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ECPR Electronic Bulletin - July 2005
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Contents:
Dates for Diaries
ECPR News
Publications: Editorial vacancies for ECPR publications
Job Vacancies & Fellowships
Conferences and Call for Proposals
Other News
Link to online (HTML) version:
http://www.ecprnet.org/email/current.asp
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DATES FOR DIARIES
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- World International Studies Conference (WISC) 2005; Istanbul, Turkey
24 - 27 August, 2005
- ECPR Conference:
8-11 September 2005; Budapest, Hungary
- 2006 Joint Sessions:
25-30 April; Nicosia, Cyprus
- ECPR's 1st Graduate Conference:
7-10 September 2006; Essex, UK
- 2007 Joint Sessions:
7-12 May; Helsinki, Finland
- ECPR Conference:
6-8 September 2007; Pisa, Italy
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ECPR News
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1st ECPR Lifetime Achievement Award
The Prize Committee has now met and discussed a number of nominations of distinguished figures. After due consideration of their respective merits, it was decided to award the prize to Giovanni Sartori on the grounds of his substantive and organizational contributions to European Political Science over a long career. Particular mention was made of the application of his theory of parties to the study of European party systems and his founding of the Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica. Professor Sartori will be presented with the award during the ECPR conference in Budapest this coming September.
ECPR PhD Prize 2005 ? Announcement of Winner
The 2005 ECPR PhD Prize has been awarded to Laura Morales Diez de Ulzurrun, (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid) for her thesis Institutions, Mobilization, and Political Participation: Political Membership in Western Countries. The judges reported that her study of political participation, and in particular of membership of political organizations in western political systems, was wide ranging and interesting, exposing some important regional differences. The Prize will be awarded at the ECPR?s General Conference in Budapest.
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3rd ECPR Conference, Budapest 8-10 September 2005
Registration
You can now register online at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/generalconference/budapest/registration.htm
Please note that the deadline for early registration has now passed (1st June), registrations will now be charged at the higher rate of:
ECPR member participants: ?100/£70
Non-ECPR participants: ?125/£88
Students/Non-OECD countries: ?75/£52
If you would like to pay by a method other than online credit card payment then please contact the ecpr central services for the appropriate information ([log in to unmask]).
Timetable
The timetable is available online. Please click on your relevant section and panel for the scheduling details.
Accommodation
Please book your accommodation as soon as possible as some hotels are already becoming fully booked, you can find information on hotels here:
http://www.conferences.hu/ecpr2005/index.htm
Participant search
To search for your paper details and commitments at the Budapest General Conference, please see: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/generalconference/budapest/participant_search.aspx . Enter your surname and then click on 'search' to view your commitments
Circulation/distribution of papers
We will post papers on the ECPR website on request. If you wish your paper to go on the web in advance of the conference, please send them to the Central Services ([log in to unmask]) by 15 August.
It is the paper giver's responsibility to distribute papers to fellow panellists and chair, and this should be done by 25 August at the latest. Paper givers should also bring a few hard copies for distribution during the conference itself.
Please keep checking the Budapest conference web site for the latest information.
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Budapest Book Exhibition
A Book Exhibition is planned to run throughout the Conference, with publishers represented from all over the world. This is an excellent and unique opportunity for you to display your publications and meet with political scientists and international relations specialists.
For further information please visit:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/generalconference/budapest/book_exhibition.htm
A booking form can be found at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/generalconference/budapest/documents/booking_form.pdf
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Graduate Network - Official Launch Friday 9 September
The ECPR Graduate Network officially launched at the ECPR Conference in Budapest, 8-10 September 2005. Two panels have been organised for the Friday morning. The first will be an introduction to the Graduate Network and will give you an opportunity to meet the members of the coordinating committee, ask questions and make suggestions. This will be followed by an informal reception, including snacks and refreshments. Our second panel will be a professional development session focused on publishing issues. All of these events provide an excellent opportunity to get involved, meet other graduate students, and learn about what the Graduate Network can do for you. Participation is open to all those interested in finding out more about the Graduate Network.
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Nicosia 2006 Joint Sessions
A list of accepted workshops can now be found online at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/nicosia/ws_list.aspx
A pdf version of the academic programme can be found online at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/nicosia/documents/academic_programme.pdf
A pdf version of the poster can be found online at:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/nicosia/documents/poster.pdf
These have also been sent as hard copies to all ECPR Official Representatives
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1st ECPR Graduate Conference, 7-9 September 2006
Further information, including a draft day by day timetable can now be found online at: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/graduateconference/index.asp
Please keep checking the Graduate Conference web site for the latest information.
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NEW ECPR MEMBERS
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Universidad TORCUATO DI TELLA
Argentina
http://www.utdt.edu/
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For a full list of ECPR members visit:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/membership/ecprmemberlist.asp
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ECPR STANDING GROUPS
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Standing Group on Analytical Politics and Public Choice
The Duncan Black Award
The Standing Group on Analytical Politics and Public Choice, which is active within ECPR, has created the Duncan Black Award. This award honors exemplary scholarship in analytical politics and public choice.
The prize is dedicated to encouraging graduate students to pursue innovative avenues of research in the tradition of the eminent Scottish researcher (May 23, 1908 - January 14, 1991) who was responsible for unearthing the work of many early political scientists, including Charles Dodgson.
The award will be given to a graduate student for the best paper presented in 2005.
The ECPR Standing Group on Analytical Politics and Public Choice invites possible candidates to submit their paper as a word-or pdf-document to Bernard Steunenberg at [log in to unmask] before the start of the ECPR conference at Budapest (deadline 7 September at 12.00 hrs).
The award committee for consists of: Bernard Steunenberg, Gerald Schneider, Thomas Koenig and Simon Hug.
The Duncan Black Award carries a prize of 200 Euros as well as a diploma.
More information on the standing group can be found at: http://www.publicadministration.leidenuniv.nl/index.php3?m=1&c=254
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Standing Group on Latin American Politics
The Granada meeting of the Standing Group confirmed the decision made in Edinburgh to have a newsletter and Wladimir Gramacho (Salamanca) kindly agreed to be its editor. Any news about events, conferences, publications, requests for information or short book review notes, please send to Wladimir at [log in to unmask]
At Granada it was also agreed to encourage Standing Group members to participate in the workshop on ?Parliamentary practices in presidential systems: (European) perspectives on parliamentary power in Latin America?, to be convened by Detlef Nolte (Deutsches Übersee-Institut) and Agustín Ferraro (Salamanca) at the Nicosia Joint Sessions, 25-20 April 2006. An outline can be found at
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/jointsessions/nicosia/outlines/ws20.pdf
To join the Standing Group?s mailing list, contact the convenor, Roberto Espíndola, at [log in to unmask]
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The standing group has a brand new web site with information on membership, the group's conference activities and its summer school.
Visit it now at:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/spire/sgpp/
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Standing Group on Security Issues
The standing group's web site is now live at:
http://staff.bath.ac.uk/mlssaw/ecpr/
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New Standing Group on Regulatory Governance
The convenors are:
Professor Jacint Jordana, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Email: [log in to unmask]
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Dr David Levi-Faur, University of Haifa, Israel
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Visit all the Standing Group web pages here:
http://www.ecprnet.org/standinggroups/sg_list.asp
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PUBLICATIONS
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ECPR Publications ? Editorship Vacancies
ECPR Books
In April 2005 the ECPR launched its own publishing imprint ?ECPR Press? with the purpose of publishing two new book series:
ECPR Monographs, which publishes new research from both the younger and more established members of the profession, including revised PhD theses and translations
ECPR Classics, which reissues classic works from the past 50 years or so which have now gone out of print updated to include new introductions either by the author or close former colleagues.
Both series aim to cover the broad range of political science and international relations and to publish work of the highest quality.
The ECPR Press is managed on a day-to-day basis by the ECPR itself, through its Publications Manager and the Central Services; all production is done in-house, as is the marketing, sales and distribution of the series. , the first two ECPR book series to be produced ?in house?, were launched in April 2005. At the launch three original research-based books were published (in the Monograph series) and there was also the re-publication of three books that have long been out of print (in the Classics series). In future it is intended that two or three Monographs will be published each year as well as two Classics. The Monograph series is not restricted to the publication of work by younger scholars, but it is expected that many of the books in that series will be by such scholars ? of ten revised versions of outstanding PhD theses. The Classics series aims to bring back into print important works that are no longer available, and the authors (or close former colleagues of theirs) are invited to write a new introduction to their books.Six titles were published in total to coincide with the launch of the imprint and series at the 2005 Joint Sessions in Granada. In future, however, the Press will adopt a rolling schedule of publication from 2006, with four books planned for 2006 and several titles already under contract for 2007. Both series aim to cover the broad range of political science and international relations and to publish work of the highest quality. Production is undertaken at ECPR Central Services, which is based at the University of Essex.
The ECPR has also introduced an annual PhD prize, with the first prize being awarded for theses submitted for examination at their universities in 2003. It is hoped that some of the entries for the prize, including the winner of it, may be candidates for inclusion in the Monograph series; in that sense, the prize is seen as ?feeding into? that series.
The two series currently have one Editor, Alan Ware (of Worcester College, University of Oxford), who was appointed in April 2003. Under the ECPR?s guidelines for Editors he has been reappointed for a second term, from April August 2006, and therefore is due to stand down in -April August 2009, but he will not be eligible then for any further reappointment after that.. The new co-editor?s term of office will be for three years from April August 2006 (renewable for a further three years in April August 2009). The maximum term of service for any editor is six years.
The ECPR is, therefore, seeking an experienced member of the profession to take on the co-editorship. He or she should have, if possible, an international reputation and a wide range of professional contacts in Europe and the rest of the world, as well as a commitment to the on-going development of the two new series.
The newly appointed co-editor will be responsible for the following:
- Chairing the PhD prize Committee for the ECPR thesis prize in 2007, 2008 and 2009
- Collaborating with Alan Ware in (i) selecting (and commissioning) manuscripts for the Monograph series, and (ii) selecting works for inclusion in the Classics series
- (with Alan Ware) attending ECPR Joint Sessions and the September conferences, and chairing meetings of the Editorial Board at them
- (with Alan Ware) confirming that suggested revisions to manuscripts have been made by the authors, and then generally overseeing monitoring the production process of the books. (Day to day responsibility for production is undertaken at ECPR Central Services have day to day responsibility for production.)
- Submitting an annual report to the ECPR Executive.
It is expected that the co-editor will be from an ECPR member institution.
The co-editor will be appointed by the Executive Committee of the ECPR and is answerable to it through its Publications Board. At least one editor attends the Joint Sessions of Workshops each year to meet with the Publications Board and present a written report to the Committee and Editorial Board (see 5 above).
The editors are paid a small honorarium per annum and in addition there is travel fund to cover attendance of the Joint Sessions and meetings with the Publisher Central Services and Publications Board.
Applications for the co-editorship should be Interested parties should submitted to ECPR Central Services. They should consist of aof a CV plus a brief account of how you they would like to develop the two series further to ECPR Central Services. Applications should be sent via e-mail to Rebecca Knappett [[log in to unmask]]. However, we are happy to receive hard copies, also , sent to, ECPR Central Services, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.
The closing date for applications is the 1st February 2006 and the final appointment will be made and announced at the ECPR Joint Sessions in 2006.
Please do not hesitate to contact ECPR Central Services, the Academic Director Richard Bellamy ([log in to unmask]), or the current editor Alan Ware ([log in to unmask]) if you need further information or if you have someone in mind who you think would make a good co-editor.
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european political science - eps
Appointment of a new Co-Editor
European Political Science - epsEPS, the ECPR?s new professional journal, was launched in autumn 2001, replacing ECPR News. eps EPS addresses the professional needs and aspirations of all political scientists throughout Europe and, therefore, seeks its readership both within and beyond ECPR member institutions. It publishes on research, teaching and all matters of concern to the profession and of interest to academics and graduate students alike. EPS consists of three standard issues a year, including a mixture of articles both long and short, news and networking, and a fourth ?Reviews? issue as of December 2005. In January 2005 Palgrave Macmillan took over the publication of EPS, re-launching the journal at the Joint Sessions in Granada with a new format, the ?Reviews? issue, a fully searchable on-line presence, and a developed aims and scope.
The publication currently has two Editors, Jim Newell and Martin Rhodes, who have seen it through the transition from ECPR News to EPS, and through the move to Palgrave Macmillan. Martin Rhodes? term will be coming to an end in 2006 and the journal therefore needs a new co-editor from 1st August 2006, continuing until 2009 after which the appointment may be renewed. The maximum term of service is six years.
The ECPR is, therefore, seeking an experienced member of the profession to take on the co-editorship. He or she should have, if possible, an international reputation and a wide range of professional contacts in Europe and the rest of the world, as well as commitment to the on-going development of this new title.
The co-editor will be responsible for the following:
Commissioning and assessing articles
Selecting external reviewers (where appropriate)
Agreeing the content of each issue
Editing the manuscripts for publication
Arranging articles into single issues
Submitting an annual report to the ECPR Executive
It is expected that the co-editor will be from an ECPR member institution.
The co-editor will be appointed by the Executive Committee of the ECPR and is answerable to it through its Publications Board. At least one editor attends the Joint Sessions of Workshops each year to meet with the Publications Board and present a written report to the Committee and Editorial Board.
The editors are paid a small honorarium per annum and in addition there is travel fund to cover attendance of the Joint Sessions and meetings with the Publisher and Publications Board.
Interested parties should submit a CV plus an account of how they would develop this publication further to ECPR Central Services. Applications should be sent via e-mail to Rebecca Knappett [[log in to unmask]]. However we are happy to receive hard copies also, sent to, ECPR Central Services, University of Essex, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.
The closing date for applications is the 1st February 2006 and the final appointment will be made and announced at the ECPR Joint Sessions in 2006.
Please do not hesitate to contact ECPR Central Services or the current editors Jim Newell ([log in to unmask]) and Martin Rhodes ([log in to unmask]) if you need further information or if you have someone in mind who you think would make a good co-editor.
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European Journal of Political Research
Appointment of a New Co-editor
The European Journal of Political Research is one of the most important activities of the ECPR. Although the Consortium is a general association covering the whole of political science, the EJPR necessarily has its own special identity as a journal in which comparative politics figures strongly but not exclusively. It aims to represent the very best of European political science and to be among the most important political science journals in the world. The first issue appeared in 1972 and there are six regular issues a year (i.e. approximately 1,000 pages). In addition, the Political Data Yearbook (presently edited by Dick Katz and Ingrid van Biezen), which has become a major resource for teaching and research in Europe and beyond, is published annually as a supplement to the journal.
The journal has two co-editors, Edward Page and Kris Decshouwer. One editor normally takes care of the commissioning side of the work (Deschouwer), and the other deals with production (Page). Edward Page comes to the end of his six-year term of office in 2006 and the journal therefore needs a new co-editor from August 2006 and continuing until 2009 after which the appointment may be renewed. The maximum term of service is six years.
The ECPR is looking for a co-editor responsible for production who is an experienced member of the profession. She or he should have an international reputation, a wide range of professional contacts in Europe and the rest of the world, and a spread of interests and expertise in the areas covered by the journal.
The work of the editors involves two major types of activity:
Commissioning. Dealing with submissions to the journal predominantly through the online ScholarOne system. Tasks include
1. Assessing the submitted articles before sending them out for review.
2. Selecting external reviewers and sending articles to them.
3. Corresponding with reviewers.
4. Keeping tracks of correspondence with both authors and reviewers.
5. Producing an annual report for the Editorial Board of the Journal and the Executive Committee of the ECPR.
6. Ensuring a speedy processing and assessment of submissions
7. Assessing papers of the annual Joint Sessions of Workshops for possible publication and for the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize
Production. Editing articles and arranging the production schedule, which includes:
1. Editing the manuscripts after being accepted in the house style and for English grammar
2. Checking the notes, figures and readability of each manuscript
3. Corresponding with the authors and the publisher regarding 1 and 2 above
4. Arranging articles into single issues
5. Organizing the production schedule in accordance with the publisher?s timetable.
6. Assessing papers given at the Joint Sessions for possible publication, as well as helping in the selection for the Rudolf Wildenmann Prize
7. Organizing and commissioning review articles
At a rough estimation the job for each of these two parts takes about 50 days a year, or about one day a week.
Editors are expected to be from ECPR Member Institutions.
In addition editors are expected to keep close and fairly frequent contact with the publishers, Blackwell Publishing, in Oxford. This means, that one of the editors should ideally be able to travel to England conveniently and regularly to meet with Blackwell.
The editors are appointed by the Executive Committee of the ECPR and answerable to it through its Publications Board. At least one editor attends the Joint Sessions of Workshops each year to present a written report to the Committee and Editorial Board, and to look for good material for the journal among workshop papers.
The editors are paid an honorarium of £2,000 each per annum and in addition there is a travel fund and a budget for administrative assistance.
Those interested should send the Central Services of the ECPR a CV plus an account of how they see the Journal developing in its new circumstances and their role in it. Applications should be sent by email to [log in to unmask], but we are also happy to receive hard copies.
The closing date for applications is 1 February 2006 and the final appointment will be made and announced at the ECPR Joint Sessions in 2006.
Please do not hesitate to contact ECPR Central Services or the current editors Kris Deschouwer ([log in to unmask]) and Edward Page ([log in to unmask]) if you need further information or if you have someone in mind who you think would make a good co-editor.
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Other News
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Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies
General Editor: Robert Young, Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK
Volume 7, 2005, 3 issues per year
Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies is a specialist journal focusing on the following aspects of postcolonial research, theory and politics:
The histories of imperialism and colonialism
The role of culture (academic, literary and popular) in the operation of imperialism and in the formations of national resistance
Liberation struggles, past and ongoing
The role of religion and culture in new nationalisms
The contemporary politics of identity; race and ethnicity; gender and sexuality
The economics of neo-colonialism
Diaspora and migrancy
Indigenous fourth-world cultures
The connections between colonialism and modernity, postcolonialism and postmodernism
The assumption guiding the editorial policy of Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies will be that a journal, while representing a disciplinary field, can also make effective interventions within it - interrogating, shaping and extending it without seeking to dictate.
To sign up for free contents alerting and a free online sample, please visit http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/1369801X.asp
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Job Vacancies & Fellowships
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Chair in Public Policy
European University Institute
Italy
Research Market Database Entry:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/researchmarket/details.asp?ID=415
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Visiting Scholar in Residence ? European Integration and European Security
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Research Market Database Entry:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/researchmarket/details.asp?ID=416
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Visiting Scholar ? EU Studies and Transatlantic Relations (Canada-EU)
Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Research Market Database Entry:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/researchmarket/details.asp?ID=417
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National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) Challenges to Democracy in the 21st Century
University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Research Market Database Entry:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/researchmarket/details.asp?ID=418
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Please also visit the online Research Market:
http://www.ecprnet.org/researchmarket/search.asp
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Conferences and Calls for papers
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7th Postgraduate Conference: Inclusion/Exclusion
Call for Papers: This conference invites doctoral and graduate students in Humanities and Social Sciences and professionals with a strong academic background to submit papers discussing current phenomena of inclusion/exclusion in the countries and regions of Central and Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Themes include, but are not limited to, history, culture, politics, economics and social issues.
Abstracts in English (max 500 words) together with a current CV to be sent by post or email by 31 August 2005.
Dates: 16/2/2006 to 18/2/2006
URL: http://www.ssees.ucl.ac.uk/pgconf06.htm
Email: [log in to unmask]
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35th Annual Conference and 10th Research Conference
The European Union: Past and Future Enlargements
University of Zagreb, Croatia
Monday ? Wednesday, 5-7 September 2005
This major international conference is organised by UACES, the University Association for Contemporary European Studies in conjunction with the Faculty of Law at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. It will comprise a full programme of keynote and plenary sessions. There are also over SIXTY research panel sessions. It takes place directly before the ECPR conference in Budapest, and due to a direct train service between Zagreb and Budapest, it is possible to attend both events!
The full programme is available on our website, and includes:
Plenary Session 1: Identity and Diversity
Samuel ISSACHAROFF Columbia Law School, USA
Sabine KROISSENBRUNNER Politeia, Forum for Political Mediation, Austria
Renate WEBER Presidential Counsellor on Constitutional and Legal Affairs to the President of Romania
Lunch and session on the Research Assessment Exercise (chaired by Michael Smith, Chair of RAE Panel on European Studies)
Keynote Speaker
Kolinda GRABAR-KITAROVIC Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration, Croatia
Plenary Session 2: Enlarging Europe
Othon ANASTASAKIS University of Oxford
Neil WALKER European University Institute, Italy
Peter WIERTS DG Economic and Financial Affairs
Keynote Speaker
Erhard BUSEK Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact of South Eastern Europe
Reception hosted by JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies
JCMS Annual Lecture
Loukas TSOUKALIS University of Athens, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), College of Europe and Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission
Conference Dinner and Awards http://www.uaces.org/prizes.htm Ceremony at The Regent Esplanade Hotel.
The Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Professor John Pinder, Chairman of the Federal Trust for Education and Research
Plenary Session 3: Croatia, South Eastern Europe and the EU
Marise CREMONA Queen Mary, University of London
Atila ERALP Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Boris VUJ?I? Deputy Governor, Croatian National Bank
There will also be a pre-conference coach trip on the Sunday, followed by a Welcome Reception hosted by the British Council and British Embassy.
Registrations are invited from all who wish to attend what will be a flagship UACES event. Please see www.uaces.org/zagreb.htm
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Seventh Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting (MSPRM)
22 - 26 March 2006, Florence & Montecatini Terme
organised by the Mediterranean Programme of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence
(Italy)
Call for Papers
Deadline: 15 July 2005
Now the complete list of 13 workshops is available!
The meeting will bring together about 250 scholars from the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Europe, and elsewhere.
For detailed information and full text of the call please see:
http://www.iue.it/RSCAS/Research/Mediterranean/mspr2006/Index.shtml
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Dear colleagues,
As is well known, South Korea has achieved rapid growth to information society over the past decade, putting much emphasis on developing e-government, on both national and local levels. As a result, Korea was recently ranked as one of the top 5 nations on readiness for e-Government by UN report.
In order to continue the effort to advance e-government, the Korean Association for Policies Studies (KAPS) plans to hold an International Conference on November 8-9, 2005 in Seoul , Korea , sponsored by the Ministry of Government Administration and Home Affairs (MOGAHA) and the National Computerization Agency of Korea.
The theme of the conference is ?Next Steps Toward e-Government: Theories, Practices, and Strategies? and we are looking for speakers from the field and academia who will present their papers and/or experiences at the conference. More specifically, scholars are expected to speak about e-government from a theoretical perspective, while experts from the field are expected to speak about their experiences deemed as best practices. Presentations that analyze critical factors for success and/or failure in promoting e-government and ways to overcome various barriers and/or bottlenecks in achieving e-government are particularly welcome.
The outcome of the conference will be collected and published as a volume to be available world wide. To solicit better quality papers, the following expenses will be paid for; an economic class round-trip air ticket, 3 nights and 4 days stay in a top class hotel in downtown Seoul, a small honorarium (about US$500), plus other expenses incurred in the city during the conference and a DMZ tour. Since the conference date is drawing near, we are accepting all applications up until July 10, 2005 .
Applications should be submitted to: Sung Gul Hong, Program Chair for International Conference on e-Government Professor of Department of Public Administration Kookmin University mailto:[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] or Hyo Jin Kwon, Secretary General The Korean Association for Policy Studies mailto:[log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]
Sung Gul Hong, Associate Professor Department of Public Administration Kookmin University Seoul, 136-702, Korea Tel: +82-2-910-4439 Fax: +82-2-910-4429
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UNIVERSITY OF ROME UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
"TOR VERGATA?
OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI FORUM TRENTINO PER LA PACE
Rovereto Autonomous Province of Trento
USPID - Sezione di Trento
Italian Pugwash Group
INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS
ISODARCO
Founded in 1966
19th WINTER COURSE
"THE WAR ON TERROR: RESULTS AND COSTS IN EUROPE AND WORLDWIDE"
ANDALO (TRENTO) ? ITALY
8-15 JANUARY 2006
ISODARCO has been organizing residential courses on global security since 1966. The courses are intended for people already having a professional interest in the problems of international conflicts, or for those who would like to play a more active and technically competent role in this field. The courses have an interdisciplinary nature, and their subject matters extend from the technical and scientific side of the problems to their sociological and political implications.
This will be the fifth time an ISODARCO course will focus on the problem of Non-State Violence. Courses on this topic were organized in 1974 and 1978 when Non-State or Sub-State violence had the limited attention of specialists. Now, after the dramatic events of the years 2001 and 2002, Isodarco has returned to the discussion of these problems organizing the 2003, 2004 and 2005 winter courses.
PRINCIPAL LECTURERS:
(TO BE ANNOUNCED LATER)
GENERAL INFORMATION:
A. English will be the working language of the School. There will be approximately 60 participants. They are expected to attend all lectures and seminars.
B. Applications should be submitted with the following information that is compulsory also for those who have previously attended:
Full name, date and place of birth, gender, full address (including e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers if available). Present nationality. Degree and/or other academic qualifications. Present professional activities and work address. Publication list and field of interest. In lieu of publications, a letter of recommendation from a professor or a scholar in the field. No special application form is required.
C. Applications should arrive not later than November 28th, 2005 and should be addressed to the Director of the School:
Prof. CARLO SCHAERF
Department of Physics
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
Tel.: (+39) 06 72594560/1 -- Fax: (+39) 06 2040309
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
D. Applications will be considered by the Organizing Committee on the basis of the information submitted. All the applicants will be informed of the Committee's decision as soon as possible but not later than December 12th, 2005.
E. Participants are requested to arrive at Andalo any time on Sunday, January 8th, 2006 and leave in the morning of Sunday, January 15th, 2006.
F. The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation and full board is Euro 250,00. A reduced fee of Euro 150,00 is applied to students without a salary up to the age of 26 and participants from Countries with foreign currency problems. Participants will be housed in double or triple rooms. The admission fee for single rooms, if requested and available, will be Euro 500,00; participants asking to share a room with somebody in particular, if this is possible, will be charged an additional Euro 50,00 for each person.
G. The school is unable to provide any contribution towards travelling expenses.
H. The Course will be held at Hotel Gruppo Brenta, via Strigole 1, 38010 Andalo (Trento), Italy. Tel.(+39) 0461 585813 and Fax (+39) 0461 585269.
I. A limited number of family members can be accommodated at the Hotel Gruppo Brenta. Room and board for each member is Euro 350,00 for the entire period. Admission of families is limited and will be examined on an individual basis. Participants wishing to bring their families are requested to submit their application as soon as possible.
J. Participants wishing to introduce a seminar should enclose a short abstract of their proposed contribution in their application. The Directors of the School will reserve some limited time for seminars considered particularly relevant to the programme of the Course.
K. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to introduce any necessary changes to the programme.
L. Please mention in your application if you need a visa, indicating to which Italian Consulate you intend to apply. As it takes some time to receive a visa we urge participants requiring it to apply to the School as early as possible and to apply for the visa immediately after being accepted to attend the School.
Please, note that the concession of visas is at the discretion of the Italian Consulates Offices and Isodarco, as an NGO, is not able to influence their decision. It is the responsibility of participants to provide the Italian Consulates with evidence that they intend to return to their own countries at the end of the course.
Additional information on the School can be found at: www.isodarco.it
Director of the School Director of the Course
Carlo Schaerf Matthew Evangelista
University of Rome ?Tor Vergata? Department of Government
Rome, Italy Cornell University, Ithaca
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This course will be taught at the University of Essex. It is scheduled to run immediately before the EPOP 2005 Conference and will take place on Friday 9 September 2005 from 9:15am-12:30pm.
The course is organised by the ESRC Oxford Spring School in Quantitative Methods for Social Research.
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Europe has made great strides towards agreeing on a genuine new mechanism to fund frontier research ? the European Research Council (ERC). This is a cornerstone for achieving the ambitions of the European Council (Lisbon agenda) to increase substantially Europe?s innovativeness and competitiveness. The aim is to boost fundamental research as a means to be a winner in a world wide knowledge-based economy.
What has been collectively achieved over the past three years by a coalition of many organisations of scientists in Europe, research councils and politicians is impressive and commendable. The Initiative for Science in Europe (ISE) was established last year to unify over 50 European organizations representing all scientific disciplines in their support of the ERC, and a manifesto stating the position of the scientific community was published in Science on August 6, 2004 (www.initiative-science-europe.org). The time has now come for the European Competitiveness Council, the European Parliament, and the European Commission to see to it that the ERC clears the last remaining hurdles and receives a strong budget commitment and a statute guaranteeing its independence.
The ERC will strengthen Europe?s science base by challenging the best and most original European scientists to develop ideas for breakthroughs at the frontiers of science, without the limitations existing in national funding systems or the target-oriented Framework Programmes. Science, taking its starting point in curiosity to understand something no one else understood so far, has always been a fertile soil and a necessary condition for long-term economic growth, employment and for improving the quality of life of our citizens. Europe has suffered from creating a contradiction between funding the science base and financing targeted research, and left the first to national prerogatives. We need both frontier research and targeted research, as there is no application without a discovery. A Euro spent on frontier research will trigger multiple Euros spent by industry. Important efforts elsewhere testify to this conviction with very significant increases in funding in the life sciences and nanosciences in the USA and in the Asian countries. Together with the creation of new funding organizations in the latter countries based on the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this will lead to a huge increase in basic science.
Because the ERC will set new standards for the promotion of frontier research, it will also create considerable momentum and inspiration for national research councils by challenging them to work with each other and with the ERC to create the best conditions for Europe?s science. Moreover, by providing a funding source that is freely, and under the same conditions accessible to scientists from across Europe, it creates a strong incentive for universities and research organizations to establish a stimulating working environment for promising young scientists and for large groups of the best and brightest. It is the best possible boost to the European university system.
To achieve all this, the ERC has to dispose of a budget that is commensurate with the socio-economic expectations. It should quickly become of the order of the budget of the larger national research councils, i.e. between 1.5 and 2 Billion ? per year, otherwise its impact would not be felt. The annual budgets in the USA of NIH (28 Billion $) and NSF (5 Billion $) illustrate what it takes to make a continent-wide impact. Finally, for the ERC to be effective it must be totally independent. Within an overall framework of public accountability its governing body, consisting of high-level and respected scientists, must be free to determine policy, including which areas to support, which funding instruments to use, or which categories of scientists to focus on. Any appearance of dependence by subjugating it to a higher bureaucratic decision body is counter-productive and hence unacceptable.
The Council of the European Union has re-committed itself to keep Europe on the track of strengthening its economy through investing more in knowledge and being more effective in reaping the benefits created by this knowledge. The member states must realize that they cannot therefore be penny-wise and pound-foolish, and curtail national research budgets as the ERC?s rises. We must all work together. Reducing budgets or placing inappropriate restrictions on the scope of national councils is definitely not the way forward.
The Competitiveness Council, which during its Cardiff meeting will receive and discuss the recommendations of the Identification Committee for the ERC governing body (chaired by Lord Patten), has the historic opportunity and obligation to create an ERC that is fully independent and that has a budget commensurate with its promise for Europe?s economic and social future. This essential investment must be protected.
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