Event

Penn and Temple are co-sponsoring the Philadelphia Region American Politics Conference     

The schedule of events is as follows:

8:30 - 9:00: Breakfast 
 
9:00 - 10:00: Tom Clark (Emory): "Random Assignment to Death” (Discussant: Kevin Arceneaux, Temple) 
 
10:00 - 11:00: James Avery (Stockton): "How Latino Voter Turnout Combats a Racial Backlash in State Immigration Policy” (Discussant: Michele Margolis, Penn) 
 
11:00 - 12:00: Rick Valelly (Swarthmore): "Building A New Heterosexual State: The Cold War Governmentalization of Sexual Orientation"  (Discussant: John Lapinski, Penn)  
 
12:00 - 1:30: Lunch and graduate student poster session 
 
1:30 - 2:30: Allison Harris (Chicago): "Judicially Activated: Electoral Response to Same-sex Marriage in Iowa” (Discussant: Gary Mucciaroni, Temple) 
 
2:30 - 3:30: Michael Peress (SUNY Stony Brook): "Does Newspaper Coverage Mediate the Economic Vote?” (Discussant: Marc Meredith, Penn) 
 
3:30: Concluding remarks and adjournment