Houston Day #2

7-8am Breakfast

8am – 9:30am “Mexian Fronterizo: Ciudad Juarez y su Transformacion Cultural por la Violencia a Partir de 2008” by Maria Socorro Tauenca

9:45am – 11:15am “Child labor Supply in Palestine: Trends and Perspectives” by Issam Abu-Ghallous; “Simple is Elegant; Simple is Naive” by Dr. Shahdad Naghshpour

11am – 1pm Lunch

1-2:30pm Panel: Political Conflict and Power Struggles. “Islam, Pakistan, and the Taliban” by Sayeed Iftekhar Ahmed, “A House Divided: The Dynastic and Political Struggle among the Heirs of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto for Pakistani Leadership: 1977-2011” by Kimberly Casey, and “Killing Yourself Will Not Stop the War: Suicide, Women, and Stressful Times” by Melissa Aho, Madeline Gillette, and J Patton

2:45-4:15pm “Intra-Industry Trade in South America: A Test to the Linder Hypothesis” by Greg Bonadies, “The Importance of National Identity to Trade Patterns: Post Conflict Trade in Bosnia and Herzegovina” by Kristina Lybecker, “Revealed Comparative Advantage as a Measure of Palestinian Competitiveness in Trading Services” by Issam Abu-Ghallous, “Impact of Migrant Remittances on Exchange Rates Differentiated by Exchange Rate Regime” by Madeline Gillette and Dr Shahdad Naghshpour

6:30 Dinner at Biraporetti’s

Today was my presentation! Haha well, it was my presentation with my two co-authors Madeline and J. The day started out pretty early with breakfast and then off to the Western Social Science Association Conference (WSSA), which was being held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, to check-in. After attending many great talks by friends from my PhD program, some talks that were interesting, and one that was not interesting (Madeline made me go), it was our turn to talk. We were given a very small room and 30+ people squished in to hear us talk. Interestingly we knew all but 5 of the people in the audience! We were told that other people wanted to come in to hear the talk, but when they found that it was too crowded, they went to the other talks. It was great that so many students and professors from the IDV PhD program want to hear us talk. I was exhausted after it was over and now I can enjoy the rest of the conference without the extra stress of that paper and presentation. Dinner was at the Italian-Irish restaurant Biraporetti’s.