To find out what's happening each day, check back here often, but please also consult the online program, which will be updated continuously until the Annual Meeting.

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10:15 a.m. Theme Panel: Funding Interdisciplinary Research
Robert Axelrod (University of Michigan), Kennette Benedict (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists), Edward Hackett (National Science Foundation), Felice J. Levine (American Educational Research Association), Nicole A. Stahlmann (Social Science Research Council), Howard J. Silver (Consortium of Social Science Associations)

12:45 p.m. APSA Awards Ceremony
Hosted by the 2007 Program Committee Co-Chairs Elisabeth Gerber and David Lake, the Awards Ceremony recognizes excellence in the profession and begins with an invitation-only luncheon for awardees and their guests at 12:00 noon. The Awards Ceremony begins at 12:45 p.m. and is open to all attendees. Sponsored by Polity.

4:15 p.m. Theme Panel: Religion, Economics and Culture: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Research; Co-sponsored by Division 33
Carolyn M. Warner (Arizona State University), Eli Berman (University of California, San Diego), David D. Laitin (Stanford University), Roger Finke (Pennsylvania State University), Anthony Gill (University of Washington), Colleen E.H. Berndt (San Jose State University), William Roberts Clark (University of Michigan)

6:30 p.m. Graduate Student Happy Hour
Graduate students are invited to network with each other and meet informally with APSA President Robert Axelrod and other APSA Officers and Council.

9:00 p.m. Opening Reception
Following the Presidential Address, APSA will host the 103^rd APSA Annual Meeting Opening Reception.  All attendees are invited to enjoy an evening of entertainment with hor d'oeuvres and cocktails. Sponsored by Cambridge University Press.

10:15 a.m. Theme Panel: 40 Years of Challenge: Critical Issues Then and Now
John Ehrenberg (Long Island University), Frances Fox Piven (CUNY, Graduate Center), Judith Grant (Ohio University), Christine A. Kelly (William Paterson University), Margaret Levi (University of Washington, Seattle), Dean Robinson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), J. Phillip Thompson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cornel West,(Princeton University)

10:15 a.m. Roundtable: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Keeping Women of Color in the Discipline
Melissa R. Michelson ( California State University, East Bay), Celeste M. Montoya (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Maria Chavez (Pacific Lutheran University), Jessica L. Lavariega (Monforti University of Texas, Pan American), Juan Carlos Huerta (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi), Linda Lopez (National Science Foundation), Luis Ricardo Fraga (Stanford University), Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Celeste Montoya (Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Rodolfo Rosales (University of Texas, San Antonio)

Plenary Session Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age Duncan Watts, Columbia University

10:30 a.m. Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University, directs the Collective Dynamics Group. His research interests include the structure and evolution of social networks, the origins and dynamics of social influence, and the nature of distributed "social" search. Watts will address the foundations of social network theory and update research from his best-selling book Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age (W.W. Norton, 2003) and Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness (Princeton University Press, 1999).

12:00 noon Meet the Officer and Council Nominees
An opportunity to meet the 2007 Council and Officer nominees.

12:00 noon Getting Published in Political Science, Session 1

12:00 noon Workshop for Department Chairs: Development at a Departmental Level
The 2007 Workshop for Political Science Department Chairs will focus on the role department chairs play in financial development. The APSA Departmental Services Committee invites you to share successes or challenges you've encountered with fundraising. Contact dsp@apsanet.org for additional information.

4:15 p.m. Comparative Guest Lecture: Remembering Donald Rothchild; Sponsored by Division 11
Professor Donald Rothchild's prolific scholarship and generous academic leadership were defining influences for half a century on the field of international relations, particularly on developing nations of sub-Saharan Africa. This panel will be an opportunity to recall his tireless efforts as scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend. The panel will be led by those scholars with whom he most actively collaborated, but will encourage participation by all whose lives he touched.

Donald Rothchild authored and edited over twenty books and dozens of articles and book chapters on an array of subjects including ethnic conflict, conflict management, U.S. foreign policy, and Africa's relations with the global political order. He taught for over forty years at the University of California-Davis, taking time for visiting appointments at several African universities. He was a chair or member of several editorial boards and the recipient of numerous awards and grants, including fellowships at the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Pew Charitable Trust. Beyond his own scholarship and professional leadership, Donald Rothchild magnified his contributions to the field of international relations through his tireless collaboration and counsel with many scholars, resulting in works that have made important contributions to the field.

Lasswell Symposium Extremism: Causes and Cures Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago

6:00 p.m. Cass R. Sunstein, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, has held posts under U.S. Justice Thurgood Marshall, in addition to posts at the Massachusetts Supreme Court and the U.S. Department of Justice. Currently professor of law and political science at the University of Chicago, Prof. Sunstein vice-chairs the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chairs the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and is a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC and the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. Prof. Sunstein will speak on extremism as an example of social cascades and polarization and how they influence political behavior.

7:00 p.m. Reception Honoring Teaching
Everyone is invited to a reception honoring campus-wide teaching award recipients and the winner of the 2007 Rowman & Littlefield Award for innovative teaching.

8:00 p.m. Political Engagement: A Moderated Discussion with The New York Times and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Sponsored by The New York Times; Co-sponsored by the APSA Committee on Civic Education and Engagement
Elizabeth Beaumont (University of Minnesota), Thomas Ehrlich (The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), John Presley (Illinois State University), Elizabeth Bumiller--Moderator

10:15 am - 12:00 p.m. Theme Panel: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Inequality
Nolan M. McCarty (Princeton University), Elisabeth S. Jacobs (Harvard University), Jacob S. Hacker (Yale University), Timothy M. Smeeding (Syracuse University), John D. Huber (Columbia Universeity), Piero Stanig (Columbia University)

12:00-2:00 p.m. Getting Published in Political Science, Session 2

Plenary Session Chimpanzee Politics: 25th Anniversary of a Machiavellian Exposé Frans de Waal, Emory University and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center

12:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. Frans B.M. de Waal, a native of the Netherlands, trained as a zoologist and ethologist at three Dutch universities (Nijmegen, Groningen, Utrecht), and earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht in 1977.  Prof. de Waal holds joint appointments at the Psychology Department of Emory University and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, both in Atlanta. His widely read book Chimpanzee Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982) highlights six years of research on the world's largest captive colony of chimpanzees at the Arnhem Zoo, beginning in 1978. Prof. de Waal will focus on new research on politics among primates in the 25 years since the publication of his path-breaking study.

2:00 p.m. Theme Panel: Insights for International Security from the Life Sciences
Bradley A. Thayer (Missouri State University), Dominic Johnson ( Princeton University), Malcolm Potts (University of California, Berkeley), Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut), Valerie M. Hudson (Brigham Young University)

4:15 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. Theme Panel: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Issue of Vote Rigging
Gary W. Cox (University of California, San Diego), Tracy Campbell (University of Kentucky), Walter R. Mebane, Jr. (Cornell University), Emily Ann Beaulieu (University of Kentucky), Andrew W. Appel (Princeton University), Susan Dayton Hyde (Yale University), J. Morgan Kousser (California Institute of Technology)

Plenary Session Finding Democracy in the American Ghetto Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University

6:00 p.m. -7:30 p.m. Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University, received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows. His works include: Living Underground: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor (forthcoming, Harvard University Press, 2006) a study of illegal and informal economic behavior in a working poor community in Chicago, and American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto (Harvard 2000), an exploration of the social organization, moral universe, and history of the Chicago housing development, the Robert Taylor Homes. His 2005 documentary Dislocation follows families as they relocate from condemned public housing. His current research in urban American poverty includes a longitudinal study of vice and drug economies in Chicago and New York (with economist Steven Levitt), a comparative project on French and U.S. public housing, and an ethnographic study of the revitalization of Chicago in the 1990s.

6:15 p.m. APSA Annual Business Meeting
This is your chance to participate in APSA governance and witness the leadership transition from President Robert Axelrod to President-Elect Diane Pinderhughes.  For more about the agenda and rules of the meeting click here.

New Political Science 40th Anniversary Plenary Afghanistan Now: The Use and Abuse of a Buffer State Christian Parenti

8:30 p.m. Christian Parenti is a correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of the forthcoming book Mouthful of Dust: The End Again in Afghanistan. His other publications include The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq (The New Press, 2004), The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror (Basic Books, 2003), and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis (Verso, 2000). He is a former Soros Senior Justice Fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. His lecture will be addressing the war in Afghanistan.