Organizing Committee
Fotini Christia (MIT)
Mai Hassan (MIT)
Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Richard Nielsen (MIT), chair
STUDENT WORKSHOP
8:30 Registration and breakfast
9:00-10:30 Religion in the Political Sphere
Chair: Richard Nielsen (MIT)
Wali Reheman (American University)
“State vs. Faith: State-led Secularization, Political Backlash and Political Islamism”
Darren Janz (MIT)
“Modernization and Militancy? Sufism, Salafism, & Support for Religious Pluralism in Africa”
10:30-10:45 BREAK
10:45-1:00pm Causes and Consequences of Institutions
Chair: Tom Pepinksy (Cornell University)
Daliah Al-Shakhshir(Stanford University)
“Development Effects of Social Eligibility Criteria for Temporary Migration”
Hannah Kazis-Taylor (Princeton University)
“A Learning Process: Age and Support for Negotiated Settlements to Conflict”
Andrew O’Donohue (Harvard University)
“Law versus Democracy: Judicial Selection Institutions, Court Capture, and Democratic Backsliding in Turkey”
1:00-2:15 LUNCH