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CALL FOR PAPERS: Understanding the post-crisis landscape ESRC seminar - Democratic responses and political pressures for change Barcelona, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Thursday 14 and Friday 15 July 2016 Confirmed Speakers: Boycott Workfare (speaker tbc), Claudia Firth (Radical Housing Network), Cristina Flesher Fominaya (University of Aberdeen), Nikolai Huke (Marburg University), Albert Jiménez (Universitat Pompeu Fabra/PAH Sabadell), Nicholas Kiersey (Ohio University), Bill Perry (Radical Housing Network), Jerome Roos (European University Institute/ROAR Magazine), Pollyanna Ruiz (University of Sussex), Marilena Simiti (University of Piraeus), Luke Stobart (University of Hertfordshire) and Angela Wigger (Radboud University). Call for papers This seminar focuses on patterns of contestation, protest, alternative forms of political participation, and how each of these have had an impact upon contemporary policymaking in political economy. This includes welfare policy, financial regulation, monetary policy, macroeconomic policy, and the austerity agenda. This is part of the ESRC Seminar Series: Understanding the post-crisis landscape: assessing change in economic management, welfare, work and democracy<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/departments/political-science-international-studies/events/2014-16-esrc-seminar-series/index.aspx>. We welcome proposals for papers and panels for this two-day seminar, from those with an academic interest and/or campaigning experience in different types of anti-austerity campaigns, addressing one or more of the following questions: * How are changing forms of protest re-defining the contemporary political economy? * Are the anti-austerity protesters of the past five years new actors or 'usual suspects'? * How have policymakers responded to new forms of protest and dissent in the current 'age of austerity'? We hope for this to be a combination of presentations of research findings, reflections on personal experiences, comparisons between different countries, campaigns and contexts, and thoughts on ways in which campaigns might and should develop into the future. We have limited funds available to support the travel and accommodation costs of activists campaigning around anti-austerity issues, PhD students and early career scholars. Hosted by the Johns Hopkins University - Universitat Pompeu Fabra Public Policy Center. Please submit abstracts or brief statements of intended contribution, by Friday 29 April, to both: * David Bailey (University of Birmingham) - [log in to unmask] * Mònica Clua Losada (University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley) - [log in to unmask] Twitter: https://twitter.com/esrcpostcrisis ESRC Seminar Series: Understanding the post-crisis landscape: assessing change in economic management, welfare, work and democracy<http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/government-society/departments/political-science-international-studies/events/2014-16-esrc-seminar-series/index.aspx>