CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

14^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 12, 2018
8:30 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
 

SATURDAY, MAY 12

 

8:30 am - 9:00 am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am - 10:30 am

PANEL I: Immigration, Immigrants, and Civil Society

Chair & Discussant: Louis DeSipio (Department of Chicano/Latino Studies)   Maneesh Arora (UCI) – Cycles of Prejudice: Explicit Appeals in the Donald Trump Era   Estefania Castaneda Perez (UCLA) – Transborder (In)Securities: Cross-Border Commuters’ Perceptions of Policing at the Mexico-U.S. Border   Sevin G. Sagnic (UCSD) – Dangerous Liaisons: Is Migration Governance and Opportunity for Democratization or a Trap for Civil Society

10:30 am - 10:45 am

BREAK

10:45 am - 12:15 pm

PANEL II: Institutions of Diversity and Inclusion in the Advanced Democracies

Chair: Carole Uhlaner (Department of Political Science, UCI) Discussant: Louis DeSipio (Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, UCI) & Carole Uhlaner   Jessica Cabrera (UCI) – Responsible Employees Question the Title IX System: When Civil Rights Programs Adopt Legal Logics and Blend with Power Interests   Nathan Chan (UCI) – Bonding Social Capital in Ideologically Homogeneous Churches: An Analysis of Asian American Churches and Congregants' Political Participation   Nathan Cisneros (UCI) – The Regulation of Irregular Work in Japan: From Collusion to Conflict

12:15 pm - 1:15 pm

LUNCH

1:15 pm - 2:45 pm

Panel III: Developing the Institutions of and Resources for Democratic Governance

Chair & Discussant: Yang Su (Department of Sociology, UCI)   Selin Karabulut (UCSB) – The Impact of Democratic Sanctions on Leaders   Kim Seodong (CGU) – Developmental States’ Social Cleavages on the Conservative Party Dominance: Why Did Developmental States’ Social and Political Cleavages Structure One Party Dominance in the Center-Right, Not the Centrist Position?   Ugurcan Evci (UCI) – Information – Communication Technologies and Democracy: The Analysis of the Impact of the Internet on Changes in Democracy Levels

CONFERENCE AGENDA -

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