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.”

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AALIMS-Princeton Graduate Student workshop

Date: April 20-21, 2018

Program: Coming soon

Location: Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University
Contact:

All sessions are free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required.

2018 Annual Conference Organizing Committee

Amaney Jamal (Princeton University), chair

Timur Kuran (Duke University)

Helen Milner (Princeton University)

Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University)

Presentations

Day 1: Friday, April 20, 2018
STUDENT WORKSHOP 1

8:30-10:00 Quality of Government

Chair: Jacob Shapiro (Princeton University)

Mara Revkin (Yale University), “To Stay or to Leave? Displacement Decisions in Islamic State-Controlled Mosul”

Diana Dakhlallah (Stanford University), “‘How Bad Do We Look?’: A Field Experiment on Reputational Incentives and Corrupt Transactions”

10:00-10:15 BREAK

10:15-12:30 Trust and Tolerance

Chair: Fotini Christia (MIT)

Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo (University of Notre Dame), “Faith and Friendship: Religiously Homogeneous Friendships and Religious Tolerance in Muslim-Majority Countries” (Online Appendix)

Steve Monroe (Princeton University), “Varieties of Protectionism: Ethnic Politics and Elite Alliances in the Neo-Liberal Era”

Salma Mousa (Stanford University), “Overcoming the Trust Deficit: Intergroup Contact and Associational Life in post-ISIS Iraq”

12:30-2 pm LUNCH BREAK

 

Day 2: Saturday, April 21, 2018
STUDENT WORKSHOP 2

4:45-6:15 pm Governance and Transitions

Chair: Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)

Allison Spencer Hartnett (University of Oxford), “Land Reform and Regime Survival in the Middle East and North Africa”

Chantal E. Berman (Princeton University), “Protest, Concessions, and Political Regimes: Event Data Evidence from Tunisia and Morocco”

6:45 pm INFORMAL DINNER FOR PARTICIPANTS WHO CAN STAY