2025 Fall Schedule

• VWAR 110 (October 1) - Erik H. Wang (New York University) and Weiwen Yin (University of Macau), "Too Much But Never Enough: Administrative Capacity and Backlashes to State-building in Medieval Japan"
• Discussants: Francisco Garfias (Duke University), Yuzuru Kumon (University of Manchester), and Yuhua Wang (Harvard University)
• VWAR 111 (October 15) - Daniil Romanov (Oxford University), "Fighting Censorship Circumvention with Authoritarian Propaganda: Evidence from Russia"
• Discussants: TBD
• VWAR 112 (October 29) - Erin York (Vanderbilt University), "Cosponsorship and Collective Action in an Authoritarian Legislature"
• Discussants: TBD
• VWAR 113 (November 12) - David Szakonyi (George Washington University) and Polina Protozanova (George Washington University), "Educating the Opposition: Elite Universities in Authoritarian Russia"
• Discussants: TBD
• VWAR 114 (November 19) - Muyao Hang (University of Pittsburgh) and Daniela Donno (University of Oklahoma), "Not All Fraud Is Equal: Citizen Responses to Varieties of Electoral Manipulation in Autocracies"
• Discussants: TBD
• VWAR 115 (December 3) - Henry Thomson (Arizona State University) and Krzysztof Krakowski (King's College London), "Careers in the Crossfire: The Effects of Internal Defections on Secret Police Officers’ Networks"
• Discussants: TBD