Chair: Seungkwon You (Associate Director, Institute for Korean Studies)

Yeilim Cheong, “Struggles that Strengthen: How Some Opposition Successor Parties Endure While Others Falter” (Director, Institute for Korean Studies)

Celeste Arrington, “The (Under)Representation of People with Disabilities in South Korea’s 
National Assembly” (Associate Professor, George Washington University)

Discussant: Laron Williams (Professor, University of Missouri) 

Chair: Yeilim Cheong (Director, Institute for Korean Studies)

Meredith Weiss, “The (De)Democratizing Tango: Why It’s Hard to Get Democracy to Stick in 
Southeast Asia” (Professor, University at Albany, SUNY) 

Eunbin Chung, “From Feminist Solidarity to Political Action: The Role of Feminist Ideas during South Korea’s Democratic Crisis” (Associate Professor, University of Utah)

Discussant: Mary Stegmaier (Vice Provost for International Programs, University of Missouri)

Chair: Seungkwon You

Denise Brown, “Explaining the Decline of Dominant Parties in New Democracies: Evidence from South Africa” (PhD Student, University of Missouri)

Gabriellen da Silva Xavier Do Carmo, “Populist Parties in Power and Attacks on the Judiciary:  Evidence from Latin America” (PhD Student, University of Missouri)

Onyinye Ogili, “Judicial Systems and Democratic Stability: A Cross-National Analysis of  Institutional Effects” (PhD Student, University of Missouri)

Discussants: Scott LaCombe (Assistant Professor, University of Missouri), Yeilim Cheong  (Director, Institute for Korean Studies)

Chair: Yeilim Cheong

Sangyong Son, “Democratic Integration of Migrants from Autocracy: Lab-in-the-Field Evidence from North Korean Defectors” (Incoming Assistant Professor, National University of Singapore)

Rikio Inouye, “Democratic Solidarity: Does the Democratic Public Support Fellow Democracies in Conflicts?” (Incoming Assistant Professor, Temple University)

Discussant: Stephen Quackenbush (Professor, University of Missouri)