Dear All,
As you probably know the second ECPR General Conference will be 18-21
September 2003. There is a call now for section chair, individual
panels and (confusingly) 'roundtables' or 'symposia'. I've had no word
of anyone applying for section chair for Political Theory. If anyone
knows about this, please let me know! Obviously someone will need to do
this, so if you want to volunteer, again, let me (and the ECPR) know as
soon as possible. The deadline for this is 1 August but as ever with
the ECPR, it's somewhat flexible. I am pasting in the information from
the ECPR website below. We will need to have a section chair for
Marburg! Best wishes, Terrell
CALL FOR SECTION CHAIRS
The ECPR will organise its second General Conference in 2003. The
Academic Convenors for this conference are Donatella Della Porta
(University of Florence, Italy) and Klaus Armingeon (University of Bern,
Switzerland), assisted by Thomas Risse (European University Institute,
Italy). The local organiser at the University of Marburg is Dirk
Berg-Schlosser.
As with the first conference held in Canterbury in 2001, there will be a
conventional academic forum for presenting and listening to papers. The
academic programme will be organised in the format of sections and
panels, with each section chair organising a variety of panels in a
given field. The programme is intended to be very broad, with
approximately 20 sections, and will be coordinated by Klaus Armingeon.
Possible section themes include, but are by no means limited to, the
following:
Political theory
Political methodology
Comparative politics
Voting and party competition
Analytical politics and public choice
International relations
Local politics
Gender and politics
Third world politics
EU politics
Public administration
Public policy analysis
Political parties
Political economy
Environmental politics
Media and politics
Ethnicity, national identity and culture
Protest and social movements
Political institutions in Europe
There will also be an 'open' section, consisting of stand-alone panels.
Section chairs may choose to organise a minimum of four panels, up to a
maximum of ten panels and should specify this in their proposal. Each
panel will comprise up to four papers plus a discussant and chair, with
the possibility of tabled papers.
The other part of the programme will be a thematic one on "Governance in
the New Europe", including enlargement, the internal consequences, the
international role and so on. This part of the programme will be
coordinated by Donatella Della Porta and will include a number of round
tables or symposia.
No section chairs, round tables or symposia have been designated at
present. Accordingly, anybody who might be interested in doing so is
hereby asked to submit a proposal. Proposals must include the following
information:
Name, position and institution of proposed Chair
Is the proposal for a section, a round table or a symposium?
Short title of proposed section/round table/symposium
If the proposal is for a section, how many panels will it have?
Is the proposal associated with an ECPR standing group?
250-word outline of the main themes and aims of the section/round
table/symposium
If the proposal is for a section, a tentative indication of possible
panel titles, and possible panel chairs
If the proposal is for a round table/symposium, an indication of
participants
All proposals should be sent to both the academic convenors, by 1 August
2002:
Donatella Della Porta: [log in to unmask]
Klaus Armingeon: [log in to unmask]
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