PANEL 1 / 9:30-10:45 am / Education, Politics, and Cultural Conflicts

Grace CHOI (Philosophy & Political Science)
“School Violence and Political Efficacy: Understanding the Political Identity of Southeast Asian High School Students in Philadelphia”

Sarah ENGELL (History)
“Replacing Periods with Question Marks: A Study of the Role of Public Education in Kanawha County, West Virginia”

Discussant: Sigal BEN-PORATH (Penn GSE)

PANEL 2 / 11 am-12:30 pm / Minorities and Morality in Changing Societies

Nicolas GARCIA (Political Science)
"The Impact of the Changing Faith of Latinos on American National Politics"

Marco HERNDON (Urban Studies)
"Soy Moderno y No Quiero Locas: Civil Unions and Transnationalism in Lima, Perú"

Discussant: Emilio PARRADO (Sociology and LALS)

PANEL 3 / 1:15-2:30 pm / Orthodoxies and Political Transformations

Ethan LAFRANCE (Political Science & MMES)
“Ghosts of Generals Past: Turkish Constitutional Reform and Regime Dynamics in the Post-Kemalist Era”

Arjun MALIK (Political Science & Economics) and Hani WARITH (Political Science & Philosophy)
“The Post-Arab Spring Socio-Political Experience of Egypt’s Irreligious”

Discussant: Heather SHARKEY (Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations)

PANEL 4 / 2:45-4:00 pm / Foreign Policy and Politics in the Early American Republic

Varun MENON (History & Premed)
“One Nation Overseas: The Statecraft of the United States Congress in the Age of Democratic Revolutions”

Aaron SENIOR (History & Political Science)
“The Fallacy of the Ideological Press: How American National Newspapers Reacted to the French Revolution from 1789 to 1793”

Discussant: John J. DiIulio (Political Science)