SPIR Seminar Series: Semester 2, 2016

Week	Speaker	Talk Topic
14 July	Raoni Rajao,	The forest multiple: the ontological strategies of deforestation in Amazonia
21 July	Fiona Barker	Walking the Representation Tightrope: Party demands, community expectations and immigrant-origin politicians’ representation goals
28 July	Dominique Dalla-Pozza	(How) Does the Australian Parliament contribute to the making of ‘well-balanced’ National Security Legislation? An Examination of the Enactment of the Australian Citizenship Amendment (Allegiance to Australia) Act 2015?
4 August	Mike Munger	An Analytical Theory of Just Market Exchange
11 August	Susan Park	The Good Hegemon: How the United States Helps People to Hold the Multilateral Development Banks to Account
18 August	Roland Rich	Design Weaknesses in American Presidential Elections
25 August	TBA	TBA
1 September	Seth Lazar	Sparing Civilians
8 September (Break)	-	-
(Friday) 16th September	Charlie Miller SDSC-SPIR Seminar	How do US elites view China? Automated Text Analysis of Congressional and Media Discourse Towards the PRC, 2000-2016
22 September	Steffen Ganghof	Equilibrium Veto Players: Veto Institutions, Cabinet Formation and Institutional Change
29 September	No Seminar
6 October	Woo Chang Kang	The Liberals Should Pray for Rain: Rain, Generation Gap in Turnout and Electoral Outcomes in South Korea
13 October	Yunhan Chu	How East Asians View a Rising China
20 October	Colin Tatz	Aborigines: A ‘Genuinely Benevolent’ Genocide?
3 November	James Loxton	“Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide.”