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OPENING REMARKS & WELCOME: 4.00 PM [Abramson Family Founders Room]
SESSION 1: 4.10 5.25 PM
• Panel 1: Dynamics of Change (SIS110)
• Lauren Barr: RedeGining a Region: Understanding the Impact of Popular Uprisings on Regimes in Tunisia and Algeria
• Julia White: Identity Crises: The Effect of Immigration on Latino Identity
• Allena Martin: Public Opinion and the Integration of Muslim Immigrants in France
• Peter Shapiro: How Westernization and Traditional Social Networks Toppled the Iranian Monarchy
• Panel 2: Global Ethics and Development (SIS260)
• Miranda Schaeffer: The Path Towards Eliminating Child Labor: Chile's Partnerships with International Organizations
• Emily Werner: The Miracle of the Cerrados: Exporting Brazil's Potential
• Max Blumenthal: International Humanitarian Law for Cyber‐Warfare
• Panel 3: Asia: Taking Its Place in the World (SIS348)
• Huong Dinh: A shift in relations? Vietnam, China and the United States in the 21st Century
• David Rubin: The Culture of Capitalism: Examining the Effects of the Free Market on Traditional Chinese Values
• Jonathan Raouf: Overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia and China: Asset or Liability?
• Roren Choi: Lessons From The Japanese Developmental Experience For Haitian Development
• Panel 4: Nontraditional Threats for Global Security (SIS332)
• Erin Lockwood: Pirates and the State
• Gianluca La Manno: Rescuing a Failing Counter‐Insurgent Effort
• Travis McKay‐Roberts: A Dangerous Business: Addressing Small Arms Control in a Flat World
• Aaron Cohen: NATO's EfGicacy During Military Operations: A Game Theoretic and Quantitative Analysis
• Anastasia Veskresenkaya: Russia's Putin and Brazil's Lula: The Relationship between Positive Leadership Strategy and
Corruption
RECEPTION: 5.30 6.00 PM [Abramson Family Founders Room]
• Reception with remarks by Louis Goodman, Dean of the School of International Service
SESSION 2: 6.10 7.25 PM
• Panel 1: Europe: In the Making (SIS110)
• Günperi Sisman: Pluralist Socialism During Détente: How CPSU became Eurocommunist
• Karun Tilak: Lessons from the European Sovereign Debt Crisis: Is a European Sovereign Debt Resolution Mechanism
Necessary
• Danielle Raso: The Identity of the Roma Population of Eastern Europe: Why a Generation of Roma are Disassociating with their Heritage
• Panel 2: Approaches to Development (SIS260)
• Marie Scholz: A Comparison of the Pre‐ and Post‐Genocidal Increase of Rights, Liberties and Freedoms, Promotion of
Growth and National Unity, and the Mitigation of Ethnic Tension through the 1991 and 2003 versions of the Rwandan
Constitution
• Kathryn McCormick: The Effects of World Bank Aid on Zambia's Agricultural Sector and Why it is The Key to Development in Sub‐Saharan Africa
• Wyatt Gordon: Conditional Cash Transfers: Development’s Magic Bullet?
• Tania Smith: Populism and Autocracy in Haiti: Heading Towards Another Duvalier?
• Panel 3: Regional Security (SIS348)
• Elyas Abubakr: South Asian Security Seminar: The Phenomena of Security Building in Afghanistan
• Robert Helbig: DeGining its future, engaging its public: NATO’s new Strategic Concept as a tool for survival
• Florian von Gierke: Integrative peace?
• Patrick Hanlon: Taliban Redux
• Ari Basen: A Rising Reliance on Private Military Contractors
• Panel 4: Crossing Borders (SIS332)
• Kate Lindsey: The Fatal Loss of Prestige in the Picard, Tamazight and Chuvash Languages
• Zoe Bollinger and Rebecca Borton: Digital Manifestations of Polychronic and Monochronic Cultural Time Perceptions
• Adrienne Elkin: The Sway of Public Opinion: Deciphering the Priorities of U.S. Citizens with regards to Human TrafGicking
• Autumn Patterson: A Multilateralist Approach: Curbing Illegal Transnational Migration?
CONCLUSION: 7.30 PM [Abramson Family Founders Room]
• Announcement of winners and concluding remarks by Maria Green Cowles, Associate Dean of the School of International
Service