Speaker Series
The Department hosts several faculty-sponsored and graduate student-run workshop speaker series based around the program subfields. Stay up-to-date on all of our Department's events by checking our calendar.
Faculty-Led Workshops
These events bring in speakers to probe current discussions within the field.
- American Politics - The goal of the workshop is to bring together graduate students, faculty, and special guest speakers from across the country to present cutting-edge scholarship on political behavior, public opinion, political communication, race, ethnicity and politics, political parties, American political development as well as national institutions, urban politics, interest groups, and representation. For more information, contact the faculty coordinator Martin Naunov and graduate coordinator Caroline Pippert.
- Comparative Politics - The workshop features presentations of work-in-progress by Northwestern Ph.D. students and faculty as well as invited scholars from other institutions. The workshop is diverse in terms of both substance and methods. Examples of subjects include: the study of political regimes and democratization, internal conflict and civil war, political parties, the influence of international institutions on domestic politics, citizens’ vote choice and other forms of political behavior, and the political economy of development. For more information, contact the faculty coordinator Ana Arjona and graduate coordinator Lucas Marín Llanes.
- International Relations - Graduate students, faculty, and invited scholars present on topics ranging from politics of international law, state formation and change to religion and politics, critical theory, and the role of international institutions in the global economy, violent conflict and conflict resolution. For more information, contact the faculty coordinator Danielle Gilbert and graduate coordinator Andrés Schelp.
- Political Theory - Graduate students, invited special guest speakers, and faculty members present work in progress that studies the history of western political theory [Classical, Early Modern, Late Modern]; American and African-American political thought; critical theory; historical, contemporary, and normative democratic theory; feminist theory; and comparative political theory. For more information, contact the faculty coordinator Jacqueline Stevens.
- Race, Ethnicity, and Politics - For more information, contact the faculty coordinators Reuel Rogers and Tabitha Bonilla, with graduate coordinator Nicholas Gonzalez.