The Research Network, Historical Study of States and Regimes is pleased to continue its Research Lab this year. This HSSR Research Lab is a monthly forum for workshopping works in progress open to all network members. We will meet on Zoom on one Friday each month at 8am PST/11am EST/5pm CET.
1. The sessions will last one hour, and we will discuss two works in that time, with 30 minutes allocated to each.
2. There will be no formal presentation, but the author may say a few words to situate the piece (this can also be done as a note to the reader in the text).
3. For each work, we will have 10 minutes of comments from a discussant, and the remainder will be for feedback from the group.
This year, we have an exciting line-up of papers and speakers (exact order/dates still to be determined), including:
Sheri Berman, Barnard College, on the crisis of the European and American left.
Anna Grymala-Busse, Stanford University, on what counts as a state
Jan Kubik, Rutgers University, on Czech and Polish populism
Theocharis Grigoriadis, Free University of Berlin, on spies and revolutionaries
Sebastian Cortes, Johns Hopkins University, on eligibility and redistribution in Argentina
Anil Menon, University of California, Merced, The Pre-independence Origins of Kerala’s Comparative Literacy Advantage
Mabel Berezin, Cornell University, on fascism and social authoritarianism
Krystoff Dolezal, Central European University, on liberalism in post-socialist Eastern Europe
Carl Strikwerda, Elizabethtown College, on the survival of the global order during the Cold War
Daniel Smith, Ohio State University, Autocratic Survival in the Roman Empire
Amel Ahmed, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on expanding the scope of comparative analysis.
We still have a few spots open for papers and commentators. If you want to get involved, give a paper, or have any questions, please contact Marcus Kreuzer (marcus.kreuzer@villanova.edu) or/and Jeffrey Kopstein (kopstein@uci.edu).
