Previous events

Job talk. Jonas Casper is a PhD Student, Department of Economics LMU Munich. He will present the paper "Unproductive Exporters."

Join us for a CIMS lecture with Dr. Anne Likuski, senior researcher at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI).

Helle Nystad presents and discusses findings from her PhD project on linguistic norms and variation in adolescents¡¯ digital social writing.

Our new PhD candidate Farid Manouchehrian will present his research project on Ingmar Bergman's film adaptations of Ibsen's plays.

Job talk. Yating Yuan is a PhD candidate, University of Warwick. She will present the paper "Costless Coordination through Public Contracting."

Job talk. Pia Ennuschat is a PhD Student in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She will present the paper "Targeted Information Design. Shaping monopolistic markets with heterogeneous consumers."

The state of the field: A panel conversation on theoretical and methodological developments in disconnection studies. Where have we been and where are we going?

Job talk. Hyungmin Park is a PhD candidate in the Department of Economics at the University of Warwick. He will present the paper "Divergence of Modernization."

Job talk. Ignacio Marra de Arti?ano is a PhD candidate at the Universit¨¦ Libre de Bruxelles and ECARES. He will present the paper "The Labor Market Effects of Multinational Entry."

Join us for a CIMS roundtable seminar with Professor Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi and Senior Lecturer Samad Josef Alavi, both from Middle East Studies at IKOS.

Job talk. Edward Jee is a PhD candidate in the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He will present the paper "Traps and Transfers."

Join us for a seminar discussion of debates about improvement in Eighteenth-Century Europe.

Job talk. Mikael M?kimattila is a PhD student in Economics at Aalto University. He will present the paper "Inequality-Aware Regulation."?

The centre leadership will present the aims and plans of the Centre for the Use of Norwegian as an Academic Language, followed by presentations by two MA students who are recipients of the centre¡¯s master¡¯s project grants. The centre presentation will be in English, while the student presentations will be in Norwegian.

Seminar by Associate Professor Johan Christensen, Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University.

Job talk. Anders Yding is a Ph.D. Candidate in Economics at U.C. Berkeley. He will present the paper "The Macroeconomic Effects of Defense Spending News."

Job talk. Marta Guasch-Rusi?olis is a PhD Candidate in Economics at the London School of Economics. She will present the paper "Debt Without Investment."

Isabell Burmester presents her paper Whose legitimacy? The EU's external security role and Local Perceptions in Armenia and Moldova at the Tuesday Seminar on 13 January 2026.

Job talk. Max Marczinek is a PhD (DPhil) student in Economics at the University of Oxford. He will present the paper "Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague."

NCMBM, as part of its International Seminar series, will be welcoming David Kent, from the University of York, and Julia Skokowa, from University Hospital T¨¹bingen.

Job talk. Carolina Kansikas is a PhD candidate in Economics at the University of Warwick. She will present the paper "Carbon and Coordination: Incentives and Local Institutions in Conservation Policy."

Job talk. Bence Bard¨®czy is a Senior Economist in the Macroeconomic and Quantitative Studies Section of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve. He will present the paper "Monopsony Power and the Transmission of Monetary Policy."

Job talk. Morten H?varstein is a postdoc at the Department of Economics, University of Chicago. He will present the paper "Substitution and income effects of labor income taxation¡±.

This seminar will be based on Marc Lynch¡¯s recent book, America¡¯s Middle East: The Ruination of a Region (Hurst, 2025).