Wednesday Research Series
Date | Speaker | Presentation |
| January 27 | Federica Carugati* Ostrom Workshop, Political Science Department, and Maurer School of Law, IU | “Constitution and Coordination: Law, Democratic Consolidation, and Economic Development in the Aftermath of War in Classical Athens” Abstract/Bio |
| February 3 | Tomas Nonnenmacher* Department of Economics, Allegheny College | “Institutions and Property Rights” Abstract/Bio |
| February 17 | Junaid Alam Memon* Pakistan Institute of Development Economics, Islamabad | “Aligning Property Rights Regimes with Newly Emerging Demands from Natural Resources Management: A Case of Indus Delta Mangroves” Abstract/Bio |
| February 24 | Kirk Harris PhD student, Department of Political Science, IU | “Kenya’s Constituency Development Fund and the Politics of Resource Allocation”Abstract/Bio |
| March 2 | Cristina Adams* School of Arts, Sciences and Humanities, University of São Paulo, Brazil | “Governing a Layered Territory: Overlapping Property Rights and Mismatching Incentives in Afro-Brazilian Territories”Abstract/Bio |
| March 9 | James Scott Department of Political Science, Yale University | Roundtable Session: States, Statelessness, and Self-Organizing Governance Institutions Abstract/Bio |
| March 16 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 30 | Cathryn Johnson PhD student, Department of Political Science, IU | “French Colonial Legacies and Contemporary Associational Life: Women’s Participation in Community Life and Local Government in Mali and Burkina Faso”Abstract/Bio |
| April 6 | Kurt Waldman Postdoctoral Research Associate, Ostrom Workshop | “The Impact of Farmers’ Perceptions of Rainfall Uncertainty on Hybrid Maize Seed Choice”Abstract/Bio |
| April 13 | Emma McDonell PhD student, Department of Anthropology, IU | “Creating Local Quinoas for a Global Marketplace: Geographic Indications, Collective Actions, and the Symbolic Commons in Peru and Bolivia’s Quinoa Territorialization Projects”Abstract/Bio |
| April 20 | Maiko Nishi* Urban Planning, Columbia University | “Multi-Level Governance of Agricultural Landscapes in Japan: Perceptions of Farmland and Property Rights Re-Arrangements”Abstract/Bio |
| April 27 | Frans de Vries* Department of Economics, University of Stirling, Scotland | “Transaction Costs, Communication, and Spatial Coordination in Payment for Ecosystem Services Schemes”Abstract/Bio |
| May 9 | Nadine Schröder* Department of Resource Economics, Humboldt University Berlin | “The Lens of Polycentricity: Identifying Polycentric Governance Systems Illustrated through Examples from the Field of Water Governance”Abstract/Bio |
* Indicates Ostrom Workshop Visiting Scholar