First International Graduate Student Retreat for Comparative Research
May 8-9, 1999, Los Angeles
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PROGRAM
Saturday, May 8
9:30- 10:00
Plenary Session : 1648 Hershey Hall
Round-table on new trends in comparative research
Chair: Ivan Szelenyi (UCLA)
Participants: Larry Diamond (Stanford), David Stark (Columbia)
Saturday, May 8
A : 1628 Hershey Hall
10:00-11:45
Politics and Culture
Fried Gabriela (UCLA, Sociology)
Keary, Anne (UC Berkeley, History)
Martinez, Sarah (UCLA, Political Science)
"Changing Campaign Strategies in Mexico: The Effects of Electoral Reforms on Political Parties"
Zalanga, Samuel (University of Minnesota, Sociology)
Discussant: Carlos Waisman (UCSD)
11:45-12:15 Lunch Break
1648 Hershey Hall
12:15-2:00
Economy I: institutions/institutional change
Niu, Hui (University of Minnesota, Sociology)
"The Issue of Human Agency in the Reform of State Enterprises in China"
Guseva, Alya (UC San Diego, Sociology)
"The Role of Trust in the Russian Credit Card Market" (click here to view tables)
Discussant: David Stark (Columbia)
2:15-4:00
Economy II
Ellison, David (UCLA, Political Science)
"Of Wool and Sheep: The Return to Europe"
Horne, Cynthia (University of Washington, Political Science)
Kemeny, Szabolcs (Columbia University, Sociology)
Discussant: Akos Rona-Tas (UCSD)
4:15-6:00
Globalization
Biradavolu, Monica Rao (Duke University, Sociology)
"Uneven Globalization? Organizational Networks and India’s Niche in the Global Software Industry"
Hargittai, Eszter (Princeton University, Sociology)
(click here to view Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, Table 4, Table 5)
McMullen, Shannon (UC San Diego, Sociology)
Nakagawa, Trevor (UC Berkeley, Political Science)
"The Future of European Software: European Software Responses to Globalization"
Discussant: Rebecca Emigh (UCLA)
Saturday, May 8
B: 1620 Hershey Hall
10:00-11:45
Ethnicity/National Identity/Immigration
Benson, Rodney (UC Berkeley, Sociology)
"The journalistic construction of the American and French immigration public debates: 1973-1994"
DeFay, Jason (UC San Diego, Sociology)
"The Garifuna Community of Los Angeles: Ethnicity, Economic Success and Political Organization"
Dierkes, Julian B. (Princeton University, Sociology)
"Great Farmers: The German Nation in Postwar Textbook Portrayals of Agrarian Uprisings"
Valdez, Zulema (UCLA, Sociology)
"Assimilation and Ethnic Entrepreneurship: Koreans and Mexicans in Los Angeles"
Discussant: Ivan Szelenyi (UCLA)
11:45-12:15 Lunch Break
1648 Hershey Hall
12:15-2:00
Ethnicity/National Identity/Immigration
Jenne, Erin (Stanford University, Political Science)
O'Murchu, Niall (University of Washington, Political Science)
Stroschein, Sherrill (Columbia University)
"Ethnic Mobilization and Contentious Politics in Romania"
Discussant: Barbara Geddes (UCLA)
2:15-4:00
Politics II
Schatz-Gutierrez, Sara (UCLA, Sociology)
"Delayed Transition to Democracy in Paternalistic Authoritarian Regimes -- the Case of Mexico"
Elin Skaar (UCLA, Political Science)
Truth Commissions, Trials - or Nothing? Human Rights in Democratic Transitions
Discussant: Jeffrey Broadbent (University of Minnesota)
Sunday, May 9
A: 1628 Hershey Hall
10:00-11:45
Law/Administration
Baum, Jeeyang Rhee (UCLA, Political Science)
Kotin, Daniel (UCLA, Political Science)
Magar, Eric (UC San Diego, Political Science)
"Patterns of Executive-Legislative Conflict in Latin America and the US"
Yamanishi, David (UCLA, Political Science)
"Safeguarding Society? The Theory and Practice of Judicial Autonomy and Judicial Independence"
Discussant: Larry Diamond (Stanford)
11:45-12:45 Lunch Break
1648 Hershey Hall
12:45-2:30
Politics I: Social Movements
"The Insurgent Origins of Democratization in South Africa"
Morales, Laura Diez de Ulzurrun (Instituto Juan March, Madrid)
"Membership in Political Groups in Western Countries"
Pfaff, Steven (New York University, Sociology)
Wade, Shawn W. (UCLA, Political Science)
Discussant: Rebecca Emigh (UCLA)
2:45-4:30
Authoritarianism/ Fascism
Kellogg, Michael (UCLA, History)
"Hitler's 'Russian' Connection: White Emigre Influence on the Genesis of Nazi Ideology, 1917-1923"
Riley, Dylan (UCLA, Sociology)
"Intellectuals and the Rise of Mass Politics"
Kulke, Christine (UC Berkeley, History)
"The Communities of L'viv/ Lwow/ L'vov Lemberg, 1939-1953"
Discussant: Gil Eyal (UC Berkeley)
Sunday, May 9
B: 1620 Hershey Hall
10:00-11:45
Culture
Nakajima, Seio (UC Berkeley, Sociology)
"Symbolism of the Middle Classes in Japan and Taiwan: A Comparison"
Stamatov, Peter (UCLA, Sociology)
"State Socialist Omnivores: Distinction Through Leisure Activities in Czechoslovakia, 1984."
Discussant: Jeffrey Broadbent (University of Minnesota)
11:45-12:45 Lunch Break
1648 Hershey Hall
12:45-2:30
Class
Andreas, Joel (UCLA, Sociology)
"Political and Cultural Capital as Axes of Contention During the Chinese Cultural Revolution"
Hsu, Carloyn (UC San Diego, Sociology)
Li, Bobai (Stanford University, Sociology)
"Paths to Power: Sponsored Mobility into Socialist Bureaucratic Elite"
Southworth, Caleb (UCLA, Sociology)
Discussant: Gil Eyal (UC Berkeley)
2:45-4:30
Gender and Politics
Gheytanchi, Elham (UCLA, Sociology)
"Post-revolutionary Iran: Islamic Feminism and the Crisis of Civil Society"
Korteweg, Anna (UC Berkeley, Sociology)
Faison, Elyssa (UCLA, History)
"Female Factory Workers in Japan -- the Toyo Muslin Strike of 1930"
Schalet, Amy (UC Berkeley, Sociology)
Discussant: Ruth Milkman (UCLA, Sociology)
***RECEPTION***
Sunday, May 9
6:00pm
10535 Wilshire Blvd., Apt. 1810.
(Please RSVP to emigh@ucla.edu)