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Mortara Research Seminar

(Formerly known as CRITICS and GUITARS)

Coordinated by Killian Clarke, Jenny Guardado, 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 on Mondays from 12:30pm-1:45pm 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 Kenton Thibaut at akt44@georgetown.edu with questions or to be added to the email list.

Fall 2023 Schedule

  • September 11 – Sarah Bush (University of Pennsylvania) – “Zombies Ahead: Explaining the Rise of Low-Quality Election Monitoring”
  • September 18 – Erik Voeten (Georgetown University) – “Transboundary Air Pollution and Hazy Accountability: Evidence from South Korea and China”
  • October 2 – Michael Barnett (The George Washington University) – “The Humanitarian Club”
  • October 16 – Daniel Keleman (Georgetown University)
  • October 23 – Joseph Wright (Pennsylvania State University)
  • October 30 – Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina)
  • November 6 – Matias Spektor (Fundação Getulio Vargas/Georgetown University)
  • November 13 – Guadalupe Tuñón (Princeton University)
  • November 27 – Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado Boulder)

Past Speakers

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

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

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