EPSNet KIOSK # 1
E-Newsletter edited by the European Political Science Network
27 MARCH
2002
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Contents:
- Calls for Papers
- Conferences and Seminars
-
Summer
Schools
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CALLS FOR PAPERS
1. European Union
Studies Association Book Series: “State of the European Union, volume
6”
The European Union Studies Association (EUSA) seeks proposals for
volume six of its book series “State of the European Union”, to appear in Fall
2003.
Proposals must contain a statement of the volumes theme, objectives
and purpose, with a tentative list of contributors, and the short-form
curriculum vita of the editor(s). While the volume should be a general survey,
editors will have the leeway to identify key empirical topics and key
theoretical foci or debates, and may choose to make a statement that makes
theoretical and political sense of the events of 2001 and 2002. In addition, the
proposal should also include a chapter written by a senior scholar on the state
of the field of EU studies, focusing on theory and/or methodology, and linking
the ongoing study of the EU to larger questions in the disciplines. The proposal
may also include a chapter on new approaches to teaching the EU.
All
contributors to our State of the European Union series must be current EUSA
members.
The EUSA Executive Committee will read all the proposals and make a
choice among them. Interested EUSA members should submit proposals of 3-5 pages
in hard copy to be received in the EUSA office no later than Friday, April 26,
2002. Notification of the selected proposal will be made by letter no later than
May 31, 2002.
Please submit proposals to:
Executive Committee European
Union Studies Association
415 Bellefield Hall - University of Pittsburgh -
Pittsburgh, PA 15260 USA
E-mail eusa@pitt.edu Tel 412.648.7635 Fax 412.648.1168
2. “Postmodern Public Administration Workshop” at the annual EGPA
Conference, Potsdam, Germany, 4-6 September 2002
The convenors (Peter
Bogason, University of Roskilde, Denmark, Bogason@ruc.dk and Paul H A Frissen, University of
Tilburg, P.H.A.Frissen@kub.nl) invite
participation by any one who has a stance on postmodern analysis relevant for
Public Administration or who is involved in postmodernist practices in public
adminstration and public domains. What is postmodern PA? What theoretical
development is under way? How may we analyze postmodern trends, and is there any
postmodern methodology?
The workshop intends to attract papers which will in
any capacity address the questions of what postmodern Public administration is
about; themes for analysis, metodology etc. Junior scholars and especially Ph.D.
students are particularly welcome. All participants should prepare and present a
paper. Participants act as discussants of each other’s paper. Participants
should contact the convenors as soon as possible with a brief abstract of the
paper you intend to present. Abstracts (2 pages maximum) should be sent to the
convenors (and to the EGPA secretariat at e-mail address: egpageap@iiasiisa.be) before 15 May 2002. Authors
whose draft papers have been accepted should dispatch their complete text (15-20
pages maximum) to the convenors and the co-participants of the workshop (as well
as to the EGPA secretariat) before 31 July 2002.
3.
Miscellaneous
- Middle
East Technical University Conference on International Relations, Department of
International Relations at Middle East Technical University (M.E.T.U.), Ankara,
Turkey, 3-5 July 2002 (deadline: 1st May 2002);
- Graduate
REES Conference - UC Berkeley: “One ring to rule them all? Power and power
relations in East European politics and societies” (deadline: 10 May
2002);
- The
future of Europe under debate, Valladolid, Spain, 17-19 September 2002
(deadline: 15th July
2002).
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CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS
1. Centre for
the Study of European Governance, Research Workshop “The Neo-liberal Turn in the
European Union The Mechanisms of Policy Transmission”, Saturday June 8, 2002,
University of Nottingham, U.K.
The aim of the workshop is to find the
reasons--economic, political and social--for the turn to neo-liberalism and
monetarism in the European Union and member-states in the 1970s and 1980s and
investigate the mechanisms of policy transmission. This is an interdisciplinary
workshop involving economists, political scientists and historians in which
social scientific explanations will be viewed in long-term perspective and
neo-classical, Keynesian and Marxian economic theories of crisis confronted. Of
particular interest will be the role that EU institutions-- the monetary
committee, the board of central bank governors, the Commission, the Council of
Ministers, the European Court of Justice--and the European Monetary System
played in policy transmission.
For information contact: Dr. Andreas Bieler
(School of Politics, University of Nottingham, Law and Social Science Building,
University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD, Andreas.Bieler@nottingham.ac.uk
2. The
American University in Bulgaria and the College of Europe in Bruges, Belgium:
Second European Union Training Seminar for Southeast Europe
EU Training
Seminar for Southeast Europe The American University in Bulgaria and the College
of Europe in Bruges, Belgium, in partnership with the Institute for Public
Administration and European Integration, Bulgaria, announce the Second European
Union Training Seminar for Southeast Europe. The intensive training is modeled
after the College of Europe's traditional Summer Schools held annually at their
Bruges campus. The programme aims at presenting a general perspective as well as
specific understanding of the EU structures and policies. Upon completion of the
programme, trainees will receive a Certificate jointly issued by the American
University in Bulgaria and the College of Europe.
Time-schedule: July 8-19,
2002; venue - Blagoevgrad, American University in Bulgaria
For further
detail: http://www.aubg.bg/dbtext/text.php?i=278 or
Glenda G. Rosenthal, Columbia University ggr1@columbia.edu
3. Joint International
Conference of the IPSA Research Committee 05 on the "Comparative Studies of
Local Government and Politics" and the German Political Science Association
(DVPW) Workgroup on "Local Government Studies": Reforming Local
Government: Closing the Gap between Democracy and Efficiency, September
26th-27th, 2002, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
The conference will
bring together academics who are interested in a systematical and comparative
analysis of local reform strategies and their consequences as well as
practitioners, who want to get new ideas for their work from other European
experiences. Papers will be presented by Harald Baldersheim (N), Robin Hambleton
(GB), Vincent Hoffmann-Martinot (F), Bas Denters (NL), Hellmut Wollmann (D),
Daniel Kübler (CH), Pawel Swianiewicz (PL), Edvins Vanags (Baltic Countries),
Michal Illner (CZ), Gabor Soos (H), Annick Magnier (I), Carlos Alba (E). The
conference is limited to 40 participants. Costs for accomodation will be 82,-
Euro/day. Reservations should be made as soon as possible by contacting Angelika
Vetter, University of Stuttgart (angelika.vetter@po.pol.uni-stuttgart.de) or
Norbert Kersting (kersting@mailer.uni-marburg.de). Deadline for reservations is
June, 30, 2002.
4. Transatlantic Graduate Student Workshop on EU
Politics, June 7-8, 2002, sponsored by the European Union Center at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and BP Transatlantic Programme,
European University Institute, Florence.
A two-day workshop for advanced
Ph.D. students on EU politics to be held at the Robert Schuman Centre, European
University Institute, Florence. Doctoral students whose dissertation is
concerned with some aspect of European integration or European Union politics
are encouraged to apply for sixteen fellowships to participate in a Ph.D.
dissertation conference in Florence. This conference is an
opportunity for
advanced doctoral candidates to present, discuss, and receive feedback on their
dissertation projects. Faculty participants include: Liesbet Hooghe, University
of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Gary Marks, University of North Carolina Chapel
Hill, Mark Pollack, University of Wisconsin Madison and European University
Institute.
Student fellowships of up to $900 are available to cover travel
expenses and hotel. Meals will be provided. To apply, please send by email
attachment: a prospectus of minimum five pages or one overview chapter from your
dissertation of no more than 8,000 words; a letter of recommendation from your
dissertation advisor.
Please send your application materials to: Dr. Ruth
Pitts, Center for European Studies, CB# 3449, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3449, Europe@unc.edu
Deadline: April 10,
2002
5. Georgia (USA) Political Science Association Annual Conference,
January 30 to February 1, 2003, Savannah, Georgia
The general focus of
the conference is "Speaking Truth to Power." All other topics will be
considered.
For information about submitting proposals and presentations or
on registration and lodging, contact Harold Cline at hcline@mgc.peachnet.edu or by reply e-mail. Offers
to serve as panel chairs and discussants are welcome. For more information, see:
http://www.apsanet.org/PS/organizations/state/georgia.cfm
The deadline for proposals is September 13, 2003.
6.
Miscellaneous
- Graduate
Conference in Central European Studies - The Contours of Legitimacy in Central
Europe: New Approaches in Graduate Studies, International Graduate Conference in
the Humanities and Social Sciences, European Studies Centre, St. Antony's
College, University of Oxford, UK, 24-26 May 2002.
- Analytical
Approaches to European Integration: Decision-Making and Policy Implementation,
Department of Public Administration, Leiden University, The Netherlands, August
19th - 29th, 2002.
- Towards
a New Political Economy of Development: Globalisation and Governance,
Co-sponsored by the Political Economy Research Centre, University of Sheffield
and the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation, University of
Warwick, 4 - 6 July 2002 - University of Sheffield,
UK
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SUMMER SCHOOLS
1. ECPR 2002 Summer
School on Analytical Approaches to European Integration: Decision-Making and
Policy Implementation, Leiden University, The Netherlands, Department of Public
Administration, August 19-29, 2002
The Analytical Politics and Public
Choice Standing Group of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR)
is hosting its 2002 Summer School on Analytical Approaches to the European
Union. The Summer School will develop insights in theoretical and empirical
questions related to the current developments of European integration, its
institutions and its impact on national and sub-national public administration
structures and processes.
The Summer School is for Ph.D. students,
Postdoctoral researchers and junior faculty who wish to receive advanced
training in analytical politics and public choice to address their own questions
of interest. No prior knowledge in choice-theoretic reasoning is
required.
Director: Prof Dr. Bernard Steunenberg, Leiden University,
steunenberg@fsw.LeidenUniv.nl
For full details, please visit:
http://www.fsw.leidenuniv.nl/www/w3_best/pubchoice/summerschool2002.htm
2.
5th Annual Jean Monnet Summer School, Limerick, Ireland, July 1-17,
2002
Applications are invited from suitably qualified postgraduates and
senior undergraduates to participate in the fifth Annual Jean Monnet School in
European Integration at the University of Limerick, Ireland (1 -17 July 2002).
This year's summer school covers five major themes: economic and social
cohesion; social policy and EU citizenship; ethnic minorities; the wider Europe;
and Europe's future. Participants come from all parts of Europe, North America
and the Middle East. Accommodation in single study-bedrooms on the banks of the
River Shannon is included in the summer school fee of $525. More details about
the summer school, and an application form, can be found at www.ul.ie/~ceuros/summerschool
Deadline for
applications: 23 May 2002 (but earlier application is strongly advised as places
are limited).
3. 11th PhD Summer School on European Parties and Party
Systems, Party-Political Elites in the New Europe: Governance and Legitimacy,
Keele University, Department of Politics, School of Politics, International
Relations & the Environment (SPIRE), 9th - 20th September 2002
The
2002 Summer School will again bring together an international team of academics
to teach a group of circa twenty junior researchers (mainly MPhil/PhD students)
working on European party politics. The main aims of the Summer School include
a) to provide junior academics researching into European parties and party
systems with access to a wider range of academic approaches and expertise than
would normally be available at a single university, and b) to stimulate closer
academic co-operation between research students in Political Science by
providing a multinational forum for them to discuss their research with fellow
students and specialist staff from universities in a wide range of countries.
The Summer School comprises an intensive programme of lectures, seminars and
presentations of students' research projects. The teaching language will be
English.
Director: Kurt Richard Luther; E-mail:
summer.school@pol.keele.ac.uk
For full details, including a downloadable
brochure, please visit:
http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/spire/Research/KEPRU/kepru/epps_summer-school/index.htm
4.
Miscellaneous
- External
Relations of the European Union - Summer School, Université Libre de Bruxelles -
Michigan State University, July 2002, Brussels, Belgium.
- Tampere
Summer School on Qualitative Research - Texts, Interaction and Ethnography,
University of Tampere, Finland, May 27-28.
2002.
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