Call for sections

Call for sections

Dear all,   I would like to renew our call for section for next year’s ECPR general conference. The call for sections for the ECPR General Conference 2024 in Dublin is open until Nov 14th. We are looking for section proposals and researchers interested in putting together a section on participation, mobilization, and social movement research. If you have a section in mind and seek the standing group’s endorsement, please circulate it until Nov 7th so that we can have a look. Also, if you…

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ECPR Summer School on Pol. Parties

ECPR Summer School on Pol. Parties

Dear colleague,   This year’s ECPR Summer School on Theories, Methods and Practice Perspectives in Party Politics will be hosted by the Department of Social Sciences, the Institute of Political Science and the NRW School of Governance at the University of Duisburg-Essen from Monday 21 August – Saturday 26 August 2023. The theme for this year’s Summer School is “Investigating Parties and Party Systems in young and established democracies”.   Organized by Kristina Weissenbach, Anne Goldmann and Anna Augusto Ezequiel…

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2023 ECPR-COSMOS Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilisation

2023 ECPR-COSMOS Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilisation

The Call for Application is now open for the Fourth of the Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilisation, organized by the ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization and the Centre on Social Movement Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore. The Summer School will take place at the Scuola Normale Superiore, in Florence, from June 5th to June 16th 2023. Participants School will focus on how to analyse present and past forms of grassroots…

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ECPR COSMOS Summer School

ECPR COSMOS Summer School

Dear colleagues and friends, The Call for Applications is now open for the Fourth Edition of the Summer School on Methods for the Study of Political Participation and Mobilisation, organized by the ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization and the Centre on Social Movement Studies at the Scuola Normale Superiore. The Summer School will take place at the Scuola Normale Superiore, in Florence, from June 5th to June 16th 2023. Applicants must email a cover letter in which they…

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ECPR GC 2023

ECPR GC 2023

Dear colleagues, for the upcoming ECPR General Conference in Prague, Sept. 4-8, together with Lorenzo Zamponi we are co-chairing a section on “Participation and Mobilization between Crises, Polarization, and new Challenges to Democracy“. We invite Papers which speak to the established core interests in the study of political participation and social movements, as well as to more recent or emerging areas of academic inquiry. In line with the scope of the Standing Group on Participation and Mobilisation, this Section particularly…

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ECPR General Conference Section Proposal

ECPR General Conference Section Proposal

Dear all, the ECPR is hosting its annual General Conference 2023 in Prague from September 4-8. The dealine to propose a section at the conference is January 9th. Please let us know if you would like to be endorsed as section chairs or if you would like to propose a section in the field of participation, mobilization, protest, or social movement research. Also, if you have any questions regarding the process and application of section proposals at the ECPR. If…

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Call for Workshops

Call for Workshops

Dear members of the ECPR Standing Group on Participation and Mobilization, the ECPR has just put out its call for Workshop Proposals for the upcoming Joint Session, to take place at Sciences Po Toulouse and online, 25–28 April 2023: As a Standing Group, we are able to endorse a workshop. SG-sponsored workshops get preferential treatment in the selection process. If you have a workshop idea that you would like to be considered for sponsorship by the Participation and Mobilization SG, please send…

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CfP Beyond Repression

CfP Beyond Repression

Dear colleagues,   We are organizing with Julien Talpin a panel at the next General Conference of the ECPR 2022 in the framework of the Section organized by the Standing group, it might be of interest to some members of this group : “Beyond Repression. Social Control of Protest and Participation in Illiberal Times”.   Abstracts, of max 500 words, are expected until February 10th. More details in the joint document –> CfP ECPR Panel Beyond Repression-1 .   Best…

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CfP Workshop Sexuality and Political Participation

CfP Workshop Sexuality and Political Participation

Dear colleagues, We – Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte (Southampton, UK) and Michal Smrek (Uppsala, Sweden), are pleased to announce a call for proposals for an upcoming ECPR Joint Sessions workshop on “Sexuality and political participation: expanding methodological and empirical frontiers”.  We welcome contributions that will significantly improve our understanding of the role sexuality plays as a driver of political participation/preferences, especially in relation to other group identities, like gender, race, social class, place residence or education.  We are also looking for methodological contributions that allow us to validate…

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CfP Workshop Pacifism & Nonviolence

CfP Workshop Pacifism & Nonviolence

A workshop titled Pacifism and Nonviolence: Cultivating a New Research Agenda, with the support of the ECPR Standing Group on Mobilisation and Participation, takes place at the ECPR’s online Joint Sessions between 19 and 22 April: https://ecpr.eu/Events/Event/PanelDetails/11336. The process to propose papers is explained on the website. The deadline is 2 February.   Pacifism and Nonviolence: Cultivating a New Research Agenda Despite having long been dismissed as utopian and ineffective, what advocates of pacifism and nonviolence have been recommending turns…

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