CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

12^th Annual California Graduate Student Conference

University of California, Irvine
Jack W. Peltason Center for the Studyof Democracy
Social & Behavioral Sciences Gateway (SBSG) 1321
Saturday, May 7, 2015
8:30 a.m. –5:00 p.m.

 

SATURDAY, MAY 7

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:30 am

PANEL I: Creating and Constraining Spaces for Political Engagement

Chair: Davin Phoenix (Department of Political Science, UCI) Discussant: Yang Su (Department of Sociology, UCI) Pernilla Johansson / Stacey Liou (UCI) – Public Spheres on the Move: Studying Democratic Embodied Practices through Biking Geoff Upton (UC Berkeley) - Democracy and the Law of Hospitality: Lessons for the refugee Crisis and the Sharing Economy

Discussant: Louis DeSipio (Department of Political Science, UCI) Genna Beckenhaupt (UCI) – Muffled Voices: How Intersectionality Affects Political Participation Recruitment Jonathan Cervas (UCI), Angela Ocampo (UCLA) – Representation of Non-Eligible Resident Populations in Legislative Bodies Spencer Lindsay (Cal State Univ. Long Beach) – Tyranny of the Majority: Racial Homogeneity and Drug Crimes

10:30 am - 10:45 am

BREAK

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

PANEL II: Structuring Engagement, Ordering Attitudes

Chair: Davin Phoenix (Department of Political Science, UCI) Discussant: Michael Tesler (Department of Political Science, UCI) Matheus Mazzilli Pereira (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) – From Public Health to Homophobia: Grievance Transformation in Interactions Between LGBT Activists and the Brazilian State Angela Ocampo (UCLA) – A Sense of belonging: Habitual Voting Among Latinos Shyam Sriam (UCSB) – Trends in American Public Opinion Towards Refugees and Immigrants: A Meta Analysis

Discussant: Davin Phoenix (Department of Political Science, UCI) Lea Heyne (University of Zurich, Zurich) – Which Kind of Democracy for Whom? Explaining Citizen’s Expectations from Democracy Navid Yousfian (UC Santa Barbara) – A State of Exemption: LGBT Securitization and Military Service in Iran

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

LUNCH

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm

PANEL III: Distributing Resources , Demanding Power

Chair: Davin Phoenix (Department of Political Science, UCI) Discussant: Dorothy Solinger (Department of Political Science, UCI) Brian Denny (UCI) – Comparing Political Communities in Hong Kong and Taiwan Lucas Okado (Universidade Federal do Parana, Brazil) – Protest Actions in Developing Countries: The Case of Brazil

Discussant: Graeme Boushey (Department of Political Science, UCI) Katelyn Finley (UCI) – Factors Explaining Variation in Levels of Income Redistribution Across Former Communist Countries Matt Pearce (UCI) – Democratic Influences of Internet Expansion Sam Power (Univ. of Sussex, UK) – Party funding and Corruption in Great Britain and Denmark: Contexts and Considerations

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm

BREAK

3:00 pm - 5:00 pm

PANEL IV: Redefining roles and the Bounds of Democracy

Chair and Discussant: Davin Phoenix (Department of Political Science, UCI) Sarah Manski (UCSB) – A New Global Economic Polity & Co-Construction a Global Commonwealth Tiffany Williams (UCI) – Is the Responsibility to Protect Undermining International Democracy?

Discussant: Louis DeSipio (Department of Political Science, UCI) Pernilla Johansson (UCI) – Postconflict Democratization Partnerships: The Role of the International Nicolas de Zamaróczy (USC) - The Political Economy of the East African Community: Elite Coalitions Competing for the Money

CONFERENCE AGENDA - Download Agenda