New Political Science 2015

OVERVIEW
Plenary, Friday September 4, 6:30 pm
Saru Jayaraman
Behind the Kitchen Door
Director, Food Labor Research Center
UC Berkeley
Co-Founder, ROC-United
Hilton Imperial Ballroom A
Saru Jayaraman (link) is a nationally recognized
organizer and researcher on restaurant worker
justice campaigns. After 9/11, she co-founded
ROC NY with displaced World Trade Center
workers. Today, ROC United is a national
campaign with 10,000 members conducting
research on the restaurant workplace,
organizing efforts to represent restaurant
workers in pursuit of workplace justice, and
establishing cooperatively owned restaurants as
a model for the industry.
Reception, Friday, September 4 8:00 pm
Hilton Imperial Ballroom B
Business Meeting, Thursday 6:30 pm
Hilton Continental Parlor I
Section Chair: Bradley MacDonald
Colorado State University
2015 Program Chair: Michael J. Bosia
Saint Michaels College

Thursday, September 3, 2015

Friday, September 4, 2015

10:15am to 12:00pm
Taking it to the Streets: Social Resistance
& State Responses in Southeast Asia
(Nikko, Carmel II)
Chair: Shane J. Barter
Soka University of America
Cosponsored by the Related Group on
Southeast Asian Politics, Comparative Politics,
Comparative Democratization

9:30 to 11:00am
Wars of Religion (and Secularism)
(Hilton, Franciscan D)
Chair: Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania
Lead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory

Police Power and Political Theory (Hilton,

Golden Gate 4)
Chair: Leonard C. Feldman
CUNY-Hunter College
Lead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory

2:30 to 4:30pm
Castro History Walking Tour
Cosponsored by the GLBT History Society
By reservation only
4:15 to 6:00pm
Towards a Critical Political Science
(Nikko, Carmel II)
Chair: William L. Niemi
Western Colorado University
Cosponsored by Foundations of Political Theory
6:30 Business Meeting (Hilton Continental I)

11:30am to 1:00pm
Roundtable: Israel and Palestine: Alternative
Perspectives on Statehood
(Hilton, Union Square 25)
Chair: John Ehrenberg
Long Island University, Brooklyn
Cosponsored by Comparative Politics, Foreign
Policy, and the Conference Group on the Middle
East
2:30 to 4:00pm
Roundtable: Reimagining Radical Politics
Today (Hilton, Union Square 5 & 6)
Chair: Manfred B. Steger
University of Hawaii-Manoa
4:30 to 6:00pm
Roundtable: The Art of Elections
(Nikko, Carmel I)
Chair: Nancy Sue Love
Appalachian State University
Cosponsored by APSA Panels

Friday, September 4, 2015 continued

4:30 to 6:00pm
Roundtable: Crises of Politics, the Politics of
Crises
(Parc 55, Mission I)
Chair: Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College
Lead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory
Plenary 6:30 pm
Saru Jayaraman
Behind the Kitchen Door
Director, Food Labor Research Center
UC Berkeley
Co-Founder, ROC-United
Imperial Ballroom A
Reception 8:00 pm
Imperial Ballroom B
Saturday, September 5, 2015
8:00 to 9:45am
Roundtable: Does Critique Have a Future?
A Question for Political Theorists
(Hilton, Franciscan A)
Chair: Nikolas Kompridis
Australian Catholic University
Lead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory
New Political Science Poster Session
(Hilton, Grand Ballroom Poster Session VI)
Discussant: Sean Parson
Northern Arizona University
Queer(ing) Marx: A Queer Reading of Marxs
On the Jewish Question, Matt James Evans

Hydraulic Fracking, Masculinity, and Domestic

Violence in South Texas, Brooke H. Mascagni
Back to the Medina: Gentrification, Citizenship,
and Capital in Marrakesh, Khalid Madhi
Political Science and the World of Politics: Do
we matter? Phillip J. Ardoin
8:00 to 9:45am
Work, Wages & Health: What's the State Got
to Do with It?
(Hilton, Union Square 25)
Chair: Maggie Gray, Adelphi University
Cosponsored by the Labor Project and the
Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy Caucus
10:15am to 12:00pm
Anarchism and Radical Democracy
(Parc 55, Mission I)
Chair: Laurence Davis, University College, Cork

2:00 to 3:45pm
Diversifying International Struggles: Theory
and Practice in Global Justice
(Parc 55, Mission I)
Chair: Julie Hollar, CUNY-Graduate Center
Cosponsored by International History and
Politics
4:15 to 6:00pm
Roundtable: Labor and the South in American
Politics (Hilton, Imperial A)

Chair: Immanuel Ness

Lead Sponsor: the Labor Project
Diverse Perspectives on LGBT Rights and Policy
(Parc 55, Powell I)
Chair: Helma G. E. de Vries-Jordan
University of Pittsburgh, Bradford
Lead Sponsor: Sexuality and Politics

Sunday, September 6, 2015

8:00 to 9:45am
Habitation, Habitability, Justice 1
(Hilton, Union Square 24)
Chair: Jennifer Lawrence, Virginia Tech
Cosponsored by Green Politics and Theory
10:15am to 12:00pm
Habitation, Habitability, Justice 2 (Hilton,
Union Square 24)
Chair: Francois Debrix, Virginia Tech
Lead Sponsor: Green Politics and Theory