GLD Virtual Annual Conference
This year's Annual Conference will be held online and is open to all who wish to attend. Over the course of the 2025 Fall Semester, GLD has invited all participants who originally planned to present at the cancelled 2025 GLD Annual Conference to present their work in a virtual format. Please see the full program below for further information. If you are interested in attending, please register at the zoom link below.
Panel 1a - Conflict
16 September - 1600 CEST
Ana Paula Pellegrino: Bars, Not Barriers: The Persistence of Support for Criminal Group Candidates
Raed Aldulaimi: Possible Reconciliation, Challenging Reintegration: Post-IS Iraq
Panel 1b - Conflict
22 September - 1600 CEST
Marika Olijar and Steven Brooke: National Crisis and Local Implementation: Evidence from the Ukrainian Religious Sector Under Russian Aggression
Silvia Otero-Bahamon: The Legacies of Armed Conflict on Educational Outcomes: An Analysis of Colombian Communities
Panel 2a - Climate Change
30 September - 1600 CEST
Victor Agboga: The Agrarian Response: How Climate Violence Affects Regional Voting Behaviour in Nigeria
Adam Harris: Climate Shocks and the (De)stabilisation of Gender Hierarchies: Evidence from Malawi
Panel 2b - Climate Change
7 October - 1600 CEST
Emily Gregory: On Uneven Ground: The Contested Politics of Environmental Risk, Rights, and Removal in Rio de Janeiro
Shiran Victoria Shen: Climate-Induced Disaster, Climate Adaptation, and the Democratic Deficit
Panel 2c - Climate Change
14 October - 1600 CEST
Jingping LIU: To Manage Noncompliance: Authoritarian Politics of Conservation in China
Noura Wahby: How to be Both: Water Shortage and Abundance as Crisis
Panel 2d - Climate Change
22 October - 1600 CEST
Preeti Nambiar: Weathering the Storm: Evolution of Citizen-State Relations and Local Government in Disaster-Hit Regions
Christopher Carter: Does Patriotism Inspire Environmentalism? Experimental Evidence from Bolivia
Panel 3 - Pandemic
11 November - 1600 CET
Lynette Ong: Augmenting State Power: Repression Through Complicit Society
Anjali Thomas: How Prior Citizen-State Engagement Shapes Resilience during Crises
Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner: Covid-19 in the Village: Citizens, State, and Hybrid Local Actors
Panel 4 - Political Reform
18 November - 1600 CEST
Winston Ardoin: From Repression to Mobilization: Police Violence and Public Provision in Rio de Janeiro
Cabal Lopez: Local State-Building in Revolutionary Mexico: The Varying Effects of Land Reform on Education
Mustapha Majidi: Governance Challenges in Jerada, Morocco: Post-Coal Mine Closure and Critical Junctures