Conferences/Call for Papers and Workshops

2013 ASPAC Conference Call for Paper and Panel Proposals

The annual conference of Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast (ASPAC) in 2013 will be held in the beautiful city of Monterey on California’s Central Coast, hosted by the Monterey Institute of International Studies, a Graduate School of Middlebury College, on June 7-9, 2013. The conference organizing committee welcomes the participation of university/college teachers and researchers, graduate and undergraduate students, and independent scholars interested in any aspect of Asia, defined to include Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and Southwest Asia. ASPAC encourages inter/multidisciplinary discourse among Asia-focused scholars and students and invites those trained in Political Science, Economics, History, Sociology, Anthropology, Linguistics, Language Teaching, Law, Business Administration, Psychology, and other disciplines to participate in its annual conferences. 

This year’s conference theme is “Asia: Looking Back, Moving Forward.” Asian societies have changed and continue to change in myriad ways, while memories of the past also continue to inform understandings about them. Goods, services, capital, information, and people have moved and continue to move both within Asia and beyond.  Proposals for individual or panel presentations on these temporal and spatial aspects of Asian societies are encouraged, although proposals on any other aspect of Asia will be also considered. The theme is designed to encourage discussion of any aspect of Asian experience and any approach to understanding Asian societies that evokes or involves a sense of time or movement.  Welcome are reflections on what has already transpired in the political, economic, and social-cultural life of an Asian people or peoples, on what is desirable, possible, or probable in the future or in a geographic space where it has not yet happened, on how a sense of time and spatial movement is conveyed in an Asian language or languages and how it has changed or may be changing, on social-cultural practices that have or are moving into new territories and communities within Asia and without, and on sources of individual and community identities found in the history or in their future aspirations and prospects of Asian societies, etc.   

DEADLINE: First deadline – April 7, 2013; final deadline (see below) – May 7, 2013. Early submissions are encouraged as approval of a proposal allows the author to register for the conference and also secure a hotel room at a discounted rate. In exceptional cases, submissions after the May 7 deadline may be reviewed.

SUBMIT PROPOSALS BY EMAIL TO: Professor Tsuneo Akaha, Monterey Institute of International Studies, 460 Pierce Street, Monterey, CA 93940, U.S.A.  E-mail: takaha@miis.edu.

SELECTION PROCEDURE: A faculty committee at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, in consultation with the ASPAC Board, will review and accept or reject proposals as soon after submission as possible.  Submissions by the first deadline will be given priority. Additional submissions will be reviewed as panel space allows until May 7.

SPECIAL NOTES FOR STUDENTS: (1) Graduate and undergraduate students are encouraged to submit proposals. If accepted, the student author must present his/her paper in person. (2) ASPAC is proud to offer an ASPAC-Esterline Student Paper Award to the best student paper presented at its annual conferences. The paper must be accompanied by a brief note of recommendation/endorsement by the faculty advisor/supervisor who is familiar with the student’s work. (3) Students are also encouraged to register for the conference early to take advantage of the early registration fee.

Call for Papers for the Journal of International and Public Affairs

CALL FOR PAPERS

Potentia: Journal of International and Public Affairs
Centre for International Policy Studies, University of Ottawa
Volume V, 2013
Submission deadline: March 31, 2013
Submissions may be sent to: potentia.uottawa@gmail.com

The Centre for International Policy Studies’ (CIPS) Potentia: Journal of International and Public Affairs is
a scholarly journal that exclusively showcases the work of graduate students from across Canada and
abroad. Managed by students from the University of Ottawa, Potentia provides a space for the rigorous
analysis of contemporary international challenges and discussion of possible policy alternatives.
This year’s edition seeks to explore the theme “overcoming barriers”. Barriers can be interpreted in many
ways, but we would like to focus on those processes that impede economic, political, or social
development or progress, including, but not limited, to the following areas:

• International security: conflict, border security, non-proliferation issues;
• Global governance: the UN and international organizations, the environment, reform;
• Peace operations: humanitarianism, peacekeeping, peace-building, post-conflict construction;
• International political economy: the global financial crisis, stability;
• Development: community building, economic growth, education, foreign aid;
• Migration: immigration, emigration, forced migrations, refugees, internally displaced persons;
• Justice: social, legal, political, restorative, transformative, human rights, equality;
Papers submitted should investigate the existence and implications of barriers in a chosen area, and
offer specific policy recommendations or alternative theoretical perspectives. All submissions will be
evaluated for originality, policy relevance, rigour, and depth. We encourage the submission of papers
from a wide range of disciplines, including but not limited to business, criminology, economics,
geography, history, law, political science, sociology, and women’s studies. Students from both master’s
and doctorate programs are encouraged to apply. Submissions can be in either English or French.
Guidelines for submissions:
• Two types of submissions will be accepted: Research articles (should not exceed 8,000 words in
length, including endnotes and bibliography), and policy briefs (should not exceed 1,200)
• Must include 100- to 200-word abstract and a 100-word biography
• Citations must follow the social science author-date system in The Chicago Manual of Style (16th
ed.)
For more information on Potentia, please visit: http://cips.uottawa.ca/publication/potentia/ or get in
touch with editor-in-chief Mercedes Mueller at potentia.uottawa@gmail.com.

2013 Leadership for Peace and Prosperity Conference at the University of San Diego

SAVE THE DATE!
October 3-5, 2013

This conference is presented by the Center for Peace and Commerce , the Ahlers Center for International Business and the Institute for Economics and Peace at the University of San Diego.

Call for Papers

Abstract Deadline:   May 15, 2013
Notice of Acceptance: June 30, 2013
Manuscript Due Date: August 15, 2013

Friday, October 4th from 8 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. will be dedicated to our Annual Summit on Peace and Prosperity through Trade and Commerce, and include panel presentations by industry leaders.

2013 Government By and For Millennial America Conference

Roosevelt Institute Campus Network
Friday, April 5, 2013
University of Tennessee, Knoxville

The 2013 Government By and For (GB&F) Conference is intended to explore policy solutions to America’s most pressing public issues.The purpose of the 2013 GB&F Conference is to build on the work of the the Roosevelt Institute's 2013 GB&F report by engaging in dialogue about specific policy solutions to America’s public problems.

The keynote address will be delivered by Dr. Gar Alperovitz. Alperovitz is currently the Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland and is a former Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge University; Harvard’s Institute of Politics; the Institute for Policy Studies; and a Guest Scholar at the Brookings Institution. Alperovitz delivered the keynote address at the Green Party’s 2012 National Convention. More Information: http://rooseveltutk.com/conferences

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

•        Government as Innovator (issues including but not limited to: public research; incentivizing private research; government inefficiency; government ineffectiveness in service delivery)
•        Government as it Engages Citizens (issues including but not limited to: civic and political education; political engagement; transparency; media literacy; access to democratic spaces)
•        Government as Lawmaker (issues including but not limited to: money in politics; gerrymandering; voter & election issues; the electoral college; term limits; online voting)  

           We welcome abstracts from people in a variety of positions: professors, undergraduate students, graduate students, government officials, and beyond. To submit an abstract (200-300 words) please fill out a submission form online by March 14, 2013 at 11:59pm: http://tinyurl.com/ay9yubt

Call for Abstracts

2013 Government By and For Millennial America Conference

Crossing Borders 2013: Politics, Cultural Contest, and the Urgency of Space

March 29-30, 2013
University of Southern California

Call for Papers: Fifth Annual Cultural Studies Graduate Student Conference and Workshop at the Univeristy of New Mexico, Albuquerque 

Call for Graduate Student Research Papers 

Call for Papers: The 6th Annual Graduate Student Conference on Political Economy

http://alexanderhamilton.as.nyu.edu/

5th Annual Graduate Research Symposium

This year will be the USC Graduate Student Government’s fifth year hosting the Graduate Research Symposium.  In previous years this event has been known as the “Poster Symposium.”  This year however, the symposium is going digital and participants will present their research on a single Powerpoint slide. Here are the basic details:

Who: 

Any currently enrolled graduate or professional student at USC.

What:

A symposium presenting the top research produced by USC Graduate Students. Each student will get 5 minutes to present their research on a single power point slide (think TED talks).  The emphasis should be on the broader relevance of their findings and contribution to their field.  First prize from each field (STEM and Social Science/Humanities) is $1500.

Where:

The Tutor Campus Center Grand Ballroom

When:

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

STEM Graduate Students: 9am-12pm

Social Science/Humanities Graduate Students: 1pm-4pm

How:

1.Submit your abstract (maximum 300 words) by 5:00pm on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 to

uscgraduateresearchsymposium [at] gmail [dot] com.

2. If your abstract is selected as a semi-finalist, you will be asked to submit a 5 minute video of your presentation and the Powerpoint slide for review.

3. Forty finalists (20 from STEM fields and 20 from Social Science/Humanities) will be chosen to present at the Graduate Research Symposium on Tuesday, April 2, 2013.

4. First prize from each field (STEM and Social Science/Humanities) is $1500. Second and third place will also receive cash prizes, the amount is TBD.

Questions?

First see our FAQ page. Then if you still have Q’s….

Email uscgraduateresearchsymposium@gmail.com

Diversity & Academic Professional Development

Diversity & Academic Professional Development

Spring 2013 Opportunity for USC Doctoral Students: A Scholarly & Professional Development Institute

PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

• Learn about grant funding opportunities and how to write effective proposals to help secure fellowship funding, supplemental funds to support current research, and seed money to fund new research projects

• Become familiar with the differences between scholarly and professional writing, as well as tips and strategies for editing written work and constructing persuasive arguments      

• Sessions on conducting the literature review for a research project

• Strategies for communicating effectively in scholarly and professional environments

• Tips for organizing research ideas for conferences, panels, and classroom presentations

• Workshops on how to use the latest technology and library search resources to access data and literature   

• Workshops on managing research references and organizing bibliographies using Zotero, RefWorks, and Endnote

• Enhance your academic and professional skillsets as a current doctoral student and better prepare for your future professional career

• Earn a Certificate of Completion (awarded by the USC Graduate School, Office of the Provost), and become eligible for supplemental research or conference travel funding (awards ranging from $500.00 to $1000.00)

PROGRAM DATES & STRUCTURE      

Option A: For doctoral students from the social sciences, humanities, & related interdisciplinary studies, sessions will take place once per week only on Tuesdays from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. on the University Park Campus. The program starts on 1/29/2013 and ends on 4/2/2013. The final meeting will be held on Tuesday, 4/2/2013 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Attendance is mandatory in all sessions. The welcome and orientation will take place on 1/29/2013 from 2:00 – 2:45 p.m. on the University Park Campus. 

Option B: For doctoral students from the natural and physical sciences, health sciences, engineering, mathematics, & related interdisciplinary fields, sessions will take place once per week on Tuesdays primarily from 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. starting on 1/29/2013 and ending on 4/2/2013. Sessions will take place on both the Health Science Campus and University Park Campus.

Please note that three sessions will take place on the University Park Campus on Tuesdays. Two sessions will be held from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. and the final meeting will be held on Tuesday, 4/2/2013 from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Attendance is mandatory in all sessions on both campuses. The welcome and orientation will take place on 1/29/2013 from 10:00 – 10:45 a.m. on the Health Science Campus.                          

ELIGIBILITY

The program is open to all USC doctoral students. Selected students are expected to participate in all scheduled sessions. Students that have not participated in USC Graduate School-sponsored scholarly/professional development institutes are highly encouraged to apply.

TO APPLY  

Step One: Submit an interest email to the USC Academic Professional Development Program ASAP at usapdev@usc.edu 

Step Two: Complete the online application: http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~uscapdev. Please note that the online application deadline has been extended to Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 5p.m. 

Step Three: Submit the following supplementary materials: (1) Essay describing how you will benefit, as current graduate student and future scholar, from the Academic Professional Development Program (no more than two pages); (2) CV/Résumé; (3) Abstract highlighting latest research interests; (4) Brief Statement of support from faculty advisor (one paragraph to no more than one page); & (5) Brief Statement from department chair endorsing participation (one to two sentences).

Recommendation statements can be included with the supplementary application materials or submitted separately to the APD program by advisors and chairs. 

Note: If necessary, statements of support from faculty and department chairs can be submitted after the due date. Please do not let these items holdup the submission of your online application and supplementary materials.

Submit the supplementary application materials via email (uscapdev@usc.edu) or return to the USC Graduate School, Diversity & Academic Professional Development, GFS 315T, Los Angeles, CA 90089. You may also fax your materials to (213) 740-9048. 

DUE DATE

The deadline has been extended to Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 5p.m. Acceptance notifications will begin being sent Friday, January 25th, 2013. 

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON GRADUATE PROFESSIONALIZATION

Website: http://www.usc.edu/schools/GraduateSchool/ 
Email: uscapdev@usc.edu    
Telephone: (213) 740-3429

For questions, please contact Jesse S. Watson or Richard Andalon with the USC Graduate School, Diversity & Academic Professional Development. 

The 2013 PPNT Summer "Boot Camp"

August 4–22, 2013

The summer workshop in residence at UC San Diego, known as the PPNT boot camp, aims to give participants the knowledge and analytic tools to contribute to the debate on future U.S. nuclear policy.

The boot camp features lectures, discussions, debates, policy simulations, and on-site visits to nuclear facilities. Participants attend talks by distinguished researchers, academics, policy officials, and operational specialists from the University of California system and other leading universities, the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and federal government agencies dealing with nuclear policy, threat, detection, and safeguard issues.

Topics addressed typically include:

Past and future of civilian nuclear power Attribution science and nuclear forensics Deterrence theory Counterproliferation strategies U.S. nuclear policy Nuclear terrorism Technical and policy issues in the U.S. nuclear stockpile Safeguards systems, technologies and issues

Nuclear weapon design and delivery systems Major power nuclear strategies and doctrines The demand for nuclear proliferation U.S. National Nuclear Strategy The international nonproliferation regime Nuclear proliferation concerns on the Korean Peninsula, Iran, and the Middle East U.S. deterrence policy

Download the Summer 2013 Boot Camp information and application form for PhD and Graduate Students.

Download the Summer 2013 Boot Camp information and application form for Professionals and Faculty.

Information can also be found at: http://igcc.ucsd.edu/workshops/public-policy-and-nuclear-threats/ppnt-summer-boot-camp.htm

For more information, contact Laura Martin

Call for Posters: 71st MPSA Political Science Conference

CALL FOR POSTERS. 71st MPSA Political Science Conference, April 11-14, 2013. Chicago, IL.

Please forward this email to colleagues or graduate students who may be interested in presenting at the 71st Annual MPSA Conference. There are more research papers presented here than any other political science conference and many opportunities to network with colleagues. The deadline for proposals for paper presentations was in October, but the deadline for poster presentations is November 30th: http://tinyurl.com/9f9w5m9

Annual Critical Participatory Action Research Summer Institute

June 3 - 7, 2013 

Join us for The Public Science Project's Annual Summer Institute on Critical Participatory Action Research at The CUNY Graduate Center

The Summer Institute on Critical Participatory Action Research is a 5-day intensive training designed to introduce the theory, methods, and ethics of critical participatory action research (PAR) to graduate students, faculty, and members of community-based organizations. Through seminars, roundtables, and hands-on workshops with experienced PAR researchers, participants will gain the necessary skills and knowledge to integrate a critical PAR approach into their scholarship, research, and/or organizing.

Applications are due December 31st, 2012 apply here
For full details please visit the public science project website or email us

 

CUALLI Latin American and Iberian Food Studies Review Call for Papers

CUALLI Latin American and Iberian Food Studies Review invites submissions of multidisciplinary research articles with a focus on food symbolic, production, and consumption systems in Latina American, Spain, and Portugal for its 2013 issue.

CUALLI Latin American and Iberian Food Studies Review is a peer-review, trilingual journal, published by the Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies, a unit of the institute for Global Initiatives at Kennesaw State University.

Submission Guidelines:

- Articles must be written using Microsoft Word and may not exceed 7,500 words in times roman font 12, double-spaced. Citations (author, page) should be in parenthesis and integrated into the text.
- Article’s title and abstract (200 words) in both original language and English should accompany the work.

Please enclose brief CV (academic degree, present position, address, phone numbers, and e-mail). Send one electronic copy to Rehanna Braun (administrative associate) at:rbraun1@students.kennesaw.edu.

JANUARY 15, 2013

CUALLI agradece su apoyo en la diseminación de la convocatoria adjunta.
CUALLI appreciates your support on disseminating this call for papers.
Rehanna Braun, Administrative Associate

Center for Latin American and Iberian Studies
Institute for Global Initiatives
Kennesaw State University
1000 Chastain Road MD 2302
WH Bldg. 23 Room 223 B
Kennesaw, Ga 30144

Phone: 770-499-3165
Fax: 770-499-3236
E-mail: rbraun1@students.kennesaw.edu

CFP Princeton Graduate Conference in Political Theory

Graduate Conference in Political Theory
Princeton University
April 5-6, 2013

Call for Papers (deadline January 11, 2013)

The Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University will be held from April 5-6, 2013.

The Committee for the Graduate Conference in Political Theory at Princeton University welcomes papers addressing any topic in political theory, political philosophy, or the history of political thought. Papers should be submitted via the conference website by January 11, 2013. Approximately six papers will be selected.

The conference offers graduate students from across institutions a unique opportunity to present and critique new work. Each session, led by a discussant from Princeton, focuses exclusively on one paper and features an extensive question and answer period with Princeton faculty and graduate students. Papers are pre-circulated among conference participants.

This year, the Committee proudly announces that Professor Jill Frank, University of South Carolina, will deliver the keynote address.

Submission Information:

• Due date: January 11, 2013
• How to submit: Submissions must be uploaded in PDF format to the conference website: http://politicaltheory.princeton.edu
• Length: Papers should be approximately 7500 words. Papers exceeding 9000 words will not be considered.
• Format: Papers should be formatted for blind review by removing any identifying information from the document.

Papers will be refereed on a blind basis by political theory graduate students in the Department of Politics at Princeton. Acceptance notices will be sent in February. The authors of accepted papers will be expected to attend the duration of the two-day conference and participate in each session.

Assistance for invited participants' transportation, lodging and meal expenses is available from the Committee, which acknowledges the generous support of University Center for Human Values,the Department of Politics, and the Graduate School at Princeton University.

Questions and comments can be directed to: polthry@princeton.edu.

For more information, please visit the conference website at http://politicaltheory.princeton.edu

Call for Papers - North American Taiwan Studies Association 19th Annual Conference

North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) 19th Annual Conference

Submission deadline: January 4th, 2013
Notification of acceptance by:  February 15th, 2013
Full papers due: May 13th, 2013

Taiwan in Theory

The North American Taiwan Studies Association (NATSA) invites scholars, particularly young scholars, to submit proposals for our upcoming annual conference on June 21-22, at the University of California, Santa Barbarawith the co-assistance of the Center for Taiwan Studies at UCSB and of the Institute of Taiwan History at Academia Sinica. Following the calls of multiple scholars from our 2012 conference, we invite submitters to consider how Taiwan’s
situation—its own by itself or in relation to or in comparison with others, perhaps as a gateway, liminal space, node, or even method—makes contributions that scholars who pursue answers to parallel questions in other areas would profit from hearing. We encourage students of Taiwan to return to and reflect on their research, to its basis in Taiwan's experience, to discover insight into how these may, whether originally the main focus of research, a footnote in it, or a previously unfinished thought, contribute in novel ways to larger debates.

As a larger goal for the conference, NATSA  hopes to begin to inspire the work and discussions that will continue to push Taiwan and Taiwan Studies towards critical, valuable engagement with the most pressing questions of the moment and of the future. NATSA 2013 challenges scholars to begin research that will place Taiwan (along with its
people, their productions, anxieties, and challenges) at the forefront of theory. By joining this conference and speaking to your own discipline’s debates and discussions, we hope to create a node of exchange for disciplinary knowledge and advance. This will also give presenters the opportunity to place their work and conclusions before a group of other younger and experienced scholars intimately engaged with parallel issues, data, and events from quite different
perspectives.

Please see our Suggested Topics and Questions here:
http://www.na-tsa.org/new/2013-natsa-conference/call-for-papers.html

Submission Rules:
http://www.na-tsa.org/new/2013-natsa-conference/abstract-submission-rules.html

CFP: UCLA Comparative Politics Graduate Conference

The Comparative Politics Association at UCLA (COMPASS) invites submissions to its second annual Graduate Student Conference in Comparative Politics -- "Information, Media, and Politics" -- on March 9, 2013, from 9:00 AM to 6:00PM. The conference will provide an excellent opportunity for graduate students to present their work and receive feedback from peers and experts in the field of Comparative Politics. Faculty from UCLA will serve as session chairs, with fellow students serving as discussants.

To be considered to participate, please send a paper abstract (300 words max.) and contact information (name, affiliation, email address) to the conference organizer, Raffaele Asquer, at raffasquer@ucla.edu by December 14, 2012. Successful applicants will be expected to email their papers (25-30 pages, double-spaced, including tables and appendixes) by February 22, 2012. For further information, please contact us using the aformentioned email address.

For more information visit: http://cprg.polisci.ucla.edu/CPRG-UCLA/COMPASS_-_HOME.html

2013 APSA Teaching and Learning Conference

February 8-10, 2013 | Long Beach, CA| Renaissance Long Beach
The call for proposals is now open! Log into MyAPSA to submit your proposal today.
Meeting Theme: Teaching Political Science: Preparing Students for Success

The APSA Teaching and Learning Conference is a unique meeting in which APSA strives to promote greater understanding of cutting-edge approaches, techniques, and methodologies for the political science classroom. The conference provides a forum for scholars to share effective and innovative teaching and learning models and to discuss broad themes and values of political science education--especially the scholarship of teaching and learning. Submit your proposal by visiting www.apsanet.org/tlc.