Join the Andrea Mitchell Center for its 19th Annual Undergraduate Conference. This conference brings together emerging scholars to explore pressing questions at the intersection of environment, politics, and law. Across panels on environmental reckoning, political transformation, and legal change, participants examine how institutions and societies respond to evolving global challenges, engaging in critical dialogue with faculty discussants.

See below for the schedule and the names of the papers being presented:

9:30AM-10:45AM: Environmental Reckoning

Mia McElhatton: "Conceptualizing Climate-Induced Internal Displacement: An Institutional and Political Approach"
Keanu Natan: "Decoding Vitamin D Status Across Africa: Biopolitics and a Genetically and Environmentally Stratified Biobank"

Discussant: Carol Hager, Professor of Environmental Studies and Political Science and Chair of Environmental Studies, Bryn Mawr College

11AM-12:30PM: Dynamics of Political Change

Syed Shah: "The Burden of Rule: Managing Violence through Cohesion, Balance of Power, and Political Judgement in Islamic Political Thought"
Tasneem Reza: "How Democracies Exclude: Mechanisms of Citizenship and Boundary-Making in India, Iran, Canada, and Malaysia"
Eric Yang: "The Effect of Taiwan’s Economic Development on Democratization"

Discussant: Juman Kim, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Towson University

12:30PM-1:00PM: LUNCH

1:00PM-2:30PM: Revolutions in Law

Noah Milad: "The Fate of the Stars: Power, Legitimacy, and the Governance of Outer Space"
Norah Rami: "The Body Captured for All to See: Non-Consensual Intimate Images, Deepfakes, and Gender as Property"
Eric Ryu: "Lectures of the 'Metaphysical' Scots: The Educational Influence of the Scottish Enlightenment on the Early Americas"

Discussant: Rafael Khachaturian, Lecturer in Critical Writing and Political Science, University of Pennsylvania