Dr. Pressman – along with co-authors Erica Chenoweth, Soha Hammam, and Jay Ulfelder – recently published “Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024” in Social Movement Studies. The article characterizes the movements based on their Crowd Counting Consortium data. For example, the article addresses size, frequency, and the largely non-violent protestors. It also assesses slogans across the movement and tallies the types of demands made at university encampments in Spring 2024. 

 

Dr. Hertel and Dr. Davis Chacón-Hurtado, both involved with the Human Rights Institute, were the opening panelists for a workshop on “Issues at the Intersection of Engineering and Human Rights,” jointly hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine (Committee on Human Rights) and the National Academy of Engineering (Cultural, Ethical, Social & Environmental Responsibility in Engineering Program), in Washington DC. 

 

On Sept. 23, 2024 Dr. Hertel co-organized and co-hosted a daylong workshop in Berlin with Dr. Sebastian Wogenstein and the CT-Baden Wurttemberg Human Rights Research Consortium (HRRC), on “Challenges of Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence” involving government, NGO, business and academic representatives. 

 

In October 2024 Dr. Hertel was the organizing lead for two afternoon workshops on “AI Odyssey”, hosted jointly by the Hartford Public Library (HPL) and by UConn colleagues involved in CT-Baden Wurttemberg Human Rights Research Consortium’s (HRRC) Science & Tech Working Group. The aim was to explore the emancipatory potential of AI for students in marginalized communities in an effort to transcend the digital divide. Facilitators included staff of the HPL’s YouMedia Center and professors and graduate students from UConn College of Engineering, School of Education, and multiple departments within CLAS (including Political Science, Literature Culture & Languages, Math, and Psychological Sciences). Their counterparts in Germany are developing a parallel set of student-centered activities to take place in Spring 2025. 

 

Dr. Orozco-Mendoza has a co-authored article, entitled “13 Theses on Feminist Protest: A Manifesto“, in the 50th anniversary edition (Autumn 2024) of “Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society”. 

 

Dr. Pressman published an article review on H-Diplo of Benjamin V. Allison’s “Beyond the Arc of Crisis: Jimmy Carter and the Arab ‘Radicals,’ 1978–79,” in Cold War History 24:1 (2024). 

 

In September, Dr. Hertel and Dr. Richards co-organized “Teaching Human Rights in Political Science: A Workshop” at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia. Participants in the workshop are slated for inclusion in the Elgar Press textbook (forthcoming) co-edited by Hertel and Richards. Also at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Dr. Hertel was a discussant for the “Theories of Human Rights” panel. 

 

Dr. Pressman presented on “The Arab-Israeli Conflict during the Cold War” at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association. 

 

Dr. Ahmed Zaki had been granted the 2024 APSA Summer Centennial Center Research Grant for her new research project entitled “The Politics of Unveiling in Contemporary Egypt.” 

  

Dr. Ahmed Zaki also has a forthcoming article in the International Feminist Journal of Politics, entitled “Veiled Transgressions: Revisiting Tunisia’s Secular/Islamic Divide Through the Afterlives of the Hijab Ban”. 

 

On Saturday, November 16th, students in Dr. Sterling-Folker’s graduate courses joined Professor Singer’s honors students for the annual field trip to the Northeastern Political Science Association’s Annual Meeting in Boston, MA.  Besides attending panels, the students had a chance to visit Faneuil Hall or Boston Commons and socialize at dinner before returning to campus.  Photos of the trip may be found here. 

 

Dr. Jeremy Pressman’s policy brief, “Mind the Gap: U.S. Preferences and Israel’s War Conduct,” was published by the Quincy Institute on November 22, 2024 and is available here. 

 

Dr. Art House’s article, “Opinion: Advise and consent is a constitutional duty, not multiple choice” was published in the Hartford Courant (Nov 22) and is available here.