1737 Cambridge Street Room K262 (Bowie-Vernon Room)

Friday, May 1, 2009
 

2:30-3:00pm Registration

3:00-4:00pm Session 1 - Opening Session

Eric Kaufmann, Reader in Politics & Sociology, Birkbeck College, University of London and Monica Toft, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University --overview of volume and objectives of conference

Jack Goldstone, Hazel Professor and Director of the Center for Global Policy, George Mason University --Comments on themes for the volume

4:15-5:45pm Session 2

Elliot Green, LSE Fellow, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics (paper presenter and discussant for Nordas)

Ragnhild Nordas, Ph.D. candidate, Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (paper presenter and discussant for Green)

Chair: Monica Toft

6:30pm Dinner

Saturday, May 2, 2009

8:30-9:00am Breakfast

9:00-10:30am Session 3

Mark Haas, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Duquesne University (paper presenter and discussant for Sciubba)

Jennifer Sciubba, Mellon Environmental Fellow, Department of International Studies, Rhodes College (paper presenter and discussant for Haas)

Chair: Eric Kaufmann

10:30-10:45am Break

10:45–12:15pm Session 4

Henrik Urdal, Researcher, Centre for the Study of Civil War, International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) (paper presenter and discussant for Toft)

Monica Toft (paper presenter and discussant for Urdal)

Chair: Jack Goldstone

12:15–1:15pm Lunch

1:15-2:45pm Session 5

Richard Cincotta Consulting Demographer, Long Range Analysis Unit, National Intelligence Council, Washington DC (paper presenter and discussant for Leahy)

Elizabeth Leahy, Research Associate, Population Action International, Washington DC (paper presenter and discussant for Cincotta)

Chair: Monica Toft

2:45-3:00pm Break

3:00-4:30pm Session 6

Christian Leuprecht, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Royal Military College of Canada (paper presenter and discussant for Kaufmann and Skirbekk)

Eric Kaufmann and Vegard Skirbekk, Research Scholar, IIASA (International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis)(paper presenters and discussants for Leuprecht)

Chair: Jack Goldstone

4:30-5:00pm Session 7 - Wrap up and future direction

Editors