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Best wishes, Terrell Carver & Vronique Mottier


ECPR General Conference
Remember the ECPR's first 'General Conference', in a unique and
'fringey' format, to be held at the University of Kent at Canterbury 6-8
September 2001.  You have until 30 April 2001 to answer the Call for
Papers and to register for attendance and accommodation.  Details are at
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr click on ECPR General Conference 2001.


Turin Workshops 22-27 March 2002
The workshop 'Political Accommodation in Ethnonationally Diverse
Societies' proposed by Shane O'Neill (Queen's University, Belfast) and
Josep Costa (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) has been accepted.
Congratulations to the directors on an excellent proposal.

There are quite a number of other workshops that will be of interest to
political theorists.  Remember that many workshop directors welcome
contributions from theorists, and that many workshops in practice are a
mixture of theoretical and empirical interests and projects.  The best
advice is to read the workshop prospectus very carefully, and then
propose a paper that brings theory to the issues, and undertakes a 'case
study' or something similar.  You have until 1 December 2001 to propose
a paper.

The proposal for a Planning Session for 'Civil Society in an Age of
Globalization' was not successful, so the proposers will be emailing the
ecpr-theory list to develop a 'virtual' planning session, with a view to
undertaking a workshop proposal for the Joint Sessions in Edinburgh in
the spring of 2003.

Joint Sessions: Edinburgh 2003
The exact dates are not yet decided, but Joint Sessions are usually held
for 5 days towards the end of March or sometime up to mid-April.  The
deadline for workshop proposals will probably be 15 October 2001, so it
is not too early to think about this.  Workshop proposals are much more
likely to be successful if they define a problem or study very clearly,
review an important literature, have a broad appeal across the ECPR
intellectually and geographically, and present an impressive and diverse
list of potential participants.

New Journals
There are two:

Contemporary Political Theory, general editor Gary Browning, Oxford
Brookes University, UK; editors: Kimberly Hutchings, University of
Edinburgh, UK, and Raia Prokhovnik, Open University, UK, published by
Macmillan/Palgrave, beginning March 2002.

European Journal of Political Theory, editors Peter Lassman and Jeremy
Jennings, University of Birmingham, UK, published by Sage, beginning
June 2002.

The editors of both these exciting new journals have indicated that
besides Anglophone submissions, they will be interested in contributions
coming from the non-Anglophone world of political theory, and in
contributions that reflect issues, concerns, debates and traditions that
are not typical of Anglophone political theory.  They may be willing to
consider contributions that are not written in English, or contributions
that have been translated into English from non-Anglophone sources.
These comments here are not to be taken as policy statements, however,
rather as indications of interest.  If you have something in mind,
please get in touch with the editorial teams and consult with them
before making a submission.

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