Fall 2026 Murphy Brown Bag Series: Tariq Basir

Sharing Ideas and Building Community Over Lunch

Faculty Fellow at the Center for Ethics

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Join fellow Murphy affiliates for our Fall Brown Bag Series, featuring informal research presentations and discussions by Murphy scholars. This is a first-hand opportunity for Murphy faculty and affiliates to receive input on new or ongoing projects, collaborate and info-share with peers, and enhance connection among our multidisciplinary community.

The December Brown Bag Lunch will be led by Tariq Basir, political economist and 2026–2027 Visiting Faculty Fellow at The Murphy Institute’s Center for Ethics. His primary research interests lie in political economics and formal theory with applications to revolutions, collective action problem, democratization processes and non-democratic politics. Substantively, he is interested in the study of democratization movements in the MENA region as well as the political economy of governance in Afghanistan. His work uses tools of economics and game theory, incorporating mathematics and formal modeling to explain political processes like democratization and regime change. The driving factor behind his research is to understand political processes in undemocratic regimes and identify the conditions needed to transition into a democracy.

The Fall 2026 Murphy Brown Bag Lunch Series will take place on the first Tuesday of the month from 12 pm -1 pm (unless otherwise noted).

FALL 2026 SCHEDULE:

Open to all Murphy affiliates. If you are interested in sharing your work as part of the Brown Bag Series or have any questions, reach out to Erika Cooperman at ecooperman@tulane.edu. 

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