Fall 2025 Wednesday Seminar Series
The Seminar Series, now over 40 years old, invites scholars from around the world to share their work in a formal lecture, which is followed by a rigorous question and answer session.
The Fall 2025 seminars will be hosted by Dr. Natalya Naumenko and Dr. Jonathan Schulz, and coordinated by Lisa Hill-Corley and Kashiff A. Thompson. All papers made available will be posted on this site for downloading. For more information, email the Center: kthomp7@gmu.edu
Seminars will be held from 12 - 1:15pm in Carow Hall, which is on George Mason University's Fairfax campus. A light lunch for seminar participants will be available at 11:30 am.
If you would like to be included on our mailing list for Seminar announcements please email the Center at: kthomp7@gmu.edu
| 9/10 |
Natalya Naumenko, George Mason University Presentation: American Relief and the Soviet Famine of 1921–1922 |
| 9/17 | NO Seminar |
| 9/24 |
Omer Ozak, Southern Methodist University Presentation: (De facto) Historical Ethnic Borders and Contemporary Conflict in Africa |
| 10/1 |
Carl Kitchens, Florida State University Presentation: Human Capital Decisions in Resource Booms: Evidence for the Role of Dynamic Complementarities |
| 10/8 |
NO Seminar |
| 10/15 |
Pablo Balan, Tel Aviv University Presentation: Family Ties as Corporate Power |
| 10/22 |
John Horton, MIT |
| 10/29 |
Felipe Valencia-Caicedo, Brown University |
| 11/5 |
Vincent Geloso, George Mason University |
| 11/12 |
Saumitra Jha, Stanford University |
| 11/19 |
Yang Xie, UC Riverside |
| 11/26 |
Thanksgiving Break - NO Seminar |
| 12/3 |
Leander Heldring, Northwestern University |