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 Xi, UC Riverside
11/26	Thanksgiving Break - NO Seminar
12/3	Leander Heldring, Northwestern University