Northeastern Political Science Association
2006 Annual Meeting
Omni Parker Hotel in
CONFERENCE PANELS
Summary List by
Section
Last Update: Wednesday, November 08, 2006
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Section
A - CONGRESS, PRESIDENCY, AND THE COURTS Chair: Brigid C. Harrison, |
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Panel |
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Time |
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A1 |
Presidential Elections
and Their Impact |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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A2 |
Analyzing the
Presidency |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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A3 |
The Presidency and The
Media |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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A4 |
Analyzing Congress |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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A5 |
Congressional
Elections and Representation |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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A6 |
Judges and the
Judicial Process |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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A7 |
Courts and the
Constitution |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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A8 |
Roundtable: The American Constitution and the Supreme
Court in a World at War: Past Lessons and
Future Developments |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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Section
B - STATE-LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND INTERGOVERNMENTAL RELATIONS Chair: Joseph R. Marbach,
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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B1 |
Administrative Issues
in States and Localities |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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B2 |
State and Local
Electoral Issues: Domestic and International |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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B3 |
Issues in Local
Governance |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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B4 |
Local Government in |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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Section
C - PARTIES, INTEREST GROUPS, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND ELECTORAL BEHAVIOR Co-Chairs: Garrison
Nelson, Douglas
Harris,
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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C1 |
Progressivism and Its
Contemporaneous Critics |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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C2 |
Votes and Service
among American Youth: Then and Now |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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C3 |
Voting Turnout: Prospects and Problems |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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C4 |
Measuring Political
Continuity and Change |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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C5 |
State Legislative
Committees and Members |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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C6 |
Party Development in
Historic Perspective |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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C7 |
The 2000 and 2004 Elections Revisited |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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C8 |
Social Movements: A Comparative Perspective |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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C9 |
New Political Tools
for a New Century |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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C10 |
Motives for Political
Action: Collective and Individual |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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C11 |
Organized Labor and
National Politics |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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C12 |
The
Values of Polls and the Polls of Value |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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C13 |
Money and Media
Matters |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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C14 |
Roundtable: Hindsight is 20/20: Assessing the 2006 Congressional Election
Forecasts |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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C15 |
Roundtable: The 2006 Congressional Elections: What Happened and Why |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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C16 |
Roundtable: The 2008 Presidential Election: Strategy and Organization |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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C17 |
Roundtable: The 2008 Presidential Election: Media and Fundraising |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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Section
D - PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION Chair: |
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Panel |
Title |
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Time |
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D1 |
Belief Systems and
Policy Formation |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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D2 |
Policy Discourses and
the Art of the Possible |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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D3 |
States, Localities,
and Policy Innovation |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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Section
E - AMERICAN POLITICAL THOUGHT Chair: David Alvis,
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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E1 |
The Founders
Federalism |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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E2 |
Patriotism and Civic Virtue
in American Political Thought |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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E3 |
Political Action and
American Political Thought in Historical Perspective |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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E4 |
Rethinking the Novus Ordo Seclorum |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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E5 |
The Contemporary
Significance of the Constitutional Executive |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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Section
F - ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY Chair: |
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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F1 |
Rhetoric in Action (Presented by the
Society for Greek Political Thought) |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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F2 |
The Political Animal
Speaks: Aristotle and the Politics of Logos (Presented by the Society for Greek Political Thought) |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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F3 |
Irreconcilable
Differences (?) in Plato and Xenophon (Presented by the
Society for Greek Political Thought) |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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F4 |
The Philosopher and
the City: A Millennium of
Reflection and Rejoinder |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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F5 |
Political Thought in
Jewish Philosophy |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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F6 |
Ancient ideas through
modern eyes |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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F7 |
Plutarch’s
Political Thought |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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F8 |
Plato and the
Political technê |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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F9 |
Plato’s Republic, Past and Present |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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F10 |
Politics in Plato’s
Dialogues |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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F11 |
Problems in Plato’s Republic |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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F12 |
Aristotle’s Political
Thought |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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F13 |
Regimes in Aristotle’s
Politics |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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F14 |
Enduring problems in
ancient and modern thought |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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F15 |
Thomas Aquinas’
Political Thought |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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F16 |
Resacralizing
Political Thought: The Boundaries of the Medieval |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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F17 |
Justice, evil, and
politics in Plato’s thought |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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F18 |
Ancient and modern
comparisons |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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F19 |
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Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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F20 |
Roundtable: The Socratic Paradox and its Enemies,
by Roslyn Weiss ( |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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F21 |
Roundtable: The Household as the
Foundation of Aristotle’s Polis, by D. Brendan Nagle (Cambridge University Press) |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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F22 |
Roundtable: Plato’s Republic: A Study,
by Stanley Rosen (Yale University Press) |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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F23 |
Roundtable: Breaking with |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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Section
G - MODERN POLITICAL THEORY Chair: Diana
Judd, |
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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G1 |
Exploring the
Foundations of Good Government:
Montesquieu on Fate, Fortune, Love, and Empire |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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G2 |
Law, |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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G3 |
Individualism,
Historicism and Freedom |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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G4 |
Nationalism,
Liberalism and Democracy |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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G5 |
Strange
Bedfellows: Secularism, Fundamentalism
and Politics |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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G6 |
Imagination, Will and
Political Pragmatism |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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G7 |
State Sovereignty and
Imperialism in an Age of Globalization |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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G8 |
Autonomy and the
Individual |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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Section
H - CONTINENTAL POLITICAL THOUGHT Chair: David A.
Freeman, |
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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H1 |
Hannah Arendt: Ideas and Opinions |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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H2 |
Nietzsche and Friends |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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H3 |
Suffering and Politics |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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H4 |
Existentialism,
Essentialism, and Language |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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H5 |
Autonomy, Liberal
Democracy, and Globalization |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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H6 |
Reason, Solidarity,
and Immigration in the 21st Century |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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H7 |
The Secular and the
Temporal: Reason and Faith |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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H8 |
Threads of Political
Theory |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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Section
I - DEMOCRATIC THEORY Chair: Sharon
Fingerer-Goldman,
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Title |
Day |
Time |
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I1 |
The construction of
citizenship |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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I2 |
Global Culture and
Identity |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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I3 |
Deliberative Democracy |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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I4 |
Obligations and
Demands of Citizenship |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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I5 |
Dewey, Democracy, and
Power |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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I6 |
Underlying Foundations
of Democracy |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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Section
J - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (with International Studies Association
–Northeast) NPSA Co-Chair: Francine
D'Amico, ISA-NE Co-Chair: Rosemary E. Shinko, |
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Time |
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J1 |
Popular Culture, Identities
and Public Narration |
Friday |
3:35-5:15 |
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J2 |
New and Improved: Discussing Security Studies |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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J3 |
The Doctor is in the
House: Science Fiction and
International Relations |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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J4 |
Using Images: Media and (Re)presentations in IR |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J5 |
The Construction of
European Security |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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J6 |
Human Rights
Challenges in |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J7 |
Women and Terrorism |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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J8 |
Feminist IR Theory |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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J9 |
Islam, Democracy, and
Radicalism |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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J10 |
Institutional Design
in Conflict Management: From
Prevention to Peace building |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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J11 |
The Politics of Food
Insecurity |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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J12 |
The EU and
Democratization in |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J13 |
How the Leviathan Got
Its Sight |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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J14 |
Terrorism: Causes and Consequences |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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J15 |
Continuity and Change
in US Foreign Policy |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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J16 |
US Intelligence and
Strategy I |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J17 |
Framing US Foreign Policy |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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J18 |
Critical IPE I |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J19 |
Critical IPE II |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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J20 |
Transnational Actors
and Social Movements |
Saturday |
2:30-3:45 |
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J21 |
Constructing IR Theory |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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J22 |
Democratic Peace? |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J23 |
IR Theory |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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J24 |
Nuclear Politics |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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J25 |
The Politics of
Foreign Aid |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J26 |
Identity and Security |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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J27 |
International Regimes
and Norms |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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J28 |
Global Ethics and
Human Rights |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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J29 |
The International
Criminal Court |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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J30 |
International Legal Issues
I |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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J31 |
International Legal
Issues II |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J32 |
IGOs and
Multilateralism |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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J33 |
"The State"
and Sovereignty |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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J34 |
Chinese International
Relations |
Thursday |
7:45-9:15 |
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J35 |
Security Issues |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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J36 |
Global Health Issues |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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J37 |
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Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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J38 |
Post-Cold War CE
Europe |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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J39 |
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Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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J40 |
European Identity
Politics |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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J41 |
EU Issues I |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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J42 |
Negotiation, Mediation,
Peacemaking |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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J43 |
IPE and Development |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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J44 |
EU Issues II |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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J45 |
Roundtable: International Relations: The State of the Discipline |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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J46 |
Roundtable: War, Oil, Democracy: Combustion or Bust |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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J47 |
ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop: Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies (meets for four consecutive sessions) |
Saturday |
9:00-4:15 |
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J47 |
ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop: Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies |
Saturday |
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J47 |
ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop: Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies |
Saturday |
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J47 |
ISA-NE Graduate Student Workshop: Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies |
Saturday |
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M1 |
Environmental Politics and Policy in an Economically
Liberal World Order (Co-sponsored by Section M, Environmental Politics and
Policy) |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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M2 |
Environmental Policy-Making in the (Co-sponsored by Section M, Environmental Politics and
Policy) |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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Section
K - COMPARATIVE POLITICS Chair: Eric N.
Budd,
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Title |
Day |
Time |
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Roundtable: Flashpoints in the War on Terrorism |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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K3 |
Show Me The
Money: Varieties of Capitalism |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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K4 |
The Politics of
Religion |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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K5 |
Nickel and Dimed: The Politics
of Labor |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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K6 |
Policymaking After the
Collapse of Communism |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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K7 |
After the Fighting
Stops: Peace and Reconciliation in
Comparative Perspective |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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K8 |
The Politics of Gender |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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K9 |
Taking it to the
Streets: People Power |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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K10 |
Democracy in the Wake
of the Collapse of Communism |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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K11 |
Bullets into Ballots: Electoral
Politics and Political Conflict |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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K12 |
Political Change in |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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K13 |
European
Politics: Pressures for Change |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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K14 |
Civil-Military
Relations |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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K15 |
Development Theory |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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K16 |
The Long and |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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Section
L - GENDER, RACE, AND ETHNICITY Chair: Farida Jalalzai, University
of Missouri-Saint Louis |
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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L1 |
Gender and Political
Representation Worldwide |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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L2 |
Race, Parties, and
Political Behavior |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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L3 |
Gender, Race,
Ethnicity and Representation |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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L4 |
Gender, Religion,
Ethnicity and the State |
Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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L5 |
Challenges of
Migration, Assimilation, and Ethnic Diversity |
Saturday |
9:00-10:30 |
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Section
M - ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICY Chair: Paul A.
Barresi,
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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M1 |
Environmental Politics and Policy in an Economically
Liberal World Order (co-sponsored by ISA-NE) |
Friday |
9:30-11:00 |
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M2 |
Environmental Policy-Making in the |
Friday |
11:15-12:45 |
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M3 |
Environmental Governance for Security, Prosperity, and
Peace |
Friday |
2:30-4:00 |
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M4 |
Location, Location, Location: The Politics of Sitting Controversial
Facilities |
Friday |
7:45-9:15 |
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Section
N - TEACHING, LEARNING, AND THE PROFESSION Chair: John
O'Rorke,
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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N1 |
Innovative Ideas About
Teaching: Who, What, How
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Saturday |
2:15-3:45 |
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N2 |
Workshop: Constructing Good Courses: From Learning Goal to Assessment
(cross-listed with ISA-NE as Active Learning in International Affairs) |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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N3 |
Workshop: Engaging the Millennials: Techniques in Active Learning for a New Generation
of Students (Co-sponsored with ISA-NE
as Active Learning in International Affairs) |
Saturday |
12:30-2:00 |
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N4 |
Integrating Civic Engagement into the Undergraduate
Political Science Curriculum |
Thursday |
3:45-5:15 |
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Section
P – Special Sessions and Prorgams |
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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P1 |
Workshop: Publishing in Professional Journals |
Friday |
4:15-5:45 |
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P2 |
Roundtable: Women In the Profession |
Saturday |
10:45-12:15 |
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Section
Q - POPULAR CULTURE AND POLITICS Chair: Kevan M. Yenerall,
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Panel |
Title |
Day |
Time |
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Q1 |
War, Popular Culture
and the American Experience: Imagery, Attitudes,
and Political Psychology from |
Thursday |
10:45-12:15 |
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Q2 |
One |
Thursday |
9:00-10:30 |
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Q3 |
Fiction, Television
and the Red-Blue Debate: Framing Foreign
Relations, Shaping the American Imagination |
Thursday |
2:00-3:30 |
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