Past events
26
May
2023
Book Discussion — Mobilizing in Uncertainty: Collective Identities and War in Abkhazia (Anastasia Shesterinina)
Drawing on nearly two hundred in-depth interviews with participants and nonparticipants in the war in Abkhazia collected over eight months of immersive...
25
May
2023
The Mechanical Effects of Lowering the Voting Age to 16: Empirical Evidence from Around the World
In Australia and a growing number of countries around the world, debates about democratic inclusion once more revolve around the minimum voting age. Countries...
18
May
2023
Do Gender Quotas Erode Democratic Legitimacy? Women's Political Representation in Comparative Perspective
Women's political representation confers legitimacy to decision-making processes and outcomes, but does this outcome hold when gender quotas are in place?...
12
May
2023
CANCELLED - Is Queer an Interpretive Method? (Cai Wilkinson)
This seminar has been cancelled.
Cai Wilkinson is an Associate Professor in International Relations, Deakin University. Cai's research focuses on societal...
11
May
2023
Deliberative Reason: What should deliberation do? How is it achieved?
This paper describes what deliberative ideals look like and how they can be achieved in practice, demonstrating how citizens can effectively deliberate...
04
May
2023
Democratic Breakdown, Presidentialism, and Human Rights Abuses
It is well-established that presidential democracies fail more frequently than parliamentary democracies, but there is little consensus on why. We argue that...
28
Apr
2023
A Decolonial Feminist Politics of Fieldwork: Centering Community, Reflexivity, and Loving Accountability (Laura J. Shepherd and Colleagues)
International Studies scholarship has benefitted from insights from Anthropology, Peace and Conflict Studies, Geography, and other disciplines to craft a...
