Friday, February 16 – 12-2 pm

"Comparative Politics of Inflations and Deflations"

Mark Blyth (Johns Hopkinds University, Political Science)

Cosponsored with Comparative Politics Workshop and Browne Center for International Politics, Penn

Friday, March 16 – 2-3:30 pm

"Fractured Eternities: Living with History in Modern Rome"

Michael Herzfeld ( Harvard University, Anthropology)

1 pm

There will be showing of "Monti Moments", Professor Herzfeld's 38-minute ethnographic film on the same topic as the talk in the Stiteler Hall Forum.

Cosponsored with Center for Italian Studies, Penn

Friday, March 23 - 12-2 pm

"Democratic militancy and democratic rule: A study of Western Europe"

Giovanni Capoccia ( Oxford University, Politics and International Relations)

Cosponsored with Comparative Politics Workshop, Penn

Friday, April 27 – 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Schedule Available Here

Women and Public Policy in Europe (Workshop)  
Keynote speaker: Amy Mazur (Univ. of Washington, Political Science)

Speakers: Kimberly Morgan (Georgetown University, Political Science); Olga Avdeyeva (University of Louisville); Emilie Hafner-Burton (princeton University); Mark Pollack (Temple University, Political Science)
Discussant: Julia Lynch (Penn, Political Science); Nancy Hirschmann (Penn, Political Science)

Cosponsored with Temple University Department of Political Science and Temple University Women's Studies Program

NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION: Temple University: Russell Weigley Room, 914 Gladfelter Hall

Friday, May 16- 12-2 pm

"How Party Systems Form: Path Dependency and the Foundation of the Postwar Germany Party System."

Markus Kreuzer (Villanova)

Cosponsored with Temple University Department of Political Science

NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION: Weigley Room, Temple University