Schedule

Classes and labs will be held at the FEA (School of Management, Economics and Accounting-FEA) and the FFLCH (School of Philosophy, Letters and the Humanities).  You can view a map here: http://g.co/maps/hau9h.  

The daily schedule will be intense, to ensure that all course material is covered and students have the opportunity to meet other promising scholars from throughout the region. We recommend that all students prepare as much of the course material as possible prior to arriving in São Paulo.

 

January 23-27, 2012*

0900-1200          Refresher Course

1200-1330          Lunch

1330-1700          Refresher Course            

 

*There will be no class on Wednesday, January 25th (Holiday, USP closed)

 

Monday, January 30th

0800-0900          Registration

0900-1000          Opening Ceremony (Auditório at FEA 5)

1000-1030          Visit to FEA and FFLCH classrooms and labs

1030-1200          Class

1230-1400          Lunch

1400-1700          Class

1700-1900          Cocktail (Sala Congregação at FEA)                        

 

Tuesday, January 31st

0900-1200          Class

1200-1330          Lunch

1330-1600          Class     

1600-1800           Late Afternoon Seminar “Voting and Elections I”, Open to the Public, (Auditório at FEA 5) (see program)

                                           

Wednesday, February 1st

0900-1200          Class

1200-1300          Lunch

1300-1400           Information Session “Visiting Scholar and Post Doc Positions Abroad” (Auditório at FEA 5)

1400-1800          Class

 

Thursday, February 2nd

0900-1200          Class

1200-1330          Lunch

1330-1600          Class     

1600-1800           Late Afternoon Seminar “Globalization and Economic Crisis”, Open to the Public, (Auditório at FEA 5) (see program)

 

Friday, February 3rd

0900-1200          Class

1200-1300          Lunch

1300-1400           Information Session “Careers Outside of Academia”

 (Auditório at FEA 5)

1400-1800          Class     

 

No events at USP on February 4th and 5th. USP campus closed to outside visitors.

 

Monday, February 6th

0900-1200          Class

1200-1330          Lunch

1330-1700          Class

1700-19:00         Late Afternoon Seminar: Political Science: The State of the Discipline and the IPSA Encyclopedia     

 

Tuesday, February 7th

0900-1200          Class

1200-1300          Lunch

1300-1400           Information Session “Graduate Studies Abroad”

 (Auditório at FEA 5)

1400-1700          Class     

1900-2030          Offsite Book Launch @Livraria Cultura, Ave. Paulista – IPSA  Encyclopedia

                                           

Wednesday, February 8th

0900-1200          Class

1200-1330          Lunch

1330-1500          Class

1500-1700           Late Afternoon Seminar “Voting and Elections II”, Open to the Public, (Auditório at FEA 5) (see program)

 

Thursday, February 9th

0900-1200          Class

1200-1300          Lunch

1300-1400           Information Session “Publication Strategies”

 (Auditório at FEA 5)

1400-1800          Class

 

Friday, February 10th

0900-1200          Class

1200-1330          Lunch

1330-1600          Class

1600-1800          Closing Ceremony (Auditório at FEA 5)

 

 

Special Lectures Program:

Late Afternoon Lectures

With the exception of the session on Monday, February 6th, all lectures will take place from 4 to 6 p.m.  in the Auditório of Building 5 of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting (FEA). The session on Monday, February 6th will take place from 5 to 7 p.m.

 

Session 1.  Voting and Elections I

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Chair:   Eduardo Marques (University of São Paulo)

"Don't Stand So Close to Me:
Spatial Contagion Effects in the Study of Party Strategy and Economic Voting"

Guy Whitten (Texas A&M University)

“The E-Vote in Brazil“

Ernesto Calvo (University of Maryland), Fernando Limongi (University of São Paulo),

and Fernando Guarnieri (Center for Metropolitan Studies)

 

Session 2.  Globalization and Economic Crisis

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Chair:  Adriana Schor (University of São Paulo)

“The Euro-Crisis: Power and Negotiations in the EU“

Derek Beach (Universtity of Aarhus)

“Explaining Attitudes of Europeans towards EU and globalization in the Context of the Current Economic Situation”

Bruno Cautrès (Sciences Po)

 

Session 3. Political Science: The State of the Discipline and the IPSA Encyclopedia*  

Monday, February 6th, 2012

With comments by Dirk Berg-Schlosser (Philipps University Marburg), Lourdes Sola (University of São Paulo),  José Álvaro Moisés (University of São Paulo), Bruno Cautrès (Science Po) and Max Bergman (University of Basel), organizer and participants of the  International Encyclopedia of Political Science, organized by IPSA (Edited by Bertrand Badie, Dirk Berg-Schlosser Philipps and Leonardo Morlino LUISS Guido Carli, Sage Publications, 2011).

 

Session 4. Voting and Elections II **

Wednesday, February 8th, 2012

Chair: Dirk Berg-Schlosser (Philipps University Marburg)

"Voting in Large Elections: Some Experimental Evidence"

Rebecca Morton (New York University)

“Innovations and Controversies in Survey Research: Some Reflections”

Simon Jackman (Stanford University)

 

*This session will take place from 5 to 7 p.m.

** This session will take place from 3 to 5 p.m.

 

 

Information Sessions (1-2 p.m.)

All information sessions will take place from 1 to 2 p.m.  in the Auditório of Building 5 of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting (FEA) 
 

Information Sessions

All information sessions will take place from 1 to 2 p.m.  in the Auditório of Building 5 of the Faculty of Economics, Management and Accounting (FEA)

 

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Session 1.  Visiting Scholar and Post Doc Positions Abroad

Rebecca Morton  (New York University)

 

Friday, February 3, 2012

Session 2.  Careers Outside of Academia

Clifford Young (IPSOS-Washington)

 

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Session 3.  Graduate Studies Abroad

Inaki Sagarzazu (Nuffield College, University of Oxford) and Simon Jackman (Stanford University)

 

Thursday, February 9, 2012

Session 4.  Publication Strategies

Guy Whitten (Texas A&M University) and Max Bergman (University of Basel)