*Apologies for any cross-posting*
The deadline for the paper and panel submssions for the First European
Conference on Politics and Gender is approaching!
Please submit your abstracts by 1 June - see the conference web site for
more information and guidelines:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/ecpg_home.aspx
The call for papers and panels is pasted below for everyone to see.
Best wishes,
Johanna and Karen
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ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics
First European Conference on Politics and Gender
21 to 23 January 2009
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast, Northern Ireland
CALL FOR PAPERS
Deadline: 1 June 2008
The ECPR Standing Group on Gender and Politics invites panel and paper
proposals for the First European Conference on Politics and Gender (ECPG).
The conference aims to bring together scholars engaged in cutting-edge
research on a wide range of topics related to gender and politics. Scholars
from member and non-member institutions of the ECPR are welcome to apply.
The program will include a keynote address given by Judith Squires from the
University of Bristol, as well as a roundtable on current European
Union-funded gender and politics projects.
The conference will be organized around ten sections, convened by the
following scholars:
. Social Movements - Lee Ann Banaszak
. Political Parties and Representation - Joni Lovenduski
. Sexuality and the Body - Joyce Outshoorn
. Methods and Methodologies - Jacqui True
. Violence, War, and Security - Lene Hansen
. Development and Democracy - Shirin Rai
. States and Public Policies - Amy Mazur
. Identity and Multiculturalism - Sawitri Saharso
. Citizenship - Birte Siim
. Feminism and the International - Christine Sylvester
Proposals should be sent by email to the conference secretary Jemima Repo
([log in to unmask]). Acceptance of papers and panels will be
confirmed
by 1 September 2008.
Proposals for individual papers should include the name, affiliation, and
contact details for all paper authors, a 200-word abstract and paper title,
as well as indicate which section the paper is for. Proposals for whole
panels should include the full details for each paper (see above), a panel
synopsis, as well as names, affiliations, and contact details for the panel
chair and discussant.
The Standing Group on Gender and Politics was founded in 1985 as the
Standing Group on Women and Politics. It currently has 300 members from all
over the world. For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/ecpg_home.aspx
The next ECPG conference will be held in 2011.
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