Previous Speaker series

Previous Speaker Series held at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research are listed below.

Spring 2026

• 5 February CHRISTIAN GLÄßEL, Hertie School
  Making a Career in Dictatorship. The Secret Logic Behind
  Repressions and Coups
  
  
• 5 March
  ANDREA RUGGERI, University of Milan
  Talk: The Citizen Dilemma: Habeas Corpus aut Securitas? Exposure to Political Violence, Individual Liberties and Community Safety
  
  
• 11 March
  ELISABETH LIO ROSVOLD, Norwegian University of Science and
  Technology
  Can’t Stop Me Now? Resilience of Pro- and Anti-government
  Protests in the face of disaster
  
  
• 19 March
  ADAM LICHTENHELD, Leiden University
  The Politics of Displacement: Wartime Migration, Return, and Post-
  Conflict Peacebuilding
  
  
• 16 April
  NICK SMITH, SOAS University of London
  Notes on Researching a Failed Bombing
  
  
• 28 May
  Speaker: ANNA GETMANSKY, London School of Economics and Political Science
  Topic: The Moral Hazard of Military Automation: From Boots on the Ground to Drones in the Air
  
  
• 4 June
  Speaker: DAVID CUNNNINGHAM, University of Maryland
  Topic: UN Peacekeeping is in Decline, is Conflict Management as Well?
  (13.15-14.45, Ostromsalen)
  
  
• 11 June
  Speaker:ROBERT BRAUN, University of California, Berkeley
  Topic: Religious Frontiers and Xenophobia: Evidence from Weimar Germany

Autumn 2025

• 4 September
  ANJA NEUNDORF, University of Glasgow
  Rallying ‘round the School House: The Politicization of Education in Times of Conflict
  
  
• 2 October
  SARAH VON BILLERBECK, University of Reading
  International Organisations as Intermediaries
  
  
• 16 October
  ANDERS PERSSON, Linnaeus University
  Peace in Our Time in the Middle East? The Abraham Accords before and after the October 7 attack and the war in Gaza
  
  
• 13 November
  JANA KRAUSE, University of Oslo
  The Promise and Peril of Resilience Building in Protracted Conflicts
  
  
• 19 November 12:00–13:15
  ANASTASIA SHESTERININA: University of York
  The Social Movement Origins of Armed Groups in Civil Wars
  *Special Brown Bag Talk, co-sponsored with PRIS.
  
  
• 11 December
  MARGHERITA BELGIOIOSO, University of Leeds
  Breaking the Conflict Trap: Nonviolent Mobilization, the Recurrence of Civil War, and Beyond

Spring 2025

6 FEBRUARY

• Dr Juan Masullo Jimenez, University of Leiden
• Title: Short-Term Security or Long-Term Stability? Evidence From Ecuador’s Security Crisis
  

20 FEBRUARY

• Dr Stephanie Schwartz, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Title: Refugee Return Without Refoulement: Rethinking Human Rights Norms Compliance
  

19 MARCH (Wednesday!)

• Aksel Sundström, Associate Professor in political science at the University of Gothenburg and the PI for the Quality of Government (QoG) Data
• Title: Thirsting for Women Leaders? Drought Shocks and Public Opinion in South Africa
  

3 APRIL

• Dr Kevin Mazur, King’s College London
• Title: Incubating Revolution: Social Networks and the Built Environment in the 2011 Syrian Uprising
  

15 MAY

• Dr Heba Gowayed, City University of New York, Graduate Center
• Title: The Cost of Borders
  

27 MAY

• DR. STEPHEN BROOKS, Professor of Government at Dartmouth
• Title: “The U.S. Grand Strategy Debate: Implications Of a New Trump Era for Europe”
• TIME: 27 MAY, 13:15 – 14:30
  PLACE: LEWINSALEN, GAMLA TORGET 6

Speaker Series Autumn 2024

12 December - Guillaume Dezecache: Social trust and the study of social climates in disaster-affected areas, 12:15–14:00 Gamla Torget Campus, Gamla Torget 6, Lewinsalen. Go to event.

21 November - Professor Susan Hyde: Women's Group Empowerment Can Increase Political Participation: Evidence from Five Coordinated Field Experiments , 12:15–14:00 Gamla Torget Campus, Gamla Torget 6, Lewinsalen. Go to event.

Speaker Series Spring 2024

• 8 Feb: Carlo Koos, University of Bergen, Conflicts, Sexual Violence and Women Empowerment? Insights from DR Congo, Liberia and Sri Lanka
• 22 Feb: Dipali Mukhopadhyay – University of Minnesota, Good Rebel Governance: Revolutionary Politics & Western Intervention in Syria
• 18 April: Nick Barnes, University of St. Andrews, Resident Resistance: Denouncing Organized Criminal Groups in Rio de Janeiro
• 2 May: Meredith Loken, University of Amsterdam, Gendering Rebel Governance During Civil Wars
• 30 May: Kimuli Kasara, Columbia University, Intersectional Discrimination and Candidate Selection: Evidence from a Lab Experiment in Kenya

Speaker Series Autumn 2023

• 2 November - Carsten K.W. De Dreu, University of Leiden Carrying-capacity stress, parochialism, and intergroup conflict 12:15-13:45, Gamla Torget 6, Room 4219B
• 19 October - Marianne Dahl, PRIO [Talk: TBA] 12:15-13:45, Trädgårdsgatan 7E, Room 214
• 5 October - Sarah Zukerman Daly, Columbia University [Talk: TBA] 15:15-16:30, Ostromsalen, Room 4573 (note: talk via Zoom)
• 21 September – Ana Arjona, Northwestern University The Violent Bias in the Study of Civil War 12:15-13:45, Gamla Torget 6, Room 6577
• 7 September - Yuichi Kubota, University of Niigata Internal Displacement and Post-conflict Gender Attitudes: Evidence from Northwestern Pakistan
  12:15-13:45, Gamla Torget, Room 4219B

Speaker Series Spring 2023

• 9 March Ursula Daxecker, University of Amsterdam
• 20 April, Niloufer Siddiqui, University at Albany-State University of New York (SUNY)
  
• 4 May, Elton Skendaj, Georgetown University
  

Speaker Series Autumn 2022

• 25 August, Asaf Siniver, University of Birmingham
• 20 October, Hernan Flom, Trinity College
  
• 17 November, Corinna Jentzsch, Leiden University
  
• 1 December, Mark Berlin, Marquette University
  

Speaker Series Spring 2020

All the planned talks for spring 2020 were cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

• 16 April: Cyanne Loyle, Penn State
• 11 May: Roger MacGinty, Durham University
• 14 May: Emil Soulemainov, Charles University

Speaker Series Autumn 2019

• 5 September: Oliver Kaplan, University of Denver
• 17 October: Helga Malmin Binningsbø, PRIO
• 13 November: Christine Cheng, King's College London
• 28 November: Staffan Lindberg, V-Dem Institute, University of Gothenburg
• 12 December: Michael Weintraub, Universidad de los Andes
• 12 December: Sebastian Schutte, PRIO

Speaker Series Spring 2019

• 24 January: Hannah Smidt, Research Fellow, German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA)
• 7 February: Costantin Ruhe, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Goethe University Frankfurt
• 4 April: Peter Krause, Associate Professor of Political Science, Boston College
• 2 May: Belén González, Post-doctoral Researcher, University of Mannheim
• 16 May: Courtenay Conrad, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of California-Merced
• 5 June: Atsushi Tago, Profesor of Political Science, Waseda University

Speaker Series Autumn 2018

• 6 September: Mai Hassan, University of Michigan
• 4 Oktober: Govinda Clayton, ETH Zurich

Speaker Series Spring 2018

• 22 March: Enzo Nussio, ETH Zurich
• 19 April: Alexandra Hartman, UCL (rescheduled from HT17)
• 3 May: Megan Stewart, American University
• 14 June: Reed Wood, Arizona State University

Speaker Series Autumn 2017

• 1 September: Alexandra Hartman, Assistant Professor in Political Science and Public Policy, University College of London
• 30 November: Dr. Omar Garcia-Ponce, Assistant Professor, UC-Davis

Speaker Series Spring 2017

• 9 February: Henry Thomson, Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
• 23 March: Anita Gohdes, Asst. Professor of International Relations, University of Zurich
• 20 April: Evgeny Finkel, Asst. Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, George Washington University
• 4 May: Zoe Marks, Chancellor’s Fellow and Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
• 18 May: Susanna Campbell, Asst. Professor at the School of International Service, American University

Speaker Series Autumn 2016

• 8 September: Cassy Dorff, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of New Mexico
• 22 September: Jack Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University
• 6 October: Geoff Dancy, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Tulane University
• 3 November: Nils Weidmann, Professor of Political Science, University of Konstanz
• 17 November: Regina Bateson, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 1 December: Yuri Zhukov, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Speaker Series Spring 2016

• 11 February: Michaela Mattes, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
• 7 April: Jesse Driscoll, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego
• 21 April: Sarah Parkinson, Asst. Professor, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of
• Minnesota
• 19 May: Katherine Barbieri, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina

Speaker Series Autumn 2015

• 17 September: Evan Perkoski, Ph.D. Candidate in International Relations, University of Pennsylvania
• 15 October: Kanisha De Ann Bond, Asst. Professor of Political Science, University of Maryland
• 12 November: Abbey Steele, Asst. Professor of Public Administration and International Affairs, Syracuse University
• 26 November: Burcu Savun, Assoc. Professor of Political Science, University of Pittsburgh

Speaker Series Spring 2015

• 16 January: Chandra Lekha Sriram, Professor of International Law and International Relations, University of East London
• 5 March: Lise Morjé Howard, Assoc. Professor of Government, Georgetown University
• 19 March: Amanda Robinson, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Ohio State University
• 16 April: Benjamin Valentino, Assoc. Professor of Government, Dartmouth University
• 28 May: Chris Fariss, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Penn State University

Speaker Series Spring 2014

• 18 September: Kyle Beardsley, Associate Professor of Political Science, Duke University
• 2 October: Rose McDermott, Professor of Political Science and President of the International Society of Political Psychology, Brown University
• 16 October: Hein Goemans, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Rochester
• 13 November: Adria Lawrence Assistant Professor of Political Science and Research Fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University
• 27 November: Aila Matanock, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley

Speaker Series Autumn 2013

• 5 September: David Laitin, James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science, Stanford University
• 19 September: David A. Lake, Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California-San Diego
• 3 October: Jessica Weeks, Assistant Professor of Government, University of Wisconsin
• 17 October: Livia Isabella Schubiger PhD Candidate, University of Zurich
• 14 November: William Reno, Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
• 28 November: Jean-Paul Azam, Professor of Economics, University Toulouse

Speaker Series Spring 2013

• 7 February: Nikolay Marinov, Assistant Professor, Yale University
• 7 March: Luis de la Calle Robles, Junior Researcher, Juan March Institute
• 21 March: Jacob N. Shapiro, Assistant Professor, Princeton University
• 2 May: Jacqueline DeMeritt, Assistant Professor, University of North Texas
• 16 May: Paul Staniland, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago

Speaker Series Autumn 2012

• 20 September: Catherine Boone, Professor, University of Texas
• 4 October: Anthony Wanis-St. John, Assistant Professor, American University
• 18 October: Paul Huth, Professor, University of Maryland
• 1 November: Sabine Carey, Professor, University of Mannheim
• 15 November: Jason Lyall, Assistant Professor, Yale University
• 29 November: Janet Lewis, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University

Speaker Series Spring 2012

• 26 January: Will H. Moore, Professor, Florida State University
• 9 February: Richard Ned Lebow, James O. Freedman Presidential Professor of Government, Dartmouth University
• 23 February: Steven I. Wilkinson, Nilekani Professor of India and South Asian Studies and Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Yale University
• 22 March: Christopher Sullivan, PhD candidate, University of Notre Dame
• 3 May: Fotini Christia, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 24 May: Barbara Walter, Professor of Political Science, University of California-San Diego
• 31 May: Leonardo Arriola, Assistant Professor, University of California-Berkeley

Speaker Series Autumn 2011

• 8 September: Branislav Slantchev, Assoc. Professor, University of California, San Diego
• 6 October: Ragnhild Nordås, Senior Researcher, Peace Research Institute of Oslo (PRIO)
• 20 October: Christian Davenport, Professor, University of Notre Dame
• 3 November: Laia Balcells, Researcher, Institute for Economic Analysis, CSIC (Spain)
• 14 December: Séverine Autesserre, Assistant Professor, Barnard College, Columbia University