2023 Conference
The tenth annual Young Scholars Conference schedule is listed below.
Session 1
Discussant: Neal Caren, University of North Carolina, Presider: Luiz Vilaça, University of Notre Dame
Shaonta’ E. Allen. Dartmouth College. "Performing and Policing Woke Politics: Oppositional Consciousness in the Black Lives Matter Era."
Stephen Wulff. University of Minnesota. "From 2008 to Post-George Floyd: Fiscal Justice Activism, Police Misconduct Payouts, and the Reconstruction of Minneapolis’s Self-Insurance Financial History."
Jeff T. Sheng. University of Michigan. "Secrecy in Protest: Underground Social Movements in the Age of the Internet."
Weijun Yuan. University of California-Irvine. "Inter-organizational dynamics within a contested field."
Session 2
Discussant: Ziad Munson, Lehigh University, Presider: Kenadi Silcox, University of Notre Dame
Di Wang. University of Wisconsin. "Affective Accompaniment: Caring for the Iterative Transformation of LGBTQ Activists in China."
Kanoko Kamata. University of Pittsburgh. "How Movement Practices Overcome the Socio-Political Repression: The Anti-Sexual Violence Flower Demo Movement in Japan."
Minyoung Kim. University of California-Irvine. "Evolving Emotion, Situated Context, and Movement Activism: The Case of Grieved Families in South Korea."
Session 3
Discussant: Deana Rohlinger, Florida State Univeristy, Presider: Jamya Robinson, University of Notre Dame
Melanie Brazzell. University of California-Santa Barbara. "Carceral Feminist Co-optation & Transformative Justice (Re)vitalization of the Anti-Violence Movement."
Rina James. University of Arizona. "Migrants of the Manosphere: Accounting for User Trajectories Across Male Supremacist Spaces."
Kristen L. Miller. The City University of New York, Graduate Center. "Minoritarian Performance Art and Social Change."
Session 4
Discussant: David Meyer, University of California, Irvine, Presider: Roger Cadena, University of Notre Dame
Benjamin S. Case. Arizona State University. "Democratizing Democracy? Ballot Initiatives between Movements and Politicians."
David J. Knight. Columbia University. "Becoming a Politicized Prisoner."
Sehrazat G. Mart. University of Notre Dame. "At What Cost? The Strategic and Moral Dilemmas of Anti-Authoritarian Struggle."