Name: Teresa Almeida e Silva
Section: History and Politics
Professional Email: [email protected]
Professional Status: Associate Professor
Institution: Institute of Social and Political Sciences - Univesidade de Lisboa (Portugal)
Scheduling Preference: Saturday Morning
Proposal Type: Paper
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Paper Title:  Saudi Arabia: At the Crossroads between East and West
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The Saudi ideology - Wahhabism - has always brought an ambiguity to Saudi society. However, this ideology has never forbidden this kingdom to be the West's great ally, especially that of the US. In fact, both Saudis and Americans were interested in maintaining the stability of the Gulf region by jointly containing the advance of the Eastern communism as well as the radical nationalists in the Middle East. The main premise of this relationship was (and still is) the fact that Saudi Arabia could expand its oil trade abroad to satisfy the needs of the capitalist world, and could sell that oil at very profitable prices in exchange for American military and economic assistance and protection. Nevertheless, the divergence between both countries on various issues related to regional affairs has led to a certain distance between them. Taking advantage of this disengagement, China seems to see Saudi Arabia as the ideal strategic partner to take over from the US in the oil market. This paper seeks to analyze the Saudi dilemma of choosing between the two powers - US and China - as a partner in the international oil market.

Name: Michael Boston
Section: State and Local Politics
Professional Email: [email protected]
Professional Status: Associate Professor
Institution: The College at Brockport
Scheduling Preference: Saturday Morning
Proposal Type: Paper
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Panel Description: I would like to present a paper on African Americans and Native Americans and the U. S. Constitution. I will go back to the formation of the U. S. Constitution to close to the present and analyze who it has been applied toward African Americans and Native Americans.
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Paper Title:  George K. Arthur and Arthur O. Eve
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I would like to present a paper or Powerpoint presentation on George K. Arthur and Arthur O. Eve. These were two Buffalo, New York African American politicians who worked for the advancement of the Buffalo community generally and the African American community specifically. Both politicians organized on the grassroots level and became respected influential politicians. Eve ran and obtained a position in state government. Both individuals ran for the Buffalo mayor's office and lost. Nevertheless, they were successful politicians and critical parts of Buffalo's political history. Eve created programs to help low-economic students obtain college and university educations, regardless of race and was an influential part of the outside mediating teams in the Attica uprising and the Love Canal Crisis. Both men participated in the Buffalo school desegregation efforts. A book can be written on each of these individuals. Moreover, their historical activities serve as case studies in how to make local and state politics work for middle class, poor, and marginalized citizens.

Name: Sam Goodson
Section: History and Politics
Professional Email: [email protected]
Professional Status: Graduate Student
Institution: CUNY Graduate Center
Scheduling Preference: No Preference
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Paper Title: The People’s Party in American Political Development: Rethinking Populism and Democracy in the American South
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Perhaps no concept has become more ubiquitous among scholars of contemporary “democratic backsliding” and “norm-erosion” than populism. Populist movements, with their firm distinctions between a political “us” and “other”––coupled with a native disdain for formal institutions and elites––are thought to threaten the very fabric of pluralistic liberal democracy. There is no question that contemporary liberal democracies face threats more dire today than in at least a generation; and that some leaders routinely described with the populist epithet have played key roles in orchestrating such threats. But is it simply the case that populism remains an engine of this assault on democratic norms? Against that prevailing ahistorical view, this study makes the case that major populist movements in the United States have actually stood as the greatest harbingers and defenders of democracy. By rethinking the theoretical and political contributions of the People’s Party of the 1890s––as well as its signal political and theoretical antecedents––we trace the contours of a better framework for understanding populism writ large. Revisiting populist activity across the nineteenth-century American South, new questions emerge from this framework; not just about the substantive meaning of populism, but about how and why the “populist moment” subsumed several pre-existing political logics, and––in the crucible of political strife––conjoined them into new forms of political awareness, dissent, and organization. Moreover, we show how populists could contend with, but ultimately go beyond, traditional forms of contestation over the ends and means of federal power in the United States to the core dilemmas of liberal modernity itself. Finally, by critiquing and revising competing accounts of this period with an eye towards contemporary threats to democracy, we show that––rather than a primary threat to democractic governance––populism has been a primary vehicle for democratic renewal in American history.

Name: Philip Grant
Section: American Politics
Professional Email: [email protected]
Professional Status: Full Professor
Institution: Pace University
Scheduling Preference: No Preference
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Paper Title: Congressional Committee Chairmen from New York, 2001-2020 
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The purpose of this paper will be to provide a composite profile of congressional committee chairmen from the State of New York between 2001 and 2020. Theses chairmen and their respective committees were: Representatives Benjamin A. Gilman(Foreign Affairs), Peter T. King (Homeland Security), Charles Rangel (Ways and Means), Louise Slaughter(Rules), Jerrold Nadler (Judiciary), Eliot L. Engel (Foreign Affairs), Carolyn B. Maloney (Oversight and Government Reform), and Nita M. Lowey (Appropriations). The eight chairmen, accumulating considerable seniority over several decades, served an aggregate total of two hundred fifty-two years on Capitol Hill.

Name: harvey strum
Section: History and Politics
Professional Email: [email protected]
Professional Status: Full Professor
Institution: Russell Sage College
Scheduling Preference: Saturday Morning
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Paper Title:  Foreign Policy's Impact on Local and State Politics in New York, 1807-1815
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Between 1807-1815 foreign policy and domestic national issues were superimposed upon existing political divisions in New York. They reinforced certain divisions---Federalists vs Republicans and altered others---factional divisions within the Republican Party. Contrasting trends emerged. Voting behavior between 1807-15 revealed the importance of localism in state politics. Federalist gains in the Assembly elections of 1808-09, 1812-13, and 1815, the State Senatorial elections of 1809, gubernatorial election of 1813, and congressional election elections of 1808 and 1812 represented a repudiation of the foreign policies of Jefferson and Madison---of the embargo and War of 1812, and not the Republican Party. Especially, between 1808-1815 foreign policy and its impact on the lives of New Yorkers emerged as the major issues in town, city, state legislative, congressional, and gubernatorial elections. After 1800 a majority of New York's voters identified with the Republican Party but the foreign policies of Jefferson and Madison allowed for the political resurrection of the Federalist Party at the local and state level. New York entered the War of 1812 politically divided, as suggest by De Witt Clinton's presidential bid, and the results of the 1815 state elections confirmed the divisiveness of the war as many New Yorkers saw the war as a war of party, not country.