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PS: Political Science and Politics
Call for Papers: The Meaning and Legacy of the Magna Carta
Submission deadline: July 1, 2009

Contributions are invited for a print symposium on the meaning and legacy of the Magna Carta for publication in PS: Political Science and Politics.  Contributors are invited to reflect on the historical context in which the Magna Carta was drafted and signed, as well as its multifaceted role in the development of modern political thought. 

Calls from APSA Organized Section Journals

Journal of Information Technology and Politics

JITP-2010: The Politics of Open Source
Dates: May 6-7, 2010, Location: Amherst, Massachusetts, full submissions due by January 10, 2010
http://www.umass.edu/polsci/youtube/jitp2010.pdf

Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FOSS) has made significant advances, both technically and organizationally, since its emergence in the mid-1980s. Over the last decade, it has moved from a software development approach involving mostly volunteers to a more complex ecology where firms, nonprofit organizations, government agencies and volunteers may be involved. Moreover, the production paradigm continues to expand to other areas of digital content (e.g., Creative Commons, Wikipedia, Connexions, etc.). In this conference we use the phrase “open source” to capture this broader phenomenon. The Program Committee encourages disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches to the study of open source, broadly defined.   More details.

Journal of Political Science Education

The editors of the Journal of Political Science Education, the journal of the Political Science Education Section of the American Political Science Association, invite submissions that focus on teaching and learning issues in political science. Call for Submissions