Agenda: February 3–4, 2022

The agenda for the 2022 Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Thesis Conference is being finalized—stay tuned for further updates. (Please note that most of the presenters’ theses are due in March and are works in progress.) All panels will be held on Zoom.

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Thursday, February 3

9:30–11:30 a.m. ET
Panel One: Human Rights, Health, and Human Trafficking

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  • Chair: Mashail Malik, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University.
  • Roshni Chakraborty (Social Studies, Global Health & Health Policy), Kenneth I. Juster Fellow; Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. “The Last Link: The Inequity of India’s Response to Child Trafficking.”
  • Ruth Jaensubhakij (Social Studies, Ethnicity, Migration, Rights), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. "To Restore the World: Anti-Human Trafficking Organizations in Thailand and Protestant Churches in the US."  
  • Salomé Garnier (Government, Global Health & Health Policy), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. "Trust and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the Dominican Republic."


2:00–4:00 p.m. ET
Panel Two: Human Rights, Labor, and Migration in Europe

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  • Chair: Elaine Papoulias, Executive Director, Center for European Studies, Harvard University.
  • Austin Goldsmith-Lachut (Government, Translation Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. “Rejection: How Media-Influenced Bureaucratic Drift Replicated Formal Barriers to Entry for Syrian Refugees in Northern and Western Europe.”
  • Kiara Gomez (Anthropology, Government), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. “Just Sit Still and Look Pretty: What Modeling Means for Legal and Labor (In)Visibilities.”
  • Georgiy Kent (Social Studies, Slavic Literatures & Cultures), Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. “Homeland Lost? Crimean Tatar Civil Society Responses to the Russian Occupation of Crimea.”


Friday, February 4

9:00–11:45 a.m. ET
Panel Three: International Relations in Asia 

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  • Chair: Yuhua Wang, Director, Weatherhead Center Undergraduate Student Programs; Faculty Associate. Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor of Government, Harvard University.
  • Brandon Chen (Government, Language History & Structure), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. "Regulations and Practices of US-Taiwan Diplomatic Relations."
  • Celina Hollmichel (Government, East Asian Studies), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. “A Comparative Analysis of the Integration Measures for North Korean Refugees in South Korea through the Lens of East Germans in West Germany.”
  • Preston Stewart (Government, Global Health & Health Policy), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. “The Autocrat’s New Groove: Cambodia and the New Age of Foreign Aid Diplomacy.”
  • Sung Kwang Oh (Government, Computer Science), Kenneth I. Juster Fellow. "Understanding Japan–South Korean (ROK) Cooperation."


2:00–4:00 p.m. ET
Panel Four: Indigeneity, Nationalism, and Sovereignty in North America 

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  • Chair: Katie MazerWilliam Lyon Mackenzie King Postdoctoral Fellow, Canada Program. PhD, Department of Geography, University of Toronto.
  • Kendrick Foster (History, Government), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. “Five-Cornered Statecraft: Mexico, the United States, and Native Americans in Texian Diplomacy, 1836–1845.”
  • Kate Laumann Wallace (History), Undergraduate Research Fellow, Canada Program. “Pipe Dreams: Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline and the Legal Paradigms of Canadian Settler Colonialism.”
  • Nidhi Patel (Government), Williams/Lodge International Government and Public Affairs Fellow. “Investigating a Neurobiological Mechanism Mediating the Relationship Between Experiences of Violence and Prosocial Behavior.”

 

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