2024 Conference
2024 Young Scholars in Social Movements Conference session lineup.
All sessions will be held in Jenkins/Nanovic Hall, room B101. Friday, October 18, 2024.
Session 1. (9:00 AM to 10:40 PM) Presider: Clare Bath, University of Notre Dame.
Discussant Phillip M. Ayoub. University College London
Laura Acosta. Brown University. “Reinventing the Nation’s Fault Line: The Imagined Third and a Self-Fulfilling Prophesy in Mid-Twentieth Century Colombia’s Civil War”
Luis Rubén González Márquez. University of California, Merced. “Direct and Indirect Social Movement Outcomes in the Political Economic Process. Megaprojects in Developing Nations.”
Saber Khani. Boston College. “From Fields to Streets: Oil Industry and Fuel Unarmed Protests.”
Natalie Bourman-Karns. University of Notre Dame. “Negotiating Roles: Allies and Spontaneous Leaders at Social Movement Events”
Session 2. (10:55 AM to 12:20 PM). Presider Juliette Ni, University of Notre Dame.
Discussant Sidney G. Tarrow. Cornell University
Finn L. Klebe. University College London. “Accomplice or Spoiler? Assessing the Logic of Formal and Informal Alliances During Times of Repression.”
Kennedy Chi-pan Wong. University of Southern California. “Multipolar Politics: The Dynamics of Anti-Autocracy Coalition.”
Weijun Yuan. University of California, Irvine. “Unmaking Boundaries: Inter-faction Dynamics During the 2019 Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Protests.”
Session 3. (1:30 PM to 3:00 PM) Presider Kenadi Silcox, University of Notre Dame.
Discussant David A. Snow. University of California, Irvine
Catharina O’Donnell. Harvard University. “Capturing the GOP: The Trump Movement Inside the Republican Party Organization.”
Jack Wippell. The Ohio State University. “Morals, Money and Mobilization: How Value-Based Narratives Shape Donations to Fringe Social Movements.”
Matt Brooke. Harvard University. “The Overlooked Organizational Basis of the Christian Right’s Power: How Media, Advocacy Groups, and Churches Work Together to Shape Culture and Public Policy.”
Session 4. (3:15 PM to 5:00 PM) Presider Fabián Diaz Maldonado, University of Notre Dame.
Discussant Martin Portos. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Davyd Setter. The University of New Mexico. “What We Talk about When we Talk about Defunding: Competing Definitions of and Responses to ‘Defunding the Police’ among the American Public.”
Willa Sachs. Yale University. "Taking Rights By Any Means Necessary: The Black Panther Party and the Unlikely Union of Performative Politics, Socialism, and Constitutional Law, 1966-1971"
Nona Gronert. Colgate University. “Between Policymakers and Protestors: The process of Movement Institutionalization at State University, 1972-2017.”
Roberta S. Pamplona. University of Toronto. “Racialized Remembering: A Comparison of State and Activists Narratives of Gender-Based Violence in Brazil.”