Past Workshops
Spring 2025 Workshops
January 30
Disciplinary perspectives, research approaches, and the question of interdisciplinarity in the study of political violence and its legacies
PVL Coordinators Panel Discussion, Yale University
February 6
“The Road to Qamishli: Chasing Law in a Time of Counter-Terrorism”
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota
February 20
"Negotiating Time: The Temporalities in Central American Youth Migrant's Journey"
Ángel A. Escamilla García, Yale University
March 27
"No Guarantees: The Time of Recovery and Rehabilitation at a Kashmiri Bank"
Nishita Trisal, Ashoka University
April 3
“Geographies of authoritarian violence and popular imaginaries of political mobilization in Central Asia”
Asel Doolotkeldieva, Nonresidential Fellow, George washington University
April 10
"Measures, Mediations and the Time of Violence: Recounting Sri Lanka’s ‘Black July’"
Vindhya Buthpitiya, University of St Andrews
Fall 2024 Workshops
September 19
State Violence Studies: Policing, Citizenship, and Democracy
Jinee Lokaneeta, Drew University
October 10
In Violation: Human Rights and Political Protest in Contemporary Kenya
Katherine Luongo, Northeastern University
October 24
The Gray Zone of Politics: State-Crime Clandestine Connections
Javier Auyero, The University of Texas at Austin
November 7
TBD
November 21
Encountering Rape: How Police Killings Affirm State Authority
Poulami Roychowdhury, Brown University
December 5
On Rebel Taxation
Zachariah Mampilly, City University of New York
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”