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: Hanzhang Liu (Florida State University), Anton Shirikov (University of Kansas), and Georgiy Syunyaev (Vanderbilt University)
• VWAR 112 (October 29) - Erin York (Vanderbilt University), "Cosponsorship and Collective Action in an Authoritarian Legislature"
• Discussants: Ernesto Calvo (University of Maryland), Xiaobo Lü (University of Texas at Austin), Paul Schuler (University of Arizona)
• VWAR 113 (November 5) - Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Sam Greene (King's College London), Elena Sirotkina (New York University), Anil Kahvecioğlu (Bilkent University), "Understanding the Psychological Underpinnings of Support for Authoritarianism: Evidence from Russia's War Against Ukraine"
• Discussants: Aleksandar Matovski (Naval Postgraduate School),Elizabeth R. Nugent (Yale University), and Lauren Young (University of California, Davis)
• VWAR 114 (November 12) - David Szakonyi (George Washington University) and Polina Protozanova (George Washington University), "Educating the Opposition: Elite Universities in Authoritarian Russia"
• Discussants: Jay Kao (Loyola University Chicago), Jan Pierskalla (The Ohio State University), Graeme Robertson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
• VWAR 115 (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 116 (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