The Bridge Lab
2015-2016 Bridge Lab Schedule
For 2015-2016, The Bridge Lab will be coordinated by second year students Muyang Chen and Clint Work. Presentations by Jackson School Ph.D. Program student and their working dissertation titles are given below. Presentations by outside persons will be announced as appropriate on this site. All sessions are in Thomson 317 between 12:30-1:25 p.m. unless otherwise indicated.
Fall Quarter:
Thursday Oct. 8th, 2015 – 12:00-2:00 (Guest Speaker, Funded by the Onassis Foundation, USA)
Gerassimos Karabelias, Panteion University, Athens, Greece
The Continuity of Greek National Identity
Thursday October 15th, 2015 (Guest Speaker)
Lara Iglitzin, Executive Director, The Henry M. Jackson Foundation
Perspectives and Tips on Bridging
Thursday October 29th, 2015
Dustin Welch, NGO Risk, Private Reward: The Politics of Large Scale Solar Energy in Peru
Invited Faculty: Tony Lucero, Maria-Elena Garcia, Scott Montgomery
Thursday November 12th, 2015
Christopher Pearson, Article 9 in Japanese Party Politics
Invited Faculty: Robert Pekkanen, Sunila Kale, Don Hellman
Thursday November 19th, 2015 (UW-QUAL Guest Speaker)
Steve Pfaff, Professor, Sociology, UW
Lessons from Key Informant Interviews on Political Islam in Berlin
Thursday December 3rd, 2015 (Carnegie-Related IPI Guest Speaker)
Robert Butterworth, President, Aries Analytics, Inc.
Winter Quarter:
Thursday January 7th, 2016 (Guest Speaker)
Jaren Price, JSIS Asia Pacific Military Fellow
Perspectives and Tips on Bridging
Thursday January 14th, 2016
Yan Gu, Developmental Authoritarian State and Predatory Democracy: Urban Infrastructure in 5China and India
Invited Faculty: David Bachman, Bill Lavely, Jeff Begun
Thursday January 21st, 2016
Muyang Chen, AIIB: Exportation of Chinese Development Model
Invited Faculty: David Bachman, Bill Lavely, Jeff Begun
Thursday February 4th, 2016 (Carnegie-Related IPI Guest Speaker)
Geoffrey Nunn, Exhibit Developer and Adjunct Curator for Space History at The Museum of Flight in Seattle
Targeting Your Audience: Space Curator at The Museum of Flight in Seattle.
Thursday February 11th, 2016
Clint Work, Dependent by Choice: South Korea in the US Embrace
Invited Faculty: Clark Sorensen, Yong Chool Ha, Hwasook Nam
Thursday February 25th, 2016 (Guest Speaker, Funded by the Job and Gertrud Tamaki Professorship)
Markos Kounalakis, President & Publisher emeritus Washington Monthly
Perspectives and Tips on Bridging
Thursday March 3rd, 2016 (UW-QUAL Guest Speaker)
James Pfeiffer, Professor, Global Health/Anthropology/Health Services, UW
Ethnographic Research on Religion and Health in Africa
Spring Quarter:
Thursday April 7th, 2016
Seonhee Kim: Turning the Tables: Dynamics of Street Politics in Russia
Invited Faculty: Scott Radnitz, Glennys Young, Robert Pekkanen
Thursday April 21st, 2016
12:30 – 1:25 P.M.
Oded Oron: The Right to Have Rights
Invited Faculty: Kathie Friedman, Noam Pianko, Kristian Ulrichsen
Thursday April 28th, 2016 (Carnegie-Related IPI Guest Speaker)
Sean Connell, Director of Business Recruitment at the Economic Development Association of Skagit County, Washington State
Finding and Connecting to Local Stakeholders
Thursday May 5th, 2016 (UW-QUAL Guest Speaker)
Gina Neff, Associate Professor, Communication, UW
Studying the Future: Doing Ethnographic Research of Emerging Consumer Technologies for Health
Thursday May 12th, 2016 (Student Speaker)
Donghui Park: Cyber Security and South Korea’s Military Strategy
Invited Faculty: Dan Chirot, Clark Sorensen, Yong Chool Ha,Don Hellman
Thursday May 19th, 2016 (Guest Speaker)
Jaren Price, JSIS Asia Pacific Military Fellow
[Presentation on Research]
Thursday May 26th, 2016
12:30 – 1:25 P.M.
Ozgur Ozkan: ISIS, Kurds and Impasse of Turkey’s National Security
Invited Faculty: Resat Kasaba, Devin Naar, Noam Pianko, Kristian Ulrichsen