , Cornell University: “Encompassing Authority in Election Campaign Mobilization.”
- November 10: Nicholas Kuipers, Princeton University: “Forging Social Cohesion Through Mass Education: Evidence from a Nationwide Policy Reform in India.”
- November 17: Volha Charnysh , Massachusetts Institute of Technology: “Razing the Church: The Enduring Effect of Nazi Repression in Poland.”
- November 24 – No talk – Thanksgiving
- December 1: Burcu Savun , University of Pittsburgh: “Liberal Refugee Policies and Political Violence.”
Spring 2026 Schedule
- January 26 – Sarah Khan, American University
- February 2 – Danny Choi, Brown
- February 9 – Flora He, Georgetown
- February 23 – Elisabeth Wood, Yale
- March 9 – Jeff Colgan, Brown
- March 16 – Gabriele Magni, Loyola Marymount
- March 30 – Nicholas Kerr, University of Florida
- April 13 – Fiona Shen-Bayh, UMD
- April 20 – Daniel Mattingly, Yale
- April 27 – Despina Alexiadou, Glasgow
Past Speakers
Spring 2025 Schedule
- January 13 – Ning Leng, Georgetown University, “Why Don’t Chinese Loans Challenge Multilateral Creditors? Foreign Borrowing, Sovereignty, and Public Opinion in the Global South”
- January 27 – Susanna Campbell, American University, “Who is the IO? IOs as Intermediaries in Aid Networks”
- February 3 – Margit Tavits, Washington University in St. Louis, “Exploiting Extremism: Strategic Responses of Radical Right Parties to Right-Wing Violence in Europe”
- February 10 – Iain Osgood, University of Michigan, “Trade Lobbying Works (For Big Firms): Evidence from the China Trade War”
- March 10 – Swati Srivastava, Purdue University, “Platform Power as a Governance Racket”
Mortara Research Seminar
Marina Henke, December 2, 2024
Saad Gulzar, November 19, 2024
Jialu Li & Shea Minter, November 11, 2024
Janet Lewis, November 4, 2024
Kerim Can Kevakli, October 28, 2024
Niccolò Bonifai, October 21, 2024
Andreas Wiedemann, October 7, 2024
Stathis Kalyvas, September 30, 2024
Page Fortna, September 23, 2024
Yuri Zhukov, September 16, 2024
Monika Nalepa, September 9, 2024
Laia Balcells, April 29, 2024
Lizhi Liu, April 22, 2024
Claire Brunel, March 25, 2024
Daniela Donno Panayides, March 18, 2024
Anna Grzymala-Busse, March 11, 2024
Guadalupe Tunon, February 26, 2024
Jae-Jae Spoon, February 12, 2024
Tim Bartley, February 5, 2024
Ashley Jardina, January 29, 2024
Naima Green-Riley, January 22, 2024
Alexandra Siegel, November 27, 2023
Matias Spektor, November 6, 2023
Graeme Robertson, October 30, 2023
Joseph Wright, October 23, 2023
Daniel Keleman, October16, 2023
Michael Barnett, October 2, 2023
Erik Voeten, September 18, 2023
Sarah Bush, September 11, 2023
Georgetown University International Theory and Research Seminar (GUITARS)
Stephen Kaplan, April 3, 2023 (joint with CRITICS)
Clara Suong, January 30, 2023
Iris Malone, November 14, 2022
Genevieve Bates, October 24, 2022
Margaret Roberts, October 3, 2022
Andrew Kydd, September 28, 2022
Madison Schramm, April 11, 2022
Matthew Specter, March 14, 2022
Isaac Kardon & Wendy Leutert, February 14, 2022
Jennifer Lind, January 31, 2022
Justin Casey & Daniel Nexon, December 6, 2021
Erik Lin-Greenberg, November 8, 2021
Rachel Myrick, November 1, 2021
Jeremy Wallace, September 20, 2021
Rebecca Perlman, February 23, 2021
Terrence Chapman, October 19, 2020
Rochelle Terman, September 21, 2020
Nuno Monteiro, March 2, 2020
Maggie Peters, February 10, 2020
Marina Henke, December 2, 2019
Jack Donnelly, October 28, 2019
Miles Kahler, October 21, 2019
Fiona Cunningham, October 7, 2019
Bentley Allan, September 23, 2019
Peter Andreas, April 12, 2019
Liz Stanley, March 11, 2019
Ian Hurd, February 25, 2019
Paul Musgrave, February 4, 2019
Nikhar Gaikwad, January 28, 2019
Jennifer Hadden, December 3, 2018
Sharan Grewal, November 12, 2018
Zachariah Mampilly, October 29, 2018
Sabrina Karim, April 23, 2018
Sarah Kreps, April 16, 2018
Melissa Lee, March 12, 2018
Filiz Kahraman, February 20, 2018
Phil Ayoub, January 29, 2018
Burcu Bayram, November 13, 2017
Vincent Arel-Bundock, October 16, 2017
Current Research on Issues and Topics In Comparative Scholarship (CRITICS)
Vicky Fouka, May 1, 2023
Stephen Kaplan, April 3, 2023 (joint with GUITARS)
Orit Kedar, March 27, 2023
Joan Ricart-Huguet, February 13, 2023
Anne Meng, February 6, 2023
Hillel Soifer, November 21, 2022
Iris Malone, November 14, 2022
Andrew Shaver, October 17, 2022
Margaret Roberts, October 3, 2022
Alisha Holland, April 25, 2022
Pablo Beramendi, April 4, 2022
Dawn Teele, March 21, 2022
James L. Mahoney, February 28, 2022
Livia Schubiger, November 22, 2021
Omar Garcia-Ponce, November 15, 2021
Mike Albertus, October 25, 2021
Allison Post, February 3, 2020
Kathleen Thelen, November 25, 2019
Milan Svolik, November 18, 2019
Erin Chung, November 4, 2019
Peter Andreas, April 12, 2019
Mai Hassan, March 25, 2019
Deborah Yashar, February 11, 2019
Pradeep Chhibber, November 26, 2018
David Stasavage, November 19, 2018
Kristin Michelitch, October 22, 2018
Tim Frye, October 15, 2018
Jim Robinson, April 30, 2018
Ana de la O, March 26, 2018
Rachel Riedl, February 26, 2018
Amit Ahuja, February 5, 2018
Rahsaan Maxwell, January 22, 2018
Adria Lawrence, November 6, 2017
Susan Stokes, October 23, 2017