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Deborah Gould, Suzanne Staggenborg, Kelsy Burke, and Kathleen Blee are presented their work on the use of oral histories in social movement research at the Oral History Association meeting in October 2008.
Kathleen Blee recently presented her research on right-wing radicalization at Science-Po (Paris), the Free University (Amsterdam), and the University of Glascow (Scotland).
At the 2008 meeting of the American Sociological Association, Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum was awarded the Collective Behavior and Social Movements Section 2008 Best Graduate Student Paper Award awarded for “Strategic Dilemmas in Organizational Frame Selection and Audience Frame Preference in Women’s Peace Organizing”
Melanie Hughes presents “Intersectionality, Quotas, and Minority Women’s Political Representation Worldwide” at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Boston.
Melanie Hughes presents “The World Polity and Human Rights Violations Worldwide, 1975-2000” at the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Boston.
Rachel Kutz-Flamenbaum was elected to the Workshop Committee of the Collective Behavior and Social Movement Section of the American Sociological Association in August 2008.
John Markoff presented “A Moving Target: Democracy” at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at Notre Dame in March. In May he spoke on the ways ideas about ancient democracy have shaped the history of modern democracy at the International Conference on Sociology held by the Athens Institute for Education and Research. He and Majo Alvarez talked about research they’ve been doing with Verónica Montecinos on transnational connections among right-wing think tanks in San José, Costa Rica in July at the meetings of the Society for the Advancement of Socioeconomics. In September he spoke at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at a conference on “The Origins of Democracy in the Americas, 1770s-1870s”. In October he discussed Jackie Smith’s new book Social Movements for Global Democracy at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. In November he travelled to a conference on the history of democracy in Andalusia at the University of Jaén to speak on “Movimientos sociales, democracia y ciudadanía” and also lectured in the same then at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville.
Suzanne Staggenborg is serving as co-editor of the Cambridge Series on Contentious Politics, Cambridge University Press, from 2008 to 2012.