- TEACHING AND LEARNING CONFERENCE, FEB. 22-24, 2008, SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA
- Early Registration Rate Available until December 3, 2008.
APSA sponsors the conference to promote understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and methodologies for the political science classroom, to provide a forum to develop models on teaching and learning, and to discuss broad themes and values affecting political science education. Join us from February 22-24, 2008, to share your ideas and expertise with colleagues and expand your professional horizons while experiencing beautiful San Jose, California.
Dr. Luis Ricardo Fraga, Associate Vice Provost for Faculty Advancement, Director of the Diversity Research Institute, Russell F. Stark University Professor, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Washington will deliver the keynote address for the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference. To find out more about the conference program as it's developed, visit www.apsanet.org/section_349.cfm.
Quick Facts to Help with Your Grant & Funding Applications
EARLY REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! 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: August 15, 2007-December 3, 2007
Member $ 210
Non-member $ 290
General Registration: December 7, 2007-January 15, 2008
Member $ 240
Non-member $ 325
In keeping with the working group model, meeting presenters and discussants attend their chosen track for the duration of the conference. Presenters will be joined in the tracks by other conference participants, who serve as discussants on the presentations. The following tracks are offered:
- Program Assessment
- Internationalizing the Curriculum
- Diversity, Inclusiveness and Inequality
- Teaching Research Methods
- Graduate Education
- Simulations and Role Playing
- Civic Engagement
- Teaching Across the Discipline
- Graduate Education and Professional Development
- Core Curriculum/General Education
Space in each track is limited! Slots for discussants will be available on a first-come-first-serve basis until filled. While modeled on a working group format, this year's conference will also also feature special workshops on teaching techniques and tools for improving learning in the political science classroom. Discussants will have the opportunity to attend two workshops in addition to their track participation.
Visit www.apsanet.org/tlc2008/ for up-to-date information on the Teaching and Learning Conference. We look forward to seeing you there. For more information, see the website or contact Dr. Kimberly Mealy at kmealy@apsanet.org.
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- Registration for the Conference for Chairs, February 21-22, 2008, in San Jose, CA, is Now Open
The second APSA Conference for Chairs will meet in San Jose, California, from on February 21-22 in conjunction with the Teaching and Learning Conference. This annual conference for department chairs will give chairs an opportunity to address common management issues, to collaborate on addressing policy and program issues in the discipline, and to network with colleagues from around the country. Registration for the conference is now open. There is a discount on the Teaching and Learning Conference registration when registering for both the Chairs and the Teaching conferences. For more on this unique opportunity, visit www.apsanet.org/cfc.
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- Encourage Your Department to Support the Teaching and Learning Conference Partners Program
The Partners Program provides departments with the opportunity to stand out as leaders in support of teaching and learning in political science. By sponsoring the American Political Science Association’s Teaching and Learning Conference, departments are able to focus on excellence within the political science classroom.
The Teaching and Learning Conference promotes greater understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and methodologies for the political science classroom as well as providing professional development opportunities for chairs and faculty. The 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference will be held in San Jose, CA from February 22-24. The continued growth of this important event--the only conference of its kind in the world--relies upon support from the larger political science community. Funding during the conference’s first, formative years was subsidized by APSA, but as the conference grows in physical size and in importance to the discipline it is necessary to establish a network of partners to share the financial support. Through the Partners Program we seek to ensure the future of the conference beyond this, its fifth year, and lay a strong foundation for advancing teaching and learning in the discipline.
APSA will look to its partners as an informal resource to help develop the partners program and the conference as a whole. Ideally the program will grow into one that provides a discounted partners registration rate and as well as travel grants. These initiatives will nurture the conference, giving many political scientists without the means, the opportunity to attend and further their profession.
As a Partner, your department will be recognized as part of a year-long campaign and be visible to the entire political science community as one that puts excellence in teaching at the top of its priorities.
Partnership Benefits:
- Letter of appreciation from the APSA President sent to your college dean
- Named as a sponsor in the Teaching and Learning Conference nationwide press release
- Placement of your department logo and URL on the APSA website (48,000 hits daily)
- Recognition in PS: Political Science & Politics (15,000 subscribers)
- Recognition in the 2008 APSA Annual Meeting Program (7,000+ attendees)
- Recognition in the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference Program (300 attendees)
- Prominent acknowledgement in on-site signage during the 2008 Teaching and Learning Conference
- An APSA plaque formally recognizing your status as a Teaching and Learning Partner
Recognition Levels:
Platinum ($1,000 and up)
Gold ($500 - $999)
Silver ($250 - $499)
Bronze (up to $249)
Contact Desirée 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, see http://www.apsanet.org/section_474.cfm.
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- APSA ANNUAL MEETING
- Get Ready for a Wicked Good Time in Boston
The APSA Annual Meeting will convene from August 28 through August 31, 2008 in Boston, Massachusetts. Start planning now to make the most of your Boston APSA Annual Meeting adventure. Here are some resources to get you started:
Join us in Boston for the best in political science scholarship and much, much more.
Go to www.apsanet.org/2008 for more on the 2008 APSA Annual Meeting and the Boston locale.
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- Call for 2008 Meeting Papers on "Categories and the Politics of Global Inequalities" Open Until December 17
Program chairs Jane Junn, Rutgers University-New Brunswick, and Ed Keller, UCLA, challenge scholars to carefully reconsider the evolving relationship between categories and global inequalities. Categorization and differentiation of ideas, people, institutions, and nations has continued as an unabated intellectual force in the 100-year history of political science as a professional discipline. Changes in world political economy and social organization like globalization, democratization, and international migration, highlight the dynamic character of the distinctions manifest in categories, and invite a close examination of the construction, interpretation, and maintenance of categorical boundaries.
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- Submitted a Proposal Already? Want to be Sure?
It's easy to check on whether your meeting proposal has been received by APSA.
Log in to MyAPSA to review submission and status.
Login at www.apsanet.org using the login boxes at the top of every site page. To check on your submission status, scroll down to the box labeled 2008 Annual Meeting, where you should see a link to access all of your proposals. You can edit the proposals up until the call deadline. Contact the APSA office at meeting@apsanet.org before the call deadline if you have difficulty finding or updating your proposal.
All proposals received, are given a unique ID number and email confirmation with that ID number is sent within 24 hours of first receiving the proposal. Please contact the APSA office at meeting@apsanet.org if you do not receive an email confirmation of your submission within 24 hours.
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- APSA PROGRAMS AND GOVERNANCE NEWS
- New Council Members Elected
The results of the 2007 Council election are official. The eight candidates receiving the most votes were Catherine Zuckert, Wendy Brown, John Ishiyama, Wendy Tam-Cho, H N Hirsch, Thomas Pangle, Nonna Mayer, and Dan Reiter. They take office on the Council effective immediately. Leonard Wantchekon was not elected.
Total voter turnout for the election was 4,316, which is 30.4% of all eligible voters. In the past, the Association has had 30.8, 30.3, and 30.1 percent voter turnouts for the election. You can see the complete results at www.apsanet.org/section_750.cfm.
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- Seeking Recommendations for Council and Committee Seats
Recommendations for Council Seats
The APSA Nominating Committee welcomes your suggestions for candidates for the 2008-09 Council. This year, 8 Council seats, 3 vice presidencies, and the offices of president-elect, treasurer, and secretary are open. Council members and the treasurer serve staggered two-year terms. The president-elect, vice presidents, and secretary all serve one-year terms. Recommendation forms for Executive Council and Officer positions were provided in the October issue of PS: Political Science and Politics and recommendations can also be made online at www.apsanet.org/content_3015.cfm. Recommendations will be accepted until January 11, 2008,
Recommendations for Standing and Award Committee Members
APSA depends on the work of several constitutional, Council-authorized, and special purpose committees for effective leadership and guidance. Each year, seats on those committees become available for the next term. Seats also become available on the various award committees that help identify the next year's award recipients.
APSA President-Elect Peter Katzenstein seeks recommendations from APSA members for various standing and award committees, for terms beginning in September 2008. You can view a list of those committees online at www.apsanet.org/section_230.cfm.
Send recommendations by January 11, 2008, to Hayle Ziobro by email to hziobro@apsanet.org or by mail:
Hayle Ziobro, Committee Recommendations
APSA
1527 New Hampshire Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20036-1206
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- Awards: Recognition Where Recognition is Due
- Goodnow and Other APSA Awards
The Goodnow Award recognizes distinguished service to the profession and the Association, not necessarily a career of scholarship. This service may be by individuals, groups, and public and private organizations who have helped build the political science profession and the American Political Science Association. Learn more about the award and past recipients at www.apsanet.org/section_311.cfm.
Please also note that APSA and nomination committees are also soliciting nominations for these sets of awards:
- Politics and History Announces New Award
The Organized Section on Politics and History has announced the establishment of a new prize for the "Best Dissertation in the Field of Politics and History." The first award will be presented at the section's business meeting at the 2008 APSA convention. They welcome nominations of outstanding dissertations from Ph.D.s awarded in either 2006 or 2007. Get more information on this at www.apsanet.org/section_333.cfm.
- Women and Politics Research and Foundations of Political Theory Announce New Award
The Women and Politics Research and Foundations of Political Theory organized sections and the Women's Caucus for Political Science have announced the Okin-Young Award in Feminist Political Theory. The award commemorates the scholarly, mentoring, and professional contributions of Susan Moller Okin and Iris Marion Young to the development of the field of feminist political theory. This annual award recognizes the best paper on feminist political theory published in an English language academic journal during the previous calendar year. Papers will be considered by self-nomination or nomination by other individuals. The award carries a cash award of $600. The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2008. For more information, see www.apsanet.org/section_321.cfm.
- APSA Organized Section Award Deadlines--Closer than You Think
Almost all of the 35 APSA Organized Sections present awards for career, dissertations, books, and other notable activities and achievements. Requirements and deadlines for nominations vary; check the links at www.apsanet.org/section_300.cfm for details. Deadlines for some of these awards are closer than you might think. Here's a list of those coming up in December and early January:
- Law and Courts Lifetime Achievement: January 1
- Public Policy Best Paper on Public Policy: December 1
- Women and Politics Research Best Dissertation: January 15
- State Politics and Policy Best Paper: December 31
- State Politics and Policy Best Graduate Paper: December 31
- State Politics and Policy Career Service: December 31
- State Politics and Policy SPPQ: December 31
- Foreign Policy Best Faculty Paper: December 1
- Foreign Policy Best Student Paper: December 1
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- Call for Small Research Grant Proposals
The APSA Small Research Grant Program supports research in all fields of political science. The intent of these grants is to support the research of political scientists who are not employed at PhD-granting institutions and to help further the careers of these scholars. Grant recipients have been able to publish several books and book chapters, journal articles, working papers, and conference presentations. They also report benefits to students, who have co-authored projects and worked as research assistants. Several recipients were also able to use the APSA grant as "seed money" to get additional funding.
The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2008. For more information, go to www.apsanet.org/section_509.cfm.
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- Call for Applications for the 2008 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
The 2008 Class of Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) will mark the 22nd year of the Institute.
The Ralph Bunche Summer Institute is named for past APSA President (1953), UN diplomat, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche. Dr. Bunche was also the first African American to receive a Ph.D. in Political Science.
The Ralph Bunche Summer Institute has been hosted at Duke University since 2000. The institute is an intensive 5 week academic and professional development program designed to assist in preparing African American, Latino/Latina, and Native American college students for graduate work in political science. The program provides academic credit, mentoring, and training in statistical analysis and the substantive area of race and ethnicity in political science.
Under the leadership of Dr. Paula McClain and with the funding support of the National Science Foundation, Duke University, and APSA, this program has helped to simulate the graduate experience for more than 400 undergraduates. Bunche scholars have gone on to attend graduate school and receive Ph.D.s in Political Science, and have been recipients of fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation and APSA.
The application deadline is Friday, February 8, 2008 (application materials should be postmarked by this date). Applications can be found at http://www.apsanet.org/rbsi. For more information, please contact Kimberly A. Mealy, Program Director for Educational, Professional and Minority Initiatives at kmealy@apsanet.org.
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- Ever Have Trouble Flying or Entering the United States?
At the August 2007 annual meeting, the APSA Council designated a Council Group on Transportation Security and Civil Liberties (Tony Affigne, Melissa Williams and Timothy Kaufman-Osborn) to look into issues that might arise in border crossings with those attending the 2009 APSA meeting in Toronto, Canada, and more broadly with scholarly travel in and outside the U.S. Among the issues of concern are airport “no fly” and “selectee” lists which can hinder and even prevent air travel, any special concerns of resident alien scholars, the effectiveness of the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (TRIP) as a remedy for anyone who feels their name was mistakenly added to a “no fly” list, or whether there are particular groups or parts of the country where these Homeland Security/Transportation Security Administration measures are more rigorously enforced.
In order to get some dimension of how these issues have impacted the APSA membership, the Council Group would appreciate anyone who has encountered such difficulties in their domestic or international travel to respond by email with whatever details seem relevant (denial of a boarding pass, delays in resuming travel, etc.)
We hope to hear from anyone with helpful information, regardless of whether they are members of APSA or not.
We would also appreciate the assistance of department chairs in terms of encouraging members of their departments, regardless of whether they are members of APSA or not, to respond.
The Council Group will prepare travel recommendations for all APSA members, to minimize inconvenience you may face as you travel to the 2009 Toronto meeting, or to any other professional destinations. With your assistance, our goal is to ensure that APSA members are well-prepared to deal with security practices on both sides of the U.S.-Canadian border. Please e-mail your comments to:
Jeffrey Biggs at councilgroup@apsanet.org
Director, Congressional Fellowship Program
American Political Science Association
1527 New Hampshire Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20036-1206
p: 202.483.2512
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- Vol. 101 Issue 4 of the American Political Science Review Online Now
The November issue of the American Political Science Review is online now at Cambridge Journals Online. APSA members can get all content in this journal, and in PS and Perspectives, free as part of their membership. Members: to see the latest issue of APSR, log in to your MyAPSA account and click the APSR link in Access Areas. Non-members: to review abstracts without charge and get full-text for a fee at Cambridge Journals Online, use this link: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=PSR.
The table of contents and this issue's featured article is available free of charge to all at www.apsanet.org/apsr.
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- NEWS IN THE PROFESSION
- Two Political Scientists Honored with CASE/Carnegie Foundation Teaching Awards
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) have honored two political scientists as their state’s “Professor of the Year.” Sponsored by the Carnegie Foundation and administered by the CASE, the U.S. Professors of the Year program salutes the most outstanding undergraduate instructors in the country—those who excel in teaching and positively influence the lives and careers of students. It is the only national program to recognize excellence in undergraduate teaching and mentoring.
All undergraduate teachers in the United States, of any academic rank at any type of undergraduate institution, are eligible for the award. Entries are judged by top U.S. educators and other active participants in education.
This year,
Jay Barth, Associate Professor of Politics at Hendrix College, was recognized as the Arkansas Professor of the Year. Ahrar Ahmad, Professor of Political Science at
Black Hills State University, was recognized as South Dakota Professor of the Year.
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- City Hall Fellows Seeking National Academic Advisory Board
City Hall Fellows, a new, nationwide, non-partisan, nonprofit organization formed to develop a cadre of enlightened local government leaders from recent college graduates, is building a National Academic Advisory Board to provide advice and guidance on the development, content and implementation of the training program.
The organization is seeking leading academics in a broad set of disciplines located around the country to participate on the Board. Board members should be willing to respond to phone calls and emails and to participate in group discussions a few times a year by teleconference.
City Hall Fellows places outstanding recent college graduates within the highest levels of local governments around the country in cohorts of 10 or more. The first class of Fellows is expected to begin work in August 2008 in Houston, Boston and San Francisco.
In addition to their work placements, which locate Fellows within a more senior level of local government than they likely could have obtained through a traditional job application process, Fellows participate in a comprehensive education and training program with their peers. The training curriculum, which City Hall Fellows is designing in-house in conjunction with leading academics, is led by local subject matter experts and exposes the Fellows to policy influencers and policymakers. The subject matter of the training program focuses on the mechanics, politics and challenges of both local government and government leadership (along the lines of the White House Fellows' and Coro Public Policy Fellows' educational components).
Visit http://icma.org/documents/Civic_Leadership_Development_Program_Overview.pdf for a detailed summary of the program.
For more information on the City Hall Fellows program, see www.cityhallfellows.org, or contact Bethany Rubin Henderson, Founder and Executive Director, at 310-570-5067, or bethany@cityhallfellows.org.
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- General Social Survey (GSS) Competition
Letter of Intent Deadline Date: December 6, 2007
Full Proposal Target Date: February 18, 2008
The General Social Survey (GSS) is a nationally representative personal interview survey of the United States adult population that collects data on a wide range of topics: behavioral items such as group membership and participation; personal psychological evaluations including measures of well-being, misanthropy, and life satisfaction; attitudinal questions on such public issues as crime and punishment, race relations, gender roles, and spending priorities; and demographic characteristics of respondents and their parents.
The Sociology Program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences expects to make one award for the next four-year funding cycle, fiscal years 2009-2012, to support the 2010 and 2012 GSS and the U.S. component of the ISSP survey. We anticipate that NSF will award in the range of $10 million and at most $15 million, over four years (approximately $2.5 million, but not more than $3.75 million per year) to support two waves of data collection and dissemination activities. The expected starting date is November 2008.
You can read the full details of this opportunity at: www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503170.
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- Fulbright Opportunity in South Africa for K-12 and Community College Teachers
Participants will experience the culture and unique situation of Lesotho, a vulnerable third world state completely surrounded by South Africa, a regional power classified as an emerging market economy. The relationship between these two countries might be considered a prototype of how the weak and strong interact in the global political economy. South Africa has a dramatic impact on most aspects of life in Lesotho. Nevertheless, their geographical, environmental and ethnic commonalities create mutual relationships and shared interests, not just unilateral dominance by the stronger party. In fact the cultures, economies, histories, languages, peoples, politics and societies of South Africa and Lesotho are intimately intertwined. Participants will spend roughly three weeks in Lesotho and two in South Africa observing how these shared elements operate and interact on both sides of their border.
The teachers selected will engage in a comprehensive and carefully planned project designed to give them a nuanced view of Southern Africa. The program will have a substantial service learning component where participants will develop personal contacts with citizens by interning in community development, educational, environmental, human rights and social welfare organizations. These interactions will facilitate close continued collaboration of participants with African contacts, while sharing experiences in Southern Africa with U.S. students, colleagues, communities and professional organizations.
For more information, visit the website at www.utoledo.edu/as/ids/global/Africa2008index.html.
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- Opportunities Listed on www.APSAnet.org:
- Calls for Papers, Articles, Essays and Chapters for Journals and Edited Volumes
Which publications or editors have recently posted calls for for papers, articles, essays, and chapters for journals and edited volumes? Take a look at www.apsanet.org/section_545.cfm, and follow the links from there to find descriptions of calls for submissions of articles,
papers, essays, and proposals for APSA or APSA-related and non-APSA publications that cover a wide variety of subfields and topic areas.
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- For Your Students: The Model U.S. Congress and More
Looking for opportunities for your students? Check out www.apsanet.org/teaching, for current opportunities for high school, undergraduate, and graduate students, including:
- U.S. Model Congress Program:
The U.S. Model Congress program educates college students from across the nation in the Halls of Congress on the procedures of the House of Representatives. Program sessions are held in the actual Congressional Committee Rooms and Chambers on Capitol Hill and are led by individuals with expertise and experience in House procedure. Former Members of Congress, the Congressional Research Service, professors from around the nation and House staff lead students in the simulation, contributing to an in-depth and valuable education. Find more at www.modelcongress.org.
- 2008 Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Research in the Field of Latino Politics: The Project for Equity, Representation, and Governance and the Department of Political Science at Texas A&M University invite submissions for this award, which carries a prize of $500 and is meant to encourage undergraduates to continue their study of Latino politics at the graduate level. Find details at www.apsanet.org/content_48445.cfm.
- Building Bridges Conference: The purpose of this conference is to provide an opportunity for intercultural dialogue and youth engagement in United Nations Alliance of Civilizations initiatives. The conference will include workshops, panels and outstanding speakers that will be interacting with attendees. Find more at www.globalpeaceexchange.org/BuildingBridges2008.
- City Hall Fellows:
City Hall Fellows is seeking high-achieving college seniors with an entrepreneurial spirit to serve in the pioneer class of City Hall Fellows, starting August 2008. To apply, or to bring CHF recruiters to your campus, see www.cityhallfellows.org/.
- Call for Manuscripts: Critique, a worldwide student journal of politics, seeks submissions year-round from both undergraduate and graduate students on ideas of democracy and justice. See http://lilt.ilstu.edu/critique/.
- WSSA Student Paper Competition: The Western Social Science Association is offering an opportunity for students, both at the graduate and undergraduate level to enter a paper for the chance to win $500 and present at its 2008 annual meeting. See www.apsanet.org/content_42789.cfm.
- Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science: Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit papers in all subfields and political perspectives for the April 8, 2008 conference. Students will have the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback. Find more at http://www.apsanet.org/content_43024.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.
| Date |
Title
("Call:" indicates call deadline) |
| Date |
Conference ("Call:"indicates call deadline) |
| November 2007 |
| 30 |
Call: Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference |
| 30 | Call: Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Conference |
| 30 | Call: 8th ASEAN Inter-University Conference |
| 30 | The First Melbourne Conference on World Affairs: Sacralist Challenges to the Sovereign State |
| 30 | Call: Global International Studies Conference |
| 30 | Call: Human Flourishing & Restoration in the Age of Global Warming |
| 30-Dec 1 | The University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2007-2008 Symposium |
| 30-Dec 1 | Harvard Graduate Student Conference in Political Theory |
| December 2007 |
| 1 |
Call: ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops: Methodological Pluralism? Consolidating Political Science Methodology |
| 1 |
Call: ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops : Politics of Intellectual Property |
| 1 |
Call: ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops: The Numbers We Use, the World We See : Evaluating Cross-National Datasets in Comparative Politics |
| 1 | Call: Empire: Migrations, Diasporas, Networks |
| 1 | Call: The Radical Right in Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe–the Role of Legacies |
| 1 | Call: 2008 Smart Business Networks |
| 1 | Call: Canada and the New North America |
| 1 | Call: Terrorism & Justice - The Balance for Civil Liberties |
| 1 | Call: Eighth International CISS Millennium Conference |
| 1 | Call: Dutch-Belgian Political Science Conference |
| 1 | Call: Western Social Science Association Conference |
| 3 | Call: Arkansas Political Science Association Annual Meeting |
| 3 | Call: Policy History Conference |
| 3 | Call: Public Choice Society Annual Conference |
| 3 | Call: Oceanic Conference on International Studies 2008 |
| 3 | Call: Civil Society and Sphere Sovereignty |
| 5-7 | Europe and Asia between Islam and the United States: The Lesson of Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Lebanon |
| 6-7 | International Conference on Racisms in the New World Order |
| 6-8 | Social Statistics and Ethnic Diversity: Should we Count, How Should we Count, and Why? |
| 7 | Applications: Building Bridges Conference |
| 7 | Call: New York State Political Science Association Annual Meeting |
| 7-9 | Peace and Conflict Resolution Conference |
| 8 | Call: Strategy and the Business Environment / Industry Self-Regulation Conference |
| 8 | Call: Politics, Activism and the History of America's Public Schools |
| 9-11 | International Regulatory Reform Conference |
| 10 | Call: 3rd International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis |
| 12 | Call: Annual Meetings of Law and Society Association and Canadian Law and Society Association |
| 12-14 | Workshop: What is Policy Change? Beyond the Stability-change Dualism |
| 13-14 | Mapping Global Inequality: Beyond Income Inequality |
| 14 | Experimental Methods in Political Science |
| 15 |
Call: Changing Climates: Class, Culture, and Politics in an Era of Global Warming |
| 15 |
Call (Workshops): Meeting of Political Analysis on Africa for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the CEAN |
| 15 | Call: Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Change: An Interdisciplinary Approach |
| 15 | Call: National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference (extended) |
| 15 | Call: Symposium on the Legacy of George W. Bush |
| 15 | Call: Princeton University Graduate Conference in Political Theory |
| 15 | Call: The State of New England: People, Politics, & Policies |
| 15 | Call: Australian & New Zealand Studies Association of North America Annual Conference |
| 16-20 | SSRC Japan Studies Dissertation Workshop |
| 17 | Call: ECEG: 8th European Conference on e-Government |
| 17 |
Call for proposals deadline: APSA Annual Meeting - Boston |
| 20 | Call: New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting |
| 21 |
Call: International Digital Government Research Conference (call extended) |
| 27-31 | Workshop: Citizenship in Wartime |
| 29 |
Call: Globalization, Gender, and the Challenge of Transnational Feminisms |
| 31 | Call: Knowledge Globalization Conference |
| 31 |
Call: European Public Choice Society Annual Meeting |
| January 2008 |
| 4 |
Call: International Junior Faculty Conference - Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School |
| 4 | Applications: George Washington University Summer Doctoral Institute for Research and Study on Institutions and Development |
| 4 | Call: Thinking (With)Out Borders: International Political Theory in the 21st Century |
| 7 | Call for Posters: Governing Emerging Technologies |
| 7-10 |
E-Government Track – Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences |
| 10-12 | Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting |
| 11-12 | Collective Action and Social Exclusion in Europe |
| 15 | 5th Annual JIBS Paper Development Workshop |
| 15 | Call: Bradley Berlin Seminar |
| 15 | Call: Going to Extremes: The Fate of the Political Center in America |
| 15 | Call: State Politics Conference |
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The Centennial Center for Political Science and Public Affairs is a great resource 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.
Media Connect:
Interested in speaking with journalists on issues of public
interest? Join APSA's roster of political scientists 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.