Departmental Seminars 2024/25

Every week the Department of Political Economy invites guest speakers or academic staff to present their latest research. The research seminars are open to all staff and PhD students within the department.

All seminars in this semester will take place online from 15.30 - 17.00 on Wednesdays. The seminars are open to DPE staff members and PhD students only.

Contact paul.lewis@kcl.ac.uk for more information.

Semester one

25 September

• PEPC - Carlo Koos (University of Bergen): Conflicts, Sexual Violence and Gender Relations: Micro-Level Evidence from DR Congo, Liberia, and Sri Lanka.           

2 October

• PPE – Richard Bellamy (UCL) ): The Rule of Law as the Democratic Rule of Persons

9 October

• GS – Jasmine Gani (LSE): Passing the Colonial Baton in Palestine: The British Mandate, Racial Militarism, and the Permissibility of Violence.             

16 October

• PPR - Tony Bertelli (Penn State University) Title: Governance Values in Social and Political Belief Systems       

23 October

• QPE – Yotam Margalit (KCL): The Politics of Using AI in Policy Implementation: Evidence from a Field Experiment.

30 October

• CP - Alberto Vesperoni (KCL) and Karl Warneryd (Stockholm School of Economics): Democracy and International Conflict

6 November

• EPP – Robert Huber (University of Salzburg) Title: Are populist parties systematically more sceptical about climate change? Evidence from an Expert Survey             

13 November

• PT – Miriam Ronzoni (Manchester): Why Hermeneutical Injustice and the Epistemic Advantage of the Marginalised are not Incompatible. 

20 November

• PEPC - Kyosuke Kikuta (Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization): Eclipse: How Darkness Shapes Violence in Africa. 

27 November

• HPE - Leigh Shaw-Taylor (Cambridge): Industrialisation, economic development, the Industrial Revolution and occupational structure in England and Wales 1500 – 1911 with some extension back to 1381 and forward to 2011 

4 December

• PPE – Adam Oliver (LSE): Clarifying by Declassifying: Removing the Buzzwords from Behavioural Public Policy.

Semester two

15 January 2025

• PT - Eric MacGilvray (Ohio State): Title: What Is the Point of Diversity? An Agent-Based Modeling Approach (co-authored with Sahar Heydari Fard) 

22 January

• PPR - Colin Provost (UCL) Title: TBA

29 January

• QPE - - Cem Özgüzel, (OECD) Title: Remote work, employee mix and performance.

5 February

• CP – Jack Lucas (University of Calgary) Title: Beyond the Mean: How Thinking About The Distribution of Public Opinions Reduces Politicians' Perceptual Errors.

12 February

• EPP - Noah Zucker (LSE) Title: Greener Pastures? A Labor Market Theory of Climate Governance

19 February

• PT - Sharon Krause (Brown): Title ‘Non-sovereign Rule in Montesquieu and Arendt: Relational Power, Plural Freedom’.

26 February

• HPE -              

5 March

• Graduate-led seminar Nick Bernards (Warwick): Title TBA.

12 March

• PEPC - Christian Gläßel (Hertie School): Making a Career in Dictatorship: The Secret Logic Behind Coups and Repression.

19 March

• GS –

26 March

• PPR - Eleanor Woodhouse (UCL) Title: TBA

Semester 3

April 2

• CP - David Broockman (Berkeley) Title:TBA

23 April

• PPE - Kristen Collins (George Mason University, USA) Title: Judith Shklar’s Ocular Liberalism.

30 April

• EPP - Caroline Kuzemko (University of Warwick) Title: Thinking Politically about Climate Mitigation Policy

7 May

• CP - António Valentim (LSE): Title: Climate Change and Political Entry: Evidence from Brazilian Municipal Elections (with Guilherme N. Fasolin).

14 May

• QPE - Thiemo Fetzer (University of Warwick) Title: TBA

21 May

• GS -

28 May

• HPE-