25th Annual New Faces Conference

The New Faces conference is designed to foster and promote interdisciplinary scholarship in security studies by offering advanced PhD candidates and newly-minted PhDs a chance to present their research in a format akin to an academic job talk. The conference will take place on Friday, September 20th, 2024 at the Rizzo Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Please RSVP to monica.harvey@duke.edu if you wish to attend. You may attend the full day or stay for a single session.

 

8:00-8:30                            Coffee & Pastries

 

8:30-8:40                            Welcome & Opening Remarks
Kyle Beardsley, Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies

 

8:40-9:45                            Session 1: “The Voice of Congress on War and Diplomacy”
Andrew Kenealy, Duke University

Discussants:  Mark Crescenzi and James Britt

Chair:  Manna Duah

 

9:45-9:55                            Break

 

9:55-11:00                         Session 2: “Beiruit in the Crosshairs: Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Lebanon, 1977 – 1985”

Edward Kunz, The Ohio State University

Discussants: Mike Morgan and Justine Robinson

Chair: Erinn Whitaker

 

11:00-11:10                      Break

 

11:10-12:15                      Session 3: “The Financialization of Foreign Policy: Targeted Financial Sanctions and Government Retaliation”

Caileigh Glenn, University of Wisconsin, Madison

Discussants:  Navin Bapat and Mark Thomas-Patterson

Chair:  Patricia Sullivan

 

12:15-1:15                         Boxed Lunch

 

1:15-2:20                            Session 4: “Until the Music Stopped: The Second Concert in European Inter-State Relations, 1878-1908”

Richard Smith, University of Texas, Austin

Discussants:  Jens Ewe-Guettel and Noah Fisher

Chair:  Moses Khisa

 

2:20-2:30                            Break

 

2:30-3:35                            Session 5: “Conscription and Battlefield Effectiveness in the Modern Era”
Changwook Ju, Yale University

Discussants:   Peter Feaver and Michael Ferguson

Chair: Kyle Beardsley

 

3:35-3:45                            Break

 

3:45-4:50                            Session 6: “For As Long As it Takes? Time Horizons and Policy Termination”

Maryum Alam, The Ohio State University

Discussants:  Peter Eltsov and Giovanny Alvarez

Chair: Kyle Beardsley

 

4:50-5:00                            Closing Remarks

Kyle Beardsley, Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies

 

Social & Dinner to follow in the DuBose Library at the Rizzo Center