Panel 1: Identity & Conflict (Location TBD)
Saturday, 15 April 9:45 - 11:15 AM CDT
Chair: Danny Choi (Brown University)
“Compulsory Military Service Reduces Affective Polarization: Evidence from Conscription Reforms in Europe”
Chagai M. Weiss (Stanford University)
“Social Avoidance in Public Spaces”
Joshua Corona (Northwestern University)
“Reducing Citizen Support for State Violence against Undocumented Immigrants Through Victims’ Testimonies and Information Campaigns”
Abby Córdova (University of Notre Dame)
Natán Skigin (University of Notre Dame)
“Does UN Peacekeeping Protect Civilians? Evidence from the Border between Burkina Faso and Mali”
William Nomikos (Washington University in St. Louis)
İpek Ece Sener (Washington University in St. Louis)
Rob Williams (Independent Researcher)
Discussants: Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University) and Cara Wong (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Panel 2: Identity & Measurement (Location TBD)
Saturday, 15 April 11:30 AM - 1:00 PM CDT
Chair: Will Nomikos (Washington University in St. Louis)
“From Category to Meaning-Making: Toward a Concept of Narrative Political Identity”
Wendy Pearlman (Northwestern University)
“Virtue or Vice: Correlates and Consequences of Self-Labeled Extremism”
Ethan Busby (Brigham Young University)
“National Collective Narcissism and Perceptions of Racism in the United States”
Christopher Federico (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
Casey Griffin (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities)
“Recognition Paradox: The Adoption of the Minority Language by State Institutions Strengthens Ethnic Demands”
Sevinç Öztürk (Bitlis Eren University)
Aykut Öztürk (University of Glasgow)
Discussants: Yoshiko Herrera (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Avital Livny (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Panel 3: Identity Formation & Change (Location TBD)
Saturday, 15 April 3:00 - 4:30 PM CDT
Chair: Hannah Ridge (University of Chicago)
“Development of Politicized Identity in a Newly Acquired Group and Consequences for Participation”
Monica Schneider (Miami University)
Tim Callaghan (Boston University)
Steven Sylvester (Utah Valley University)
“Racial Differences in Rural Identity and Right-Wing Populist Support”
Kristin Lunz Trujillo (Harvard Kennedy School)
“Urbanization and the Decay of Ethnic Orientation: Evidence from Nairobi, Kenya”
Sohyeon Kim (Ohio State University)
Amanda L. Robinson (Ohio State University)
Rachel B. Riedl (Cornell University)
“Mobile Communication Technology and National Identity in Sub-Saharan Africa”
Donghyun Danny Choi (Brown)
Benjamin Laughlin (NYU Abu Dhabi)
Anna Schultz (Independent Researcher)
Discussants: Kathy Cramer (University of Wisconsin-Madison) and Matt Simonson (University of Pennsylvania)
Panel 4: Identity-Based Coalitions (Location TBD)
Saturday, 15 April 4:45 - 6:15 PM CDT
Chair: Abby Córdova (University of Notre Dame)
“Cross-Group Friendships: Theory and Measurement”
Matthew D. Simonson (University of Pennsylvania)
“Mobilizing the Racial In-Between: The Impact of Discrimination on Asian American Coalition Building”
Stephanie Chan (Lafayette College)
Sonya Chen (Princeton University)
“Dilemmas of Accommodation”
Jasmine English (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Ethnodoxy in Egypt: Measurement and Validation”
Hannah Ridge (University of Chicago)
Discussants: Chris Federico (University of Minnesota-Twin Cities) and Chagai Weiss (Stanford University)
Poster Session: Frontiers of Research on Identity (Location TBD)
Saturday, 15 April 6:30 - 8:00 PM CDT
“Regional Integration and the Nation: Building a Regional Social and Political Identity”
Cameron Macaskill (Ohio State University)
“Intergroup Contact: How does Quality and Quantity of Intergroup Contact Affect the Development of Group Empathy and Intergroup Political Behaviors?”
Jair Moreira (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
“The Role of Racial Identity and Shared Experiences in Structuring Attitudes Toward COVID-19”
Clinton Rooker (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
“Election Campaign Rallies in Multi-Ethnic Contexts: A Theory of Ethnic Identity Match & Evidence from India”
Shahana Sheikh (Yale University)