Past Workshops
Spring 2024 PVL Workshop
January 25
March 7
March 28
April 4
April 18
April 25
Fall 2023 PVL Workshop
The Science of Transitional Justice: A Critical Review of the Field with New Data from Iraq and Ukraine*
Mara Revkin, Duke University
September 21
Post-authoritarian purges: from a global to subnational perspective**
Monika Nalepa, University of Chicago
October 5
Our Grief has Turned to Anger: An Affective Re-Reading of Boko Haram
Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University
October 26
From Victims to Resilient Citizens: The Policy Feedback Effects of State Violence
Yanilda Gonzalez, Harvard University
November 9
The Guantánamo Phenomenon
Lisa Hajjar, University of California, Santa Barbara
December 7
Protesting Jordan: Geographies of Power and Dissent
Jill Schwelder, City University of New York Hunter College
*with Ala’ Alrababa’h (University of Bocconi) and Rachel Myrick (Duke University)
**with Barbara Piotrowska (KCL, United Kingdom)
Spring 2023 PVL Workshop
Jan. 19th (RKZ 102) - Ramon Garibaldo Valdez (Yale University), “No estan solos, You Are Not Alone: Resisting U.S. Immigrant Detention from the Inside-Out”
Feb. 2nd (Luce Hall 203) - Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Duke University), “Fela Kuti Goes to Court: State Violence and the Spectacle of Inquiry in Postcolonial Africa”
Feb. 23 (Luce Hall 203) - John Witt (Yale University), “From Sabotage to Industrial Democracy: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and the Crooked Path of American Radicalism, 1906 - 1927”
March 2nd (Luce Hall 203) - Arzoo Osanloo (University of Washington), “The Enduring Logic of Humanitarianism and the Eclipse of Human Rights”
March 9 (Luce Hall 203) - Alejandro Fajardo (Yale University), “The Persistence of Failing Authoritarian Regimes: Ordinary People in the 21st Century Venezuela”
March 30 (Luce Hall 203) - Greta Uehling (University of Michigan, LSA), “The Alchemy of Adversity: How an Indigenous People Survived and Thrived through the Russian Occupation of Crimea”
April 13 (RKZ 102) - Louisa Lombard (Yale University), “The Initiative-Killing Machine: Orders, Risk Aversion, and Bureaucracy in Military Peacekeeping”
April 27 (RKZ 102) - Eddie Thomas (Independent), “Conflict, Commodification, and Women’s Lives: How War Creates Market Which Give Women More Work and Less Food”