2013 Conference
The Fourth Annual Young Scholars in Social Movements Conference schedule is below
Session 1
Discussant: Rob Benford, University of South Florida
Amanda Maull. Penn State University. “Regulating the ‘Shale Gas Revolution’: A Comparative Analysis of Environmental Policy Fields.”
Peter B. Owens. University of California at Irvine. “Competitive Contexts, Racial Threat, and Organizing Capacity: Motivational and Pragmatic Contingencies of Civil Rights-Era KKK Mobilization.”
Amanda Pullum. University of California at Irvine. “When Did We Become the Enemy? Defending Teachers’ Collective Bargaining Rights through Strategic Coalitions.”
Session 2
Discussant: Sarah Soule, Stanford University
Daniel S. Blocq. University of Wisconsin. "Formation of Armed Self-Defense Groups during Civil Wars.”
Dana M. Moss. University of California at Irvine. “Repression and Response in an Authoritarian State: The Jordanian Regime’s Tactical Interactions with Reform-Oriented Challengers.”
Atef Shahat Said. University of Michigan. “The Power of Tahrir Square: a Spatio-Cognitive Analysis of Tahrir Protests in the Egyptian Revolution of 2011."
Session 3
Discussant: Catherine Corrigall-Brown, University of Western Ontario
Katherine McFarland Bruce. Wake Forest University. “LGBT Pride Parades as Cultural Protest.”
Alison Dahl Crossley. University of California at Santa Barbara. “Facebook Feminism: U.S. College Students and Social Movement Abeyance.”
Todd Nicholas Fuist. Loyola University. “’The World is not Yet Complete…’: Moral Imaginaries and Everyday Politics in Progressive Communities.”
Laura Nelson. University of California at Berkeley. “Community Service or Political Therapy: Elemental Conceptions of Political Action in the Women's Movements in Chicago and New York City, 1900-1975.”
Session 4
Discussant: John McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University
Phillip Ayoub. Cornell University. “Political Opportunities for LGBT Mobilization: Actors, Opportunities and Mechanisms Driving Transnational Activism in Europe.”
Barry Eidlin. University of Wisconsin. “Just Another ‘Special Interest’: Collective identities and Union Strength in the U.S. and Canada.”
Chan S. Suh. Cornell University. “The Heterogeneous Mobilization of the Guantánamo Lawyers: How Do Birds of a Different Feather Flock Together?”