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Date Conference ("Call:"indicates call deadline)
March 2010
15 Application: Scholarship & a Free Society
15 Application: NSF Social Behavioral & Economic Sciences Undergraduate Summer Research Experience
15 Nominations: Slave Narratives Seminar for Faculty Members
15 Call: Seminar on Education and Peace
15 Call: Returning to Katrina: Bringing Hurricane Katrina Research Back to the Community
15 Call: International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA) 2010 World Conference
15 Call: Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude-Levi Strauss
16 Application: NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshop
18 Call: 2nd Annual Texas Political Science Student Conference
18-21 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) 41st Annual Meeting
19 Call: American Evaluation Association - Eval 2010
22-27 ECPR Joint Sessions, Workshop 10
23 Call: 6th Annual Southern California Graduate Student Conference: Democracy and its Development
24-25 The Globalization(s) of the Conflict in Somalia
26-27 Pennsylvania Political Science Association 71st Annual Meeting
29-30 Homeland Security: Global and Domestic Perspectives
29-April 1 60th Political Studies Association Annual Conference
30 Call: Liberty and Security in the Age of Terrorism
April 2010
1 Call: Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference
1 Call: Hong Kong Political Science Association: Politics in Flux: Challenges and Opportunities in the Asian Century
1 Call: Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism
1 Call: The Obama Effect: Transatlantic Perspectives Past and Future (Fifth Biennial Conference on Transatlantic Studies)
1-3 Western Political Science Association Annual Meeting
2-3 Affect, Imagination and Democratic Values
6-9 Fourth Annual Human Trafficking Forum
7-10 Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting
8-9 The Security Council and Contested Territory - Contrasting Approaches, Contexts, and Manner of Implementation
8-11 2010 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society
9-10 Alabama Political Science Association Annual Meeting: "The Role of Political Science in an Era of Budgetary and Policy Uncertainty: New Challenges, Alternative Resources"
9-11 American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) Annual Conference
10 2nd Annual Texas Political Science Student Conference
10 Re-Imagining the Americas: (Im)migration, Transnationalism, and Diaspora
11-17 International Association of Political Science Students: Whirlpool Politics : Water as a Global Challenge
12-13 China and India: The End of Development Models
12-13 The Wellington Conference on Contemporary China 2010
13-15 ASEN 20th Anniversary Conference: Nation and Charisma
13-16 European Social Science History Conference
14-16 World of Power/World of Law: Wilsonianism and Other Visions of Foreign Policy
15 Application: Challenges to National Security in a Global Society
15 Call: British Politics Group APSA Pre-Conference: The UK and the US in 2010: Transition and Transformation
15 Call: English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse
15 Call: 2010 Conference of the American Council for Quebec Studies
15-18 Authority, Leadership, and Peacemaking: The Role of the Diasporas
16-17 New York State Political Science Association Annual Conference
21-24 International Society for Justice Research Biennial Conference
22-24 International Graduate Student Conference on the Cold War
22-25 68th Midwest Political Science Association National Conference
23 Illinois State University Conference for Students of Political Science
23-24 New England Political Science Association Annual Meeting
30 Call: The Balkans and the Middle East Countries 2nd International Conference on Auditing and Accounting History
30-5/2 7th Global Conference War and Peace
May 2010
1 Call: 38th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference
1 Call: The Politics of Performance Management and Measurement in the Public Sector
3-5 2nd Global Conference: Evil, Women and the Feminine
6-7 Martha Nussbaum, Cosmopolitanism and Global Justice
6-7 JITP-2010: The Politics of Open Source
7 Regional Reconciliation: The Korean Peninsula and North-east Asia
7-10 Social Capital Foundation: Social Capital in Practice
8 6th Annual Southern California Graduate Student Conference: Democracy and its Development
8-11 The Medieval Tradition of Natural Law
13-20 Fourth Annual Critical Race Studies in Education Conference
15-16 Seminar on Education and Peace
16-21 Challenges to National Security in a Global Society
19-21 2010 Political Networks Conference
20-22 Colloquium on Corporate Political Activity and Governance
20-23 Alternative Ways of Thinking about Democratic Public Administration & Policy
25-27 International Conference on Cognitive Processes in Language
26-27 1st International Conference on Public Policy
27-28 Restructuring the Economy after the Global Crisis
27-28 9th Belgian-Dutch Political Science Conference
27-29 Politics in Crisis: Crisis Policies, Crisis of Politics: XXI Slovenian Political Science Days
31-June 3 Existential and Phenomenological Theory and Culture (EPTC) 2010
June 2010
tbd Lehrman American Studies Center Summer Institute
1 Application: EITM Europe 2010 at Mannheim Summer School
1-2 Identity and Affiliation in a Volatile International Landscape
1-23 University of Maryland Summer Research Initiative to Increase Diversity
1-3 2010 Canadian Political Science Association Annual Conference
3-4 Merit Pay: Will it Work? Is it Politically Viable?
3-4 Social Determinants of Mental Health: From Awareness to Action
3-5 Veiled Constellations: The Veil, Critical Theory, Politics, and Contemporary Society
3-6 2010 Policy History Conference
4-5 Returning to Katrina: Bringing Hurricane Katrina Research Back to the Community
6-19 Fulbright German Studies Seminar 2010 for U.S. Scholars at American Universities and Colleges
7-11 Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research
12-18 Scholarship & a Free Society
13-16 Slave Narratives Seminar for Faculty Members
13-25 Institute for Qualitative and Multi-Method Research
14-15 International Conference on the Political Economy of Liberalizing Trade in Services
15 Call: Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
15-July 8 Summer Institute for Israel Studies
17-20 Minority Politics within the Europe of Regions
17-18 10th European Conference on e-Government 2010
18-19 Uncovering the Sources of Nuclear Behavior: Historical Dimensions of Nuclear Proliferation
18-20 Capitalist Crisis and Socialist Revival
18-21 Asian Conference on the Social Sciences
19-20 Joint ISA-APSA-IPSA Human Rights Sections Conference
21-July 5 EITM Europe 2010 at Mannheim Summer School
23-25 5th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis
23-25 Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in the UK
24-25 Ethical Issues in Medical Tourism
24-26 5th Pan-European Conference on the EU
25-27 Networking Democracy: New Media Innovations in Participatory Politics
26 Seventh Annual Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS) Paper Development Workshop
28-30 4th IMA International Analysing Conflict Transformation Conference
28-30 New Steering Concepts in Public Management - Workings towards Social Integration
29-30 CRONEM 6th Annual Conference 'Living Together':Civic, Political and Cultural Engagement Among Migrants, Minorities and National Populations: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
30-July 2 Fourth Oceanic Conference on International Studies
30-July 2 Beyond Citizenship: Feminism and the Transformation of Belonging
July 2010
1-2 Thinking (With)Out Borders II
4-5 10th International CISS Millennium Conference
5-16 Media Development and Democratization: Understanding and Implementing Monitoring and Evaluation Programs; Summer Course
8-9 Conference on the Politics of Antarctica
12-Aug 6 NEH Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers: Descartes, Galileo, Hobbes
19-Aug 6 APSA Africa Workshop
21-24 2nd Paris International Conference on Education, Economy, and Society
27-31 International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA) 2010 World Conference
30-Aug 1 Association of Chinese Political Studies: International Symposium on "China in search of Sustainable Development , Social Harmony and Soft Power"
August 2010
23-24 Hong Kong Political Science Association: Politics in Flux: Challenges and Opportunities in the Asian Century
September 2010
1 Call: The Obama Presidency: A Preliminary Assessment
1 British Politics Group APSA Pre-Conference: The UK and the US in 2010: Transition and Transformation
2-5 APSA Annual Meeting
7-10 The Politics of Performance Management and Measurement in the Public Sector
15-18 The Balkans and the Middle East Countries 2nd International Conference on Auditing and Accounting History
23-24 Symposium on Crime and Justice: The Past and Future of Empirical Sentencing Research
24-25 Savage Thoughts: Interdisciplinarity and the Challenge of Claude-Levi Strauss
30-Oct. 3 Cold War Cultures: Transnational and Interdisciplinary Perspectives Conference
October 2010
1-2 Building Bridges, Crossing Borders: Gender, Identity, and Security in the Search for Peace
7-10 German Studies Association 34th Annual Conference
21-23 Association for Political Theory Annual Meeting
22-24 Liberty and Security in the Age of Terrorism
22-24 38th Annual Mid-Atlantic Region Association for Asian Studies Conference
27-30 The Obama Effect: Transatlantic Perspectives Past and Future (Fifth Biennial Conference on Transatlantic Studies)
28-30 Race and Pedagogy National Conference: Teaching and Learning for Justice: Danger and Opportunity in Our Critical Moment
TBD African Americans in U.S. Foreign Policy
November 2010
4-7 2010 Conference of the American Council for Quebec Studies
10-11 English and German Nationalist and Anti-Semitic Discourse
10-13 American Evaluation Association - Eval 2010
11-13 Northeastern Political Science Association Annual Meeting
18-20 Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association
19-20 The Obama Presidency: A Preliminary Assessment