- ANNUAL MEETING - "POLITICAL SCIENCE AND BEYOND"
- REGISTER NOW TO GET THE PREREGISTRATION RATE!
Registration is now open for the APSA Annual Meeting to be held in Chicago, Illinois from August 30 to September 2. Join scholars and experts from around the world for the largest annual exchange of political science research and scholarship.
| Member Status |
Pre-
Registration |
On-Site |
| Regular, Associate, Family, and Retired Members |
$145 |
$185 |
| Student, High School Teacher, and Unemployed Members |
$50 |
$80 |
| Non-members |
$270 |
$350 |
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- HOTEL AND TRAVEL INFORMATION
APSA moves back to Chicago this year to explore "Political Science and Beyond." Chicago offers visitors a first-rate, world-class destination, and the
opportunity to experience its beautiful lakefront, outstanding architecture, world-renowned museums, restaurants, and much more.
 ***** NOTE: NEW VENUES IN CHICAGO *****
Hotel and Travel: Book your hotel room early for the best available rooms! APSA plans to maximize the potential of our new venues -- the Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers. For the 2007 meeting, all panels, business meetings, receptions and special events will be divided between these two hotels, which are are located directly across from one another on opposite sides of the Chicago River. It's a short walk, or you can take advantage of our shuttle service. The Sheraton Chicago Hotel & Towers is located on the banks of the Chicago River; the Hyatt Regency is located just off Michigan Avenue in the heart of the Magnificent Mile. Both are within walking distance of the Navy Pier ("Chicago's lakefront playground", Millennium Park, the Loop business district, the Art Institute and more.
Please Note: All hotel reservations MUST be made through Experient, APSA's official housing bureau. Please do not contact the hotels directly! You can find the hotel and travel information on the APSA website at www.apsanet.org/section_240.cfm. You can also call Experient -- If calling from the U.S., call 800-424-5248; for international, call 847-940-2152.
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- SPONSOR A BUSINESS MEETING OR RECEPTION
Departments, organized sections, and related groups are invited to host a business meeting or reception during the 2007 APSA Annual Meeting in Chicago. This is a great opportunity to meet and greet alumni, colleagues, and members. Please review the information found at www.apsanet.org/section_356.cfm.
Business meetings and receptions are scheduled on a first-come, first-serve basis.
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- EXHIBIT HALL SPACE STILL AVAILABLE - VIEW EXHIBIT HALL MAP ONLINE
Exhibitors: Don't forget to reserve your space in the Hyatt Regency Chicago. Over 7,000 distinguished authors, professors, and scholars from the United States and abroad will attend APSA's 103nd Annual Meeting. View an interactive floor plan of the exhibit hall download the exhibit application and contract at www.apsanet.org/section_241.cfm.
Attendees: Check the online exhibit hall at www.apsanet.org/mtgs/Floorplan2007.html to get a preview of the products and services to be featured at the Annual Meeting in the Hyatt Regency Chicago. We'll update this continuously as exhibitors supply information, so check back often.
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- TRAVEL GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINE IS MAY 24
APSA provides travel assistance grants for attending the Annual Meeting. U.S.
graduate students, international graduate students studying in the U.S.,
unemployed APSA members, and international scholars are encouraged to apply.
Priority will be given to first-time applicants, presenters at the Annual
Meeting, or those who have not received a travel grant since 2004. The deadline to apply is May 24, 2007. Find out more
about the travel grant program at www.apsanet.org/section_542.cfm.
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- SHORT COURSES OPEN FOR REGISTRATION
On the Wednesday prior to the official start of the Annual Meeting, APSA hosts Short Courses -- half- or full-day sessions that provide opportunities for APSA attendees to enhance their knowledge and to reinvigorate research and teaching skills. Join us for a day of workshops aimed at encouraging greater professional development. The following short courses are scheduled:
- Multi-Method Research
- Research Design & Field Methods
- Introduction to Qualitative Comparative Analysis and Fuzzy Sets
- The Political Scientist as Pre-Law Advisor
- Britain after Blair -- The Legacy and the Future
- Designing and Using Simulations in the Classroom
- Mathematics & Democracy: Designing Better Voting & Fair-Division Procedures
- Machine Politics/Politics of the Machine
- Maximizing the Value of Your Library for Scholarship and Teaching
- Inner Ring Suburbs and Metropolitan Systems
- Research and Teaching on Women's Movements, Women's Policy Agencies & the State: Using the RNGS Dataset
- French Political Institutions Fify Years After
- Creating Powerful & Effective Graphic Displays
- Getting a Job at a Teaching Institution -- and Succeeding!
- Interpret This! A Conceptual & Practical Workshop in Interpretive Political Science
- Applied Political Network Analysis
- Introduction to LegSim: Virtual US Congress, State Legislature, & European Parliament Simulations
Get more details on the Short Courses at www.apsanet.org/section_628.cfm.
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- ORGANIZE AN ANNUAL MEETING WORKING GROUP
Annual Meeting Working Groups consist of a small group of scholars who convene throughout the duration of the conference to discuss a common topic. The Working Groups draw on the rich content of the Annual Meeting to allow small groups to interact intensively and on a sustained basis on a common set of themes. Working Groups can enrich member participation by creating a community and networking experience. There is no extra registration fee for participation in the Working Groups.
APSA will soon be announcing the guidelines for organizers and opportunities for participation. Parties considering organizing a working group should contact Ebony Ramsey at eramsey@apsanet.org.
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- APSA GOVERNANCE AND PROGRAMS
- 2007 RALPH BUNCHE SUMMER INSTITUTE CLASS NAMED
The American Political Science Association is pleased to announce the class for the 2007 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute. The Institute is in its 21st year of operation and will be hosted by Duke University. Twenty outstanding students, representing diverse institutions all over the country, will be participating in this summer's program. They are:
Emily Alverez, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville
Camille D. Burge, Bethune-Cookman University
Andy Canales, Pepperdine University
Makdyanet Cedeno, University of Vermont
Nyron N. Crawford, Howard University
Kate Faust, Vassar College
Kierra Freeman, Texas A & M University
Rachel Gillum, University of Washington, Seattle
Mai Omer Hassan, University of Virginia
Alex D. House, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
Clyde Ledbetter, Lincoln University
Porschea Lewis, University of Rochester
Brandon Lunsford, Lincoln University
Lauren McKenzie, University of Maryland, College Park
Leslee McKnight, University of Connecticut
Jessica Morales (Livoti), Rosemont College
Justin E. Scurlock, Morehouse College
Giselle Sedano, Cornell University
Christopher Towler, University of Colorado, Boulder
Lawrence Walker, University of Maryland, College Park
Learn more about the Ralph Bunche Summer Institute at www.apsanet.org/section_397.cfm.
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- KELLER, UCLA, & JUNN, RUTGERS, NAMED '08 ANNUAL MEETING PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
President-elect Dianne Pinderhughes has named Ed Keller and Jane Junn as 2008 Annual Meeting Program Co-chairs, with the endorsement of the APSA Council at its April 2007 meeting. The Conference theme will be "Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities." The Call for Papers and the names of the Program Committee will be available later on the APSA website and in PS: Political Science and Politics.
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- STUDY ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE CONTINUES
The American Political Science Association and the Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and Transgendered in the Profession are studying the relationship between sexual orientation and professional life. We urge all APSA members who have not yet responded to participate. If you'd like to participate, contact us at smunshi@apsanet.org to find out how to access the online site. Anonymity will be protected. The site will remain up for responses until May 11 at 5:00 p.m.
Our goal is to hear from as many political scientists as possible. If you know a political scientist who is unlikely have heard about this, please forward the contact information to them.
The APSA Committee on the Status of Lesbians, Gays, Bisexuals, and the Transgendered (LGBT) in the Profession will prepare a report to be published in PS: Political Science and Politics.
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- REMINDER: REVIEW THE LATEST AWARD DESCRIPTIONS & NOMINATION INSTRUCTIONS
If you are considering making nominations for APSA and Organized Section awards, check the award descriptions and nomination instructions to ensure correct and timely submission.
Campus Teaching Awards
Each year, APSA and Pi Sigma Alpha recognize political science faculty who receive teaching awards on their own campuses during the past academic year. These faculty receive a certificate honoring their achievement, and they are invited to a special reception at the APSA Annual Meeting. A roster of campus-wide teaching award winners, their affiliations, and titles of their awards is featured in the Annual Meeting Program. For more information and to submit an award recipient, please visit www.apsanet.org/section_482.cfm.
Rowman & Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers proudly announces the eleventh year of the Rowman & Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science. The award will be presented at the 2007 Honors Reception at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Chicago. The deadline for nominations for the Rowman & Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science is April 1, 2007. Send nominations together with supporting documentation (including five copies), to:
L. Sandy Maisel
Department of Government,
Colby College,
Waterville, ME 04901.
Organized Section Awards
Don't let these organized section award deadlines go by:
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- SCHOLAR SAVER ONLINE NOW - SAVE ON BOOKS AND JOURNALS!
 APSA members can now access the Scholar Saver online to take advantage
of member-only discounts on 79 journals and 20 books covering a wide
spectrum of the political science and historical disciplines. The
electronic-only version links directly to the web site of each
advertiser, greatly facilitating the ordering process. Full-color cover
images of each product and a linked index make finding the material you
need easy. Like a hard-copy version? Simply print the electronic PDF.
Log in to take advantage of the online Scholar Saver's deep discounts
today! You can log in to MyAPSA (using the MyAPSA login at the top of
every site page). Once logged in, you'll find the Scholar Saver link in
your Access Areas.
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- UPDATE ON CENTENNIAL CENTER ACTIVITIES
The Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs periodically sponsors events that bring together the scholarly community, policy makers, the media, and general public for discussions of broad interest. This summer, starting on April 20, the Center will begin hosting a biweekly "brown bag" summer lunch series. Presentations -- including a question-and-answer period will be held on Friday afternoons between 12:30 and 1:30 pm in the Aaron Wildavsky Conference Room (3rd floor) of the APSA National Office, located at 1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW, Washington, DC.
All are welcome; however seating is limited. For those not immediately affiliated with the Centennial Center, please contact Brian Daniels at bdaniels@apsanet.org (or call the APSA office at 202-483-2512) to RSVP. For details on the speakers and topics, see www.apsanet.org/content_41351.cfm.
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- MEDIACONNECT: CONNECTING POLITICAL SCIENTISTS WITH JOURNALISTS
Are you interested in speaking with journalists on issues of public
interest? The APSA press office is developing a roster of political
scientists who are willing to respond to media inquiries in their area
of expertise. To participate in MediaConnect, APSA members in good
standing are asked to:
- Provide
APSA with your work phone number and email address, as well as up to
five keywords that best describe your areas of expertise, and any URL
to your personal homepage and CV (if available) -- send these to APSA
at press@apsanet.org;
- Respond to media inquiries in a timely manner; and
- Periodically share your experiences with APSA staff to help refine the program.
If you've already submitted your name to an existing press roster on
APSA's website, we've retained the information and you do not have to
submit again. Email press@apsanet.org with your information or questions, or contact Bahram Rajaee at 202-483-2512.
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- JOURNALS
- APSA JOURNAL ARTICLES ONLINE
With your MyAPSA login (and probably also through your university's library system) you have online access to the full set of current APSA journal articles. You can also access selected articles that have been posted as .pdfs for public view and indexed around major topics of interest to political scientists. You can view these starting at www.apsanet.org/section_550.cfm. The index currently includes these topics:
- The Profession: Dissertation, Enrollment, Faculty/Student Dynamic, Ethics, Funding, History of Political Science, Jobs/Careers, Minorities in the Profession, Policy Relevant Scholarship, Publishing, Research, Tenure, The Discipline, The Ph.D.
- Teaching: Advocacy in the Classroom, American Government, Civic Education, Elections, Ethics - Plagiarism, etc., International Relations and Internationalizing the Curriculum, Introductory Political Science, # Pedagogy, Reaching Students, Service Learning, Teaching Outcomes, World View, On Writing
- American Government: General Index, The Constitution, Congress, The Clinton Impeachment
- International Relations: General Index, EU Constitution, Politics of Canada, 2006 Mexican Election and Its Aftermath
- Comparative Politics
- Interdisciplinary
- Political Theory
- Lectures: John Gaus, James Madison, Pi Sigma Alpha, Ithiel de Sola Pool
- Issues: various categories in current affairs and "hot topics"
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- ORGANIZED SECTION JOURNALS - MORE ACCESS TO SCHOLARSHIP
Over the past year some of the APSA Organized Sections have added journal subscriptions as part of their section membership benefits. These section journal opportunities provide access to scholarship across a number of fields and include leading journals like Political Behavior, Legislative Studies Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, Publius, and Political Analysis. In each case, the Section has negotiated significant discounts for section members over the traditional individual subscription rate making this a great bargain for section members. Visit www.apsanet.org/section_692.cfm to see which Organized Sections offer a journal and considering adding one today.
Organized Sections promote networking among members who share an interest in a particular subfield, and provide their membership with outlets for research and opportunites for scholarship. Find out more about the Organized sections at www.apsanet.org/section_178.cfm.
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- SCHOLAR SUPPORT
- BE A MENTOR - FIND A MENTOR
The APSA mentoring initiative is an opportunity for all political scientists to connect to share experience and insights about career planning, scholarship, and professional issues.
Become a Mentor
Mentors can volunteer to act as a resource for colleagues in specific areas of interest such as how to publish, how to launch a research career, how to manage career conflicts, or even how to plan for retirement. Mentors can also volunteer to be a resource for specific communities of scholars, such as groups historically underrepresented in the discipline. Or mentors may volunteer to serve as a general resource for any inquiry.
Please visit the "Become an APSA Mentor" page and review the mentoring initiative process. Be sure to complete the mentor profile to become an APSA Mentor. Once you are listed with us as a mentor, we will, from time to time, provide your name (along with others) to those seeking a mentor with your qualifications. It will then be up to the mentee to contact you directly to begin the conversation.
Find a Mentor
Graduate students, young scholars and teachers, minorities and women, senior faculty confronting retirement, or any colleagues in the discipline may wish to contact mentor. When you request a mentor, you will be provided with a list of contacts in the field who have expressed willingness to serve as a mentor regarding the issues you specify. You may then select from this list the individual you would like to contact, and should then directly initiate contact. Visit the "Find an APSA Mentor" page to learn more.
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- IDENTIFY TALENTED MINORITY GRADUATE SCHOOL CANDIDATES
Help APSA identify talented undergraduate minorities interested in
being recruited to doctoral programs. APSA established the
Minority Student Recruitment Project (MSRP) as part of its efforts to
diversify the political science profession. Faculty members in
undergraduate programs are encouraged to contact minority students
about careers in political science and then submit the names of
promising minority candidates for graduate study to the MSRP database.
Core Schools -- graduate programs participating in the MSRP Project --
actively recruit students identified in the MSRP database. The program
complements the important efforts already made through the Ralph Bunche
Summer Institute and Minority Fellows Program. For more information
please visit www.apsanet.org/section_428.cfm.
For more information on APSA's diversity programs, visit www.apsanet.org/diversity.
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- SPACE AVAILABLE IN CENTENNIAL CENTER FOR SUMMER & FALL '07
 The Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs can be an invaluable resource to political and social scientists. Housed in the APSA headquarters near Dupont Circle, the Center provides
a great base of operations for scholars researching in Washington, DC.
It offers Visiting Scholars furnished work space, telephone, fax,
computers, Internet access, conference space, a reference library, and access
to George Washington University’s Gelman Library.
Visiting Scholar stays range from a few days to 12 months. Space is limited
to APSA members and available to faculty members, post-doctoral
fellows, and advanced graduate students from the U.S. and abroad. Scholars
are expected to cover their own expenses and a modest facilities fee for
the use of the Center.
There are also a limited number of funding opportunities available to support Visiting Scholars. Prospective visiting scholars may apply at any time. Positions are
awarded on a space-available basis. Full details on the Center and the
Visiting Scholars Program, including an application form, can be found
online at www.apsanet.org/centennialcenter. You may also contact Brian
Daniels at APSA: 202-483-2512; bdaniels@apsanet.org.
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- NEWS IN THE PROFESSION
- DOLAN AND TRIPP TO EDIT POLITICS & GENDER
The Politics & Gender Editor Selection Committee recently announced the decision to award Professor Kathleen Dolan of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and Professor Aili Mari Tripp, of the University of Wisconsin, Madison the positions of co-editors of Politics & Gender, the official journal of the APSA Women and Politics Research Organized Section. The committee was particularly impressed by the breadth of the editorial team put together by Professors Dolan and Tripp, by their extensive administrative and editorial experience, and by their vision for the future of the journal. The institutions of the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee and the University of Wisconsin, Madison were very generous in their commitments to support Politics & Gender. The new team will take the helm in July when the current editors Karen Beckwith and Lisa Baldez step down.
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- UPCOMING CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, & SEMINARS IN THE PROFESSION
The following lists a sample of the upcoming conferences, workshops,
and seminars in the profession and call for paper and application
deadlines. You can learn more about any of them by clicking on the link
provided.
| Date |
Title
("Call:" indicates call deadline) |
| April 2007 |
| 25-28 |
Urban
Affairs Association Meeting |
| 26-27 |
Globalization
and
Higher Education: Knowledge, Democracy & Power |
| 27-28 |
Political
Studies Association of Ireland Post-Graduate Conference |
| 27-28 |
Evolving Racial
Identities, the Ideology of Color-Blindness, and the State |
| 27-29 |
The
Communicative Construction of Transnational Political Spaces and Times |
| 27-29 |
Luso-Hispanic
Voices: Nation, Language and Identity |
| 27-29 |
Finding
Our
Roots: Anarchist Theory Conference
|
| 28-29 |
New
England Political Science Association Meeting |
| 30 |
Deadline:
Fletcher Summer
Institute on the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict |
| May 2007 |
| 1 |
Workshop: Nanotechnology and Public Policy |
| 1 |
Call: American Graduate School Student Conference |
| 1 |
Call:
Women's Leadership and Empowerment |
| 1 |
Call:
International Studies Association - West |
| 1 |
Call:
Measuring
and Comparing the Performance of Public Sectors and Public Institutions |
| 1 |
Call:
Equal Opportunities and Communication Rights: Representation,
Participation & the European Democratic Deficit |
| 1 |
Call:
Social Statistics
and Ethnic Diversity: Should we Count, How Should we Count, and Why? |
| 1 |
Call:
Governance and Life Cycle Analysis |
| 3-4 |
"Faces
of Power" Graduate Student Conference |
| 4 | Brownbag Speaker Series: Wars of Choice: Leadership, Threat Perception, and Military Interventions |
| 4-5 |
International
Development Assistance in The Post-Soviet Space |
| 4-5 |
Conference
of the Research Network on Innovation and Competition Policy: Modern
Approaches in Competition Policy |
| 7-12 |
ECPR
Joint Sessions of Workshops |
| 10-13 |
The
Medieval Tradition of Natural Law |
| 10-13 |
International
Congress on Medieval Studies |
| 11 |
Everyday
Life in World Politics and Economics |
| 14 |
Call: Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States: The lesson of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Lebanon |
| 15 |
Deadline:
Peterson Prize |
| 15 |
Call:
International Conference
on e-Social Science |
| 17-18 |
EU
Studies Association |
| 17-19 |
Citizenship,
Identity, and Social Justice |
| 17-19 |
Sexual
Abuse and Exploitation of Women in
Violent Conflict |
| 18 | Brownbag Speaker Series: Agenda-Setting in Foreign Policy |
| 20-23 |
Bridging
Disciplines & Domains |
| 21-23 |
Conducting
Empirical Legal Scholarship Workshop |
| 23-26 |
Central
European Political Science |
| 24-25 |
Dutch-Belgian
Political Science Association |
| 24-26 |
Politics,
Culture and Lebanese Diaspora |
| 25 |
Call:
International Studies Association-Northeast Region/Northeast Political Studies Association Conference |
| 25-26 |
2e
Congrès international des associations francophones de
science politique |
| 25-27 |
U.S.
Foreign Policy - Theory, Mechanisms and Practice |
| 26-June 6 |
Foundation for the Defense of Democracies
2007 Academic Fellows Trip |
| 27-30 |
Building
a Culture of Peace and Dialogue in African Higher Institutions of
Learning |
| 30-June 1 |
Canadian Political Science Association
Conference |
| 31-June 2 |
Leading
the Future of The Public Sector - Transatlantic Dialogue |
| 31-June 2 |
Interpretation
in Policy Analysis: Research and Practice |
For a comprehensive list of upcoming conferences and call for papers in the profession, visit APSA's conferences page: APSA Calendar of Conferences. If you know of a conference that should be on this calendar, use the form provided on that page to send us the information.
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Media Connect:
Interested in speaking with journalists on issues of public
interest? APSA is developing a roster of political scientists who are
willing to respond to media inquiries. 
Founded in 1903, the American Political Science Association
is the leading professional organization for the study of political
science and serves more than 15,000 members in over 80 countries. With
a range of programs and services for individuals, departments and
institutions, APSA brings together political scientists from all fields
of inquiry, regions, and occupational endeavors within and outside
academe in order to expand awareness and understanding of politics.