Conference Program

8:20 am - 8:40 am
Light buffet breakfast

8:40 am - 8:45 am
WELCOME 
Professor Ruth O’Brien

8:45 am - 10:15 am
Panel:   Comparative Politics
Chair:    Professor Yan Sun
Papers:                
Lindsay Green-Barber: “Technological Globalization and Indigenous Mobilization”
Jennifer Mueller: “Mozambique’s Successful Transition to Democracy: Role Model or Cautionary Case?”
Elham Seyedsayamdost: “Containing Dissent in Iran: Elections, Strategies and Defiance”
Muhammad Kabir: “A Nebulous Nexus: The Emergence of a Mercenary Democracy in Bangladesh”

10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Panel:  Public Policy and Public Administration
Chair:    Professor Christa Altenstetter
Papers:       
Bobbi Gentry: "American Immigrant Integration: Alienation and Immigration Policy”
Robert Domanski: "Who Governs the Internet? Emerging Policies, Institutions, & Governance of Cyberspace”
Jean-Baptiste Velut: "Free Traders, Fair Traders and the Contentious Reopening of China"
Utku Sezgin: "The Right Move: The Radical Right and Its Impact on the Political Mainstream in Western
Europe"

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Light buffet lunch

1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Panel:   American Politics
Chair:    Professor Andrew Rich
Papers:
Ben Epstein: “Putting Down New Roots: Grassroots, Netroots, and African Americans Political Engagement”
Jeff Broxmeyer: “The ‘Revanchist’ Economy: Neoliberal Prison and the Social Regulation of Labor”
Jamie Chandler: “What Elite Effect? American Public Opinion During Times of War, 1964-2008”
Jen Gaboury & Dan Skinner: “Douglass and Brown: At the Intersections of Race, Manhood, and Women’s Liberation”

2:45 pm - 4:15 pm
Panel:   Political Theory
Chair:    Professor Joan Tronto
Papers:
Patricia Stapleton: “Motherhood as Masquerade: The Future of the Feminist Movement?”
Max Burkey: “Cultural Theory & Rational Choice in Political Science: Lessons from Cultural Sociology”
Arthur Beckman: “Anti-PowerPoint”
Peter Kolozi: “The Conservative Critique of Capitalism in American Political Thought”

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Panel:   International Politics
Chair:    Professor Jaqui Braveboy-Wagner
Papers:
Aaron Ibur: “Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect: Is Real Accountability Possible?”
Michael Busch: "United Nations Security Council Debates over American Claims to Preemptive Self-Defense: The Power of the Better Argument"
Nayma Qayum: "Democratic States and Conflict: Explaining Conflict Behavior in the General Assembly"
Claire Hobden: “Indigenous Rights Strategies in Latin America: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Inter-American System of Human Rights"