Greetings!  News and information so you can think ahead.  English only
at this point; French later on.  This message will also be posted on our
website at www.mailbase.ac.uk/lists/ecpr-theory/
Best wishes, Terrell

The deadline for proposals for workshops for the Joint Sessions at 
Turin 22-27 March 2002 is 15 October 2000.  So far your ecpr-theory 
'Advice Bureau' has looked at two and offered comments to the 
proposers:

Political Accommodation in Ethnonationally Diverse Societies:
Normative and Comparative Perspectives (Workshop)

Civil Society in an Age of Globalization (Planning Session)

If anyone has a proposal in progress and wants comments, you can still
email it to me [log in to unmask] and we'll do what we can for you
in the remaining time.

The next deadline is 1 December 2000 for papers for the Workshops 
already announced for the Grenoble Joint Sessions of Workshops 6-11 
April 2001.  Details of the workshops, and procedures for submitting 
papers, are on the ecpr website http://www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr

After that, remember the ECPR's first 'General Conference', in a 
unique and 'fringey' format, to be held at the University of Kent at 
Canterbury 6-8 September 2001.  You have until 30 April 2001 to answer
the Call for Papers.  Again, details are at www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr

Because of the General Conference (see above), there won't be any
Research Sessions in the autumn of 2001.  Do think about the year after.
The deadline for applications for the Research Sessions in September 
2002 (venue and dates to be decided) will be 15 May 2002.  This is 
well worth considering as the support for research groups is excellent
(you get transport paid, and residential meals and accommodation over 
3 days).  The groups must be small (about 6-8), and definite names 
of participants must appear in the proposal.  The purpose of a 
research group is quite different from that of a workshop.  The idea 
is to get people together with common research interests, and to use 
the sessions together to plan research projects and in particular to 
plan research funding.  This is available to research groups with more
theoretical interests, and it can be a valuable exercise in 
brainstorming what counts as research, and where the funds are 
available.

Remember it's not too early to start thinking about workshop plans for
2003, as the deadline will be this time next year.  A proposal needs 
to give detailed, referenced intellectual background for the subject 
of your workshop, and it needs to suggest quite a number of names of 
people from around the ECPR who might be interested.  Workshops are 
expected to have a broad appeal throughout member institutions.  You 
will need to sketch in the kind of papers you are looking for, and 
something about what might be in them - again, looking for broad 
appeal across political science (including political theory!).  
Guidelines are on the website www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr

If you want more help and personal views (for what they are worth!), 
do contact me, and the ECPR secretariat is always available 
([log in to unmask]) to advise on formalities and requirements.

Terrell Carver
Veronique Mottier

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