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OVERVIEW

Plenary, Friday September 4, 6:30 pm

Saru Jayaraman 

“Behind the Kitchen Door”

Director, Food Labor Research Center

UC Berkeley

Co-Founder, ROC-United

Hilton Imperial Ballroom A

Saru Jayaraman (link) is a nationally recognized

organizer and researcher on restaurant worker

 justice campaigns. After 9/11, she co-founded

ROC NY with displaced World Trade Centerworkers. Today, ROC United is a national

campaign with 10,000 members conducting

research on the restaurant workplace,

organizing efforts to represent restaurant

workers in pursuit of workplace justice, and

establishing cooperatively owned restaurants as

a model for the industry.

Reception, Friday, September 4 8:00 pmHilton Imperial Ballroom B 

Business Meeting, Thursday 6:30 pm

Hilton Continental Parlor I

Section Chair: Bradley MacDonald

Colorado State University

2015 Program Chair: Michael J. Bosia

Saint Michael’s College 

Thursday, September 3, 2015

10:15am to 12:00pm

Taking it to the Streets: Social Resistance

& State Responses in Southeast Asia 

(Nikko, Carmel II)Chair: Shane J. Barter

Soka University of America

Cosponsored by the Related Group on

Southeast Asian Politics, Comparative Politics,

Comparative Democratization

Police Power and Political Theory (Hilton,

Golden Gate 4)

Chair: Leonard C. FeldmanCUNY-Hunter College

Lead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory

2:30 to 4:30pm

Castro History Walking Tour 

Cosponsored by the GLBT History Society

By reservation only

4:15 to 6:00pm

Towards a Critical Political Science 

(Nikko, Carmel II)

Chair: William L. Niemi

Western Colorado University

Cosponsored by Foundations of Political Theory

6:30 Business Meeting (Hilton Continental I)

Friday, September 4, 2015

9:30 to 11:00am

Wars of Religion (and Secularism) 

(Hilton, Franciscan D)

Chair: Anne Norton, University of PennsylvaniaLead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory

11:30am to 1:00pm

Roundtable: Israel and Palestine: Alternative

Perspectives on Statehood 

(Hilton, Union Square 25)

Chair: John Ehrenberg

Long Island University, BrooklynCosponsored by Comparative Politics, Foreign

Policy, and the Conference Group on the Middle

East

2:30 to 4:00pm

Roundtable: Reimagining Radical Politics

Today (Hilton, Union Square 5 & 6)

Chair: Manfred B. Steger

University of Hawai’i-Manoa

4:30 to 6:00pm

Roundtable: The Art of Elections

(Nikko, Carmel I)

Chair: Nancy Sue Love

Appalachian State University

Cosponsored by APSA Panels

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Friday, September 4, 2015 continued

4:30 to 6:00pm

Roundtable: Crises of Politics, the Politics of

Crises 

(Parc 55, Mission I)

Chair: Jeanne Morefield, Whitman College

Lead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory

Plenary 6:30 pm

Saru Jayaraman 

“Behind the Kitchen Door”

Director, Food Labor Research Center

UC Berkeley

Co-Founder, ROC-United

Imperial Ballroom A

Reception 8:00 pm

Imperial Ballroom B

Saturday, September 5, 2015

8:00 to 9:45am

Roundtable: Does Critique Have a Future?

A Question for Political Theorists 

(Hilton, Franciscan A)

Chair: Nikolas Kompridis

Australian Catholic University

Lead Sponsor: Foundations of Political Theory

New Political Science Poster Session 

(Hilton, Grand Ballroom Poster Session VI)

Discussant: Sean Parson

Northern Arizona University

“Queer(ing) Marx: A Queer Reading of Marx’s

‘On the Jewish Question’,” Matt James Evans

“Hydraulic Fracking, Masculinity, and Domestic

Violence in South Texas,” Brooke H. Mascagni

Back to the Medina: Gentrification, Citizenship,

and Capital in Marrakesh,” Khalid Madhi

“Political Science and the World of Politics: Do

we matter?” Phillip J. Ardoin

8:00 to 9:45am

Work, Wages & Health: What's the State Got

to Do with It? 

(Hilton, Union Square 25)

Chair: Maggie Gray, Adelphi University

Cosponsored by the Labor Project and the

Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy Caucus

10:15am to 12:00pm

Anarchism and Radical Democracy 

(Parc 55, Mission I)

Chair: Laurence Davis, University College, Cork

2:00 to 3:45pm

Diversifying International Struggles: Theory

and Practice in Global Justice (Parc 55, Mission I)

Chair: Julie Hollar, CUNY-Graduate Center

Cosponsored by International History and

Politics

4:15 to 6:00pm

Roundtable: Labor and the South in American 

Politics (Hilton, Imperial A)

Chair: Immanuel Ness

Lead Sponsor: the Labor Project

Diverse Perspectives on LGBT Rights and Policy 

(Parc 55, Powell I)

Chair: Helma G. E. de Vries-Jordan

University of Pittsburgh, Bradford

Lead Sponsor: Sexuality and Politics

Sunday, September 6, 2015

8:00 to 9:45am

Habitation, Habitability, Justice 1 

(Hilton, Union Square 24)Chair: Jennifer Lawrence, Virginia Tech

Cosponsored by Green Politics and Theory

10:15am to 12:00pm

Habitation, Habitability, Justice 2 (Hilton,

Union Square 24)

Chair: Francois Debrix, Virginia Tech

Lead Sponsor: Green Politics and Theory