Location: SDSU Campus - Scripps Cottage and Patio
8:00 AM — Doors open at Scripps Cottage for pastries, fruit, coffee, and tea.
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM — Session I: Rethinking Our Field I
Welcome and Introduction
Hank Johnston, San Diego State University“Attention Infrastructures and the Future of Social Movement Theory”
Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University“Technical Patronage, Sociotechnical Imaginaries, and AI-Chatbot Advocacy in China”
Vincent Guangsheng Huang, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China
Lin Yual, Independent Scholar; Da Mao, Independent Scholar“When Framing is not Enough: Successful Framing and Policy Inaction”
Scott Fitzgerald, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM — Session 2. Mobilization Processes I
“Gun Talk: How Protest and Political Context Shape Gun Discourse after School Shootings”
Nafisa Nowshin, Oregon State University
Kelly Kretschmer,* Oregon State University
Glencora Borradaile, Oregon State University“Museums and Community Resistance in Trump’s America: Civil Curation as Contentious Action at LA’s Museum of Social Justice”
Alexander Hensby, University of Kent Lucy Bond, University of Westminster“Authority Claims in the Open Up and BLM Protests of 2020”
David Meyer, University of California, Irvine
Kaylin Bourdon, Carroll College; Weijun Yuan, University of Chicago
“Media Ecology Regarding Labor and Reproductive
Justice Sandhya Jha, University of Pennsylvania
12:15 PM to 1:00 PM — Pick up your lunches on the porch and enjoy them at the patio tables.
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM — Session 3. Political and Institutional Contexts
“Drawing the Lines of Contention: Racial Gerrymandering and Political Opportunity”
Alicia Guerras, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago“Sanctuary for Some but Not for Others: Immigrant Rights Advocacy to Limit Deportations in the Summer of Trump.
Walter Nicholls, University of California, Irvine*“Contesting the Court: Reform and Retrenchment in Criminal and Racial Justice Activism”
Cathy Hu, University of California Berkeley“Standing with Planned Parenthood? Institutional Actions and the Marginalization of Abortion Seekers Post-Dobbs”
Tracy Weitz, American University
2:45 PM to 4:15 PM — Session 4. Global Perspectives
“Effects of Protest on the Parliamentary-Elite Ideology: Three Latin American Case Studies”
Gisselle de la Cruz Herrida, Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juarez“From Protest to Arms: Agency Radicalization and the Violent Turn of Turkey’s Left during the ‘Long 1960s’”
Burak Kesgin, Istanbul Beykent Univesity“From Homeland to Host Countries: The Transnationalization of Cameroon Anglophone Movement.”
Eliana Fonsah, University of California, Merced“Writing Acts and Protest Actions: The Role of Graffiti during Chile’s 2019 Estallido Social”
Jean-Pierre Reed*, Southern Illinois University
Rodrigo Asún, Universidad de Chile
Roberto Fernández Droguett, Universidad de Chile
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM — Session 5. Framing: Processes and Perspectives
“Frame Contestation and the Long-Term Reconfiguration of Mobilizations in the Philippines.”
Eishi Senaha,* Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan“Using Frame Analysis to Analyze Organizers’ Organizing Styles”
C. Michael Awsumb, Northwest Missouri State University“Canceled for Christ: A Analysis of Message Framing in Christian Nationalist Sermons”
Victoria A. Robledo, Eastern New Mexico University“(Re)Framing Populism Across the Spectrum: The Case of MAGA Communism and the American Communist Party”
Levi Mitzen, Florida State University
6:30 PM — Reception on the Outdoor Patio at Eureka!.
8:00 AM —Doors open at Scripps Cottage for pastries, fruit, coffee, and tea.
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM — Session 6. Mobilization Processes II
“The Activists Guide to the Galaxy: 21st Century Pro-Space Advocacy and Mobilization.”
Nicole Watts, San Francisco State University *“When Collective Action Meets ‘Street-Level Activism’: The Effects of Service Provision on the Defense of a Cause,”
Cécile Péchu, University of Lausanne
Jonathan Miaz, University of Lausanne“Organizing Doubt: The Organizational, Financial, and Cultural Foundations of Vaccine Skepticism”
Danyang LI, University of California, Berkeley“Risk, Loyalty, and Dissent: Bounded Voluntarism in High-Commitment Activist Networks."
Crystal Heath, OurHonor.org, Los Angeles
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM — Session 7. Rethinking Our Field II
“Reflections on a Successful Intellectual Movement: The Political Process Approach”
Sidney Tarrow, Cornell UniversityDiscussants
Deana Rohlinger, Florida State University
David Meyer, University of California, Irvine
Kelsy Kretschmer, Oregon State University
12:15 PM to 1:00 PM — Pick up your lunches on the porch and enjoy them at the patio tables.
1:00 PM to 2:30 PM —Session 8. The Mobilization-Repression Nexus
“Engineered Distrust: How Single-Party Regimes Fragment Pro-Democracy Movements.”
Mai Truong,* Marquette University“Surviving by Transforming: Depoliticization and Social Expansion in China's #MeToo Movement.”
Pin Lu, Rutgers University“How the Stop-MVP Movement Navigated Uneven State Repression over Space and Time.”
Cameron Baller, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University“Eating the Costs: The Hunger Strike in Early Nazi Concentration Camps”
Nicholas Goodell, Vanderbilt University
2:45 PM to 3:15 PM — Session 9. Gender-Justice Movements
“Emotional Reflexivity in Gender- and Race-Based Movements: Black MaGes”
Jalia Joseph,* George Mason University“Activism Making Femicide: The Discursive Impact of Cultural Artifacts about Gender violence in Ciudad Juarez”
Ana Lopez Recoy, University of La Verne“From Christian to Nationalist: How the World Congress of Families Helped Centralize Anti-Gender Anxieties within Transnational Illiberalism”
Jeffrey Swindle, University of California, Irvine
Kristopher Velasco, Princeton University“Queer Policy as Intersectional Resistance”
JD Foster, Northeastern University
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM —Session 10. Framing: Processes and Perspectives
“Trump Protesters at Arizona Universities”
Eric Swank, Arizona State University *“How a Movement Made Housing into a Recognizable Youth Issue.”
Eunchong Cho, University of California, San Diego“Repression and Campus Political Participation: Results from a Vignette Survey Experiment”
Fulya Felicity Turkmen, University of California, Riverside
Riley Fong, University of California, Riverside“Cross-Platform Radicalization on Social Media: An Exploration of Twitter and Gab.”
Alec McDonald, Universität Mannheim
After-Conference Decompression? No-Host Happy Hour at Eureka! Outdoor Patio (again). Shall we see you there at, say, 6:30 PM?
* denotes facilitator
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