All panels will be held in the Belfer Case Study Room, S-020, on the lower floor of the Center for Government and International Studies (CGIS), located at 1730 Cambridge Street. (Map)

Download a PDF (44 kb) of the schedule. Presentation topics are subject to change.

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Thursday, February 21

1:00–3:00 p.m. Modernity in Post-Communist Societies

CHAIR: Kristen Looney, Ph.D. candidate in Government

Jordan Baehr (Anthropology), a Samuels Family Research Fellow
Gongkai Mimi: Capitalist Socialization in Communist China

Cherry Miao(Social Studies)
Breaking the iron rice bowl, but entering an iron cage? The changing Chinese danwei system and its impacts

Anton Troianovski (Social Studies)
Playing by new rules: How the Kremlin reined in Russia's anarchic internet and turned it into a propaganda vehicle of its own

3:30–5:30 p.m. Migration and Public Welfare

CHAIR: Michèle Lamont, Robert I. Goldman Professor of European Studies and Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies

Simi Bhat (Environmental Science and Public Policy), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
Environmental identity in internally displaced people of Kashmiri origin

Darja Djordjevic (Anthropology)
Suffering the Systems: Human Rights Discourse, Women Asylum Seekers, Chronic Violence, and the Clinical Rapport at the Comité médical pour les exilés (COMEDE)

Utpal Sandesara (Social Studies)
Markets, medicine, and caste: Health and social suffering among undocumented Mexican immigrant day laborers in suburban New Jersey

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Friday, February 22

9:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Colonial Practices and Legacies

CHAIR: Caroline Elkins, Hugo K. Foster Associate Professor of African Studies

Sakura Christmas (History), a Samuels Family Research Fellow
Drafting Primitivity: The Oroqen in Japanese Manchuria, 1932–1945

Alexandra Jacobs (History), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
La Question des Chefs: Canton Chiefs, Contested Authority, and Rebellion in Colonial Upper Volta, 1934–1946

David Lebowitz (Government), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
Politique indigène: African institutions, ethnic identity and conflict in Rwanda and Burundi

Noah Hertz-Bunzl (History), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
The Tanzam Railway: China and Zambia during the Rhodesian Crisis

Lunch

1:00–3:00 p.m. Youth Culture in the Early 21st Century

CHAIR: Beth Simmons, Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs

Richard Cozzens (Music and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)
An Ethnographic Study of Arab Rap Music in the Eastern Mediterranean Arab World

Caitlin Hartman (Social Studies), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
The efficacy of hip-hop music in inspiring civic engagement and mobilizing the youth in Senegal and whether hip-hop could help NGOs or the government

Rajiv Venkataramanan (Social Studies), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
Lions, Tigers, and People: Forms of Resistance to the Dominant Discourses of Ethnic Hatred and Difference in Sri Lanka

3:30–5:30 p.m. Identity and Economy in Europe

CHAIR: Charles Maier, Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History

Eva Dickerman (History)
Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper: Race, National Belonging and the Quest for Minority Citizenship in Post-Imperial Austria, 1920–1924

Sydney Adam Goldenberg (Social Studies)
Is French Secularism Just?

Tyler Goodspeed (History and Economics)
Rethinking the Keynesian revolution: Keynes, Hayek, and the Wicksell connection

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Saturday, February 23

9:15 a.m.–12:00 p.m. Politics and Society in Comparative Perspective

CHAIR: George Soroka, Ph.D. candidate in Government

Elizabeth Grosso (Social Studies), a Samuels Family Research Fellow
Party Loyalty in the European Parliament

Alexandra Kukunova (Government)
History, norms, and politics: The push and pull for work-family reconciliation policies in France in Spain

Joseph Busa (Social Studies), a Samuels Family Research Fellow
Democratization and the Ecuadorian indigenous movement in Tena, Ecuador

Ariel Huerta (Government)
The fight to enforce Mano Dura anti-gang legislation in El Salvador; a weakness of state and democracy

Lunch

1:00–3:00 p.m. Urbanization and Modernity in Africa

CHAIR: Robert Bates, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government

Alicia Harley (Environmental Science and Public Policy), a Samuels Family Research Fellow
Land and Water Management in Cairo: Analysis of Four Policy Strategies to Promote Sustainable Resource

David Hausman (Social Studies), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
Civil society after political liberalization: Kenya and South Africa

Eric Kouskalis (Sociology), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
The effect of computer availability on educational outcomes in Namibia and South Africa

3:30–5:30 p.m. Religion and Identity

CHAIR: Erez Manela, Dunwalke Associate Professor of American History

Milo Harman (History), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
Falash Mura, a Christian offshoot of Ethiopian Jewry

Neil Sawhney (Social Studies), a Rogers Family Research Fellow
Playing politics: The democratic reorientation of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood

Erika Solomon (History and Literature)
The challenges of developing dual historical narratives in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict