Many thanks, Phoebe, you're doing a great job and this kind of detailed communication is really helpful and appreciated. I'd like to add a quick note about the Book Prize - apologies for not being in Birmingham to say so - to say that what is in the Edinburgh minutes is still the same today. You will hear more about the Book Prize later in the year.

Best wishes,

Ian





On 12 September 2012 17:30, Dr Phoebe V Moore-Carter <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear IPEG'ers

Thanks again to Andre Broom and Amin Samman for hosting an absolutely phenomenal IPEG Annual Conference 10th and 11th September 2012! Thanks also to Birmingham University sponsorship as their generosity allowed us to benefit from Andre and Amin's remarkable organisational aptitude and attention to detail.

As well as a series of excellent panels, keynote lecture, and roundtable, the conference gave us all a chance to catch up with old friends and colleagues as well as to meet a range of fresh IPE-ers, and to eat and drink to our hearts' content (largely on Birmingham's tab--thanks again!).

On day two of the conference, I led an 'Annual General Meeting Number Two'. IPEG's official AGM was held in Edinburgh at BISA/ISA, so I shared the minutes I circulated 22/06/12, in Birmingham, so any members who could not attend in Edinburgh could see our year's achievements and ask questions. All discussions are briefed below the AGM minutes.

International Political Economy Group (IPEG)
Annual General Meeting
BISA/ISA Conference Edinburgh
22/06/12 1 – 2 pm Blu Radisson

Minutes
Many people owe £10 for their annual memberships so please send cheques written out to the International Political Economy Group to:
8 Woodlake Avenue
Chorlton, Manchester,
M217PG
(membership fee does not apply to PhD students or overseas members)

Phoebe Moore-Carter (PM-C) has applied for a new bank account at NatWest after much trouble with HSBC and intends to sort out online banking with the new account. Until then, the vintage method is requested (cheques written out to IPEG).

Martin Coward (MC), BISA Working Groups Coordinator attended our meeting to talk through the details of the BISA Outreach Grant and hold discussions with members.

The BISA Outreach Grant information is detailed here:
http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=214&Itemid=147<http://www.bisa.ac.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=214&Itemid=147>

Laura Horn (LH) asked for more information on the Grant. MC encouraged email discussion.

Isaline Bergamaschi asked whether there was interest in international memberships. MC confirmed that there is interest.

Matthew Eagleton-Pierce (ME-P) pointed out the lack of the working group (WG) ‘sponsorship’ indication in the panel titles on the BISA/ISA programmes. This would help to ensure coherence of the panel line up and to promote WGs’ profiles. PM-C commented that it would make sense to consult with the WG convenors about timetabling for future events; this particularly has relevance for predicted larger panels such as the IPEG Susan Strange panel as the room given did not fully accommodate audience members. MC indicated that he will take these comments to BISA Executive.

PM-C mentioned that the recent BISA/IPEG Working Group Workshop held in Copenhagen was the first example of an IPEG event overseas (apart from the occasional ISA IPEG panel). PM-C asked whether there would be support for potential further and probably joint-sponsored events overseas, making IPEG genuinely ‘international’. MC indicated that he did not foresee any major issues that could emerge from developing this initiative.

MC mentioned that the BISA Executive are discussing ways in which WGs might contribute to increasing BISA membership, suggestions would be welcome. There are discussions around getting feedback from each WG to identify internal conventions for particular processes, including membership recruitment and convenor transfer. PM-C endorsed discussions in all suggested areas with IPEG.

PM-C reported on the activities for the period from November 2011 – the present.

PM-C created the Spring 2012 newsletter http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/newsletters.php <http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/newsletters.php> with assistance from Max Crook , and has updated the website to reflect all recent activities http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/ <http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/> indicating activities so far:

•       IPEG/BISA Global Health Workshop: Global Health, Political Economy and Beyond <http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/workshop_london.php>
•       (7th December 2011, City University)
•       IPEG Workshop: Comparison, Analysis, Critique - Critical Perspectives on the Diversity of Contemporary Capitalism(s)<http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/workshop_wiesbaden.php>
•       (10th-11th February 2012, Jugendherberge Wiesbaden)
•       BISA/IPEG Working Group Workshop Grant: Methodologies of the Everyday in International Political Economy<http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/workshop_copenhagen.php>
•       (29th-30th May 2012, University of Copenhagen)
•       IPEG Workshop: For a Public University <http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/workshop_nottingham.php>
•       (15th June 2012, University of Nottingham)
•       BISA/ISA 2012 Joint International Conference: Diversity in the Discipline: Tension or Opportunity in Responding to Global Challenges, IPEG and IPEG/ISA IPE section panels <http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/panels_edinburgh.php>
•       (20th-22nd June 2012, Edinburgh)

PM-C reported on the IPEG Book Prize shortlist, also listed on the IPEG website:
•       Colin Crouch, The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism (Polity)
•       Laura Horn, Regulating Corporate Governance in the European Union: Towards a Marketization of Corporate Control (Palgrave)
•       Greta Krippner, Capitalizing on Crisis: The Political Origins of the Rise of Finance (Harvard University Press)
•       Adam David Morton, Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development (Rowman & Littlefield)

Ian Bruff, Book Prize Chair, sent comments before the AGM with apologies:
>Now the shortlisting process has been completed, we are moving to the next stage of the process. The Book Prize panel of judges will read the shortlisted books over the summer, before voting and deliberating on them in the autumn. The winner will be announced in December 2012.

>The judges are as follows:
Ian Bruff (Loughborough University, UK – Chair of the IPEG Book Prize panel of judges)
Phoebe Moore-Carter (University of Salford, UK – Convenor of IPEG)
Tore Fougner (Bilkent University, Turkey)
Penny Griffin (University of New South Wales, Australia)
Juliet Johnson (McGill University, Canada)
Andreas Nölke (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)

Amin Samman reminded the group that he and Andre Broome are hosting the Annual Conference 2012. http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/government-society/polsis/news-events/ipeg2012-call-papers.pdf

PM-C shared her management ‘philosophy’, which is one of facilitation and co-production and encourages feedback, questions, and discussions.

ME-P spoke about the discussion papers and invited submissions to this on the grounds that it is an excellent place to get your work out before official publication and to instigate scholarly discussions about work http://bisa-ipeg.org/ipegpapers.htm <http://bisa-ipeg.org/ipegpapers.htm> Send submissions to him [log in to unmask]

LH asked about the website and the blog. PM-C indicated that she has set up a Facebook micro-blog is the site for shared discussions and encourages people to use this https://www.facebook.com/BISA.IPEG <https://www.facebook.com/BISA.IPEG> . The jismail list, tri-annual newsletter and the IPEG website are appropriate locations to advertise and announce calls for papers in publications and journals as the occasional job spec and other related announcements that are relevant for IPEG members.

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Summary of discussion from meeting 11/09/12 9.30 Muirhead Tower room 121 (and other things we didn’t have time to discuss):

This year: A great year for IPEG! We discussed all workshops, the successful working group workshop grant, the book prize, our newsletter, and IPEG 2012. Resulting publications are being prepared now from most of the workshops.

Next year: BISA grant requests from Working Groups are due in November -- date has not been announced by BISA yet. Please start thinking about your ideas for events. Budget is always limited and usually, University hosts ‘match’ or subsidise organisers. IPEG 2013 will run at University of Limerick next year.

Discussion paper: People are sometimes hesitant to post papers in our Discussion Papers series. Journals have particular requirements for publishing previous working papers which normally do not prevent publication.  I showed the series to attendees which demonstrates a wide range of eminent predecessors who took this leap of faith. http://bisa-ipeg.org/papers.php

Membership fee: Shall we raise the membership fee to £15 with a three year discount of £40? I will buy a pack of receipts and start giving these to paid up members so they can also be reimbursed or use these toward tax deductions.

Membership benefits: Shall we look at ways to advance membership incentives such as create a members-only section of the IPEG website?

Membership list: How to approach the mammoth task of membership list maintenance (we have more than 350 members)?

Longer notes:
Members have run a series of really good workshops in their home institutions this year, as well as won the Working Group Workshop Grant. We reviewed the workshops and looked at the IPEG website http://www.bisa-ipeg.org/, where I publicise workshop reports. I will be happy to post announcements for events on the site, if hosts send these to me in advance. We discussed the book prize and our annual newsletter.

We discussed how workshops are funded, and how the funding is distributed. My way of doing this, as I explained, is to gather proposals from members which BISA asks me to do in November each year (NOTE: I will email again about this soon so start thinking of suggestions now!)... and to ask BISA for an equal amount of funding to each event, which is never guaranteed, but which we tend to run, based on our excellent reputation for 'delivering'. The Annual Conference is always allocated more funding than our smaller workshops and this year it was double. Workshops and the Annual Conference are usually sponsored by the host institutions as well as subsidised by IPEG. IPEG only offers limited funding and the size of funds is dependent on how many proposals I receive.

We also discussed membership fees. IPEG is the only BISA working group to ask for a membership fee, and this has never been formalised nor professionalised, possibly as the only advantage so far is inclusion on the mailing list. The mailing list is not linked, however, to membership fees.

I told IPEG that I looked into putting a link on our website where members can pay their fees so that people are not restricted to passing their fees to the Convenor directly in the traditional style. When looking into adding a portal to the site, I discovered that the cost is far more than IPEG can reasonably afford. We discussed ways to ensure members pay fees, as well as the possibility of raising the fee. I invited specific suggestions for efficient ways to ensure membership income, and took an indicative vote to see if members present would accept a five pound raise in membership. Members agreed almost unanimously that a £15 pound annual fee would be acceptable, so I will continue to field comments and consider raising it from 2013 before the next Annual Conference.

The proposal for asking event hosts to ensure to harvest membership fees before each event was put forward as a way to ensure fees are paid. While this is a good start, it requires ongoing maintenance and updating to our membership list, not least because all members do not attend all events, given that there are over 350 members. I have two new PhD students starting with me this month and I can look into ways to pay them to help with this task, whether it’s from BISA or my own institution. This maintenance will start from September 2013.

We discussed offering members-only access to sections of our website, which could include such content as conference papers. To make a start on this, I intend to post conference papers from IPEG 2012 on our website. The idea to get a series of modest University sponsorships and ‘IPEG Reps’ at particular institutions was raised. I will run this past the BISA Executive and report back.

We talked about the IPEG Discussion Papers series led by Matthew Eagleton-Pierce http://bisa-ipeg.org/papers.php and the possible disincentives to submit work to the Series. A way to work around journal restrictions (which are uncommon in themselves) is to ensure titles are not identical across the working versions of papers, which tend to be richer in data than revised journal publications. We looked at the list of papers in the series.

Matthew invites submission to the series [log in to unmask]

The Working Group, as I said in my introduction on Monday morning, is about the membership and I am really impressed with this active group of scholars.  We are very fortunate to be one of the biggest BISA Working Groups, and I thank you all once again for an absolutely outstanding year.

Sempre avanti, IPEG! And as always, please don't forget to send me your £10 cheques, written out to the International Political Economy Group, to my home address:

8 Woodlake Avenue, Chorlton, Manchester, M21 7PG

I have recently set up electronic banking with our account, so I can send you the details for a direct transfer too, just email me for these details [log in to unmask] .

With warm wishes,


Dr. Phoebe V. Moore-Carter
Lecturer in International Relations
and International Political Economy
University of Salford
Profile http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/PMOORE.jsp
Courseleader MA in International Relations and Globalisation
Blog http://hub.salford.ac.uk/phoebemoore/
Contact me at [log in to unmask] 44(0)1612956033