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Past APSA FPG Programs

French Politics Group/AFSP Detailed Schedule, APSA 2023, Los Angeles

French Politics Group/Association Française de Science Politique Group

WEDNESDAY August 30th, 1:30-5:30

Location: Room 409B LA Convention Center

PRE-CONFERENCE SHORT COURSE: Gender Equality Machinery in the Age of Disinformation and Democratic Reversal: Emerging Research Agendas Picture of roundtable

Co Sponsor: Women, Gender and Politics Research Agenda Division

Organized by Summer Forester (Carleton College ) and Amy G. Mazur (Washington State University)

Overview

The goal of this short course is to bring together leading experts of gender equality machineries across the globe to identify and discuss the current research agenda for studying these complex and crucial institutions.  The OSCE guide, Institutional Machineries for Gender Equality as Critical Actors: A Guide for Success  (2023), based on a mixed methods study conducted in the 56 participating state of the Organization for Security and Cooperation of Europe, under Amy G. Mazur’s direction, will be used as a starting point for the discussion of emerging research agendas.  An e-version of the guide will be made available to registered participants prior to the course.  Presenters will be given 15 minutes each to discuss their research and time will be left for discussion and questions from the audience after the presentation for each session.

SESSION 1. INTRODUCTIONS AND GOALS

  • Summer Forester (Carleton College)
  • Amy G. Mazur (Washington State University)

SESSION 2. THE RESEARCH AGENDA FOR IMs IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH

  • Middle East and North Africa – Jordan Summer Forester (Carleton College)
  • Latin America – Gisela Zaremberg  (Flacso, Mexico)
  • Sub Saharan Africa – Denise Baer (Strategic Research Concepts)

SESSION 3. THE RESEARCH AGENDA FOR IMs IN THE GLOBAL NORTH

  • Central Eastern Europe – Ingrid Bego  (Western Carolina University)
  • Western Europe  France – Emmanuelle LaTour (Sciences Po -LIEPP)
  • Nordic Countries (Sweden) – Lenita Freidenvall (University of Stockholm)
  • North America – USA – Ashley English (University of North Texas)

SESSION 4: GLOBAL AND CROSS-NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

  • Laurel Weldon   (Simon Fraser University)
  • Ragnhild Muriaas (University of Bergen)

FRIDAY September 1st, 4:00-5:30

Location: LA Convention Center, 150C

PANEL: Research on Intersectionality in French Contexts: An International Dialog

Co sponsorship with Women, Gender and Politics Research and Comparative Politics Divisions

The goal of this panel is to conduct an international and comparative dialog about the empirical use of the concept intersectionality with the anchor point being intersectionality issues in France and Francophone contexts. While intersectionality has been a crucial concept in comparative gender and politics research for over ten years, it has only recently been applied by French feminist scholars.   Thus, paper givers will present research that uses intersectionality as a core concept in France and francophone settings to engage a dialog with our two discussants, one a leading intersectionality scholar from USA and the other from Brazil, about how and to what end intersectionality has been used in the developing theory, knowledge and understanding on gender and the complex way in which involves other vectors of inequities.

Chair: Amy G. Mazur (Washington State University)

Papers:

  • Black Feminism and Intersectionality in France – Jean Beanman (University of California Santa Barbara)
  • The Reception of Intersectionality by Feminisms in France: Three Critiques – Chantal Maillé  (Concordia University)
  • The Good, the Bad & the Ugly: Intersectional Accountability in Parliaments – Karen Celis (University of Louvain) and Sarah Childs (University of London)

Discussants:

  • Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira (University of Compultense, Madrid)
  • Ange-Marie Hancock (Oregon State University)

Friday September 1st , 6:30-7:30

FPG-AFSP BUSINESS MEETING

Location, LA Convention Center, 304C

Saturday September 2nd, 10:00-11:30am

Location: LA Convention Center, 153A

AUTHOR MEETS CRITICS ROUNDTABLE: Accessible Elections: How the States Can Help Americans Vote

Co sponsorship with Elections and Voting Behavior and Comparative Politics Division

The book, Accessible Elections: How the States Can Help Americans Vote (2020: Oxford University Press) by Michael Ritter and Caroline J. Tolbert is about the elections administration in the USA. But it raises larger questions about democracy and elections in democracies more broadly speaker.  With the strong focus on the study of elections in French Political Science this author meets critics roundtable seeks to promote a franco-american dialog around the book over these larger issues of elections and democracy.  Experts from the USA and France are brought together to pursue this crucial conversation over and important book with the authors of the book

Chair: Amy G. Mazur (Washington State University)

Participants:

  • Philippe Maarek (University of Paris Est)
  • Vincent Pons (Harvard University)
  • Barry Burden (University of Wisconsin)
  • Caroline Tolbert ( University of Iowa)
  • Michael Ritter (Washington State University)
  • Mitchell Brown (Auburn University)
  • Michael McDonald (University of Florida)
  • Thessalia Merivaki (Mississippi State University)