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: The Persistent Electoral Power of Criminal Groups
Raed Aldulaimi: Possible Reconciliation, Challenging Reintegration: Post-IS Iraq
Panel 1b - Conflict
22 September - 1600 CEST
Marika Olijar and Steven Brooke: Choosing Religious Nationalism
Silvia Otero-Bahamon: The Legacies of Armed Conflict on Educational Outcomes: An Analysis of Colombian Communities
Panel 2a - 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: Adaptive Political Expression: Climate Disasters, Citizen Demand, and Platform-Mediated Engagement in Authoritarian China
Panel 2b - Climate Change
14 October - 1600 CEST
Jingping LIU: From Contention to Clientelism: Evidence from the Fishing Ban in Rural China
Noura Wahby: How to Be Both: Water Shortage and Abundance as Crises
Panel 2c - 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: Citizen-State Encounters and Patterns of Participation in Urban Peripheries: Evidence from Rio de Janeiro
Manuel Cabal Lopez: Foot-Soldiers of the Revolution: Teachers and Land Reform in Mexico
Mustapha Majidi: Governance Challenges in Jerada, Morocco: Post-Coal Mine Closure and Critical Junctures