CGPACS Annual Conference
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CGPACS Annual Conference
Thursday, March 12, 2026
Sessions | 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. | SBSG 1321
Reception | 4:00-5:00 p.m. | SBSG 1321
Keynote | 5:00 p.m.-6:20 p.m. | SSPA 1100
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Welcome: 9:00-9:30 a.m. Kamal Sadiq, Director of CGPACS
Session 1: 9:30-11:00 a.m. | Political Beliefs and Polarization
- Amy Gilmore (Political Science) Anti-Humanitarian Discourse and the Liberal Order: The Use of Humanitarian Sentiments by the Far-Right
- Christian Beltran (Psychological Science) They Know What They’re Doing: The Role of Bad Faith Assumptions on Partisan Divides and Political Sectarianism
- Tom Wang (Economics) Living in Epistemic Bubbles: Group Identity and Selective Exposure
Discussants:
Professor Peter Ditto, Psychological Science
Professor Michael McBride, Economics
Morning Break: 11:00-11:15 a.m.
Session 2: 11:15 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Trade, Sanctions, and Natural Resources
- Chris Chih-Hua Tseng (Sociology) Securitizing Development: The Semiconductor Industry and the Economic Security Policy Changes in Taiwan, 1992-2024
- Michelle Ceballos (Sociology) Sanctions and Participation: Understanding High Rates of Participation in Cuba's New Families Code Referendum
- Sydney Gordon (Economics) Consolidating Power in Fragile States: Evidence from Afghanistan's Poppy Ban
- Jake Atienza (Global & International Studies) Telling Our Stories: A Collaborative Ethnography of Extractivism in Cebu, Philippines
Discussants:
Professor Priyaranjan Jha, Economics
Dr. Maria Bermudez, CGPACS Visiting Research Fellow
Lunch Break: 1:15-2:00 p.m.
Session 3: 2:00-4:00 p.m. | State Oppression and Migration
- Udita Ghosh (Political Science) Fortress Refuge: Rohingya Refugees inside Delhi's Emergent Technologies of Urban Containment and Control
- Katherine Funes (Global & International Studies) Queering the State of Exception: Securing Peace for LGBTIQ Salvadorans Amidst Carceral Expansion
- Tenzing Wangdak (Anthropology) Democracy in Exile: Charting Citizen Participation in the Tibetan Diaspora
- Nasim Fekrat (Anthropology) Documentation Violence: An Ethnography of Imperial Harm After Afghanistan
Discussants:
Professor Tiara Naputi, Global and International Studies
Professor Sandra Ristovska, Media Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Reception & Social Hour | 4:00-5:00 p.m. | SBSG 1321
Closing Remarks | Professor Bill Maurer, Dean School of Social Sciences
KEYNOTE | 5:00-6:20 p.m. | SSPA 1100
Co-Sponsored with Department of Global and International Studies
“Seeing Human Rights in an Age of AI”, Professor Sandra Ristovska, University of Colorado
Boulder
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Conference Organizers:
Sydney Gordon (Economics), Tom Wang (Economics), and Kamal Sadiq (Political Science)
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