- "POLITICAL SCIENCE AND BEYOND" IN CHICAGO ~ HIGHLIGHTS
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To find out what's happening each day, consult the Online Program, which will be updated continuously until the Annual Meeting.
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| Wednesday, August 29 |
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9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Professional Day:
The pre-Meeting professional day features a variety short courses. |
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| Thursday, August 30 |
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10:15 a.m. Theme Panel: Funding Interdisciplinary Research:
APSA President Robert Axelrod (University of Michigan), Kennette Benedict (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists), Edward Hackett (National Science Foundation), Felice J. Levine (American Educational Research Association), Nicole A. Stahlmann (Social Science Research Council), Howard J. Silver (Consortium of Social Science Associations)
12:45 p.m. APSA Awards Ceremony: Hosted by the 2007 Program Committee Co-Chairs Elisabeth Gerber and David Lake, the Awards Ceremony recognizes excellence in the profession. Sponsored by Polity.
4:15 p.m. Theme Panel: Religion, Economics and Culture: Frontiers in Interdisciplinary Research: Carolyn M. Warner (Arizona State University), Eli Berman (University of California, San Diego), David D. Laitin (Stanford University), Roger Finke (Pennsylvania State University), Anthony Gill (University of Washington), Colleen E.H. Berndt (San Jose State University), William Roberts Clark (University of Michigan)
Pi Sigma Alpha Guest Lecture
Michael Beschloss |
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 6:00 p.m.
In Presidential Courage : Brave Leaders and How They Changed America 1789-1989, Michael Beschloss chronicles crucial moments during the terms of 9 Presidents who eventually overcame critics and the pressure of events to dramatically change the future of the United States. Beschloss has authored several best sellers, including The Conquerors: Roosevelt, Truman and the Destruction of Hitler's Germany, 1941-1945; Reaching for Glory, as well as Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair; and Kennedy and Roosevelt: The Uneasy Alliance. As NBC News Presidential Historian, he appears on Today, NBC Nightly News, and Meet the Press. He is also a regular on PBS's The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Beschloss has held appointments in history at the Harvard Russian Research Center, the Smithsonian Institution, and St. Anthony's College, Oxford.
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6:30 p.m. Graduate Student Happy Hour: Informal meetup with other graduate students, APSA President Robert Axelrod, and other APSA Officers and Council.
9:00 p.m. Opening Reception:
Following the Presidential Address, APSA will host the 103rd APSA Annual Meeting Opening Reception. Sponsored by Cambridge University Press.
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| Friday, August 31 |
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10:15 a.m. Theme Panel: 40 Years of Challenge: Critical Issues Then and Now:
John Ehrenberg (Long Island University), Frances Fox Piven (CUNY, Graduate Center), Judith Grant (Ohio University), Christine A. Kelly (William Paterson University), Margaret Levi (University of Washington, Seattle), Dean Robinson (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), J. Phillip Thompson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Cornel West,(Princeton University)
10:15 a.m. Roundtable: Fixing the Leaky Pipeline: Keeping Women of Color in the Discipline:
Melissa R. Michelson (
California State University, East Bay), Celeste M. Montoya
(Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Maria Chavez
(Pacific Lutheran University), Jessica L. Lavariega (Monforti
University of Texas, Pan American),
Juan Carlos Huerta
(Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi), Linda Lopez
(National Science Foundation), Luis Ricardo Fraga
(Stanford University), Jonathan Benjamin-Alvarado
(University of Nebraska at Omaha), Celeste Montoya
(Southern Illinois University, Carbondale), Rodolfo Rosales
(University of Texas, San Antonio)
Plenary Session
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age
Duncan Watts, Columbia University |
 10:30 a.m.
Duncan Watts, professor of sociology at Columbia University, directs the Collective Dynamics Group. His research interests include the structure and evolution of social networks, the origins and dynamics of social influence, and the nature of distributed "social" search. Watts will address the foundations of social network theory and update research from his best-selling books Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age and Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks between Order and Randomness. |
12:00 noon Meet the Officer and Council Nominees:
An opportunity to meet the 2007 Council and Officer nominees.
12:00 noon Getting Published in Political Science: Books
Steve Catalano (Westview Press),
Suzanne Nichols
(Russell Sage Foundation),
Gary Suarez (Cambridge University Press),
Sanford G. Thatcher (Penn State University Press,
Fred Woodard
(University Press of Kansas),
Stephen M. Wrinn (University Press of Kentucky)
12:00 noon Workshop for Department Chairs: Development at a Departmental Level:
The 2007 Workshop for Political Science Department Chairs will focus on the role department chairs play in financial development.
Plenary Session
Is American Political Science too Parochial?
Sponsored by the APSA Teaching and Learning Committee |
2:00 p.m.
The challenge of internationalizing the discipline reminds us that no important improvement in teaching and learning can happen without the larger intellectual discussion of the content of political science. Hence, the APSA Teaching and Learning Committee is sponsoring this plenary panel to spark discipline-wide conversation about the intellectual state of political science in the United States. The goal of the panel is to engage faculty across the sub-disciplines to debate whether or not political science in America is too parochial.
Participants: Wendy Brown (UC Berkeley), Stathis Kalyvas (Yale University), David Laitin (Stanford University), and Jack Snyder (Columbia University),
Convener: Deborah Ward (Columbia University) |
4:15 p.m. Comparative Guest Lecture: Remembering Donald Rothchild:
Professor Donald Rothchild's prolific scholarship and generous academic leadership were defining influences for half a century on the field of international relations, particularly on developing nations of sub-Saharan Africa. This panel will be an opportunity to recall his tireless efforts as scholar, teacher, mentor, and friend. The panel will be led by those scholars with whom he most actively collaborated, but will encourage participation by all whose lives he touched.
John Gaus Lecture
New Frontiers of Public Administration:
The Practice of Theory and the Theory of Practice
Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., Texas A&M University |
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6:00 p.m.
 Laurence E. Lynn, Jr., is the George H. W. Bush Chair and Professor of Public Affairs at the George Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University. He is also the Sydney Stein, Jr., Professor of Public Management Emeritus in the Irving B. Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Lynn's current projects are concerned with models and methods for the empirical study of governance and public management, public choice and institutional theories as applied to the management of public bureaucracies, the executive function in government, and the government's role in human service provision. He is past president of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the American Society of Public Administration.
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Lasswell Symposium
Extremism: Causes and Cures
Cass R. Sunstein, University of Chicago |
 6:00 p.m.
Cass R. Sunstein, a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, has held posts under U.S. Justice Thurgood Marshall, in addition to posts at the Massachusetts Supreme Court and the U.S. Department of Justice. Currently professor of law and political science at the University of Chicago, Sunstein vice-chairs the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations, chairs the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, and is a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC and the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. He will speak on extremism as an example of
social cascades and polarization and how they influence political behavior. |
7:00 p.m. Reception Honoring Teaching:
Everyone is invited to a reception honoring campus-wide teaching award recipients and the winner of the 2007 Rowman & Littlefield Award for innovative teaching.
8:00 p.m. Political Engagement: A Moderated Discussion with The New York Times and The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Sponsored by The New York Times; Co-sponsored by the APSA Committee on Civic Education and Engagement: Elizabeth Beaumont (University of Minnesota), Thomas Ehrlich (The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching), John Presley (Illinois State University). Moderator: Elizabeth Bumiller
Ithiel de Sola Pool Lecture
Pool 2.0: Pool and Where We are with the Net
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford University |
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 8:30 p.m.
Already at the top of the field of constitutional law before he began his intensive focus on the law of cyberspace, Lawrence Lessig has concentrated his scholarship on the problem of how law should govern the exchange of information and ideas in a digital age. He is a leading figure in the United States and internationally in cyberlaw, a field that lies at the previously unexplored intersection of constitutional law and intellectual property law. Lessig is the founding director of the law school's Center for Internet and Society, chair of the Creative Commons Project, and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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| Saturday, September 1 |
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10:15 a.m. Theme Panel: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on the Politics of Inequality:
Nolan M. McCarty (Princeton University), Elisabeth S. Jacobs (Harvard University), Jacob S. Hacker (Yale University), Timothy M. Smeeding (Syracuse University), John D. Huber (Columbia University), Piero Stanig (Columbia University)
12:00 noon Getting Published in Political Science: Journals
Sarah Birch (University of Essex/British Journal of Political Science),
Carol Hardy-Fanta
(University of Massachusetts/Journal of Women, Politics & Policy),
Gerhard Loewenberg
(University of Iowa/Legislative Studies Quarterly),
Marianne C. Stewart (University of Texas at Dallas/American Journal of Political Science),
Ronald L. Rogowski (University of California, Los Angeles/American Political Science Review),
Catherine H. Zuckert
(University of Notre Dame/Review of Politics)
Plenary Session
Chimpanzee Politics:
25th Anniversary of a Machiavellian Exposé
Frans de Waal, Emory University and
the Yerkes National Primate Research Center |
 12:30 p.m.
Frans B.M. de Waal, a native of the Netherlands, trained as a zoologist and ethologist at three Dutch universities (Nijmegen, Groningen, Utrecht), and earned a Ph.D. in biology from the University of Utrecht in 1977. Prof. de Waal holds joint appointments at the Psychology Department of Emory University and the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, both in Atlanta. His widely read book Chimpanzee Politics highlights six years of research on the world's largest captive colony of chimpanzees at the Arnhem Zoo, beginning in 1978. Prof. de Waal will focus on new research on politics among primates in the 25 years since the publication of his path-breaking study. |
2:00 p.m. Theme Panel: Insights for International Security from the Life Sciences: Bradley A. Thayer (Missouri State University), Dominic Johnson ( Princeton University), Malcolm Potts (University of California, Berkeley), Peter Turchin (University of Connecticut), Valerie M. Hudson (Brigham Young University)
4:15 p.m. Theme Panel: Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Issue of Vote Rigging:
Gary W. Cox (University of California, San Diego), Tracy Campbell (University of Kentucky), Walter R. Mebane, Jr. (Cornell University), Emily Ann Beaulieu (University of Kentucky), Andrew W. Appel (Princeton University), Susan Dayton Hyde (Yale University), J. Morgan Kousser (California Institute of Technology)
Plenary Session
Finding Democracy in the American Ghetto
Sudhir Venkatesh, Columbia University |
 6:00 p.m.
Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh, Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University, received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago and was a Junior Fellow at Harvard's Society of Fellows. His works include: Living Underground: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor, a study of illegal and informal economic behavior in a working poor community in Chicago, and American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto, an exploration of the social organization, moral universe, and history of a Chicago housing development. His 2005 documentary Dislocation follows families as they relocate from condemned public housing.
His current research in urban American poverty includes a longitudinal study of vice and drug economies in Chicago and New York (with economist Steven Levitt), a comparative project on French and U.S. public housing, and an ethnographic study of the revitalization of Chicago in the 1990s. |
6:15 p.m. Participate in APSA's Leadership Transition at the APSA Annual Business Meeting:
Make plans to attend the Business Meeting in Chicago, on Saturday, September 1 at 6:00 p.m., in the Grand Ballroom B of the Hyatt. This is your chance to participate in the process of leadership transition as Robert Axelrod passes the President's gavel to Dianne Pinderhughes. The Council will also report on the Association's priorities and finances. For more about the agenda and rules of the meeting click here.
New Political Science 40th Anniversary Plenary
Afghanistan Now: The Use and Abuse of a Buffer State
Christian Parenti |
 8:30 p.m.
Christian Parenti is a correspondent for The Nation magazine and author of the forthcoming book Mouthful of Dust: The End Again in Afghanistan. His other publications include The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, The Soft Cage: Surveillance in America from Slavery to the War on Terror, and Lockdown America: Police and Prisons in the Age of Crisis. He is a former Soros Senior Justice Fellow and a Ford Foundation Fellow at the CUNY Graduate School's Center for Place, Culture, and Politics. |
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Throughout the meeting you can visit the APSA Pavilion and Lounge to relax and meet with colleagues. The Pavilion will feature free morning coffee and several receptions and events.
You can also register in the APSA Pavilion to win free registration for the 2008 Annual Meeting, free registration for the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference (in San Jose), 1-year Organized Section membership, 1-year JSTOR access, and other prizes.
- APSA GOVERNANCE AND PROGRAMS
- Teaching and Learning Conference in San Jose, California from February 22-24, 2008; Submit Proposals and Preregister Now
This conference provides a forum for graduate students and scholars alike to share effective and innovative teaching and learning models and to discuss broad themes and values of political science education. Join us this spring to expand your professional understanding while experiencing the many sights and sounds of San Jose, California!
Submit Your Paper or Workshop Proposal:
APSA invites proposals for the 5th annual APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning in Political Science. The call for proposals and workshops is open now. All proposals should be submitted online through MyAPSA by September 17, 2007.
Begin Preparations for San Jose:
Many departments and teaching and learning centers on campuses have extra resources to support teaching and related professional development that might be available to faculty applying to attend the Teaching and Learning Conference. Here are some quick facts to help with your preparations and grant and funding applications. Early registration is available online now.
Early Registration: August 15, 2007-December 3, 2007
Member $ 210
Non-member $ 290
General Registration: December 7, 2007-January 15, 2008
Member $ 240
Non-member $ 325
Visit www.apsanet.org/tlc2008/ for up-to-date information. Contact Hayle Ziobro at hziobro@apsanet.org with any questions.
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- SHOWCASE YOUR DEPARTMENT THROUGH THE 2008 TEACHING AND LEARNING PARTNERS PROGRAM
Showcase your institution to the political science community by becoming a 2008 APSA Teaching & Learning Partner. The 2008 APSA Conference on Teaching and Learning offers a special opportunity to enhance your institution's visibility in support of teaching and learning. Over 300 scholars will gather in San Jose, CA on February 22-24, 2008 for three days of forums on political science education.
Partnership Benefits:
- Recognition on APSA's website (48,000 hits daily)
- Recognition in PS (16,000 subscribers)
- Recognition at the 2008 APSA Annual Meeting (7,000+ attendees)
- Recognition in the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference program (300 attendees)
- Recognition in on-site signage at the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference
Partnership Recognition Levels:
- Summa cum laude ($1,000 and up)
- Cum laude ($500-$999)
- Dean's List ($250-$499)
- Honor Roll (up to $249)
Contact Desiree Abeleda at dabeleda@apsanet.org if your department is interested in being recognized for its support for teaching and learning in the discipline and its leadership in securing the future of this important event.
For additional sponsorship opportunities at the Teaching and Learning Conference, please visit: www.apsanet.org/section_474.cfm.
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- SCHOLAR SUPPORT
- MINORITY FELLOWS PROGRAM ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS
The APSA Minority Fellows Program has designated more than 300 fellows and contributed to the successful completion of doctoral political science programs for over 70 individuals. The Minority Fellows Program designates up to twelve stipend minority fellows each year. Additional applicants who do not receive funds from the Association may also be recognized and recommended for admission and financial support to graduate political science programs. Fellows with stipends receive a $4,000 fellowship that is disbursed in two $2,000 payments. Awards are based on students' undergraduate course work, GPA, extracurricular activities, GRE scores, and recommendations from faculty.
The Minority Fellows program is designed primarily for minority students applying to enter a doctoral program in POLITICAL SCIENCE for the FIRST TIME. Applications will be accepted until October 26, 2007. For more on the program and how to apply, see www.apsanet.org/content_3284.cfm.
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- BECOME OR FIND A MENTOR
The APSA mentoring initiative is an opportunity for all political scientists to to share experience and insights about career planning, scholarship, and professional issues.
Become a Mentor
There is an urgent need for mentors in the profession. As a mentor, you can act as a resource for colleagues in specific areas of interest to provide advice or share your experience on topics such as selecting a dissertation committee, publishing, planning a research agenda, managing life as a junior faculty, or balancing family and work. APSA is especially looking for those who can serve as a resource for scholars in groups historically underrepresented in the discipline.
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. Once matched, 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 sign up for a 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 on the issues that you specify. You may then select from this list the individual you would like to contact, and then contact them directly. Visit the "Find an APSA Mentor" page to learn more.
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- NEWS IN THE PROFESSION
- The Southern Political Science Association Seeks Executive Director and Invites Nominations and Applications for Journal of Politics Editor
The Southern Political Science Association (SPSA) invites applications for the position of executive director. Under the guidance of the Executive Council and in concert with the Association's constitution and bylaws, the executive director helps lead SPSA by providing administrative services to the organization; supervising the successful execution of an annual meeting; interacting with and responding effectively to members, officers, and partners who help carry out the work of the association; anticipating needs of the Association and alerting the Executive Council of them in a timely manner; providing creative options to meet those needs; hiring, evaluating, and motivating a small local staff; overseeing communications to the membership, including the website; providing timely, accurate expense and revenue reports and projected budgets to the Council; keeping permanent records of the work of the administrative office;
alerting officers and Council of deadlines and their tasks; and performing related duties.
For more information, see www.apsanet.org/content_45113.cfm.
Catherine Rudder, President of the Southern Political Science Association has appointed a Search Committee to select a new editor for the Journal of Politics. The incoming editor will succeed Professor John Geer, whose editorial term will end on December 31, 2008. The new editor will serve an initial four year term, from January 1, 2009 through December 31, 2012. For more on this search, see www.apsanet.org/content_44942.cfm.
- HASTAC Initiative Sponsoring $2 Million Digital Media and Learning Competition
The Humanities, Arts, Sciences, Technology, Advanced Collaborative (HASTAC), with support of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, are mobilizing the field of digital media and learning through a $2 million open call competition designed to support innovation and networking. To learn more about the competition, visit www.dmlcompetition.net.
Application deadline: October 15, 2007 (8 p.m. EDT, 5 pm PDT).
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- State Politics and Policy Section Accepting Proposals to Host Their 9th Annual Conference
The State Politics and Policy Organized Section of the American Political Science Association announces a call for proposals to host the Ninth Annual Conference on State Politics and Policy. The section president, Melinda Gann Hall, has appointed a committee to solicit proposals for hosting future conferences and coordinate among those institutions wishing to host them. The annual conference is the flagship event of the State Politics and Policy Section. Each conference is co-sponsored by the section and State Politics and Policy Quarterly, but it is primarily sponsored by the hosting institution. Previous conferences have been hosted by:
- Texas A&M University (2001)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (2002)
- University of Arizona (2003)
- Kent State University (2004)
- Michigan State University (2005)
- Texas Tech University (2006)
- University of Texas at Austin (2007)
- Temple University (2008)
For more information on the call for proposals to host this meeting, see www.unc.edu/depts/polisci/statepol/conferences/call-to-host.htm.
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- ACLS Opens Competitions for 2007-2008 Fellowship and Grant Awards
The ACLS has announced the opening of the 2007-2008 competitions for fellowships and grants. In addition to several ongoing fellowship and grant programs, ACLS is sponsoring two new competitions--a recent doctoral recipients program and a dissertation completion fellowship. For more information, see www.apsanet.org/content_45332.cfm.
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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.
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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Housed in the APSA headquarters, the Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs provides
a great base of operations for scholars doing research in Washington, DC.
It offers visiting scholars a furnished work space, telephone, fax,
computers, Internet access, conference space, a reference library, and access
to George Washington University’s Gelman Library.
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. There are a limited number of funding opportunities available to support Visiting Scholars. Apply at any time. Positions are
awarded on a space-available basis. Find details at www.apsanet.org/centennialcenter. You may also contact William Harder at APSA: 202-483-2512 or wharder@apsanet.org.
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Media Connect:
Are you 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.