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Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science

Mark your calendars for November 1, 2024!

The conference program is listed below. If you would like to attend and/or present a poster, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/G3EWoVGRqP2Xtu4K6. We look forward to seeing you at Emory in Atlanta, GA on Nov 1st!

Hosts: Natalia Bueno & Renard Sexton

Program Committee: Shelley Liu, Clara Suong, Natalia Bueno & Renard Sexton

SoWEPS-7

Southern Workshop in Empirical Political Science

Emory University, November 1, 2024

Oxford Road Building (living room and presentation room)

1390 Oxford Road, NE

Atlanta, GA 30322

11:00am to 11:30am: Intro, pastries and coffee

11:30am to 12:30pm: Paper Session 1

Paper: "Signals of Doom: Wildfire Smoke, Climate Change, and Media Coverage"
Author: Guilherme N. Fasolin, Vanderbilt University
Discussant: Tiago Ventura, Georgetown University
Chair: Maggie Macdonald, University of Kentucky

12:30pm to 1:30pm: Lunch & Paper Session 2

Paper: "IDP Return and Social Cohesion: Evidence from Camp Closures in Iraq"
Author: Benjamin Krick, Duke University
Discussant: Aidan Millif, Florida State University
Chair: Allison Grossman, Tulane University

1:45pm to 2:45pm: Paper Session 3

Paper: "How Clientelism Closes the Gender Turnout Gap: Theory and Evidence from India"
Author: Franziska Roscher, Georgia Tech
Discussant: Shikhar Singh, Duke University
Chair: Ryan Carlin, Georgia State University

3:00pm to 4:00pm: Paper Session 4

Paper: "Dynamic Democratic Backsliding"
Author: Eddy Yeung, Emory University
Discussant: Megan Turnbull, University of Georgia
Chair: Olga Gasparyan, Florida State University

4:15pm to 5:15pm: Paper Session 5

Paper: "Access to rural credit as non-programmatic politics: municipal elections in Brazil"
Author: Gabriel Soyer, University of Georgia
Discussant: Christopher Carter, University of Virginia
Chair: Luis Martinez, Emory University

5:15pm to 5:30pm: wrap up, feedback, SoWEPS-8

5:30pm to 6:30pm: happy hour + poster session

Poster presenters:

Suhyen Bae, Duke University

Lucas Borba, Vanderbilt University

Hahn-Linh Tran, Emory University

7:00pm to 8:30pm: dinner (by invitation)