Message from the President
Founded in April 2010, AALIMS reached a milestone at its third anniversary. As a sign of becoming an established organization, we have experienced our first “change of the guard.”
AALIMS-MIT Graduate Student Workshop
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Friday, April 9, 2021
All times Eastern Daylight Time
MORNING
9:00am Graduate Workshop Opening Remarks
Fotini Christia (MIT)
9:10am Religion and Conflict
Chair: Fotini Christia (MIT)
Mohammad Isaqzadeh (Princeton University)
“Reassessing the Relationship Between Religiosity and Political Violence: Evidence from Afghanistan.”
Yusuf Magiya (Columbia University)
“The Paradox of State Building: How Diversity Constrains Development and Dominant Groups Shoulder the Tax Burdens.”
10:10am Break
10:20am Influence and Cooptation (with 5 min breaks between papers)
Chair: Jean-Paul Carvalho (University of California, Irvine)
Lydia Assouad (Paris School of Economics)
“Charismatic Leaders and Nation Building.”
Daniel Tavana (Yale University) and Erin York (Harvard University)
“Cooptation in Practice: Measuring Legislative Opposition in an Authoritarian Regime”
Ahmed Ezzeldin Mohamed (Columbia University)
“Religious Cycles of Government Responsiveness: Why Governments Redistribute in Ramadan?”
12:00pm Lunch (with virtual gatherings)
1:00pm Start of April 9-10 Conference
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Jamal elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences -
03/10/2020
Cancellation of AALIMS-Yale Events -
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Pakistan@100 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship -
04/17/2016
The Croft Institute for International Studies at the U. of Mississippi seeks Executive Director -
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