Identity and International Political Economy Conference

The Identity and International Political Economy Conference asks: How does global economic integration alleviate or magnify identity-based disparities? How do social hierarchies shape support for globalization? And what are the political and economic consequences of these changes?

The cross-border flows of goods and services, people, pollutants and greenhouse gases, and capital have the potential to upend or reinforce the social hierarchies that produce group-based disparities. Yet existing research has paid inadequate theoretical and empirical attention to the processes by which globalization alters group relations and the short- and long-term political consequences of these changes. 

This conference aims to introduce cutting-edge scholarship emerging in this domain and foster conversations with scholars who have studied the broader impacts of globalization on domestic political outcomes. Join us for 1.5 days of research presentations, roundtables on theoretical and empirical advances in this domain, and a keynote address by David Lake, Distinguished Professor of the Graduate Division at the University of California, San Diego. 

This conference is made possible by the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy (ISERP) through its Fellowship program, and organized with Professor Nikhar Gaikwad, recipient of the ISERP Fellowship.