Here is the CPW schedule for Fall 2026!

Please join us Wed (10/28) @ 6:30 pm, for our second session of CPW, featuring Ryan Hitch (@GC_PoliSci), who will be presenting his paper, "What Explains Peacetime Cooperation?” Professor David Lindsey (Baruch/GC) will be providing comments. DM for details.

Join us next Thursday (09/24) in-person for the first CPW from 4:15pm to 5:45pm in Room 5200.07 (thesis room). @thuandavid10 (@GC_PoliSci) will present his manuscript entitled "And Now Who Governs the Forest?" Prof. Mark Ungar will serve as discussant. DM for More!

We are kicking things off with the Welcome Back Pizza Party co-hosted with @GCPPWorkshop and the new American Politics Workshop. Come and join us!

Please join us Thursday (05/14) for our final session of CPW this semester @ 6:30 pm in Room 5200.07. Javier Padilla, Aline Van Neutgem, and Ryan Hitch (@GC_PoliSci) will present their manuscript entitled "Surviving the Transition”. DM for Details.

Join us Thursday (04/30) at 18.30 in Room 5200.07 (thesis room). Andrés Besserer (El Colegio de Mexico), Andrea Peña-Vasquez (University of Pittsburgh) and Aala Abdelgadir (University of Pittsburgh) will present their manuscript entitled "Varieties of Immigrant Regularization."

Revised Schedule Spring 2026

Please join us Today (04/16) from 18.30 to 20.00 in Room 5200.07 (thesis room). Prof. @regina_bateson (@CUBoulder) will be presenting her manuscript entitled "Human Rights or Criminals’ Rights? How Crime and Insecurity Undermine Support for Human Rights in Latin America".

Please join us Thursday, 2/20, at 6:30-8:00pm, for the second session of the CPW spring season in Room 5200.07. Prof. Yan Sun (@QC_News & @GC_PoliSci ) will be presenting her article entitled "Authoritarian and Majoritarian Pathways to Ethnonationalist Consolidation." DM 4 More.

What is Sound Politics? Join us next Wednesday (2/11) at 4:15pm-5:45pm at the GC Poli Sci Thesis Room to discuss Dr. @MichWeitzel’s (@GVAGrad) paper on this topic! DM for Details

Announcing the Spring 2026 Schedule! This semester we have varieties of paper topics and presenters, ranging from out students to faculty members. Come and join us on Thursday 6:30 pm! (Except the first session on Wednesday.)

Join us this Thursday (12/11) at 6:30pm for our final session of the CPW, featuring our very own Ian Kaufman (@GC_PoliSci) presenting his paper “Electoral Certainty, Strategic Incumbents, and Representation in Young Democracies”. DM for details.

Just a reminder that the session originally scheduled for today (11/20) is canceled.

Updated Schedule: We have moved the November 13 session to December 11, in light of the conflict with department events.

Join us this Thursday (10/23) at 6:30pm, we will have our own Chelsea Joliet (@GC_PoliSci) presenting her paper “Labeling Sovereign Citizen Risk: Movement Attribution and Security Framing in Australian Courts” at the Graduate Center Political Science Thesis Room. DM for Details.

Join us this Thursday (10/9) at 6:30pm with @OjooluwaIbiloye (@UDBidenSchool) who will present his paper “Media use and political discussion in Africa.” The meeting will take place at the Political Science Thesis Room (5200.07). Come and join us! DM for Details.

Join us this Thursday with our own @AnsonCChung (@GC_PoliSci) presenting his paper “Strategic Circumvention of Constitutional Check”, a paper focused on Hong Kong Courts. 6:30 at the Thesis Room of the Graduate Center Political Science Program (Room 5200). Email us for the paper.

We are happy to announce the Fall 2025 lineup of the Comparative Politics Workshop! This semester, we have decided to spotlight our students and their work, along with other scholars invited whom work on variety of different topics. Come and join us on Thursday @ 6:30-8!

Please join next Thursday (02/13) in-person for the first session of the CPW of Spring 25 from 6.30-8pm. Mark Ungar & @thuandavid10 from @GC_PoliSci will be presenting their manuscript entitled "Enforcing Environmental Law in the Amazon". DM for details about the session.