Semester One: SPIR Seminar Series

Week	Speaker	Talk title
18 February	Mark Franklin	"Does electoral integrity yield more responsive government?"
25 February	Csaba Nikolenyi	"Party Switching In Israel and Canada: Assessing the Impact of Electoral and Legislative Institutions"
3 March	Jørgen Elklit	'Kenya’s 2007 elections – what went wrong, and why?'
10 March	Mariana Llanos	'Comparing Courts Cross-regionally: Lessons and Challenges'
17 March	Jonathan Molloy	“Comparing the Religious Right in Canada and Australia.”
24 March	Richard Frank	"Violence as an electoral strategy”
31 March	Michele Hoyman	"The Importance of Apologies in Arbitration Outcomes of Grievances in Discharge and Discipline Cases"
7 April	No Seminar	No Seminar
14 April	Michael Mackuen	"Citizens and the News: Personality and Emotion on the Edge of Deliberation."
21 April	David Smith	"Religious Persecution and Political Order in the United States"
28 April	TBA	TBA
5 May	Louise K. Davidson-Schmich	'Female Prime Ministers and the Substantive Representation of Women'
12 May	Darren Lim	'The innovation imperative: Technology and great power rivalry in the 21^st century'
19 May 26 May	Dongwook Kim Carlos Larrea	"Critical Junctures in the Development of Transnational Human Rights Networks" Oil, development and sustainability in Ecuador: 1972-2016

Date & time

L.J Hume Centre Copland Building