Date: April 11, 2025
Program: TBD
Location: Princeton University
Organizing Committee
Amaney Jamal (Princeton University), chair
Timur Kuran (Duke University)
Elizabeth Nugent (Princeton University)
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”