9:30 – 10:00
Welcome Message and Light Breakfast
(Sociology Department Lobby)
10:00 – 11:45
Panel 1: The Politics of State Policy
(Departmental Conference Room – 4156)
John Clegg and Adaner Usmani (NYU)
"The Racial Politics of Mass Incarceration: Public Opinion and Black Elected Officials"
Madhavi Cherian (NYU)
“Are You Poor Enough? Implications of means testing for Inequality and Social Citizenship”
Ihsan Ercan Sadi (NYU)
“Governments, Banks, and Public Debt: Political Stability in the Age of Global Capitalism”
Moderator: Professor David Garland
11:45 – 1:30
Panel 2A: Environment, Housing and Urban Space
(Departmental Conference Room – 4156)
Valentina Abufhele (New School for Social Research)
“The production of gray spaces of informality: squatter settlements in Santiago de Chile”
Samuel Dinger (NYU)
“Race and Neighborhood Preference: Evidence from the 2000 General Social Survey”
Thomas Corcoran (CUNY Brooklyn)
“Disaster Response in the Crisis City: Volunteer Work as an Authentic Urban Experience”
Moderator: Professor Colin Jerolmack
Panel 2B: Economic Development, Integration and Globalization
(Memorial Room – 4130)
Douglas de Toledo Piza (New School for Social Research)
“Desired Globalization: Governing the Flow of Products and People”
Max Holleran (NYU)
“Europe's Exploding Edges: the Social Response to 2008 'Crisis Landscapes' in Coastal Spain Bulgaria”
Gozde Guran (Princeton University)
“Expert Networks in Economic Development”
Keerati Chenpitayaton (New School for Social Research)
“Between Methodological Nationalism and Globalism: Thai Modernizing State in the 19th-Century Global Connections and Flows”
Moderator: Professor Vivek Chibber
1:30 – 2:30
Lunch Break
(Sociology Department Lobby)
2:30 – 4:15
Panel 3A: Forms of Capital - Human, Social and Financial
(Memorial Room – 4130)
Robert Riggs (NYU)
“A Network Approach to Social Reintegration: Prison-Forged Social Ties and Network Inequality among Men in Transition from Prison to Community”
Angelina Grigoryeva (Princeton University)
“Household Financial Practices and Wealth Accumulation in the Era of Mass-Participatory Finance and Growing Inequality”
Zehao Wang (NYU)
“What factors influence men to be homemaker-oriented?”
Kuang-Ting Chang, Nina Siman, Giselle Ruballos and Yiwan Ye (NYU)
“Impact of Relationship Stability on Degree Completion among Mothers: Woe or Blessing?”
Moderator: Professor Amanda Geller
Panel 3B: Public Opinion, Social Movements and Policy
(Departmental Conference Room – 4156)
Ned Crowley (NYU)
“Determinants of Issue Salience: American Public Opinion of Budget Deficits and Debt from 2007 to 2012”
Winston Chou (Princeton University)
“The Effect of Terrorism on Support for European Integration: Three Natural Experiments”
Nada Matta (NYU)
“The Egyptian Uprising: Youth Labor and the Muslim Brotherhood”
Moderator: Professor Jeff Manza
4:30 – 5:30
Keynote Speech
(Departmental Conference Room – 4156)
Dylan Riley (UC Berkeley)
"Fascism and Bourgeois Revolution: A Reconsideration"