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New Faces

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.

 

The 25th Annual New Faces Conference Schedule

 

Friday, September 20th  

109 Loudermilk Hall, Rizzo Center and livestream

 

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:  Dr. Mark Crescenzi and James Britt

Chair:  Dr. Mana 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: Dr. Mike Morgan and Justine Robinson

Chair:  Dr. Erinn Whitaker

 

11:00-11:10               Break

 

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

Caileigh Glenn Hinchey, University of Wisconsin,  Madison

Discussants:   Dr. Navin Bapat and Mark Thomas-Patterson

Chair:  Dr. 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:  Dr. Jens Ewe-Guettel and Noah Fisher

Chair:  Dr. 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:   Dr. Peter Feaver and Michael Ferguson

Chair: Dr. 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:  Dr. Peter Eltsov  and Giovanny Alvarez

Chair: TBD

 

4:50-5:00                   Closing Remarks

Kyle Beardsley, Director of the Triangle Institute for Security Studies

 

Social to follow in the Dubose Library at the Rizzo Center

 

 

Started by Peter Feaver and Hein Goemans in 2000, New Faces is now one of TISS most distinctive and well-known programs with a vast network of  former participants.  Crossing disciplinary boundaries, participants in New Faces approach the study of security from a number of disciplinary backgrounds, including political science, history, public policy, and beyond.