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ECPR 2012 Joint Sessions - CFP
ECPR has announced details for the 2012 Joint Sessions in Antwerp, Belgium. You can download the poster here.
The deadline for participants to submit papers for the Antwerp Joint Sessions is 1st December 2011. For more details of the Workshops please see the ECPR website at http://www.ecprnet.eu/joint_sessions/antwerp/default.asp - and particularly the new pages where you can go to propose a paper: http://new.ecprnet.eu/Joint%20Sessions/2012_Antwerp/Default.aspx
Further information about travel, accommodation, grants and the social programme for Antwerp will be placed on the ECPR and local organisers’ websites in due course. They will be regularly updated as more information becomes available.
The ECPR has a travel and accommodation grant to assist young scholars and PhD student from member institutions, and a professional grant to assist newer members (employed in the professions for fewer than five years) from member institutions or retired members of the profession who were affiliated to a member institution, who wish to participate in the Joint Sessions. Participants wishing to be considered for a travel and accommodation or professional grant should submit their application even before being accepted to participate (information will be on the funding pages of the ecpr website http://www.ecprnet.eu/funding/ as and when it is available).
Nicola Pratt to speak at UEA
Dr Nicola Pratt will be speaking at the University of East Anglia on 11 November on 'The Arab Uprisings--Where From and Where To?'
For more information, please contact DrVassiliki Koutrakou.
HOPELESSLY RETRO - 40 YEARS OF POLITICAL ANALYSIS
A Knowledge Centre video reflecting on the career of Professor Wyn Grant
After 40 years at the University, Professor Wyn grant is retiring from the Department of Politics and International Studies. The video below showcases Professor Grant's final lecture in whch he discusses the changes that have taken place in British politics over the past 40 years. He also explains how the processes and techniques involved in teaching Political Science have developed over the course of his career.
COALITION DYNAMICS
A Knowledge Centre article by Prof Wyn Grant
The Comprehensive Spending Review due in October is the next major challenge threatening the Lib-Con coalition but the partnership between Clegg and Cameron's relationship has proven remarkably stable so far. Prof Wyn Grant offers an analysis of the Coalition Government as it stands - he predicts that the real test is still to come, when the coalition will be faced with getting the legislation on a referendum on the Alternative Vote through Parliament.
UNRAVELING PROPERTY LAW
A Knowledge Centre article by Ben Jacoby
As part of the Festival of Social Sciences we are working with five researchers from the faculty of Social Sciences. In this, the second of our series, Ben Jacoby writes about a recent event held as part of the festival. The lecture, The Hamlyn Lectures: The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property: Reconceiving the Relation between Property and the Rule of Law, was presented by Professor Jeremy Waldron of New York University and discussed ideas about property law and ownership.