SPIRE 2024
September 20th, 2024 at Harvard University
The next Symposium on the Politics of Immigration, Race, and Ethnicity (SPIRE) will be held on Friday, September 20, 2024 at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. The local hosts are Taeku Lee and Marcel Roman.
August 9, 2024: Deadline for abstract submission
August 16, 2024: Submission decisions will be sent out
August 25, 2024: Program announced
September 4, 2024: Registration closes
SPIRE 2024 Schedule
Friday, September 20, 2024
Harvard University
Room Information: Center for Government and International Studies-South (CGIS-S) Building, Belfer Case Study Room (S020, Basement Floor)
Breakfast: 8:30-9:00 am
9:00: Welcome
9:10 – 10:00 am:
Nura Sediqe (Michigan State University)
The Tik Tok Effect: Social Media Efficacy and High-Cost Political Behavior among American Muslims
10:00 – 10:50 am:
Amanda Sahar d’Urso (Georgetown University)
“If I am a Mongolian, then so was Jesus, because we came from the same Land”: The Institutional Categorization of Middle Eastern and North African Americans
Break: 10:50-11:00 am
11:00 am – 11:50 pm:
Amber Mackey (University of Virginia)
And Then There Were Two: Demographic Shifts and Black Legislative Behavior
Lunch: 11:50-12:50 pm
12:50 – 1:40 pm:
Ismail White (Princeton University)
Assessing Racial Identity as Constraint on Democratic Accountability
1:40 – 2:30 pm:
Jamil Scott (Georgetown University)
Medical Mistrust and COVID Vaccine Uptake: An Examination of Racial/Ethnic Differences between Black and White Americans
Break: 2:30-2:40 pm
2:40 – 3:30 pm:
Jessica Cobian (UCLA)
The Effects of Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric on Latino Political Behavior
3:30 – 4:20 pm:
Shayla Olson (University of Michigan)
Religion is a Racial Appeal (and Vice Versa)
Break: 4:20-4:30 pm
4:30 – 5:30 pm Panel & Discussion: TBD
Panelists:
• Ismail White (Princeton University)
• Michael Jones-Correa (University of Pennsylvania)
• LaFleur Stephens-Dougan (Princeton University)
• Taeku Lee (Harvard University)
Dinner: 5:45 pm
SPIRE is organized by Bernard Fraga (Emory), Jamil Scott (Georgetown), LaFleur Stephens-Dougan (Princeton), and Yamil Velez (Columbia University). The local hosts at Harvard are Marcel Roman and Taeku Lee.
Call for abstracts
We welcome proposals to present research on these topics from all disciplines, subfields, and methodological approaches, including but not limited to topics such as: race and representation, the politics of racial inequality; race and political development; gender and politics; political behavior; social movements; and opinion; immigration politics and policy; racial capitalism; and immigrant socialization and participation. We welcome especially work that examines immigration, race, and ethnicity as they intersect with the politics of, e.g., indigeneity, gender, sexuality, class, and disability.
If you are interested in presenting a research paper or research design, please submit an abstract by July 31st. We will notify applicants about decisions by August 10th.
Participation
If you would like to attend SPIRE but do not wish to present a paper, please RSVP by September 1st, 2023. We ask that you do so no later than this date so that we can plan accordingly.
Format
In order to have a productive, engaged, and constructive group discussion, all attendees are expected to read at least a few of the papers.
SPIRE presentations are typically brief, with authors speaking for about 10 minutes followed by feedback from the audience.
Presented work should still be sufficiently in-progress so that authors will be able to revise it based on audience feedback but nearing being ready for submission for review. It can be an article-length manuscript or a chapter of an almost completed book-length manuscript.
Venue
The meeting will take place in the basement of CGIS-South in S020, the Belfer Case Study Room.
Lodging
We have secured a block of hotel rooms from September 19th to 20th at the Charles Hotel, Harvard Square (link here). The cutoff for securing the Charles Hotel rate is September 3rd. The Charles Hotel is within walking distance of the meeting location at the Center for Government and International Studies South Building (CGIS-South) on Harvard's campus, located on 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.
For other accommodation options, we suggest AC Hotel by Marriot - Cambridge (link here). The AC Hotel is accessible via the subway/redline – three stops away, 2.7 miles.
Getting to/from the Hotel and Conference
The Charles Hotel is within walking distance of the meeting location at the Center for Government and International Studies South Building (CGIS-South) on Harvard's campus, located on 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge.
AC Hotel by Marriot is accessible via the subway/redline – three stops away, 2.7 miles