Program: TBD
Location: Princeton University
Organizing Committee
Amaney Jamal (Princeton University), chair
Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Elizabeth Nugent (Princeton University)
CONFERENCE AND STUDENT WORKSHOP
Day 1: April 11, 2025
STUDENT WORKSHOP
8:30-10:45 Loyalty and Identity
Chair: Elizabeth Nugent (Princeton University)
Hani Abdel-Warith (Princeton University)
“Fellahin into Frenchmen: Late Colonial Contention, Postcolonial Selective Development, and Identity in Tunisia”
Rabia Kutlu Karasu (Stanford University)
“Seats of Loyalty: The Parliamentary Pathway to Democratic Backsliding”
Elizabeth Parker-Magyar (Harvard University) and Mohamed Shedeed (Ohio State University)
“Measuring Jordan’s Tribal Communities as Nested Social Networks”
10:45-11:00 BREAK
11:00-12:30 Autocracy
Chair: Tahir Andrabi (Pomona College)
Bruno Schmidt-Feuerheerd (University of Cambridge)
“The Paradox of Popular Autocrats: The Bottom-up Drivers of Pro-Regime Mobilization”
Hüseyin Emre Ceyhun (Princeton University)
“Autocratization in an Age of Digitalization”
BOOK TALK
12:30-1:15 Book Talk
Chair: Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Paul Seabright (Toulouse School of Economics)
“The Divine Economy: How Religions Compete for Wealth, Power, and People”
1:15-2:30 LUNCH
CONFERENCE
2:30-4:00 Regime support and opposition
Chair: Thomas Pepinsky (Cornell University)
Killian Clarke (Georgetown University)
“The Dust Does Not Settle: Protest in the Aftermath of Revolution”
Tarek Masoud (Harvard University) and Aytug Sasmaz (Bryn Mawr College)
“Faith, Secularism and Democracy: Unpacking the Role of Religiosity in Turkish Regime Preferences”
4:00-4:15 BREAK
4:15-5:45 Social desirability bias and representation
Chair: Asli Cansunar (University of Washington)
Sarah Mansour (Cairo University) and Mazen Hassan (Cairo University)
“Religious Licensing: Experimental Evidence”
Carolyn Barnett (University of Arizona) and Marwa Shalaby (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
“Men Won’t Go for That: Overestimates of Gender Bias as an Obstacle to Women’s Political Representation”
Day 2: April 12, 2025
9:00-11:15 Religious minorities and inter-group bias
Chair: Avital Livny (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Ashrakat Elshehawy (Stanford University) and Mohamad Saleh (LSE)
“Religious Minorities and Public Good Provision in 19th and early 20th Century Egypt”
Asli Cansunar (University of Washington) and Efe Tokdemir (Bilkent University)
“Who Gets Punished: Inter-Group Bias and Behavioral Consequences of Conflict”
Nicholas Kuipers (Princeton University), Gareth Nellis (UCSD), and Drew Stommes (New York University)
“Prejudice Reduction at Scale: How Education Undermines Intergroup Conflict”
11:15-11:30 BREAK
11:30-1:00 Muslim immigrants
Chair: Fotini Christia (MIT)
Maleke Fourati (University of French Polynesia) and Danielle Hayek
“Are Muslim immigrants really different? Experimental Evidence from Lebanon and Australia”
Nafeesa Andrabi (University of Southern California)
“Does county-level sociopolitical context matter for health among immigrant Muslim mothers”
1:00-1:45 Photo and lunch
1:45-4:00 Online political mobilization
Chair: Amaney Jamal (Princeton University)
Alexandra Siegel (University of Colorado)
“Co-optation and Coercion of Online Influencers: Evidence from Saudi Wikipedia”
Richard Nielsen (MIT)
“Fighting War with Divine Intervention”
Elizabeth Nugent (Princeton University)
“Exile and the Internet”