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Western Political Science Association Virtual Mini Conference

Criminology, Law & Society PhD students are among the presenters
DATE
Wed, 06/03/2026 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm PDT
LOCATION
Online
DETAILS

UC Irvine Assistant Professor of Criminology, Law & Society Eraldo Souza dos Santos hosts the Western Political Science Mini-Conference History & Politics.

Here is the schedule (all times are Pacific Time):

1-1:30 p.m.: Ekaterina Olson Shipyatsky, political science/University of Michigan: “‘A Stone Under History’s Wheel’: Genocidal Violence and the Politics of Curation”

1:30-2 p.m.: Brent Horning, study of religion/UC Davis: “A Return to Madness: Flows and Intensities”

2-2:30 p.m.: Joseph Ward, politics and international relations/University of Oxford: “Disciplined Historian, Unlicensed Heretic: Remembering Elsa Goveia in the Black Radical Tradition”

2:30-3 p.m.: Michael Theodore, criminology, law & society/UC Irvine: “Policing Dissent: The Racial Politics of the Agitator Trope from King to Trump”

3-3:30 p.m.: Caro Mooney, criminology, law & society/UC Irvine: “The Paradox of the Erased Disobedient: Trans Illegibility and Civil Disobedience”

3:30-4 p.m.: Jonathan Ahrens, history/UC Davis: “Crazed by Longism: Black Share Our Wealth Clubs and White Supremacist Terror”

4-4:15 p.m.: Break

4:15-5 p.m.: Keynote speaker Marcus Lee, African and African American studies/Princeton University: “Whose Rustin?”

Questions? Email our host at esouzado@uci.edu

Closeups of Caro Mooney and Michael Theodore, UC Irvine criminology, law & society Ph.D. students

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