Our Lunch Workshare Series (formerly known as our Brown Bag Series) consists of discussions of work in progress by University of Washington graduate students and faculty.
Current Academic Year Lunch Workshare Schedule (2023–2024)
Fall 2023
Wednesday, November 29th 3:00 — 4:30 p.m.
PhD Candidate Rutger Ceballos will have a practice job talk titled “Managing Emancipation: Land, Labor and the Reconstruction of the American State.” The RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Winter 2024
Friday, January 5th, 12:30–1:30 p.m.
PhD Student Yulenni Venegas Lopez will present her paper “Representing the Real Latino Electorate: Far Right Latinas, Group Capture, and Alternate Visions of Latinidad.” The paper and RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Friday, February 9, 12:30–1:30 p.m.
PhD Candidate Sebastian Mayer will present his paper “No More ‘Sticking to Sports’: Black Athletes’ Impact on Political Participation in the Black Community.” The paper and RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Spring 2024
Postponed Until Fall 2024
PhD Candidate Julia Wejchert will present. Title TBD.
Friday, May 17th, 12:30–1:30pm.
Professor José Jorge Mendoza (UW Philosophy) will present his paper “Latinx, Whiteness, and American Democracy.” The paper and RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Previous Brown Bags
Winter 2021
Friday, March 5, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Becca Thorpe, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. The title of the paper is “State Violence & Racial Remapping in Chicago Neighborhoods.” Via Zoom due to COVID-19, RSVP for this event here.
Friday, March 5, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Becca Thorpe, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. The title of the paper is “State Violence & Racial Remapping in Chicago Neighborhoods.” Via Zoom due to COVID-19, RSVP for this event here.
Thursday, March 11th, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
Chip Turner, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. The title of the paper is “Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, and Anti-Blackness.” Via Zoom due to COVID-19, RSVP for this event here.
Friday, March 11, 1:30-2:30.
PhD Candidate Rutger Ceballos will present his paper “Land of the Free? – The American Political Imagination and the Struggle over Post-Emancipation Land Rights.” The paper and RSVP link will be circulated in advance.
Fall 2020
Thursday, November 19th, 1:30-2:30p.m.
Carolyn Dapper, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “White Identity and Tolerance for Violence in the South” via Zoom.
The paper and Zoom link will be circulated in advance to everyone who RSVPs. Please RSVP here . To attend the meeting use this Zoom link.
Winter 2020
Friday, March 6th, 12:00-1:00p.m.
Dennis Young, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Space of Control : Immigrant Detention, Racial Capitalism, and the Carceral State”
Via Zoom due to COVID-19
Thursday, February 13th, 12:00-1:00p.m.
Jake Grumbach, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Explaining Dynamics in Subnational Democracy”
Gowen1A. Pizza served.
Thursday, January23rd, 12:00-1:00p.m.
Grace Reinke, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Investigating Social Reproduction as a Theory of Political Resistance”
Gowen1A. Pizza served.
Spring 2017
Monday, April 24, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Ellen Ahlness, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Within Our Borders: Indigenous Internationalization and State Repression.”
Discussant: Jack Turner, Associate Professor of Political Science and WISIR Director, University of Washington
Smith 40A. Coffee and cookies served.
Winter 2016
Monday, February 22, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Paige Sechrest, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Salt in the Wound: Race and the Stigmatization of Need in International Relations.”
Discussant: Christopher S. Parker, Associate Professor of Political Science and WISIR Field Director for the Social Science of Race and Inequality, University of Washington.
Smith 40A. Coffee and cookies served.
Spring 2016
Monday, April 4, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Sean Butorac, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Democratic Love: Confronting America’s Racial Nightmare.”
Discussant: Jamie Mayerfeld, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington, and author of the forthcoming The Promise of Human Rights: Constitutional Government, Democratic Legitimacy, and International Law (University of Pennsylvania Press, May 2016).
Smith 40A. Coffee and cookies served.
Monday, May 2, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
José Ochoa, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Is Brown the New Green? The Effects of Ethnicity and Group Consciousness on Environmental Preferences.”
Discussant: José Antonio Lucero, Associate Professor and Chair of Latin American and Caribbean Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies, and Member of WISIR Advisory Committee, University of Washington.
Smith 40A. Coffee and cookies served.
Winter 2017
Monday, February 13, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Andreu Casas and Nora Webb Williams, Graduate Students, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “Images that Matter: Online Protests and the Mobilizing Role of Pictures” (The central case study is Black Lives Matter).
Discussant: Rebecca Thorpe, Associate Professor of Political Science, and Member of WISIR Advisory Committee, University of Washington.
Smith 40A. Coffee and cookies served.
Monday, March 6, 12:00-1:30 p.m.
Seth Trenchard, Graduate Student, Department of Political Science, University of Washington. “‘This Wild and Diabolical Carnival of Blood’: Spectacle Lynching in the Postbellum American South.”
Discussant: Jeanne Morefield, Professor of Politics, Whitman College, and author of Empires without Imperialism: Anglo-American Decline and the Politics of Deflection (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Smith 40A. Coffee and cookies served.
