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EVENTS, SEMINARS, ACTIVITIES
Summer Conferences, Seminars, Events >>
Summer Seminar: Experimental Economics August 13 through 15, 2008; Cambridge, MA; A three-day special seminar for teachers in the social sciences. Based on the well-known "Chautauqua Seminars" model, there is no cost to participants other than a $50 registration fee. The course is taught by distinguished Harvard faculty and provides an opportunity for invited scholars to share new knowledge, concepts, and techniques directly with teachers in ways which are immediately beneficial to their teaching. The primary aim of this rejuvenating session is to enable teachers to keep their teaching current with respect to both content and pedagogy. This course will be of interest to undergraduate teachers in a wide range of social science disciplines.
Call for Papers: International Journal of Organizational Analysis: Special Issue of the Shaping Our Unscripted Future with Service-Learning; The goal of this special issue is to provide IJOA readers, as well as service-learning authors and practitioners, with an overview of the application and outcomes of service-learning as a teaching tool in today's rapidly changing environment. Deadline for submissions is September 26, 2008
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
Institute of Education Sciences Funding Opportunities
The IES National Center for Education Research is conducting a research competition encompassing two programs: Education Leadership and Education Policy, Finance, and Systems. Eligible applicants include but are not limited to non-profit and for-profit organizations, public or private agencies, and institutions, such as colleges and universities.
Program and Development Opportunities
TEACHING COURSES ON POLITICAL VIOLENCE & TERRORISM
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The APSA Task Force on Political Violence and Terrorism has compiled a bibliography of political science resources on the study of political violence and terrorism and a set of syllabi for model courses (and units within courses) on political violence and terrorism for secondary school and college levels. Follow the links below to these resources:
Please send syllabi that you wish to share with a wider community to David Mason (masontd@unt.edu) with a copy to David Laitin (dlaitin@stanford.edu). |
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FOR YOUR STUDENTS
Conference for Students of Political Science March 20, 2009, at Illinois State University, Normal IL; Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to submit papers for the 17th Conference for Students of Political Science. We welcome papers on any topic related to government and/or politics. Panelists at the previous conferences included 750 students attending 100 colleges and universities. Proposal deadline is February 8, 2009.
Princeton Graduate Student Conference on Psychology and Policymaking October 24-25; This conference aims to provide an intellectual forum for graduate students who are interested in the ways that psychological processes influence policymaking and whose research integrates ideas and methods from both Political Science and Psychology. The conference will feature 8 workshop-style panels, each focused on developing and critiquing a single paper. Presenters will have the opportunity to showcase their work, receive feedback from graduate student discussants from Princeton’s Departments of Politics and Psychology, and field questions from graduate students and faculty from Princeton and other leading research universities. Deadline for submissions: August 29.
Graduate Student Conference on "Democracy and Democratization"
The Political Science Department at the University of Connecticut invites you to participate in the first annual Graduate Student Conference on Democracy and Democratization to be held on February 27-28, 2009. The conference aims at bringing together graduate students from all sub-fields in Political Science, and other related fields. Participants will have the chance to present their research projects, exchange ideas and create a network of emerging democracy scholars. A cash award will be attributed to the best paper. Proposal deadline is November 15, 2008.
Canadian Studies Conference: Graduate students and junior faculty members with a research interest in any aspect of Canadian politics are invited to present their academic papers at the 2008 Middle Atlantic & New England Council for Canadian Studies and Southern Association for Canadian Studies Joint Conference, October 2–5, 2008, in Washington, DC. To help offset conference participants’ travel costs, MANECCS has established the Young Scholars Grant Program.
Call: Critique: a worldwide student journal of politics, is seeking submissions year round from both undergraduate and graduate students on ideas of democracy and justice.
Global Perspectives is an undergraduate international affairs journal edited and compiled by students from the Occidental College department of Diplomacy and World Affairs. We are now accepting submissions from all over the world. Check us out at http://tinyurl.com/2uhflw. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us at Perspectives@oxy.edu.
Hamilton Economic Policy Innovation Prize 2008
The Hamilton Project, an initiative of the Brookings Institution, announces its second annual Economic Policy Innovation Prize competition. $25,000 in prizes will be awarded for the best innovative policy proposals written by undergraduate and graduate students. The top undergraduate student proposal will be awarded $10,000 and the top graduate student proposal will be awarded $15,000. The application deadline is August 1, 2008. For details on this opportunity, see the Hamilton Project Website.
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