Boyoon Lee (Vanderbilt University), “Moderating Role of Country-of-Origin Stereotypes on Attitudes Towards Immigrants”

U.S. ET: June 8 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: June 9 (Friday), 9 – 10 AM Zoom Registration: Link. Paper is available here. Author: Boyoon Lee (Vanderbilt University) Abstract: How do country-of-origin stereotypes influence native attitudes towards immigrants? Drawing on dual processing models of stereotypes from social psychology, I present three different ways that country-of-origin […]

Patricia Maclachlan (University of Texas at Austin), “Mechanisms of Resistance: Informal Institutional Impediments to Japanese Postal Privatization”

U.S. ET: November 9 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: November 10 (Friday), 10 – 11 AM Zoom Registration: Link. Paper is available here. Author: Patricia Maclachlan (University of Texas at Austin) Abstract: Nearly two decades after Koizumi Jun’ichirō passed his landmark legislation, the postal privatization process has lost its momentum. Japan Post Mail is in […]

Risa Kitagawa (Northeastern University), “Legacies of Wartime Sexual Violence: Evidence from World War II ‘Comfort Stations'”

U.S. ET: April 11 (Thursday), 8 – 9 PM JST: April 12 (Friday), 9 – 10 AM Zoom Registration: Link Paper is available here. Authors: Risa Kitagawa (Northeastern University) and Sumin Lee (Texas A&M University). Abstract: What are the long-term effects of wartime sexual violence on trust? We argue that whereas sexual violence reinforces perceptions […]