Students supervised by Government faculty

APSA/IPSA RC 36 Conference on "The Power of Narrative," Pavia, Italy

For GOVT 252, Seminar on National Security Law, taught by Asha Rangappa

Students for Justice in Palestine, the Wesleyan Refugee Project, and Wesleyan Jewish Voice for Peace, Government Department, other departments

Logan Dancey, John Finn, and Sarah Wiliarty: “Assessing Trump’s First 100 Days”

Film Screening: "Tickling Giants," a film about a satirical TV show during the Arab Spring in Egypt

Guest Speaker: Dr. Kurt Campbell, Chairman and CEO of The Asia Group, Chairman of the Center for New American Security

Guest Speaker: David Cohen, Former Deputy Director of the CIA, Washington DC

Wesleyan Democrats, Wesleyan Republicans

"Getting Your Point Across: Insights for Scholars Speaking with Journalists" Visit arranged by Peter Rutland et al.

Mary Alice Haddad, "Environmental Politics in East Asia"

ACLU Presents – Civil Rights Training with Dan Barret, Legal Director of the CT ACLU and Akhil Reed Amar, Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale Law School

Peter Rutland, "Putin and Trump: The Odd Couple"

Forum to hear and discuss Government students’ experiences during their time studying abroad

Wesleyan Democrats, Wesleyan Republicans

Guest Speaker: Daniel Gillion, Presidential Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania

Class of 2018 Faculty Dinner hosted by Dean Johnson-Thornton

Guest Speaker: Alex Rossmiller, Former DOD Intelligence Officer

Marc Eisner, "The Impact of Polarization on Contemporary Politics"

Guest Speaker: George H. Nash, Intellectual historian, author of The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945

Interviews and dinner with Departmental External Review Committee

Emy Matesan, "Does the Travel Ban Make America More or Less Safe?"

A Panel Discussion with members of G.U.L.F./Gulf Labor: Doris Bittar, Noah Fischer. Claire Grace (Art History)

Department sof Government, College of Film and Moving Image, Mellon Foundation, Office of the Dean of Arts and Humanities, Department of Russian and Eastern European Studies

“Right Now! Election 2016: The Future of Foreign Policy”

Organizers and moderators: Erika Franklin Fowler, Logan Dancey, Yamil Velez

Sarah Wiliarty, "The Global Surge of Populist Authoritarianism"

Logan Dancey, Douglas Foyle, J. Donald Moon, James McGuire

Emy Matesan, Roundtable co-chair (with Arch Puddington), "Democracy: Not the Only Game in Town"

Department of Government, Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, College of Social Studies, English, Romance Languages and Literatures, The Deans of Divisions I and II, and the Thomas and Catherine McMahon Memorial Fund

Michael B. Nelson, Brian Stewart, and Gary Yohe: “Climate Change and the 2016 Election”

Emy Matesan, "Rebel Group Dynamics and the Prospects for Disarmament and Demobilization in Wars"

Emy Matesan, "To Fight or Not to Fight: Understanding Why Armed Islamist Groups Abandon Violent Tactics"

Logan Dancey, "Election 2016: From Trump and Clinton to the House and Senate"

Sarah Wiliarty, “Angela Merkel's Policies Toward Refugees: The Case for Transformational Leadership”

Yamil Velez, "Racial Diversity and the Dynamics of Authoritarianism"

Guest Speaker: Josiah Ober, Constantine Mitsotakis Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Classics at Stanford University

Guest Speaker: Paul S. Herrnson, Department of Political Science, University of Connecticut

Panel presentations: Marc Eisner (Government), Ronald Schatz, Victoria Smolkin,Ying Jia Tan (History)

Guest Speaker: Jennifer M. Piscopo, Occidental College and 2016-17 Peggy Rockefeller Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University

Yamil Velez, panelist, "Adjusting to Faculty Life at Wesleyan"

WesSeminar: Korea's Changing Place in the World

Digital and Computational Knowledge Initiative Event on Research Labs

“Bringing the Real World into the Classroom,” Daniel Family Commons Faculty Luncheon

"Fighting Poverty with Data: Research at the Intersection of Machine Learning and Development Economics.” Jim McGuire, co-organizer

"When Bipartisanship Was the Problem: E.E. Schattschneider and the Doctrine of Responsible Party Government"

74^th Annual Midwest Political Science Association Conference, Chicago, IL

History Matters Lecture Series panel,  Fred Cohan (Biology), Bill Johnston (History, Jim McGuire (Government)

For College of East Asian Studies Conference

Guest Speaker: Alex Rossmiller, former DOD Intelligence Officer

Emy Matesan, Jim McGuire, Sarah Wiliarty (faculty), Kevin Winnie '16, Tabitha Gillombardo '16 (students), presenters

History Matters Lecture Series panel with Ron Schatz (History), Sam Rosenfeld (Government), and Courtney Fullilove (History)

Student Budget Committee and the Office of Student Activities and Leadership Development

“Understanding the ISIS Global Attacks: Policy Options Moving Forward”

Freeman Lecture: Professor Susan Pharr, Harvard University, “Japan’s History Problem”

Joslyn Barnhart Trager, Sonali Chakravarti, Logan Dancey, Jim McGuire (faculty); Tabitha Gillombardo '16, Kevin Winnie '16 (students), presenters

for GOVT 158 – spoke about her work at International Business Times

67^th SCUSA Conference at West Point, New York: Confronting Inequality: Wealth, Rights, and Power

Wes Democrats, Wes Republicans, and the Arcadia political magazine

for GOVT 158 – spoke about his work as an internet journalist for Global Voices Online and Meduza

Guest Speaker: Emma Sky, Director of Yale World Fellows and a Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute, where she teaches Middle East politics.

 “Gorbachev, Bush, and the Unification of Germany,” Series on 25 Years of German Unity: A Commemoration

History Matters Lecture Series panel with Bruce Masters (History), Marguerite Nguyen (English), Peter Rutland (Government), and Laura Ann Twagira (History)

Center for the Arts, Art and Art History, Government, Mathematics and Computer Science, Music, Digital and Computational Knowledge Initiative, IRS, Academic Affairs, and the Quantitative Analysis Center

Featuring: Rosa DeLauro, U.S. Representative of CT 3rd Congressional District; Toni Boucher, CT State Senator of the 26th District, Dominique Thornton, Former Mayor of Middletown; Susan Bysiewicz, Former CT Secretary of State; Sidney Powell, attorney and author of “Licensed to Lie” and Sarah Williarty, Government Department, Wesleyan University

Speaker: John Henderson, Department of Political Science, Yale University

Hosted a Government Department Open House for admitted students

“Beyond Deregulation: Making Sense of Contemporary Regulatory Dynamics.” CSS Monday Luncheon Series

“Repression and the Potential for Violent Escalation in Egypt” CSS Monday Luncheon Series

“Petronation? Oil and National Identity in Russia.” Division II Faculty Luncheon Series.

Speaker: Jeremy Friedman, Associate Director of the Brady- Johnson Program in Grand Strategy, Yale University

Government Department, Economics Department, Patricelli Center for Social Entrepreneurship, Office of International Student Affairs, Office of Student Activities and Leadership Development

African Studies Cluster, Music Department, Academic Affairs, Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, Center for the Arts, Center for African Amerian Studies, Government Department, Office of International Student Affairs

African American Studies, Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, American Studies Department, Anthropology Department, College of Letters, Government Department, University Chaplains

Audra Wolowiec discussed Situationist ideas as she lead students in a walk through urban environments in New York

Panel Discussion: Stephen Young ’73, ex- US Counsul General of HK, Dennis Weng, Government Department

Guest Speaker: Joslyn Barnhart Trager, Government Department, Wesleyan University

Open House for Frosh and Sophomores

Speaker: Emma Gilligan, History Department, University of Connecticut

“The Origins of Voluntary Compliance: Attitudes toward Taxation in Urban Nigeria”

Center for the Arts, Dance Department, Government Department, Allbritton Center for the Study of Public Life, The Ukrainian Selfreliance New England Credit Union

“Big Data Investigative Journalism: How Public Documents and the Internet Helped Map the Islamophobia Industry”

“Is it OK to Eat Meat or Drive an SUV? Moral Reasoning and Social Complexity." CSS Monday Luncheon Series

Government Department, History Department, English Department, College of Social Studies, American Studies, Writing Program, Academic Affairs

"Dark Money, Disclosure and Deliberative Democracy: An Assessment of Interest Group Advertising and Its Influence in Elections"

Speaker: Sonali Chakravarti, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. Division II Faculty Lunch Seminar

Government Department, History Department, English Department, College of Social Studies, American Studies, Writing Program, Academic Affairs

Giulio Gallarotti led an open house about the Government Department at WesFest

Speaker: Mary Alice Haddad, Department of Government, Wesleyan University

East Asian Studies, (hosted by James McGuire, chair, Government Department and Steve Angle, Director, Freeman Center for East Asian Studies)

Speaker: Monica Prasad, Department of Sociology, Northwestern University

Speaker: Joseph White, Department of Political Science, Case Western Reserve University

Digital and Computational Knowledge Initiative (DaCKI), Information Technology Services, Academic Affairs, Government Department

Digital and Computational Knowledge Initiative (DaCKI), Information Technology Services, Academic Affairs, Government Department

Discussion leader: Adam Berinsky '92, Department of Political Science, MIT

Speaker: Don Moon, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. Division II Faculty Lunch Seminar

"The Elusive Concept of 'Capacity Building' in Environmental Conservation and International Development."

Speaker: Mietek Boduszynski, Department of Political Science, Pomona College

Speaker: Doug Foyle, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. CSS Monday Lunch Series

Speaker: Mike Nelson, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. CSS Monday Lunch Series

Speaker: Sarah Wiliarty, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. Center for the Humanities Colloquium Series

Speaker: Sarah Wiliarty, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. Division I Faculty Lunch Seminar

Speaker: Bernard Avishai, Dartmouth College and Hebrew University. Annual Jeremy Zwelling lecture.

Speaker: Sarah Wiliarty, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. CSS Monday Lunch Series

Allbritton Center, Archaeology Program, Jewish and Israel Studies, Government Department

"U.S. Health Care Reform: Images and Realities of Costs, Quality, and Access." Co-moderated by Professor Erika Franklin Fowler.

"Fear and Loathing Across Party Lines: New Evidence on Group Polarization."

Speaker: Sarah Wiliarty, Department of Government, Wesleyan University. Division II Faculty Lunch Seminar

Open House for Frosh and Sophomores

Forum with Senator Richard Blumenthal, organized by WesDems

Panel including speakers Logan Dancey and Jennifer K. Smith

Speaker: Peter Rutland, Department of Government, Wesleyan University

"Exercising Judgment in Ethics, Politics, and the Law: Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, Fifty Years Later."

Panel Discussion including speaker Marcie Patton (Vis.) and chair Peter Rutland, Department of Government

Center for the Humanities, Department of Religion Certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory (hosted by James McGuire, chair, Government Department and Ethan Kleinberg, Director, Center for the Humanities)

NESCAC Conference on Environmental Action,  Mary Alice Haddad, Government Department

Brian Hatton,  Architectural Association

Fabrice Lehoucq, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

"Children of Rus’: Right-Bank Ukraine and the Invention of a Russian Nation"

"Congressmen in Exile: The Politics and Consequences of Involuntary Committee Removal"

William Flavin, Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, U.S. Army War College

Martin de Jong, Delft University

Wesleyan Media Project Conference, Panelists: Robert Boatright, Clark University; Deborah Jordan Brooks, Dartmouth College; Anthony Corrado, Colby College; Michael Franz, Bowdoin College (Co-Director & Panelist); Peter Overby, NPR (Moderator & Panelist)

Wesleyan Media Project Conference Panelists: Adam Berinsky, MIT; Logan Dancey, Wesleyan University; Brendan Nyhan, Dartmouth, College; Melanie Freeze, Wesleyan University (Moderator)

Wesleyan Media Project Conference Panelists: Lydia Saad, Senior Editor, Gallup; John Sides, George Washington University; Dan Merkle ABC News (Moderator & Panelist)

Wesleyan Media Project Conference Wrap-up Panelists: Charlie Mahtesian, National Politics Editor, Politico; Dan Merkle, ABC News; Peter Overby, National Public Radio; Lydia Saad, Senior Editor, Gallup

Panel Discussion: "Not in My Back Yard: Environmental Protest in Germany, China, Russia, Japan, Korea and Taiwan"

Open House for Frosh and Sophomores

Government Department, History Department, Russian Department

FGSS Program, Government Department, Public Affairs Center

Adelphic Educational Fund, College of Social Studies, Government Department, History Department

"The Interactive Influence of Voice Pitch and Platform on Candidate Evaluations"

Danny Unger, Department of Political Science, Northern Illinois University

"The Lover’s Quarrel: A Tale of Two Foundings." Division II Lunch Talk

Film Screening: My Neighbor, My Killer, Discussion with Filmmaker: Anne Aghion

Participants: Dan Fischer’12, Occupy Wesleyan, Szelena Gray, Rootstrikers, Nathan Kleinman, Occupy Philadelphia and Congressional Candidate (PA-13), Alex Levin,’12, College Republican National Committee, David Thompson’11, Citizens’ Congress, Liz Valentin’11, Citizens’ Congress

Timothy Mitchell, Professor and Chair of the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies, Columbia University

Baldwin University Lectures, Center for the Arts , Ethics in Society Project, Office of Diversity and IP Institutional Partnerships, Sociology Department, Government Department, Religion Department

Liberty in North Korea, Korean Student Association, Government Department, April Committee, ResLife Staff, SBC

Daniel Esty, Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection

Public Lecture: The American Political Landscape: A New Technique

African Studies Cluster, Government Department, Romance Languages and Lit, Dean of Division II, College of Letters, Anthropology Department

Public Lecture: Democracy and Development in Brazil

Wesleyan Student Assembly, Government Department, Academic Affairs, Wesleyan World Wednesdays Patricelli Center

Public Lecture: about his secret talks between Israel and Hamas for the release of Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit

Public Lecture: Looking Back on the Brezhnev Years; Surprise, Surprise: The Misunderstood Soviet Military-Industrial Complex

Government Department

Daniel Family Commons Faculty Lunch Series:, The Civic Constitution

Environmental Organizers’ Network, Government Department

Wesleyan International Relations Association (WIRA)

Anna Geifman, Professor of History, Boston University and Senior Researcher, Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Division II Faculty Luncheon Seminar: Japan’s Triple Disaster: Responses and Implications

Public Lecture: The Credibility Paradox: Violence as a Double-Edged Sword in International Politics

University Organizing Center, Queer Resource Center, Spectrum, FemNet, Ujaama, First Generation College Student Coalition, etc.;  Departments: AFAM:; AMST; FGSS; Anthropology, Government, & Sociology

Public Lecture: The Rise of Autonomous Civil Society in Authoritarian Regimes

Onur Bakinur, Ph.D Candidate, Yale Univesity

Dr. Christine Fair, Assistant Professor, Georgetown University

Public Lecture: NGOs and Women’s Political Participation: Evidence from Guatemala

Public Lecture: Tunisia: Roots of the Jasmine Revolution

Public Lecture: The Dynamics of Nonviolent Power: Egypt, Tunisia, and Beyond

Public Lecture: Racialization and the Ties that Bind: Examining the Influence of Racial Group Consciousness of Asian American Civic and Political Behavior

Talk: State as Chimera: Parallel Institutions, State Power and International Order

Bruce Masters, History;  Anne Peters, Government, Marwa Aly, Chaplain;  and Alex Meadow

Dr. Max Abrahams, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Dartmouth College

Public Lecture: Identity in Context: the Political Determinants of Latino Group Consciousness

Public Lecture: Civil Rights and Anti-Poverty Advocacy

Public Lecture: Immigration, Race, and Welfare Policy: Determinants of State Immigrant TANF & Medicaid Policy

Public Lecture: The Politics of Laying Low: Medicaid, Policy Feedback and Political Inaction in Marginalized Populations

Public Lecture; The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia

Panel: Islamophobia and Park51: The “Othering” of Muslims in America 

Public Lecture: Truth & Consequences: One Man's Quest to Openly Serve His Country

WeSeminar: Youth in Post-Conflict Reconstruction: Agents of Change

Talk and Reception for Series of town-gown discussions on large issues facing America