June 3-4, 2005
University of Washington

Friday, June 3

Participants: Be sure to bring warm clothes with you to the Conference Room; we will be leaving directly from the Conference Room for the late afternoon cruise.

Lunch – University Club

11:30-1:00

Conference – Simpson Center Conference Room

Welcome and Overview

1:00-1:15

Michael Hechter, Conference Host

Session 1

1:20-3:20

Twenty minute presentations will be followed by 10 minute discussant comments and 15 minute question/answer session.

Institutionalizing the Just War

Allen Buchanan, Department of Philosophy, Duke University

Discussant: William Talbott, Department of Philosophy, University of Washington

1:20-2:00

The Evolutionary Psychological Perspective on War, Conflict, and Alien Rule

Satoshi Kanazawa, Interdisciplinary Institute of Management and Methodology Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science

Discussant: David Barash, Department of Psychology, University of Washington

2:00-2:40

Academic Receivership as Alien Rule

Gail Dubrow, School of Architecture and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Washington

Debra Friedman, Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington

Discussant: Richard Startz, Department of Economics, University of Washington

2:40-3:20

Cruise of Lake Union (with Sushi appetizers)

4:00-6:00 (Depart at 3:30)

Dinner at Ponti Seafood Grill

6:30-

Saturday, June 4

Note: Breakfast will not be provided by conference organizers. The Watertown Hotel serves complimentary breakfast.

Conference – Simpson Center Conference Room

Session 2

9:00-11:45

Twenty minute presentations will be followed by 10 minute discussant comments and 15 minute question/answer session.

The Meanings of Empire and the Limits of Alien Rule

Stephen Howe, Department of History, University of Oxford

Discussant: Ellis Goldberg, Department of Political Science and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

9:00-9:45

Ethnic Cleavage Structures, Permanent Exclusion, and Democratic Stability

Kanchan Chandra, Department of Political Science, MIT

Discussant: Kate Stovel, Department of Sociology, University of Washington

9:45-10:30

Break

10:30-11:00

The Global Diffusion Of Nationalist Discontent:

A Macro-Historical, Institutionalist Perspective

Andreas Wimmer, Department of Sociology UCLA

Discussant: Resat Kasaba, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

11:00-11:45

Lunch – Simpson Center Conference Room

11:45-1:15

Session 3

1:15-4:15

Twenty minute presentations will be followed by 10 minute discussant comments and 15 minute question/answer.

Cause Without a Rebel: Kazakhstan’s Unionist Nationalism and Theories of Secessionism and Post-Secession Foreign Policy

Henry Hale, Department of Political Science, Indiana University

Discussant: Stephen Hanson, Department of Political Science and Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

1:15-2:00

Ethnic Defection in Civil War

Stathis Kalyvas, Department of Political Science, Yale University

Discussant: Erik Wibbels, Department of Political Science, University of Washington

2:00-2:45

Break

2:45-3:15

Closing Comments

Thomas C. Schelling, Department of Economics and School of Public Affairs, University of Maryland

3:15-4:15

Dinner at Matt’s on the Market

6:00-

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